# Rubicon
> A journal of books and ideas at the point of decision. Essays on politics, history and culture. Published four times a year.
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- [About this site](https://www.rubiconmag.com/about.md) - Rubicon is an independent publication launched in April 2026 by Taylor Morse. If you subscribe today, you'll get full access to the website as well as email newsletters about new content when it's available. Your subscription makes this site possible, and allows Rubicon to continue to exist. Thank…
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- [Current Issue](https://www.rubiconmag.com/current-issue.md) - The Latest Issue Vol. 1, No. 1—The Inaugural Issue July 2026 * Bomb-Throwers, Mass Shooters, and Riot JunkiesJustin Geoffrey * The German Origins of the Cold WarFélix Gonçalves * The Second Reconstruction and Its DiscontentsJohn Le Verrier * The Civilization that Sleepwalked into its DemiseJulius R…
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## Posts
- [Mansfield and the Philosopher Who Would Rule](https://www.rubiconmag.com/library/mansfield-and-the-philosopher-who-would-rule.md) - It was the Greeks, specifically the democratic Athenians, who first argued and debated about man’s inherent nature and how best that nature can be controlled by rational actors (i.e., princes and legislators).
- [How Virtue Fell Under Suspicion](https://www.rubiconmag.com/library/how-virtue-fell-under-suspicion.md) - In the second book of the Republic, Glaucon and Adeimantus press Socrates with a challenge that has never quite been answered.
- [America’s Read Guards](https://www.rubiconmag.com/library/americas-read-guards-thomas-preston.md) - Every moral panic appears as a fait accompli from the inside and inexplicable from the outside. The magistrates of Salem required nothing beyond spectral evidence to hang nineteen of their neighbors, and within five years the colony’s own ministers were ashamed of the proceedings.
- [Making a Nietzscheanism](https://www.rubiconmag.com/library/making-a-nietzscheanism.md) - On Oscar Levy’s The Idiocy of Idealism and The Revival of Aristocracy.
- [Bomb-Throwers, Mass Shooters, and Riot Junkies](https://www.rubiconmag.com/library/bomb-throwers.md) - 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](https://www.rubiconmag.com/library/german-origins-cold-war.md) - 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](https://www.rubiconmag.com/library/second-reconstruction.md) - 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](https://www.rubiconmag.com/library/world-of-yesterday.md) - 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](https://www.rubiconmag.com/library/memoirs-of-a-nobody.md) - 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](https://www.rubiconmag.com/library/other-third-worldism.md) - 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](https://www.rubiconmag.com/library/center-study.md) - 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.”

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