The Very Best of Last Week in Reaction (2016/06/26)

Last week’s TWiR is finally up over at Social Matter. We had some acutely high quality articles. One from Jim probably would have won in an ordinary week. But Ryan Landry turned in one of the best essays of his entire 10 year career. The awards were as follows…

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Honorable Mentions:

Reactionary Future: Logistics of ideas, Whigs and the creation of black racial liberalism, and Human Rights (and proxy civil wars) (trio of articles on Nefarious Foundatsion). RF has massively pushed forward the state of reactionary research on the crucial work of Foundations to foment cultural and political revolution in the Anglosphere, The entire history of the 20th century will need rewriting in view of this.

Free Northerner: No Enemies to the Right. A crucial restatement and defense of the neoreactionary maxim.

James A. Donald: The feminized police force and army. Drawing on the lessons from the Orlando Shooting, and the scandalous police inaction during it, Jim articulates with precision the role women should have in mixed social groups.

James A. Donald: All slopes are slippery. This begins as a note on the Brexit “win”, but quickly grows into a more profound statement of political theory, and the current position of various rightward groups with respect to current vectors. Hopeful, yet as always realistic.

Kristor: Owned Government. Kristor seems to get more formalist with each passing week. Here he articulates a philosophical and moral case for legitimate ownership of (and profit-taking from) a nation’s commons and how that helps societies flourish.

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… And the Winner Is:

Ryan Landry: Driving Through Dying Blue Towns. Landry is always good, but this was quite simply a masterpiece. Thoughtful, all-encompassing, and most critically, personal.