Monthly Archives: January 2021

National Archive

January 27, 2021 – 3:40 pm

A while back the New York Times mounted a direct assault on American patriotism called “The 1619 Project”, which sought to promote the idea that the founding of the American nation was nothing more than an act of organized evil, with its only basis and purpose the subjugation of other races by white, male, Europeans. […]

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Watershed

January 20, 2021 – 7:40 pm

Here we are. It’s been a long twelve months: from sailing along at the beginning of 2020 with a booming economy and gathering momentum for a second Trump administration, and for holding terminal decline at bay for a precious few more years, to COVID, St. George Floyd, a long hot summer of government-sanctioned rioting for […]

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E Uno, Duo

January 17, 2021 – 7:37 pm

For a couple of years now, radio host John Batchelor has had historian Michael Vlahos drop by on Friday evenings to discuss whether America is embroiled in a civil war. (Gee, what do you think, readers?) The segments are short, and Professor Vlahos always has something interesting to say. This past Friday he used a […]

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Sounds About Right

January 14, 2021 – 6:10 pm

From our e-pal Bill Keezer comes a handy checklist:

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Nothing Is Real

January 13, 2021 – 8:44 pm

The fog of war is abroad in the land, and in every direction sturdy, familiar realities dissolve into grotesque phantasms and chimeras. Trumpets and bullhorns blare in the smoke and chaos. The ground trembles and shifts under our feet. One thing seems clear, I think: this Republic, as we have known it in our lifetimes […]

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“Typical A.P. Work”

January 13, 2021 – 12:35 pm

Here’s Michael Yon — who knows more about this sort of thing than anyone — about the role of Antifa in the Capitol riot.

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Nothing To See Here

January 7, 2021 – 7:01 pm

Curtis Yarvin, the former Moldbug, commented at once on yesterday’s big fizzle. In a post written late yesterday, he offered a quote from Twitter: The Internet impresario Kantbot, who has become one of the most obnoxious literary talents since Marx or possibly Wyndham Lewis, still captured the day perfectly: Imagine storming the Capital of the […]

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2021, Day Six

January 6, 2021 – 11:41 pm

As I have been saying for a long time now: “Gradually, then suddenly”.

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Round Two

January 5, 2021 – 4:38 pm

OK, so the polls are open in Georgia today. At stake in the two runoff elections is control of the United States Senate. Is everyone feeling as optimistic as I am?

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2021

January 1, 2021 – 4:11 pm

Well, here we are. Happy New Year. I thank all of you who’ve visited in recent weeks; there hasn’t been a whole lot to see here for some time now. My shoulder injury kept me off the keyboard for a while, but that’s not a problem any longer. Mainly it’s been that we have entered […]

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