Making a Nietzscheanism

On Oscar Levy’s The Idiocy of Idealism and The Revival of Aristocracy.

Bomb-Throwers, Mass Shooters, and Riot Junkies

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 German Origins of the Cold War

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.”

The Second Reconstruction and Its Discontents

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.

The Civilization that Sleepwalked into its Demise

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.

The Hollywood That Once Was

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.

The “Other Third Worldism” and its Afterlives

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: An Introduction

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.”