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Traditions. Culture from a conservative mode

I Prefer the Soil

We have too many American leaders today trying to sell us on the notion that America is merely an idea that can be easily transplanted to any place on earth. The concept has always bothered me a lot. It diminishes the efforts of those who came before us.
Some appear to want everyone to [...]

America’s Birthday vs. The Nothingness of Progressivism

Happy Birthday America!
I’ll be the first to admit that I have less than zero tolerance for those who champion causes under the banner of “progressivism.” I’ve never been able to get beyond the absurdity inherent in people who insist we would all be better off if Americans had no reverence for our past; [...]

The Right’s Unwitting Embrace of Communism

As I’ve written before, the twin dogmas of ‘multiculturalism’ and ‘diversity’ are not a healthy component to be carelessly grafted upon any nation that relies upon a republican form of democracy. When you glom together peoples whose convictions about the way things should be differ too radically there cannot be agreements about what is [...]

Use the term “Glossocracy” in a sentence

I’m a fan of the Gates of Vienna blog, which focuses on all of the various threats to Western Civilization from a rational traditionalist point of view. It’s authors are well-read, conservative, pithy and wickedly politically incorrect in a calculative manner: They’re my kind of people.
A frequent contributor there, a Scandinavian blogger by the [...]

Understanding the importance of borders to conflict

If there is anything I wish I could change about my past, I would have become a serious student of history at a much younger age. Yes, I’ve always had an interest in the past, thanks to the loving intention on the part of many in my family who explained my ancestors’ roles in the [...]