Friendship in a Post Carbon World
At Nature Bats Last, a discussion of friendship and the ramifications of Peak Oil. I also drifted out of contact with long time friends due to […]
Articles by Hunter Wallace
White Nationalism and Patriotism in American History
At Taki Mag, Chris Roach attempts to bridge the gulf between White Nationalism and paleoconservatism with Catholic charity. He makes some remarks here that grabbed my attention: […]
Shoot Them!
Via Orcinus. Conservative talk radio show host Michael Reagan is advocating shooting 9/11 skeptics as traitors. That’s far more extreme than having the intellectual honesty […]
Dittoheads
$400 million dollars in the bank. No wonder Rush is such a loud cheerleader for capitalism.
Racialists Absorbing Paleos
John Zmirak fears a racialist takeover of the paleoconservative movement. There is probably something to this. Anyone can see the progressive racialization of the commentariat at TakiMag […]
Auto Sales Plunge
The full significance of the death of the personal automobile (and the airlines) is not parsed out here: Sales fell 28 percent at the Ford […]
Replying to Evan
Evan McLaren’s major objection to White Nationalism is the professional social pricing that comes along with supporting racialism. This is a valid criticism. It raises […]
Zmirak on White Nationalism
John Zmirak couldn’t resist jumping into the latest brush fire over at TakiMag about racialism. A few points: 1.) “I can’t improve on Gottfried’s analysis […]
The Greater Depression
The latest from Jim Kunstler: What’s happening is that American society is sliding into a greater depression than the one Grandma lived through. On the […]
Friedman Getting Scared
Flat earther Thomas Friedman is getting alarmed about the unfolding economic crisis: My fellow Americans: We are a country in debt and in decline — […]
Black Belt Ethanol
A few weeks ago, I explored the idea of planting sugar cane here in the Black Belt to produce bioethanol. This is getting some traction […]
The Decline of George W. Bush.
Even the evangelicals are dumping Bush at this point.
Whiteness in Alabama History
The 1819 Alabama state constitutional convention apportioned representation in the state legislature on a white population basis. In other words, the earliest Alabama constitution based […]
Drill, Drill, Drill
Jim Kunstler on the cornocopian idiot Larry Kudlow. Robert Reich has already pointed out that drilling off the coasts of California and Florida will not […]
Some Comments
For once, I agree with John Zmirak: it is the strength of our communities that makes the West worth fighting for, not our capacity to […]
Kindergarten Conservatives
Speaking of conservatives, in this lovely little post called “Is it time to throw pat under the boxcar .. er, bus?,” we find that Freepers […]
Car Culture
Richard Spencer writes: It’s Primitivism Lite, a more presentable version of the fantasy that one day the modern world will finally collapse and we’ll all […]
Self Ownership
At Townhall.com, John Stossel repeats the myth of absolute self ownership. Independent of that harm, adults ought to own our own bodies, so it’s not […]
License, Social Equality, Political Correctness
I’m still reading through my copy of Home From Nowhere while I recover. Here Kunstler describes exactly the things that alienated me from the libertarian conception […]
Doing The Job Capitalists Won’t Do
With all their money, the capitalists haven’t built a new refinery in the United States in decades, but Lew faults the Democrats for wanting to […]
Home From Nowhere
Such a great excerpt: Community, as it once existed in the form of places worth caring about, supported by local economies, has been extirpated by […]
Ahmadinejad on Oil
Ahmadinejad is fully aware of the stress that will be placed up Western economies by Peak Oil. Dubya and his warmongering cheerleaders in the controlled […]
Suburbia: An Abstract Living Arrangement
My own personal copies of The Geography of Nowhere and Home from Nowhere arrived in the mail today from Amazon. Here is an excerpt from the […]
Peak Oil = 85 million barrels per day
T. Boone Pickens: Peak Oil has been reached. Why am I not surprised that the implications of this are not being discussed on CNBC?
Conservatism is Liberalism
Roach is grasping his way outside of liberalism. If he hasn’t already done so, I think he would profit by reading Carl Schmitt’s thoughts on the friend/enemy […]
The Future of PC
Pat writes: A new orthodoxy is arising. Freedom’s finest hour may be behind us. The old orthodoxy will collapse as the Boomers retire. In the […]
Is America’s suburban dream collapsing into a nightmare?
Some nasty predictions about suburbia are coming true. Yandell’s marriage isn’t falling apart: his neighborhood is. Devastated by the subprime mortgage crisis, hundreds of homes […]
Chris Matthews
He’s on television right now with Pat Buchanan gloating over how Tim Russert, a vicious attack dog of the establishment, asked David Duke a question (“earned his […]
Crude Sets New Record
Crude was up over $139 earlier today before coming off a record high. Meanwhile, McCain proposes we drill for more oil, a futile throwback to […]