Category: Political Thought
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Liberals and Nationalism: Countering the Linguistic Coup on Western Values
“What is there about ethno-nationalism now that rallies voters, but hasn’t done so before?” (Ivan Krastev, Central Europe is a Lesson to Liberals: Don’t Be Anti-Nationalist) Misunderstanding what is nationalism lies often in our confusion of terms and theoretical frame of reference. Nationalism, which was not seen as the end of the means, became increasingly…
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Katie Engelhart of Vice News interview Dov Maimon on Israel: “Demography is the key to everything”
Katie Engelhart of Vice News interviewed Dov Maimon in 2016 about the decreasing immigration of Arabs in Israel in Europe’s Jewish Exodus. Many Jews in Europe are still immigrating, in high numbers to the Jewish-majority Israel; but what should be pointed to as worthy of notice is the logic Dov Maimon, the author of The Absorption…
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Giuseppe Mazzini on the Divine Ideal of Republicanism
GIUSEPPE MAZZINI ON THE REPUBLICAN SPIRIT TIED TO THE COMMON GOOD “The Republic, as I at least understand it, means association, of which liberty is only an element, a necessary antecedent. It means, association, a new philosophy of life, a divine Ideal, that shall move the world, the only means of regeneration vouchsafed to the…
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The Origins of the Religious Right with Samantha Bee
The Religious Right | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | TBS The Religious Right | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | TBS II “I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another” (Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Elbridge Gerry, Philadelphia, Jan. 26, 1799)
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Poland officially enthrones Christ as King in Jubilee Act of Acceptance
A ceremony was held in Poland known as the Jubilee Act of Acceptance of Jesus as the King and the Lord, where Poland acknowledged the sovereignty and dominion of Christ over Poland. President Andrzei Duda, alongside Catholic bishops of Poland officially recognized Jesus Christ as King of Poland, in the ceremony at the Church of Divine Mercy…
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The Dan Smoot Report, 1966: “A Constitutional Republic, Not a Democracy”
“The ideal of a constitutional republic is individual liberty. In this century, great strides have been made toward the goal of subverting our republic, and transforming it into a democracy. The foremost tactic of the subverters is subversion of “language” — by calling America a democracy, until people thoughtlessly accept the term, and use the…
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Discovering Religion: If America Became a Christian Nation
“What If America Became a Christian Nation” The words of John Adams, second President of the United States (1797–1801) and the first Vice President (1789–97) on Religion in the United States, Quakers, Jesuitism, and Machiavellianism: “All Religions have Something good in them: but the Ambition and Avarice of Priests and Politicions have introduced into all of…
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Albert Pike on the Duty of the Mason and the Republican Ideal
MASONIC DUTIES “Whatsoever of morality and intelligence; what of patience, perseverance, faithfulness, of method, insight, ingenuity, energy; in a word, whatsoever of STRENGTH a man has in him, will lie written in the WORK he does. To work is to try himself against Nature and her unerring, everlasting laws: and they will return true verdict…
The American Minervan 