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Category Archives: Nationalism
Why globalisers still retain the upper hand
From the Financial Times: All over the world, globalisation is under challenge from resurgent nationalist forces. One of the great political challenges of the coming year will be to defend the benefits of globalisation — while fending off the arguments … Continue reading
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America and the Nexus between Free Speech, Minorities and Refugees
Rabbis Abraham Cooper and Yitzhock Adlerstein write: There is no gene for hatred. Youngsters learn it from others—from parents and peers; from sermons and social media. So Americans would do well to heed calls to oppose hateful barbs aimed at … Continue reading
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Let’s Make America Great Again
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The Rise Of The Alt-Right
Comments to Steve Sailer: * One of the relatively unheralded stories of 2015 is how the Alt-Right became an independent force with the ability to come up with great memes, like cuckservative and #NRORevolt, and push them into the mainstream. … Continue reading
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Is Democracy Nationalist?
An essay from the New Zealand New Right: Both Alain De Benoist and Tomislav Sunic have written on democracy and Carl Schmitt’s interpretation of the concept. Both agree that, by Schmitt’s definition, democracy is, surprisingly enough, not anti-nationalist. According to … Continue reading
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Carl Schmitt & The Exclusion Of Difference
ESSAY: Australian racial exclusionism was taken up by German political theorist, Carl Schmitt, in the preface to the second (1926) edition of his book, The crisis of parliamentary democracy. Schmitt argued that democracy is inherently exclusionary in some way, and … Continue reading
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What Is Alt-Right?
Comment: We need to go back to the debate between Culture(or Kultur) and Civilization in the 19th century. Culture was about tribe, blood and soil, particularism, localism, heritage, sacredness, passion. Civilization was about citizenship, rule of law, universalism, cosmopolitanism, progress, … Continue reading
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The Meaning Of Hanukkah
Hanukkah is about when Jews let down their guard and allowed the Greeks to run the Federal Reserve and the media. Rabbi Shlomo Einhorn says: “Hanukkah is the only time they were able to hit us from the inside… The … Continue reading
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France Heads For Civil War
Comments to Steve Sailer: * That Spaniard, Manuel Valls, knows full well that civil war – fought on racial lines – is more or less inevitable to occur on the territory occupied by European France, at some in determinant time … Continue reading
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Donald Trump’s Shock & Awe Campaign
Comments to Steve Sailer: * The liberal reaction to this is either 1) feigning surprise that so many “racists” are lurking in the GOP, or 2) acting like they knew the GOP was full of “racists” all along. Of course … Continue reading
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