The contemporary university program, where Western civilization and its people are excoriated as part of a broader attempt to "de-centralize whiteness" or "de-centralize capitalism," provides philosophical justification for those individuals who are already predisposed to antisocial feelings.
The West’s answer to the problem of accommodating resurgent German power was to dissolve the German state into a larger whole: the new West Germany would be folded into the defense architecture of Western Europe, and Germans taught to see themselves as “West Europeans.”
For half a century we have been told that post-1960s America remains a white-supremacist order, a structure of entrenched racial advantage that only a radically utopian anti-racism can hope to dismantle. Carl argues the reverse: that the American state is . . . ideologically anti-white.
Coinciding with this gerontocratic rule is another phenomenon: the feeling of an "end of history.” While Zweig viewed this positively in his opening chapter, I find it disquieting. We associate the phrase with the years after the Cold War, but the 1890s knew the feeling well.
Measured against the golden age of the studios, the political class are, to Van Halen, mere amateurs at mythmaking. Perhaps the strongest argument in his favor is the failure of both Hollywood figures and political elites to artfully conceal their melodramatic tantrums in public.
It would be wrong to dismiss a potential recrudescence of Third Worldism on the right. Often presented as a “Third Way” against both international communism and an American-led capitalist order, the fact that Third Worldism appeared in Europe was no mere accident.
Center study is a mode of thought (alternative terms like a “system” or a “philosophy” are not entirely appropriate) developed by Adam Katz in order to reground the humanities, the social sciences, and ultimately society itself in the imperatives emanating from what Katz calls “the center.”