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The recent coronation of Charles III was a bit of a relief for me: He finally made it! The old girl’s gone at last. That being said, it appears that much of the old girl’s Britain is...

Sam T. Francis by Phil Eiger Newmann, 2021

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Samuel Todd Francis was born April 29, 1947, in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He died February 15, 2005 in the Maryland suburbs of the imperial capital....

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Any doubt that there is a concerted wish among influential Jews to guide gentiles into maladaptive behavior can be dispelled by watching the 2008 Mike Leigh film Happy-Go-Lucky. The British...

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The Rebel Set

Directed by Gene Fowler, Jr.

Starring Don Sullivan, Gregg Palmer, Kathleen Crowley, Edward Platt, Ned Glass, & John Lupton

Written by Bernard Girard & Louis Vittes

Cinematography:...

Noddy and the Golliwogs

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First they came for the golliwogs . . .

. . . but I was not a golliwog, and said nothing. At first glance this story looks encouraging, as it involves the rare...

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Rob Roy (1995) was released the same year as Braveheart and also concerns Scottish history, but is less well-known and has been overshadowed by its more extraverted counterpart. In contrast...

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The Stories

But the stories! What of the stories themselves? Rather than going over the inevitable Death in Venice, the minor “Louisey,”[1] or the pseudo-story...

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Ethiopian Lelisa Desisa Benti was the fastest runner in the 2013 Boston Marathon. The fastest woman was a Kenyan who finished 16 minutes behind him. Nobody, however, remembers the victors...

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A lot has been said about Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho as well as Mary Harron’s screen adaptation. Many in our sphere love this story for a multitude of reasons, and many more dismiss...

Martin Luther King III

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Probably due to some traumatic event in the womb or early childhood, I have chosen an avocation which constantly forces me to expose myself to things that upset...

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Monument to George N. Hardinge (1781–1808), 1808

Here we have another Classical piece[1] from St. Paul’s. Very sort of neo-Classical in feel. Idealized....

Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?

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Smoking cigarettes

And writing something nasty on the wall.

You nasty boy!

— Stevie Wonder, “I Wish”

[C]ontinual fear, and danger of...

Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain, England

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The following is a transcript of a video documentary by Jonathan Bowden that can be viewed on The Jonathan Bowden Archive here. The...

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Though I am certainly no Emil Cioran scholar, I can write about him from the point of view of having been impacted by him. Would-be Cioran enthusiasts beware, for his influence is not necessarily...

Christine Jorgensen

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Amid all the censorious, aneurysm-inducing twaddle about “transphobia” and the nauseating, bootlicking treatment of the gender-dysphoric as cultural gods these...

Figure 1. Scenes from They Live depicting subliminal messages on billboards that are only visible with special glasses.

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Andrew Tate embraces conspicuous...

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Philippa Jayne Langley ( Sally Hawkins) is an office frump  in Edinburgh — and a depressed one. She is passed over for promotion because she isn’t charming enough, which is true. She...

Col. Robert McCormick during the First World War.

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Military mid-level management

McCormick’s military career couldn’t be replicated today. In today’s...

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By her side, on the little reading-desk, was a survival from the ages of litter — one book. This was the book of the Machine. – E. M. Forster

Welcome, my son.

Welcome to the machine.

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Robert R. McCormick in 1925.

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The United States has too many ongoing military deployments. There are unnecessary military bases in Syria, Somalia, South Korea, and Niger,...