Last week’s TWiR is finally up at Social Matter. It came out just before 6am EDT… which is just before midnight Tuesday for all our readers in Niue. So, still Tuesday… somewhere in the world. The Committee had its hands full in doling out the awards this week. They went this way…
Honorable Mentions:
Titus Cincinnatus: What is the Natural Aristocracy? A definition of, and philosophical apology for great men and their crucial rôle in society.
Shylock Holmes: On Kings and the Accident of Birth. Accessible to open-minded progs, an assault on unseemly and unwholesome presentist bias so pervasive today, honest look at how monarchical regimes develop, and why anyone who thinks they are a mere “accident” probably hasn’t rubbed two together on the subject.
Count ∅-face: On Whores. Delves into the, by now, long conflict between “normal” feminists who see porn as exploitation and therefore evil, and “sex-positive” feminists, who just think it needs more, ya know, social justice brought into it. Feminists who oppose porn do so for all the wrong reasons. After we hang the pornographers, they’ll be next.
William Scott: On the Metaphysics of Meme pt 2. This promising series continues with a look at the necessity of metaphysics, and a seemingly overdeveloped sensitivity some human groups, and the elite of most human groups have towards truth. Moar, pls.
James A. Donald: Hitting your woman with a stick. Anecdotes and wisdom from an old man who knows what he’s talking about. Of course Jim paints with a broad brush; that’s the only way the outline of the whole may be identified.
Porter: Hard Truths. Nothing but cask-strength Porter. He has a gift, and this one is among the stronger examples of it.
Dissenting Sociologist: The Genealogy of “Progressive” Government. A unique and interesing look at the development of political “science”, East and West.
… And the Winners Are:
The judges were deadlocked in picking the most essential article this week. These two were absolutely superb, each in their own distinct way.
James A. Donald: The Puritan Hypothesis in short. The last 9 years of neoreactionary thought on the origins of leftism distilled into a single, relatively brief and entertaining article.
Mark Christensen: Book Review: The North American High Tory Tradition. Seldom would a book review make a top award winning article, but Christensen imparts so much edifying material here, it’s more an exposé of the soul of reactionary history than any mere “book review”. Astonishingly helpful.
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