The Worthy House (Charles Haywood)

The good, the bad, and the ugly about James Burnham's famous 1941 book.

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An analysis of Traditionalism, the set of beliefs offered by thinkers (from René Guénon to Julius Evola) who attempted to retrieve supposed ancient wisdom and apply it to the modern world. (This article was first published November 30, 2018.)

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Through the lens of a prophetic work of fiction, continuing the question of whether civilizational decline can be arrested and reversed, and thinking about the moral implications of actions related to that endeavor.

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A review that in effect passes judgment on all modern science fiction, with a slightly different tack from my usual. (This article was first published August 23, 2016.)

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A famous, but at best incomplete, analysis of the course of empires--with an emphasis on describing the end stages of empires.

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It was as a result of this discussion, of Three New Deals, that my program came to be called Foundationalism. And here, learning from movements of the past, I offer thoughts about how Foundationalism can be brought to pass (although I would be less negative about small-scale farming now; this article was first published November 26, 2018.)

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The third book in Jünger's (unrecognized) trilogy about tyranny—not in the abstract, but how to live in relation to, and what to do about, tyranny. Any relationship to current events in the West is pure coincidence, of course.

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Something new:  Throw Back Thursday, in which I showcase older articles that newer readers may have missed.  This is, for once, not political.  Rather, it is an oral history of the ultra-talented Warren Zevon, warts and all.

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My antidote to pessimism in the face of the Left. Not only can we win, we are going to win, and that right soon—if we have the will.

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Of the looming collapse of our own American (and Canadian) regimes, through the lens of the 1989 collapse of similar regimes in Eastern Europe. With plenty of my thoughts on how to avoid the errors made after those earlier regimes were eliminated, which errors allowed members of the former regimes to keep much of their power and privileges. Let's not do that again.

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