Historians Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook on “How the New Deal Coalition Fell Apart” in the DNC Chicago riot of 1968. After a moment of goofy kidding around mimicking the “Yippies,” Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland tell the most dramatic story of this seminal event which many of us saw on our TVs, horrifying our… Read More The Riot That Tore the Democratic Party Apart: Chicago 1968.
by Thomas W. Carroll.First Things.11 . 5 . 24 / An alarming number of children from Catholic families lose their faith during elementary and secondary school. By age thirteen, 50 percent fall away from the Church; by eighteen, it’s 86 percent. This exodus is not unique to Catholics—other Christian communities struggle with similar problems. But… Read More Reclaiming Our Catholic Schools
James Lindsay writes (Listen below), “We need a perspective shift. It’s extremely common to hear people saying how “insane” or “crazy” Woke Marxism is, or to rhetorically ask “what are they thinking?” perhaps with a suggestion of “it won’t work.” Marxism is destructive, on purpose, and being befuddled about their destructive programs doesn’t help us stop them. In this episode of… Read More Why Woke is More Than Merely Insane
A self-identified socialist priest, Helder Pessoa Câmara (1909 – 1999) was an advocate of liberation theology. He did social and political work for “human rights and democracy”. Câmara preached for a church closer to the disfavoured people . But that’s only part of his lies story…(more in the video). Get the film Benedict XVI and Liberation Theology National… Read More You May Know This Man
The New Criterion.June 2024. Later in this issue, Gary Saul Morson writes about Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s masterwork The Gulag Archipelago. Much of that book is devoted to the details of the dehumanizing brutality of the Stalinist regime: its terrifying sadism and staggering assault on basic human dignity. The Stalinist horror show, in which terror was perfected in… Read More Lenin everlasting. On the totalitarian’s continued relevance.
Mark Groubert, a Jewish Trump supporter [who was wrong here speculating on likely Harris V.P., pick] says Kamala Harris must be taken seriously. Consider: She has the money, is said to be extremely calculating, very ambitious, she knows how to play all the way to the end game in political chess, and is used to… Read More Why Harris May Have the Last Laugh
“To be an Olympian is to be entangled in a complex dialectic involving elitism and egalitarianism. The foundational elitism of the Olympian lies in self ascribed rationality, generally picked up on an academic campus. Egalitarianism involves a formal adherence to democracy as a rejection of all forms of traditional authority, but with no commitment to… Read More “Christophobia” and the West
Let a good and just Evangelical preacher tell us more truth in a half hour than a Democrat on MSNBC will tell us in four whole years. Vince Everett Ellison was born on a cotton plantation in Haywood County, Tennessee. His parents at that time were sharecroppers. Through hard work and a belief in Jesus… Read More Social Justice? Really?
Du Bois: “Joseph Stalin was a great man; few other men of the 20th century approach his stature. He was simple, calm and courageous. He seldom lost his poise; pondered his problems slowly, made his decisions clearly and firmly; never yielded to ostentation nor coyly refrained from holding his rightful place with dignity. He was… Read More W.E.B. Du Bois and Khrushchev on Stalin
Ibram Kendi, walking contradiction, stumbles. ByJeremiah Poff.June 6, 2024 8:28 am.Washington Examiner. Perhaps the most foundational rule of logic is the law of noncontradiction. It is a fairly simple concept most famously articulated by Socrates and says that something cannot be both itself and its opposite at the same time. For example, someone cannot be both hungry… Read More The Crumbling of Ibram Kendi
Long march through the Institutions… 5/29/24. “… The offenses are all on a ‘do-not-prosecute’ list that was created by former Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins. Rollins, who later joined the Biden administration but resigned amid ethical violations, had advocated for the non-prosecution of more ‘low-level’ offenses… But Wu’s progressive outlook goes even further with the 39-year-old… Read More Boston’s woke mayor claims criminals should not be prosecuted for shocking crimes
“Whittaker Chambers is best known today as the veteran Soviet spy who became, in William F. Buckley Jr.’s words, “the most important American defector from Communism” when he testified against members of his underground Communist cell in the 1930s. Yet Chambers did more than reject Communism: He revealed a key problem with modern liberalism. In… Read More Mark Groubert On the Whittaker Chamber – Alger Hiss Case
“Intersectionality is a Woke standard, but what is it? Where does it come from? The history of the concept isn’t that hard to trace, and where it leads us is back to some of the worst regimes in history. Kim Crenshaw tends to be credited with Intersectionality, but she got it from the radicals in… Read More Maoism With American Characteristics
Research associate at The Heritage Foundation Emma Waters weighs in on the ‘girl boss’ vs. ‘trad wife’ on social media. CC Note regarding radical feminism: “The corporate strategy has largely been: make children and families appear to be ‘oppression’ (the home a jail instead of a nest) and keep everyone f–king every which way (even… Read More Rise of the Tradwife: Gen Z Bringing Back Gender Roles
“The order marked for destruction can be summed up in one word: Europe—the intellectual and spiritual synthesis of Rome, Athens, and Jerusalem. The new totalitarianism proceeds by negating every form of transcendence, especially the religious truth and universal reason which Del Noce calls “Platonism.” It reconceives reality as “a system of forces, not of values.” Being… Read More Del Noce on Liberalism & the Scientism of Marx
Or, there are many ways to resent and persecute that which is hated. Originally Titled: Modern Art. The Goldsmith Company Lecture David StarkeyGoldsmith Lecture2017 The Inquiring Mind writes “Starkey is in great form in this lecture where he excoriates conceptual art “For the inaugural Goldsmiths’ Company lecture, Dr. David Starkey spoke on the subject of… Read More How Modern Art Took a Dump on Christian Western Civilization
Alan Dershowitz intends to vote against Donald Trump in 2024 for the 3rd time. Still, Dershowitz is practically banned by his former media friends on the Left in part because he knows they only want—as in everything else— the propaganda value of having photos of Trump in handcuffs and being finger printed, as that will… Read More Whatever one thinks of Donald Trump
Note: Most of us understand I think that it is important to distinguish homosexual persons (persons with homosexual tendencies) from the elite ideological movements which, flouting the objective Natural Law, serve as the vehicle for totalitarian transformation: …of morals, language, law, history, culture, institutions and nations in the West. — SH Cultural Marxism See AOC enjoying the Queens Drag Show… Read More The Battering Ram
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