Links 2018-03-04
- A Manifesto Against the Enemies of Modernity
Modernity can be fought for, and it’s probably what you already want unless you’re on the lunatic fringe of the left or right.
- How French “Intellectuals” Ruined the West: Postmodernism and Its Impact, Explained
Postmodernism presents a threat not only to liberal democracy but to modernity itself.
- The Categorical Im-Pratchettive
After all, it takes as axiomatic that nobody is outside the moral world […]. Kant isn’t having that, and neither is Pratchett. This manifests, for Pratchett, in a refusal to take the dramatically easy way of demonising one or other outgroup.
- The Strange and Terrifying Case of the Turboslav Empire
The Turboslavic ideology is also something more than just a fake origin myth. It is a very potent tool in the current political and ideological fight in Poland. History is very much at the front-lines here.
- Der lange Weg nach Charlottesville – Von Truman bis Trump (Gesamtartikel)
Charlottesville [ist] keine Anomalie, sind die rechten Hetzer keine Randgruppe ohne Bezug zur GOP. Charlottesville, die Präsidentschaft Trumps und seine Wähler sind vielmehr der logische Schlusspunkt einer langen Entwicklung.
- The Eclipse Conspiracy
I am not saying the eclipse isn’t going to happen. I’m just saying there are two sides to every story.