Featured Image: Qasem Soleimani Funeral Procession, Tehran, January 5, 2020 I had low expectations for the Trump Presidency. I spent over a decade in New York, and I knew that Trump always wanted more than anything in the world to be Mayor of the Big Apple. The problem was that New York City was always […]
Centrism is decidedly unfashionable nowadays. It’s the way of the Cuck, the road of the RINO, the well-paved street of the Limousine Liberal. Today the action is all on the fringes. Once the most important tools in a diplomat’s kit, negotiation is now collaboration and compromise weakness. The object is not to understand the opposition […]
Featured Image: Carved limestone screen in rear of Nave, Sacred Heart Cathedral, Newark, NJ Most foreign students of African Diaspora traditions have treated Christianity as an overlay, a “mask” that allowed slaves to practice African rites unbeknownst to overseers and spies. (Leslie Desmangles’ Faces of the Gods is an excellent exception). But Haiti overthrew its […]
Featured image: Betty Naomi Goldstein Friedan (1921-2006) The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she […]
Featured Image: Greta Thunberg outside Swedish Parliament (August 2018) by Anders Helberg Greta Thunberg has seen the future and it scares the hell out of her. Her fear is genuine and unaffected. That makes it contagious. From her humble beginnings waving a cardboard sign outside the Swedish Parliament, Greta has become Time’s 2019 Person of the Year. After […]
Featured Image: Byberry State Mental Hospital, Philadelphia, 1946. Bernie Sanders has stated “The only long-term solution to America’s health care crisis is a single-payer national health care program.” The Heritage Foundation recommends we repeal Obamacare and replace it with block grants to states. And the Mises Institute recommends we eliminate disability and health care funding altogether as […]
Featured image: Thoth Tarot Atu XX (The Aeon) by Lady Frieda Harris Curse them! Curse them! Curse them! With my Hawk’s head I peck at the eyes of Jesus as he hangs upon the cross. I flap my wings in the face of Mohammed & blind him. With my claws I tear out the flesh […]
Featured Image: Herbert Marcuse in Newtown, Massachusetts, 1955. © Marcuse Family. In his First Inaugural Address Thomas Jefferson said of dissenters, “let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.” Today dissenters and monuments alike are regularly toppled. Saying transgender […]
Featured image: Benjamin Britten memorial, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England Isaac Bonewits was the first (and to date only) student to receive a Bachelor’s degree in Magic. His 1970 Berkeley degree sports Governor Ronald Reagan’s signature and his thesis, republished as Real Magic, remains in print. Created after the Jonestown suicides, the Advanced Bonewits Cult Danger Evaluation […]
America is a nation besotted by the great myth of Progress. The American Dream is one where each generation will be healthier, more prosperous and better-educated than the last. America is a Land of Opportunity where everybody has a chance, where no accident of birth or circumstance can keep the truly determined from grabbing the […]
Europa’s Children 