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  • Italian Republicanism and the Transatlantic Indictment of the Early U.S. Republic

    The Carbonari piece introduced Mazzini’s moral philosophy, Italian republican critiques of American slavery, and the transatlantic influence on Black abolitionist thought. I wanted this piece to serve as a summation of an expansion of my arguments. It sets up a genealogy that most American political discourse has either forgotten or never learned, which is that…

  • M16 — Lone Ranger

    “Seh, them killing off the woman and them killing off the manThem killing off the woman and them killing off the manI know, them start pon the young generationSeh dat, them start pon the young generationSeh, inna time like this, mi say, no bother with no wrongA time like this, you have fi stand up…

  • The Carbonari Movement in Italy: its Revolutionaries, and the Birth of Anti-Republican Conspiracy

    the Birth of Anti-Republican Conspiracy in Europe AND PROFILES OF Carbonaro Revolutionaries INTO THE RISORGIMENTO INTRODUCTION AND MAZZINI’S CONTRIBUTION This is a continuation or short briefing about specific individuals or key revolutionaries in this history from God and the People: Mazzini’s Divine Ideal, the Carbonari Networks, and the Republican Struggle Against Monarchism and Theocracy. In…

  • American Case Study: A Refutation of Modern Definitions of Fascism

    I provide a challenge to modern interpretations of Fascism primarily through deep historical and philosophical analysis of Italian Fascism’s own intellectual roots. Fascism was a reaction against Renaissance individualism, liberalism’s decadence, and interpreted these changes in history through Vico’s Cycles of the “Age of Men.” There is not a single aspect of Fascism, which emerged…

  • What Is Fascism and the Issue with the Modern and Academic View I — Q&A

    ENQUIRER: What is Fascism, from your view? DOMINIQUE: Italian Fascism is a distinct, historically rooted philosophical system, and is not the vague pejorative slur or catch-all authoritarianism it has become in modern popular discourse. I utilize primary sources (Giovanni Gentile’s Actualism, Mario Palmieri, Mussolini’s own statements and their limited interpretations of Vico and divergences from…

  • On the Founding-Era Republic and Answering Objections to Revival of Republicanism — Q&A

    ENQUIRER: How close is the idea of The American Minervan to the founders? DOMINIQUE: The American Minervan’s ideas are very close to those of the American Founders, particularly in their classical civic republican core, while consciously seeking to revive and regenerate a tradition that was at its strongest during the Revolutionary era and the first…

  • How Emotive Politics Uses the Idea of Democracy to Enable Abuse and Corruption

    Modern use of the term democracy as access-point for political abuse, maintenance of mythic illusions and smokescreens of corrupt actions by the government-surveillance-military complex and inversion of the meanings of government. Addressing the modern colloquial use even overuse of the term democracy as a catch-all positive phrase, its rhetorical weaponization, the emotion tied to hatred…

  • Republicanism and Democracy: Why the Terms Carry Different Meanings — Q&A

    Q&A ENQUIRER: Does the term ‘DEMOCRACY‘ from the point of view of The American Minervan hold as much weight as the term ‘REPUBLICANISM‘? DOMINIQUE: The term ‘republicanism’ in my writings holds significantly more weight than ‘democracy,’ but these terms within context of U.S. system of government do not mete out each other. The two terms…

  • God and the People: Mazzini’s Divine Ideal, the Carbonari Networks, and the Republican Struggle Against Monarchism and Theocracy

    MAZZINI’S DIVINE IDEAL, THE CARBONARI NETWORKS, AND THE REPUBLICAN STRUGGLE AGAINST MONARCHISM AND THEOCRACY Introduction to Spiritual and Political Foundations of Italian Republican Nationalism INTRODUCTION In the summer of 1815, the Congress of Vienna concluded its deliberations and imposed upon the Italian peninsula a settlement designed, above all, to extinguish the revolutionary fires that had…

  • Voegelin’s Abuse of ‘Gnosticism’

    “Professor Voegelin finds everything to be Gnostic.” — Thomas J. J. Altizer Content INTRODUCTION Few words in the lexicon of contemporary conservative and traditionalist thought have been abused as thoroughly, as recklessly, and as hypocritically as “Gnosticism.” In the hands of Eric Voegelin and, far more egregiously, in the hands of his intellectual heirs, the term has ceased to…

  • Normalization of Conspiracies: Jews, the Khazar Myth and Modern Israelism

    This article covers three interrelated conspiratorial narratives that have achieved concerning mainstream currency: the Khazar hypothesis of Ashkenazi Jewish origins, the replacement theology of extremist Black Hebrew Israelism, and the “Jews control the world” superconspiracy. Utilizing converging evidence from population genetics, historical scholarship, and sociological theory, these narratives are empirically untenable, and their persistence reflects…

  • An Authoritative Refutation of Netanyahu’s view of the Judeo-Christian roots of the United States

    INTRODUCTION I extend my argument as correction point to the early Christian Masonic focus on Greco-Roman and Jewish influences, to the writings of Russell Kirk about American Roots, and to the arguments of the Religious Right and entire Christian Zionist culture. My editorial project is centered on reviving classical republicanism as the authentic ideological foundation…