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Category Archives: Alt Right
Cathy Young’s Sloppy Point ‘n Sputter Alt Right Attack In THE FEDERALIST
John Derbyshire writes: So here is journalist Cathy Young [Email her] who writes commentary from a position somewhere in the borderlands where libertarianism meets neoconservatism. Her response to Yiannopoulos and Bokhari went up on the Federalist website this last Thursday. … Continue reading
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Cathy Young: The Alt-Right: They’re creepy and they’re kooky, and not in the cute Addams Family way
Is throwing slurs such as “creepy” and “kooky” supposed to be an honorable form of argument? There are only two honorable forms of argument — disputing facts and logic. Most women are not cut out for such disputation. Most men … Continue reading
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First They Ignore You…
Richard Spencer tweets: First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fundraise off you. Then they beg you for mercy…
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How Does The World Work?
These ruminations were inspired by a recent David Klinghoffer blog post. I assume that you accept evolution. (With Dennis Prager, I believe that God created evolution.) I notice that the more I use evolution to explain the world, the less … Continue reading
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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Time Magazine Covers The Alt-Right
THE BILLIONAIRE AND THE BIGOTS HOW DONALD TRUMP’S CAMPAIGN BROUGHT WHITE NATIONALISTS OUT OF THE SHADOWS BY ALEX ALTMAN TIME, APRIL 25, 2016 The men eased past the picketers and police barricades, through a security-studded lobby and up to the … Continue reading