COMMENTARY
LBJ Library Photo by Jay Godwin (297/1170)Since When Is Joe Biden a ‘Moderate’?
by Paul Gottfried In an exultant commentary on Joe Biden’s victory on Super Tuesday, New York Post-syndicated columnist Salena Zito tells us: “The Dems’ silent majority, which doesn’t tweet, is finally crying out for moderation from the party.” Zito also quotes Dave Saunders, “a legendary Democratic strategist in Virginia,” who “finds it ‘ironic’ that southern voters […]
Image by Gerd Altmann - PixabayThe Politics of the Coronavirus
by Paul Gottfried A friend in Germany just wrote about how political correctness has persisted in his country despite the Corona Pandemic. Although Chancellor Angel Merkel spent years responding to critics of her generous welcoming policy toward Muslim migrants by insisting that borders are fluid, she has now sealed those very borders. Apparently German borders […]
Conservative Misconceptions about Marriage, and Why It Matters
The pivotal importance of Fatherhood needs to become increasingly evident, not only for a better understanding of some serious social problems, but also for an adequate knowledge of the real purposes of marriage, which is under attack in West’s political and cultural spheres. This was one of the main statements of Dr. Stephen Baskerville in […]
(CARL DE SOUZA/AFP/Getty ImagesBolsonaro and the presidential election in Brazil: an interview with Olavo de Carvalho
Olavo de Carvalho is one of the primary voices of Brazil’s conservative revival. He is a writer, teacher, and critic of the political left in Brazil. (Editor’s note: Jair Bolsonaro was elected president of Brazil 4 days after the publication of this interview in The Epoch Times, with more than 55% of the valid votes.) […]
Thomas Samson/AFPOpposing the Transgender Movement
by Amy Contrada The transgender movement is one of the hammers the tyrannical elite is employing to condition us to keep silent in the face of outrageous assaults on our thoughts, speech, bodily integrity, and physical safety. The transgender war on cultural norms is not just about restrooms and pronouns. It’s about denying biological fact […]
Swallowed by the Swamp
Watching the Trump Administration is more and more like watching a funeral procession. The Republic is dead and there follows a parade of fifty hearses for fifty states. So many obituaries, so many political death notices. “Dearly beloved, we are gathered here together to honor the memory of President Donald Trump, who was…. Well, what […]
Under the Command of a Corpse – Part 3
Olavo de Carvalho explains why Liberation Theology is alive and well in Latin America. II. Read Part II here. Whoever reads the writings by Gutierrez, Boff, and Betto will easily find out their multiple inconsistencies and contradictions. Those flaws reveal that their thought is not the result of serious theoretical effort, but of an intention […]
Golitsyn’s Methodology and the Trump Administration
-Anatoliy Golitsyn, New Lies for Old, p. 102 hat would Anatoliy Golitsyn, the KGB defector who correctly anticipated the fake collapse of communism, say about the Trump administration? I believe he would say that the communist strategists have launched a new provocation based upon a supposed split between the communist-dominated U.S. Democratic Party and (Soviet) Russia. This supposed […]
Strategical Possibilities and Dialectical Games
NATO membership for Ukraine means death for Russia. – Alexander Prokhanov In the first stages of Zyuganov’s creation of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (not without some participation on my part, as well as Prokhanov…), efforts were made to interpret and conceptually appraise the presence of the national component in the Soviet worldview […]
Under the Command of a Corpse – Part 2
Olavo de Carvalho explains why Liberation Theology is alive and well in Latin America. II. Read Part I here. If the child and even its name came ready-made from the KGB, that does not mean that its adoptive parents, Gutierrez, Boff, and Betto have no merit whatsoever in spreading it throughout the world. On the […]
Under the Command of a Corpse – Part 1
Olavo de Carvalho explains why Liberation Theology is alive and well in Latin America. I. Why are still there people who subscribe to liberation theology? Apparently no reasonable person should do that. From a theological standpoint the doctrine that Peruvian Gustavo Gutierrez and Brazilians Leonardo Boff and Frei Betto have spread throughout the world was […]
The Crisis Part II: Good and Bad Leaders
The wise leaders that Carlyle believed necessary are the only possible palliative. But such men, in truth, are reticent and timid – not eager for the limelight. After all, being a leader of fools is dangerous business. Alas, our noble men of genius, Heaven’s real messengers to us, they also rendered nearly futile by the […]
Darwin’s Fairytales Have Led Us to Savage Waters
Judith Reisman comments on David Stove’s book Darwinian Fairytales: Selfish Genes, Errors of Heredity and Other Fables of Evolution o you realize, reader, that you are an error of heredity, a biological error? … And not only an error, but an error on an enormous scale. At least, Darwinians say you are. And who knows […]
Morality – The Real Target of Relativity
f the basic entities of the cosmos are persons, not things, not atoms, quarks, or some other latest smallest being, not electromagnetism or gravity, not cosmological constants, then the investigation of how persons, not things, begin will yield more information on the meaning of life, and put scientific re-search into the beginnings of nature in […]
Cardinal Kasper’s Challenge Distracts from the Real Problem
s the Synod of Bishops on the Family convenes this week, the Catholic Church has a heaven-sent opportunity to atone for one of the biggest failures in modern ecclesiastical history and in so doing to take a major step in resuscitating the Christian faith in the daily lives of millions of people. The provocative challenge […]
Anti-Marxist Revolution in Brazil?
n recent weeks and months, we have been flooded with news about the Syriza “miracle,” about how the Greek leftists will manage to pull the country out of the state of decay in which it languishes. The Greek Finance Minister was placed high on all pedestals of European and universal glory, as if he were […]
The Intellectual Roots of the American Left’s Emerging Totalitarianism
recent incident in Wallingford, Connecticut, not far from where I grew up, caused VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow to comment: “Cultural Marxist totalitarianism is coming to an America near you.” A complaint was lodged with the local police that “hate” merchandise— Nazi and Confederate memorabilia—was being publicly exhibited and sold at a popular flea market. Following […]
A Brief History of Male Chauvinism
Olavo de Carvalho takes on the anti-male prejudice that offends the intellect and twists history. Women have always been exploited by men. That is a truth that nobody doubts. From the solemn lecture halls in Oxford to popular TV shows, from Collège de France to pop music groups, the world reaffirms that certainty, maybe […]
The Crisis, Part I The Politicization of Education
“We must organize the Intellectuals.” – Willi Münzenberg “I sing in praise of college, “Of M.A.’s and Ph.D.’s, “But in pursuit of knowledge “We are starving by degrees.” – Popular ditty from the 1920s In Memoirs of a Superfluous Man, Albert Jay Nock explained that a monkey can be trained, but only a small percentage of human beings […]
The Violation of Language
When language becomes corrupt, mankind is out of touch with reality. n The Fourth Political Theory, Alexander Dugin says some profound things which need to be acknowledged (even by one who opposes his call for the destruction of the United States). “In political post-anthropology,” he writes, “all is reversed: leisure and work (the most serious […]
