Tag: liberalism
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The Lost Meaning of Republicanism in Modern America
Americans often appear indifferent to “Republicanism” (meaning the classical republican tradition) because the word has been almost completely hijacked in everyday language by the Republican Party. When most people hear “republicanism” today, they think of the Grand Old Party, Trump, culture-war talking points, or at best vague slogans about “limited government.” The deeper philosophical tradition…
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Paradise Lost: Why Americans have trouble with their idea of Authority?
Cultural and philosophical shifts in thinking between the 40s and 60s in the United States were reactions one after the other partly as a result of social engineering and enforcement of social rules (or pressures). This history demonstrates the illusion of free choice and individualism in the U.S., particularly in our present time. The very…
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Henry A. Wallace Spiritual Ideals and Fascination with the United States Motto
Henry A. Wallace (1888-1965) was a progressive Republican and Episcopalian, a high ranking official during the war, New Deal Secretary of Agriculture and Vice President of the U.S. 1941-45. He is considered a notable contributor to American liberalism and political culture. This brief will not cover his life or political work but highlight his particular…
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Where Authority Lies: Republicanism, Liberalism, and Progressive Morality
WHERE AUTHORITY LIES “. . .And they that are wise shall shine as the brightness (zohar) of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.” (Dan. xii, 3) What is called the “new morality” (a term dating to the 1920s) today guided by progressive social movements seems…
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This is My Stance on Death of George Floyd and Police Brutality, NFL, Conservatives on the Protests
The American Right and far-right across social media appear to all be in perfect agreement with one another about the protests and this entire crisis. Firstly, it is a lie of Conservatives, that George Floyd is seen as a martyr by the Black community. So far as for his family, pictures of him and family…
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Minerva leads America in “The Apotheosis of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington”
MINERVA, Goddess of Wisdom leads America in “The Apotheosis of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington.” The Apotheosis of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington is a copperplate-printed toile fabric produced in several colorways in Britain between 1785-1800, after the first defeat of the British Empire. A banner reads “Where Liberty Dwells, There is My Country.” GALLERY…
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The Transcendental in the Nazi Volkishe and Fascist Ideal
NAZISM EXISTED BEFORE HITLER. HITLER JUST JOINED IN. The foundational National Socialists (pre-Hitler) were in-fact a league of ex-Social Democrats and Trade Unionists. Benito Mussolini found inspiration in Sorel, the Syndicalists, and Anarchists, and sought a balance in his own at first, new revolutionary socialism, which develops into “Fascism” in stark contrast to Marx, Trotsky…
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Riding the Tiger of Modernity | Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad on Julius Evola
SHAYKH ABDAL HAKIM MURAD ON JULIUS EVOLA COUNTER-CULTURE “…so Evola is a point of reference for people who are seeking an alternative, but unfortunately because of his possibly xenophobic blindspot when it came to Europe’s “third heritage”. . . .the Heritage of Islam — Gaudí’s move was definitely in the direction of the underestimated Ishmaelite…
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Mussolini’s Thinking: On World Peace, Imperialism, Democracy, the Authoritative State and War (1931 and 1937)
Mussolini on World Peace, Imperialism, Democracy, the Authoritative and Corporative State in Fascism and War: 1931 Speech to the English-speaking world and 1937 interview with James Strachey Barnes. “And the purpose of Fascism is plain: to make the world a better place to live in and man a nobler citizen. (…) Fascism is the only…
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The Lost History of Liberalism From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century | Helena Rosenblatt
“I have been reading and thinking about liberalism for so long it would be impossible to list and thank all the scholars whose work has informed and shaped mine.” (HELENA ROSENBLATT, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS) What does it mean to be a liberal, and how has the meaning of the word evolved over decades and even centuries? The…
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Everyone now sees fascists
An excerpt from Brendan O’Neill’s essay, Bolsonaro is not a fascist, on the danger of branding everyone a fascist; something rather than genuinely foreboding, becoming a sign of intellectual laziness. INTRODUCTION Mussolini’s made a prediction of the future in the Last Days of his “Italian Social Republic” in 1945, when he gave instructions to Italian…
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Classical Scholars against the Identitarian Right
In the mid-point to the last quarter of 2018, many articles were written across platforms and the internet on how the Alt-Right and Conservatives were misappropriating “the Greek and Latin Classics” to lend credibility to vicious and vindictive white supremacist and Identitarian ideology. I have compiled several to introduce to us a problem. Classics and…
The American Minervan 