The Very Best of Last Week in Reaction (2016/09/11)

Last week’s This Week in Reaction is now up over at Social Matter. The big news was a 15th Anniversary of 9/11, the Claremont Review of Books article The Flight 93 Election, and on-going prognosis of the Alt-Right’s newfound fame. The most noteworthy articles were as follows…

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Honorable Mentions:

Lawrence Glarus: The Problems with Ideology. Styled “Notes”, this wide-ranging article sketches out a case against ideology and in favor of wisdom and virtue.

Raymond Brannen: Politics Is Upstream of AI. Just as no sovereign power can resist meddling in science for outcomes it “likes”, it can’t resist meddling in AI either. And the less secure the sovereign, the more it will meddle.

Titus Cincinnatus: Conservatives are Agents of Social Entropy. Despite their name, conservatives are simply cogs in the liberal entropic machine. Where they act at all, they ensure the smooth running of it.

William Scott: On the Metaphysics of Meme pt 1. A profound meditation on the history of memes and their occult capacities to influence human psychology.

Mark Citadel: Shia Geopolitics And The Fortress State. A magisterial presentation on the history of Islamic Civilization and the Middle East.

Ryan Landry: One Week + The Full Press Is On The AltRight. An expert analysis of the mainstream media’s recent recognition of Alt-Right, and what that does (and does not) portend.

Porter: The Jungle is a Choice. News and Porter’s patented commentary on the Calais Jungle, how easy it would be to fix, and how difficult it remains to decide to do that.

Adam T. C. Wallace: A True Elite and the Alternative Right. Fantastic commentary on short-comings on the Alt-Right, especially a facile (and completely modernist) nationalism.

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… And the Winner Is:

James A. Donald: On the day of the rope. Jim tells us why, on the Day of the Rope, not many will need to be hanged. And why that’s a good thing.