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Étienne de La Boétie on facing corrupt rulers. “Be resolute to serve no more, and you are at once free. I do not ask you to push him, to topple […]

Notes on Post-Risorgimento Idealism: The Historical Context of Giovanni Gentile’s Fascism, Mazzini and Carbonaro Theosophists
NOTES ON THE SUBSTANCE AND CONTEXTS OF GENTILIAN THOUGHT AND RISORGIMENTO IDEALISM IN RELATION TO BLAVATSKY AND THEOSOPHY This explains the historical and philosophical context underlying theosophy versus fascism in […]

Republicanism in the 18th century Revolutions reveal American Conservative Thought is no different from the Anti-Enlightners
THE AMERICAN RIGHT NO DIFFERENT FROM THE ANTI-ENLIGHTENERS AND COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARIES But what is in a word? Everything…especially when you’re misusing and representing a word however you want to. “Kirk himself […]

In Post-Trump Right, Republicans must return to Republicanism as Moral and Philosophical Guide
FOR POST-TRUMP RIGHT, REPUBLICANS MUST RETURN TO REPUBLICANISM AS MORAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL GUIDE Have National Affairs‘ Brink Lindsey read The American Minervan? Brink Lindsey is only suggesting half of what […]

How the Left Always Wins | The Academic Agent
THE ACADEMIC AGENT ON THE POLITICAL LEFT-RIGHT SPECTRUM “I have always said there is no such thing as Right-wing, beyond opposition to the Left. But now I think the entire […]

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 […]

The Loose Tradition of Republican Writers
In regards to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, it is a great reference for understanding ‘REPUBLICANISM,’ in two different, but closely related senses. The author of the article, Frank Lovett […]

“The American Founders drew on an astonishingly wide range of historical sources” | Heather Mac Donald
ON THE HISTORICAL SOURCES OF THE FOUNDERS THAT ARE THE BASIS OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLICAN PHILOSOPHY “The American Founders drew on an astonishingly wide range of historical sources. They invoked […]

American Romanità: What we lost when we Abandoned Classical Education | M.N.S. Sellers, Wes Callihan and Rebekah Hagstrom
“The study of ancient Greek and Latin long ago vanished from most American classrooms, and with it has gone a special understanding of the values and virtues prized by Western […]

Helena Blavatsky on Government Systems: “They have no sway over the inner man…”
“…Whether the physical man be under the rule of an empire or a republic, concerns only the man of matter. His body may be enslaved; as to his Soul, he […]

Note on Benjamin Rush and Early Federalist Republicanism: Fear of Democracy, Moral Degradation, and Corruption
FEDERALIST REPUBLICANISM: BENJAMIN RUSH ON FEARS OF DEMOCRACY, PARTY POLITICS, MORAL DEGRADATION AND CORRUPTION The stories of Marius, Tacitus, Livy and Sallust stress importance of morals, reason and the rule […]