Monthly Archives: June 2024

Whither Hence?

June 21, 2024 – 6:37 pm

Pressure is building as we head into the summer and fall. I wonder what’s coming. Some possibilities: 1) Despite Joe Biden’s now-undeniable caducity and incapacity, the people running the show keep him on, and do what’s necessary to claim a victory in November. (We know they will do whatever they think they can get away […]

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Sowing The Wind

June 20, 2024 – 8:24 pm

In his “Finest Hour” speech of June 18th, 1940 — eighty-four years and two days ago — Winston Churchill warned of “the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.” With news now appearing of the widening spread of the deadly H5N1 virus, there’s […]

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Gloria Patri!

June 16, 2024 – 12:30 pm

Happy Fathers’ Day to all you dads out there. The question often comes up: “what is best in life?” When Conan the Cimmerian was asked this, he gave what is certainly a plausible answer: “To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.” While perfectly reasonable, this […]

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Service Notice

June 13, 2024 – 6:58 pm

The Muse is silent for the moment, I’m afraid. (There’s plenty to comment on — this outrage, for example — but I’d have little to add but splenetic grumbling, so I won’t bother.) Back soon. I’ve been digesting some substantial reading lately, and expect I’ll have something to say about all of that.

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Lamps Switching On In Europe?

June 9, 2024 – 7:45 pm

Fans of Western civilization got a bit of heartening news today: huge electoral wins all over Europe for “far-right” parties. (In case you aren’t familiar with the lingo, “far-right” means, among other things, “in favor of preserving the ancient cultures of Europe against the mass invasion of their homelands”.) In particular, Macron and Scholz took […]

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In Case You Hadn’t Noticed

June 7, 2024 – 2:05 pm

In a recent essay, Ayaan Hirsi Ali explains Yuri Bezmenov’s theory of subversion, and calls our attention to how advanced the disease is here in the West. (Hat-tip to BV.) I expect Bezmenov’s analysis, and the diagnosis given in this essay, will be old news to most of my readers, but it’s a good essay, […]

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Dhimmitude

June 5, 2024 – 2:33 pm

I see in the news today that New Jersey is now certifying businesses owned by gay and transsexual people, in order to privilege them for grants of taxpayer money, give them favored status for state contracts, and bestow other preferences. (The same thing is also routinely done for non-whites, as well as females, in most […]

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What’s So Great About Democracy?

June 4, 2024 – 7:33 pm

Over at Bill Vallicella’s place, I’ve expressed in several comment-threads my increasing lack of enthusiasm for democracy — a disaffection that has increased in proportion to the fetishization of “Our Democracy!” in political discourse and propaganda. To listen to it all, you’d think that Democracy is somehow an end in itself, the founding principle of […]

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