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Christian Nationalism -- The Movie

Pastor Andrew Isker, from 'What Is Christian Nationalism?’

Take a look at this trailer for an upcoming (January) documentary exploring “Christian Nationalism” as defined by a particular group of hard-right men — all Calvinists, I think, but correct me if I’m wrong — inspired by the work of Stephen Wolfe. Wolfe calls for a “measured theocratic Caesarism” to govern America, and promotes ethnic consciousness. He has denied promoting a theology and anthropology of racial separation (“kinism”), but hi...

The Bataclan, A Decade Later

Bataclan pre-concert crowd, Nov 13, 2015. Soon, many will be shot dead

Ten years ago this week, Islamic terrorists went on a rampage in France, slaughtering 132 people in a single night. Ninety of the dead were concertgoers at the Bataclan, a concert venue and nightclub. Here’s what happened that night at the Bataclan, via Wikipedia:

Three dark-clad gunmen armed with three different types of assault rifles (Zastava M70, Norinco Type 56-1, and an AKKS-47 rifle) had been waiting in a black rental ca...

JD Vance Is The Right's Only Hope

VP JD Vance at US Marine Corps Ball

I make my debut as a contributing writer to The Free Press today with this piece arguing that J.D. Vance is the only figure in this country who can keep the racist, Nazi-positive Groyper movement from taking over the Right. Excerpt:

No reasonable person thinks Donald Trump, with his Jewish daughter, son-in-law, and grandchildren, is an antisemite. But it’s also true that Trump, a 79-year-old lame duck, is in no position to stem the rising tide of Jew-hatred and ...

The (Dying) Empire Strikes Back

Nathan Pinkoski, lecturing at ISI on Renaud Camus

Yesterday C.G. Long tweeted an “Open Letter” from two former ISI presidents (including himself), who smeared Patrick Deneen and ISI president Johnny Burtka for supposedly betraying conservatism. Today it’s my turn (with others) to receive the Long lash:

Long, obviously a knothead, has not the faintest clue what Renaud Camus teaches, else he would know exactly why ISI held a panel discussion on his work. Here’s an introduction to Camus written in Co...

Zombie Reaganauts Strike Back!

Let me start by pointing out that even though I find it unpleasant to watch the Right tearing itself up over this anti-Semitism fight, it is an important and necessary one — and one that the Left pointedly is not having among itself. There are some voices on the Right who believe that we conservatives should simply shut up about our internal differences, and focus on the Left. I strongly disagree. If “fighting the Left” means that we have to absorb Jew hatred and race hatred more generally into ...

What I Saw And Heard In Washington

(L to R) Gladden Pappin, Balazs Orban, VP J.D. Vance, PM Viktor Orban, Area Man

I don’t know what you did on Friday night, but I spent about 90 minutes in the vice president’s study with him and the men you see above, talking geopolitics, Hungary, and the survival of Christianity in Europe, among other things. Of course I can’t be indiscreet about the discussion, but it was rich and vigorous. I’m really glad that JD got to experience the actual, living Viktor Orban in person, and to see for himse...

Weimar: 'Close And Familiar'

Detail of 1933 election poster featuring the Nazi leader with Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, WWI hero and Reich president. He thought they could control Hitler

Good morning from Washington. Got here later in the evening, and left my downtown hotel to try to get a quick bite before crashing into sleep. You know, I never was a pot smoker, but I never had strong views about pot legalization. I hate the smell of it, but if someone wants to do it privately, do I care? I did not.

Boy, was I wrong. L...

How The Left Gave Birth To Nick Fuentes

Grok

You all know exactly what I think about Nick Fuentes and the four-alarm threat his unhinged bigotry poses to conservatism. We on the Right have to fight this, and fight it hard. It’s not the biggest challenge we face now, but if this evil becomes normalized on the Right, it’s going to wreck us morally and cost us dearly with the electorate.

But as I’…

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The Day Of Mamdani

‘We have a Mayor!’

Twenty-four years ago this autumn, I stood on the Brooklyn Bridge and watched the south tower of the World Trade Center fall in front of my eyes. That terrible season, like all New Yorkers, I saw Republican Mayor Rudolph Giuliani establish himself as a bona fide civic hero. If you had said to me then that in my lifetime, a socialist Muslim would be elected to fill shoes once worn by Rudy, I would have considered it the utmost madness.

Life comes at you fast.

Did you note that Zoh...

Reaching Weimar America's Lost Boys

German Expressionist Nick Fuentes (Grok)

I can’t get this whole Nick Fuentes-Tucker Carlson thing out of my mind. Me being me, it seems to me that there’s some high-level spiritual warfare going on here. Wherever there is hatred of the Jews as Jews — understand the distinction I’m making here — I see the Evil One at work.

If you don’t know who Fuentes is, good for you, in a sense. He’s a horrible, evil person. If you doubt me, watch at least the first ten minutes of this monologue that Ben Shapiro...