Last week’s TWiR is finally up at Social Matter. It went up on time, this post, however, did not. My apologies to regular readers. This was the second week in which the TWiR Staff (aka. NEET Minions) assisted in the construction of the (always huge) post. The Committee had much to choose from. The following were its picks…
Honorable Mentions:
Adam: The Attentional Structure of Sovereignty. Another deep dive into the linguistic and socio-psychological origins of sovereignty. The best political theory in the sphere is probably happening at GA Blog—in spite of the 2005 blog template… or maybe because of it.
Shylock Holmes: The metres lost, the metres gained. Holmes has a highlight reel from the 1300 years history of the kings of France in view of the Basilica of St. Denis—a history that most French seem rather strained to forget.
James A. Donald: The permanent Trump crisis. Jim analyses the burgeoning insanity of The Cathedral and measures it both as a strength and (eventual) weakness.
Ryan Landry: Elites Determine If A Rebellion Becomes A Revolution. Another successful demonstration of the Iron Law of Rebellious Tools and HLvM.
Quincy T. Latham: Our Thermidor, and Napoleon’s. As is his wont, Latham turns a tangential note into a master work in its own right. He considers the question of who loses in the Restoration, and what you’re going to have to do to make sure they do not lose too much.
Quincy T. Latham: “The Darker Side”: Openings in the Meme Wars. Nearly everything from his pen is gold. Latham exposes the Manichaean dynamics of the Prog mind virus. The Prog see only in moral black and white, but for those with sufficiently high status, the suspension of black/white distinctions can serve as a cudgel to those below him in the hierarchy.
P. T. Carlo: Douthat’s Gambit. When does a “Professional Conservative” finally heed The Reaction’s monotone call for aristocracy? Only when a center-right populist threatens to give icky-people a voice. Carlo makes the mincemeat.
Kristor: (two-part series) Authority Must Flow Down From On High and Supragenous Authority & the Subsidiaritan Feudal Stack of Sovereignties. Kristor continues to recapitulate the neocameralist model in the language of Catholic Legitimism.
Fifth Political: The Western Liberal as Transhuman. An insightful essay into the warped interior psychology of western liberalism.
The Silver Circle:
Mark Citadel: Little England. Citadel seizes upon a psychological distinction not often felt outside the realm—viz., that betwixt Great Britain (imperial, universalist, Union Jack) and England (localist, particularist, St. George’s cross).
Titus Q. Cincinnatus: Three Types of Societies, Three Types of Governments. An addendum to his crucial Ethnogenesis Thesis, Cincinnatus tracks three sorts of nations and the sorts of governments that tend to develop, more or less naturally, within them.
… And the Winner Is:
Wolfgang Adler: An Original Analysis Of Salazar’s Estado Novo Regime In Portugal. Foundational new research and insightful analysis, Adler relies on his own native Portuguese fluency to draw lessons from Portuguese Prime Minister Salazar’s Como Se Levanta Um Estado on behalf of the New Social Science.
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