Category Archives: Alt Right

The Intellectual Origins Of The Alt-Right

Roman Dmowski writes: The 9/11 attacks found only two groups with a coherent explanation and proposed strategy: paleoconservatives, who suggested a limited punitive campaign coupled with immigration restriction, and the neoconservatives, who supported an ambitious and “idealist” campaign deliberately designed … Continue reading

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What Will Follow Donald Trump?

From Vox.com: It also opens the door for a more sophisticated future candidate, one reared on alt-right arguments rather than stumbling into them the way Trump has. Such a candidate could effectively whip up an alt-right base of support, but … Continue reading

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What Is Neo-Reaction?

From Vox.com: Let’s start with the most theoretically minded, and probably most interesting, branch of the alt-right: the neoreactionaries. In 2007, a writer with the pen name Mencius Moldbug (né Curtis Yarvin) started a blog called Unqualified Reservations. He proceeded … Continue reading

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What Is The Significance Of 4Chan?

From Vox.com: The leading actual neoreactionaries are not fans of Donald Trump. “Trump appears to have no ideology at all and very little historical/intellectual awareness of his context,” Moldbug — who now just goes by his birth name, Curtis Yarvin … Continue reading

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Before the neoreactionaries, there were the paleocons

From Vox.com: The neoreactionaries are a distinctly ’00s and ’10s phenomenon, but they draw on the racialist and traditionalist arguments of a much older movement: paleoconservatism. The term “paleoconservatism” is a retronym coined in the 1980s to characterize a brand … Continue reading

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