Last week’s TWiR is finally up at Social Matter. It was a jam-packed, high-quality week throughout the sphere. Many worthy articles failed to make the honorable mention category. In contested balloting, The Committee’s decisions were as follows…
Honorable Mentions:
Raymond Brannen: You May Not Be Interested In Politics, But Politics Is Interested In You. A compelling case that politics cannot be avoided, and because of this, how best to deal with it.
Shylock Holmes: The Birth Control Basilisk. Just what is it that so effectively short-circuits modern westerners’ otherwise perfectly calibrated imperative to be fruitful and multiply?
Titus Q. Cincinnatus: Some Thoughts on Immigration, Segregation, and Gentrification. A perfect red-pill for conservatives who actually care about minority disfunction.
Those Who Can See: The Diversity Tax. Some say diversity is our strength, our wealth, TWCS runs the numbers to find just how much that’s worth.
Adam (GA Blog): The Ministry of True Naming. An extended meditation on formalism, and occult forces that seize power specifically when informal power is up for grabs.
James A. Donald: The psychological benefits of protectionism. Objectively, free(r) trade works best on average. But improving the average is not the entire game of political economy. Jim looks at the potential advantages of putting a thumb on the scale from time-to-time.
Mark Citadel: Understanding The Warrior Archetype. An introduction to the little known, amazingly perceptive political theorist Guido de Giorgio, who contends for a careful balance between the warrior and priestly castes.
Porter: Literal Obliviousness. Beginning with a stomach-turning passage from La Wik on the Red Terror, Porter delivers icy shivs to The Narrative™. If everyone to the right of Lenin is “Literally Hitler”, then where are the Literally X? Where X are commies that did infinitely worse.
The Silver Circle:
Michael Perilloux: A Crash Course In Reactionary Geopolitics. Perilloux puts the kibosh on pan-secessionism. The American Empire exists and, he contends, essential for Western Civilization to go on existing. That is currently poorly managed, that it is currently a force for evil do not mean we should not hope to save the whole under The Restoration.
Arthur Gordian: A Justification For War In The Political Realm. Valuable insights gleaned from Carl Schmitt’s The Concept of the Political applied to the present day. “Politics is war by other means.” A reprimand to conservatives who insist upon fairness to enemies, and a spirited call to treat the left as the existential enemy that it is.
… And the Winner Is:
Douglas Smythe (Dissenting Sociologist): Some Desultory Remarks on the Concept of “Universal Person”. Not as desultory as the title implies, Smythe takes “Universal Man” to the shredder as a falsely sacralized traitor to his own particularity. A canon-worthy introduction to a new concept within neoreactionary thought.
Thanks Nick. By the way, I have finally moved my material to WordPress. You can now find me here:
http://citadelfoundations.wordpress.com
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