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Up until the death of Lawrence Auster on March 29, 2013, thousands of devoted fans came to this website everyday, sometimes two or three times a day. They came for Mr. Auster s brilliant political and cultural commentary. They felt that his unique combination of insight, combativeness, erudition, wit and warmth could not be found elsewhere. He is much missed and this site continues to draw many visitors each day. Fortunately, Mr. Auster left this abundant archive and it is a generous gift to those who wish to explore it. It includes quick, trenchant analysis of current events; lengthy essays on a variety of subjects; elegant debate and a systematic philosophy of modern decline. The articles featured in the sidebar are especially important and relevant.Please feel free to quote from the material here. Those who wish to use longer excerpts may request permission here.Mr. Auster was a traditionalist who is best known for his writings on immigration, race, Islam, Darwinism, politics and feminism. His book, The Path to National Suicide was a seminal work in the immigration restrictionist movement. MORE Posted by Lawrence Auster Society on February 12 at 05:44 PM Funeral for Lawrence Auster A funeral mass for Lawrence Auster is scheduled for 1 p.m. Tuesday, April 2 at Church of St. Michael the Archangel, located at Holy Cross Catholic Church, 140 E. Mount Airy Avenue, Philadelphia PA.Visitation at the church; noon to 1 p.m. Burial to follow. LAWRENCE AUSTER: JANUARY 26, 1949 - MARCH 29, 2013 Lawrence Auster died today at 3:56 a.m., Eastern Daylight Time, at a hospice in West Chester, Pennsylvania. His death came after more than a week of rapidly worsening distress and physical collapse caused by the pancreatic cancer he endured for almost three years.On Monday evening, after arriving at the hospice in the late afternoon, Mr. Auster read and responded to a few emails. He then closed his battered and medicine-stained Lenovo laptop for the last time. That s enough for now, he said, holding his hands over the computer as if sated by an unfinished meal.He did not expect that to be the last.But the blogging career that stands out on the Internet and in the history of American letters as a tour de force of philosophical and cultural insight is over. Mr. Auster entered a state of sedated and sometimes pained sleep the next day, after a night of agony. He spoke no more than a few words during the next two days and died peacefully this morning after about ten hours of unusually quiet and mostly undisturbed rest. Today I have received many emails that were sent to me starting Monday and I have replied to those few that were reply-worthy. It s too hard to explain why I had not received them until today. In any case, please know that I am still alive, that my life as a Christian (though hardly a good one) continues, and that I am not in imminent danger of death. I am leaving the hospital probably tomorrow and within a week will probably be back at my friend s home. Why am I not saying more about myself and my circumstances? It s simply too complicated, given the objective situation, and too difficult, given my physical situation, to say more. An important entry posted last night has disappeared from the main page This is a major symptom the worst symptom so far of the florid schizophrenic HAL-like destructive insanity of my Lenovo laptop with Windows XP. Yet the event does not seem a total disaster resulting in the total loss of several hours of intense work. The public entry page itself has not seemed to disappear. When last I checked, a couple of minutes ago, it was here. If the preceding hyperlink to the public entry works and still displays, the public page still exists. The public entry can still be reconstituted. It is about my progress in the hospital. The entry address itself is (or rather it was; who knows how long will continue to exist?): http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/024377.html. I am copying everything to different applications for security. But because I cannot send an e-mail from the hospital and I don t have a USB backup drive with me in the hospital I cannot instantly create a secure backup if the laptop proceeds to total breakdown. The laptop is in worse shape than my body, and seemingly far less responsive to treatment. But fear not: Alan M., who hosts VFR on his own backup site, does an automatic nightly backup of VFR. When in the course of human diseases it becomes necessary for one person to set forth before the world the recent history his own disease Yesterday morning Wednesday morning beset by innumerable physical problems, I went to the same emergency room at the same excellent suburban Pennsylvania hospital near my friend s house to which I had gone February 11th, and, in the same manner as last month, was admitted to the hospital on the same day. It was not until today that I had with me my laptop computer (though not entirely: I can get on the Web, but for some reason I cannot receive e-mail; hence my being out of touch). There is so much to tell about the many developments in my case over the last several days, or over the last three days, or over the last two days, that I would hardly know where to start. The only way to simplify the story to an account which would not be too complicated to tell clearly and non-confusingly given my present circumstances and present capacity and without a larger effort than I am willing or able to make given my present desire and capacity would be to write: My condition has improved amazingly over the last two days. Since I was checked into the hospital yesterday morning, the simultaneous, multileveled, and overwhelming pains and discomforts that I had yesterday are all gone. At the same time other problems, caused by the treatment itself, have appeared: I am feeling somewhat disoriented and I have occasionally experienced excess sleepiness. My medical team told me in advance of these possibilities. We are working together on fine-tuning the level of intravenous treatment so that it will adequately keep down the pain without in any way incapacitating me.* * * What you’ve read so far is what I originally posted just before midnight Friday. But here’s one exception to the abstract generality of this post. Friday afternoon I was brought down from my third floor room to the lowest floor of the hospital, where a non-surgical team in the interventional radiation department punctured and drained with needles the ascites, which is fluid in the abdominal cavity. The doctors believe that my difficulties in swallowing and keeping down food and liquids have not been caused solely by the esophagitus, which is a delayed side effect of the radiation treatment to the brain and the neck, but has been caused by the following chain of cause and effect:Metastatic growths in the abdominal cavity, which, by the way, have probably caused the recent return of the distension or stretching of the abdomen, has put external pressure on the gastrointestinal organs including the small intestine and the stomach, which in turn has caused upward pressure on the acidic digestive fluids and forced those fluids upward. Thus it is the famous condition of acid reflux, and not the fairly obscure condition of esophagitus, brought on by radiation treatment, that has caused the recent pain and dysfunction in the esophagus, or it’s a combination of both.So, in order to reduce the dysfunction in the esophagus, as well as for other reasons, my doctors ordered the draining of the ascites in the abdomen, a procedure called paracitesus.The team was chatting amiably with me as they were preparing me for the procedure. In fact what I thought was their preparation, which involved some cold and painful contact with my midsection, was actually the draining process itself. I realized this myself when one of the team dramatically brought out four huge bottles each filled with clearish brown or amber fluid, and the team told me that the fluid was the ascites that had just been drained from my abdominal cavity while I was having an animated conversation with them.The sight of that mind-blowing amount of amber fluid which had all just been brought out of my abdomen (I had been told long ago by my doctors that there was very little free space in the abdominal cavity) astonished me as much as any astonishing sight I had ever seen. Also, in addition to the four full bottles, there was a half-full bottle. The total was 4.5 liters, which surprised and impressed even the medicos. (However, in the cheerfulness of my awe, I initially missed the bad signs which I only picked up on Saturday: if the ascites was so huge, that probably meant that the tumors that had generated all that fluid where also very big.In conclusion, folks, this was a one-hour or two-hour episode from the last two days. Do you still wonder why I said at the outset of this post that the full story of the last two days, let alone of the last five days, was beyond my desire or capacity to tell it fully and clearly? The original version of this post, telling the story without any specifics, was a little over 271 words in length. The tale of the draining of the abdominal fluid which I then added to the post was more than 530 words long. The total time it took to write and post and correct the entire thing was around four hours. Blogging takes me a very long time now because my personal functioning is still slow, and, much worse, because my laptop gives me sometime insane, HAL-like, seemingly malicious problems (movingthe insertion point without notice to a different part of the entry’s editing window, failing to save a saved change, saving some changes in a save, and not saving other changes, moving without notice a block of text from one part of the entry to another part. This blog entry is now—as I am executing what I think and hope will be the final save in the entry— is [I had given a number of words which is now gone] and the time is now 4:00 a.m.Yes I know I, must immediately get a new laptop. But this laptop is not always as insanely bad as I have describe. The unbearable badness has only occurred recently and intermittantly, and it happens only in blogging, not in Word where I do most of my present work, and in Outllook Express. I ve contradicted myself on the question of prayer It s funny, but I just realized that when I recently said that I do not relate to praying to God for material benefits for myself, I was contradicting what I was saying and doing just a few months ago.Sometime in the late fall, I had decided on certain prayers I needed to make, and I was making them. The first was that I straighten myself out with God before I die. The second was that I be able to complete my must-do projects, mainly writing projects, but also personal projects, before I die. (I think there was a third prayer, but I don t remember what it was; maybe there were only two prayers.)I feel I have, through God s grace, made amazing progress on the spiritual goal that I was praying for. In amazed gratitude I ve written several times about my sense of greater closeness to Jesus. In any case I was wrong in saying I did not like to pray for material benefits for myself. The present course of my case I realized that my response to a reader in which I gave A further account of recent developments in my case was somewhat contradictory and difficult to follow. I ve attempted to straighten it up, and also made minor editorial improvements, which were needed. Calling Joel LeFevre, again As I noted, Joel LeFevre wrote to me last week in response to my request for someone to give me his contact information. He told me that he hadn t written back to me when a couple of years ago I wrote to him repeatedly on an urgent matter (the Unofficial Lawrence Auster webpage, which Mr. LeFevre had created and maintained, had disappeared from the Web) because his server had a problem for a while. Well, I assumed based on his answer that the problem was fixed now. But today I wrote to him on another important matter, and once again the e-mail bounced back with the message that The following addresses have delivery problems. To paraphrase the bard of our time, how many times can a man s server stop people from communicating with him?UPDATE: Joel LeFevre has responded, giving me his alternative e-mail addresses. I have had this thought going back decades.I believe in two things: God, and white Western civilization. Here is a photo of me taken today by Dean Ericson when he was visiting from New York. It was shot a few minutes after I fell down to the ground, mainly because of the exceptional bodily weakness I am experiencing today. The extreme weakness may be a side effect of the radiation treatment, as told in my most recent response to a reader in Letters from Readers. A further account of recent developments in my case Alan Levine writes:I have not written to you, perhaps wrongly feeling that you were being smothered by expressions of sympathy.I finally decided to write when it occurred to me that you may be in unnecessary pain. Is ativan the best they can do for you? MORE Posted by Lawrence Auster on March 18 at 09:30 PM A basic rule of e-mail etiquette Someone sent me a group e-mail today, and I sent her this reply. I have sent many e-mails similar to this one over the years, but this time I decided to post it:If you are sending an email to multiple recipients, you should not put their names and e-mail addresses in the cc line. That way everyone on the list is included by force in a group he doesn t know (including you I don t know you); and, worse, if people reply to the e-mail, everyone on the list starts getting e-mails from people he doesn t know, which is very annoying. The addresses of the recipients should go in the bcc line, not the cc line. This is basic email etiquette. Thank you.Lawrence Auster MORE Posted by Lawrence Auster on March 18 at 08:20 PM Half, maybe most, of writing is finding faults in one s own writing, and fixing them, until one finds nothing more to fix. It is an immersion in one s own flaws, and a constant, unyielding effort to ameliorate them. MORE Posted by Lawrence Auster on March 18 at 08:28 AM More on the talented poor There is in the entry, NYT: talented poor not choosing to attend good colleges, a rich, engaging discussion, with readers offering very interesting alternative explanations of the facts reported in the New York Times article. My computer problems Posting entries, adding comments to entries, and revising entries has become incredibly difficult. It takes at least twice the time it ought to, because my three-and-a-half-year-old Lenovo laptop with Windows XP keeps doing unwanted and bizarre things. If I were to catalogue those things in detail, you would be astounded. I think the laptop is slowly breaking down and going maliciously berserk, like the computer HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey. At the same time I am extremely reluctant to move my work to my new Asus laptop with Windows 7 or get some other computer, because the time and effort needed to learn and get adjusted to the peculiarities of a new computer would be greater than that involved in continuing to work with my present laptop, as bothersome as that is. But a possible solution occurs to me. The Right Prayer, cont. There is another exchange of comments, this one with Kenyon H., about my statement that I don t like to pray to the Creator of the Universe for material benefits for myself. In the same entry, I ve re-written my March 16 reply to Terry Morris which I had said was badly written and was too negative toward petionary prayer. Progress report on book Yesterday I finally sent to the publisher the chapters in Part One of my book, and some of chapters of Part Two. The book is tentatively conceived as having three parts. I want to tell in detail this story, because it also involves the very bad, Job-like, many-sided state of suffering under which I was toiling all Friday night, and also several hours on Saturday morning when I was doing this work. The suffering included the intense gut pain (around 70 percent of the unbearable pain I had in late January / early February which was ended by the first nerve block), which suggested to me that the second celiac plexus nerve block, administered on Wednesday, was not working, which in turn suggested to me that my functional life was close to over, because the doctors next step would be morphine. But since around noon Saturday 24 hours! there has been no gut pain, suggesting that my functional life will last at least a couple of months more, giving me the time to finish my must-do projects, Amazingly, the only serious physical problem I ve had over the last day is serious bodily weakness, making it difficult for me to move. Even the bad pain down the entire esophagus and the accompanying great difficulty experienced in swallowing (including swallowing the many pills I take each day), which started this past week, and which we learned is a standard result of the radiation treatment, has mostly ended due to a liquid medicine that restores and protects the mucus lining of the esophagus. So, my Job-like suffering has become simple suffering, and it s not that bad.I will try to write that entry later. It will accomplish two things at once: it will have specific information on the progress of my work and also specific information on the evolution of my health status, which various readers have asked for, but which I haven t provided in some time. Text of Lawrence Auster's speech, "A Real Islam Policy for a Real America." Video of Lawrence Auster speaking on the Islam problem and what to do about it. VFR does not currently use an automatic comments feature. Send comments to my regular e-mail address. If you do not know it, send comments here. VFR Articles Arranged by TopicA Word document containing many of VFR's most important articles. (Last updated June 18, 2012.)Master ArchiveA single page containing all of VFR's 22,000 entries.Letters from readers: In response to the announcement that the cancer I have survived for three years has spread to the brain, readers sent me an extraordinary outpouring of letters of appreciation and anticipatory farewell that makes me feel I m the most fortunate man on earth. Why VFR s recent focus on blacks?: The sacralization of blacks in our culture is both the opposite of what blacks deserve, and the principal expression of white Americans will to national and racial suicide. VFR s Rules on How to Protect Yourself from Black Violence and White Political Correctness: VFR s revised and expanded version of John Derbyshire s sensible advice to his children (and to all non-blacks) which got him dismissed from National Review. We are continually adding to the list of do es and don ts, based on further incidents of black-on-white violence and liberal-on-white persecution.Are whites brain-dead or toiling under the reign of fear?: The truth is that whites live under the tyranny of a false ideology that demonizes them as racists and aims at their collective harm; and that whites dare not publicly oppose this ideology, even with relatively mild statements, because of the fear of more particular harms that would come to them individually for doing so.A change in thought: No matter how bad things have seemed, I have always held out the hope that the liberal-led destruction of our society could be reversed. But in the fall of 2011, a quiet but profound change occurred in my thought. It now seemed to me these false and evil liberal beliefs would continue in existence as the dominant beliefs of our society as long as our society exists.Why the truth about black dysfunction is so important: If whites could see the truth that black incapacity/disorder is not whites fault but is inherent in blacks themselves, it could literally save the country, by freeing whites from their suicidal guilt. Modern liberalism aims at the end of majority rule: Liberalism believes only in the self, and in the equality of all selves, Therefore liberalism is increasingly hostile to majority rule because it means rule by some selves over others. VFR on Gnosticism: Gnosticism is both a perennial human temptation and a key critical concept for understanding liberal and other ideological distortions of the world. Notwithstanding the forbidding sound of the word, Gnosticism is an idea that can be made be intelligible to the ordinary intelligent reader. VFR on homosexual marriage : Given that the passage of the homosexual marriage law in New York last week represents the biggest success so far for that movement, this would be a good time to post a collection of my past articles on the subject. VFR on Liberal Hategate: a Collection: In this entry are listed all of VFR s entries so far on the Tucson massacre and the left s indictment of Republicans and conservatives for it. VFR on the homosexualization of the U.S. military: On the morning of December 18, 2010, the Senate voted for cloture on the bill to repeal the prohibition of On women s equality: Several articles questioning whether women s political equality, meaning women s franchise and the presence of women in positions of political leadership, is good for society. Gatesgate: a collection: VFR s entries on the Henry Louis Gates matter, arranged into a short and a long list. Open borders arguments and the Church a collection: These are articles dealing with the liberal Christian and particularly liberal Catholic pro-open borders position.U.S. in Mesopotamia a collection: Articles and discussions from 2002 to the present about the Iraq invasion, occupation, and democratization policy. What should be the paleocons stand toward Israel?: A close analysis of the paleoconservatives unprincipled, anti-Semitic, and self-marginalizing position on Israel, contrasted with the principled and winning position on Israel which the paleocons ought to take, but which the great majority of them won t take because they are, in fact, anti-Semitic.The great Sarah Palin debate: On Friday, August 29, 2008 the country was plunged into an extraordinary experience by John McCain s surprise selection of the Anti-Semitism and the Jews a collection: A collection of my articles on anti-Semitism, the Jewish problem, and my approach to the Jewish problem. VFR on Melanie Phillips: a collection: Articles on Phillips s treatment of the Islam issue Roebuck on liberalism: a collection: Alan Roebuck s important essays and comments on how conservatives can challenge liberalism and perhaps get liberals to think by questioning the philosophical assumptions that underlie liberal positions. Separationism, restated: This entry quotes several key jihadist verses of the Koran. No matter how assimilated a Muslim may be, his soul is liable to thrill to the call of jihad.The Method of Charles Johnson a collection : My writings on Charles Johnson date from his attacks in fall 2007 on Paul Belien and Vlaams Belang. Eventually, I What to do about Islam: a collection: Collection of articles and blog entries with specific proposals on how to meet the Islam threat, including my articles on Separationism. What is traditionalism? A collection: I do not have a single overarching article defining and explaining traditionalism. Here is the next best thing: a collection of VFR articles touching on traditionalism from a variety of angles.Black and other nonwhite violence against whites: a grim collection: Nonwhite violence against whites is the ultimate concretization of white America s and the white West s inclusion of and surrender to nonwhite and non-Western peoples. It is where the rubber meets the road on the path to national suicide. Responding to criticisms and questions: Among the lies that are repeatedly told about me is the charge that I am unable to reply to criticisms and refuse to do so; and that I exclude commenters who question me and my ideas. Here is a collection of VFR articles showing that the opposite is the case.Key writings on immigration and multiculturalism: A selection of my writings and speeches on immigration that have been presented in mainstream venues or in publications other than VFR. VFR articles on Robert Spencer a selection: My writings on Spencer over the years, and his smears of me. Anti-Darwinism: a collection: This entry contains a non-exhaustive list of VFR articles about Darwinism. George MacDonald Fraser, the ruin of Britain, and the possibility of true resistance to liberalism: PC is not some silly, perverse, or unnecessary thing. PC exists because people believe in the world view that gave birth to it. Therefore we can t successfully resist political correctness unless we attack and discredit that world view, which is liberalism. The transparent intellectual fraud that is Darwinism: Darwinists keep injecting into the Darwinian story line the very elements that the Darwinian theory of evolution by random mutation and natural selection formally excludes: intention, purpose, teleology. The surge a collection: These VFR articles, extending from 2006 to the present, offer a fair and balanced view of the surge that you will find nowhere else. Limiting the franchise: a proposal: A Right that unquestioningly accepts the universal suffrage of all persons including women, wards of the state, felons, persons with sub-normal intelligence, and 18 year olds is not a serious Right. Heather Mac Donald and God: My blog entries written in response to Heather Mac Donald s attacks on religion and God. They begin with my three part exchange with her at VFR in December 2004, God and the tsunami. Non-Islam theories of Islamic extremism: Western thinkiers ceaseless attempt to explain uniquely Islamic beliefs and institutions in non-Islamic terms expresses the essence of liberalism, which is to deny the existence of human differences that really matter.Liberal intolerance and the double standard, revisited: The double standard is not some excess or defect of liberalism; the double standard is inherent in liberalism, proceeding from the leftist project of treating unequals as though they were equal.Vatican warns about Islam uh, haven t we been through this before? : When the pope has renounced the Vatican II doctrine that embraces Islam, then I ll attend to his warnings about Islam. Until then, any Islamo-critical statements coming from him are worth very little. (Entry contains collection of links to my articles on Pope John Paul and Pope Benedict.) What is the order of being?: The order of being is the tripartite order of existence in which we live: the natural order, the social order, and the divine order. Everything that exists is a part of one or more of those realms, with man in the middle, a part of them all and experiencing them all.VFR on Bernard Lewis: a selection: The extraordinary honors and praise Lewis constantly receives from conservatives represent the precise inverse of his actual worth. Separationism: I subscribe to the now tiny but, I believe, some-day-to-be prevalent Separationist School of Western-Islamic Relations. Reading list: This list consists of personal favorites and recommended books, but I m not sure if there s any difference between the two. Auster contra Pipes, a selection: This is a selection of my articles on the subject of Daniel Pipes and Islam. VFR on Mark Steyn: a collection: The articles in this collection are arranged in four categories: Steyn on the Islam threat, Steyn and the Bush doctrine, Steyn general, and the case against Steyn before the Canadian Human Rights Commission. What is transcendence, and why does it matter?: Though the concept of transcendence is not referred to in ordinary political discussion, it is at the heart of people s deepest values that underlie all their political concerns. We have no strategy to win : After two years, the country is catching up with VFR. For two years I ve been repeating endlessly that not only are we not winning in Iraq, but that we don t even have a strategy or serious intention to win. How the 1964 Civil Rights Act made racial group entitlements inevitable: In order for a society to maintain its principles, it must have actual people who are ready, willing, and able to defend those principles. An America whose historic white majority has been stripped of its moral legitimacy lacks such people.Response to reader who denies that Christianity has contributed anything to the West: It was Christianity which, over centuries, slowly turned the rough Germanic barbarian warriors of Europe into civilized, peaceful, and law-abiding men, turned barbarian tribes into Christian nations, and made possible the later achievements of the Renaissance and modernity. A vision of a new conservatism, 1996: Mainstream American conservatism is already divided among various ideological wings, namely the economic, the religious and the neo-moralist, each of which embraces only one fragment of a consistent conservative vision.The Curriculum of Inclusion Revisited: I came to write the below article on multiculturalism, the first piece I published at National Review, by happenstance. In The unprincipled exception: a key to understanding liberalism: The unprincipled exception is not a bad thing. It is a good thing. It could be seen as the only form of good that is permitted in liberal society, though a weak and inadequate form to be sure.Does Grutter violate the Fourteenth Amendment?: Ever since the Grutter decision was issued, there has been a worm of doubt in the back of my mind as to whether my criticisms of it were on completely solid ground. Irving Kristol reveals the true meaning of neoconservatism: Kristol is basically admitting what critics of the neoconservatives have been saying all along that their real interest is in spreading an ideology, not in preserving and enhancing our historic political, social, and moral orderA traditionalist s credo: I declare that this government is no longer a constitutional and moral form of government. I will deal with it, and I will obey its laws, and I will support it when it is defending our country from foreign and domestic enemies. But I will never accept it. I aim at a restoration of constitutional and moral order. The political religion of modernity: In this talk given in 1996, I approach the reductive aspect of liberalism from the point of view of the transformation of the Catholic religion of the Middle Ages into Protestantism, then of Protestantism into modern secular democracy, and then of modern secular democracy into the postmodern religion of the self. What is European America?: The problem is that at present, though whites constitute the actual majority of the country, they have no political or cultural existence as the majority. Bush s victimological view of America as seen in his first inaugural address: In his disgraceful speech in Senegal about American slavery, President Bush portrays America as under a permanent racial guilt. He The sodomy decision: Liberalism supreme and triumphant: The unelected judges of the Supreme Court have taken the central credo of modern liberalism do what you will, so long as it s consensual and made it the supreme law of the land. Modern people as Eloi : As white America has progressively lost its belief in God, in objective truth and morality, in law, in nationhood and in race, whites have acquired an increasingly bland, complacent, pacific aspect. As such, they bear an eerie resemblance to the Eloi in H.G. Wells s The Time Machine.My Views on Race and Intelligence: The main thing to understand is that the question of race and intelligence does not consist of just one idea, it consists of a constellation of ideas, which need to be grasped one at a time until the larger scene comes into view. To illustrate this, I would like to tell the story of the involvement of one non-specialist�namely myself�with these ideas. How is anti-Semitism to be discussed?: I believe that the question of anti-Semitism is unavoidably central to our concerns as traditionalist conservatives . [T]he choices currently presented to us are either to remain silent about the fate of our culture out of fear of being called anti-Semitic, or to join with those who will decline to oppose any anti-Semitism Immigration and multiculturalism: Why are the conservatives silent?: In passing the 1965 Immigration Act, we announced that we had no culture of our own except for the principle of non-discrimination toward people of other cultures�and we began admitting millions of people from those other cultures. The basically leftist character of modern conservatism: On most of the fundamental issues relating to the survival of our culture, conservatives accept the works�and the underlying principles�of the left.Homosexual marriage is a logical and necessary outcome of liberalism: Maggie Gallagher writes: Gay activists are pushing hard for gay marriage because they understand very well that marriage is The most important point for traditionalists: The indispensable condition of any conservative or traditionalist movement, as well as of our personal spiritual survival, is that we say NO to the prevailing values of the liberal order and that we keep saying no.Why homosexual liberation is incompatible with our political order: Liberty and self-government require a cohesive culture, which in turn requires strong family ties, which in turn require traditional sexual morality . It s hard to see how normalization of homosexuality can be reconciled with a free self-governing society. The Neocons Go Left: One after another, prominent, mostly younger, neoconservative authors have been announcing their surrender in the culture wars. A personal announcement: For the last eight months I have intended to tell readers about a certain personal situation, but kept delaying doing so, though some readers have been aware of it. However, the time is long past to let people know about this. Breast implants another aspect of our debased culture that conservatives take for granted and never criticize: Discussion of a profound sickness in our culture which is all the more profound in that it is never discussed, never criticized. March 21, 2010 a day which will live in infamy: A chronological list of VFR s entries on the dramatic developments and reverses leading up to the ultimate passage of Obamacare. Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Entries on the Somalian-Dutch activist who, as I have showed since early 2006, is not on the side of the West against Islam, but wants the West to serve as an open field in which Muslims can liberate and fulfill themselves.VFR on David Frum: a collection: I have been following the twists and turns of David Frum s intellectual career since he wrote a major hit piece Roissyism and Game: the Big Debate: Here, listed in chronological order, are VFR s entries on this subject which consumed the site for over a week, until VFR on the British National Party: Here are my articles about the transformation of the BNP into a non-anti-Semitic party under the leadership of Nick Griffin:D Souza on Islam a collection: Since Dinesh D Souza is now revisiting the Islam issue, which he initially broached with his mind-blowingly meretricious book, The Enemy What is post-racial America? : The notion that the election of Barack Obama to the presidency will inaugurate a post-racial America, an America that has Michael Hart on evolution; and big discussion on whether Darwin and God are compatible: Michael Hart explains why, despite the lack of transitional forms in the fossil record, he still believes in the Darwinian theory of evolution. VFR on Giuliani: Here is a selection of VFR articles on Rudolph Giuliani s lack of suitability for the presidency, going back to December On the neocons re-writing of Jefferson: On neocon/Bush distortion of Jefferson, so that instead of one people securing their rights by instituting self-government, all people desire these rights and deserve to have them. Includes my neoconservative rendition of Declaration of Independence.The method of Charles Johnson: A reader directed me to last night s thread at Little Green Footballs : The Mask Comes off at Brussels Journal. Uh, The need for a traditionalist alternative to liberalism: In this long thread from October 2007, readers lay out all kinds of ideas for a traditionalist alternative to the present liberal society. The next step is a manifesto or series of manifestos. Michael Hart and the role of IQ in human history: From the work of Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein, we know that IQ the measurement of a person s ability to process What Christianity requires in order not to be destructive of society: The key to Christian this-worldly confidence is that Christian society any Christian society must include non-Christian cultural and political sources. In re John Derbyshire: a selection: A collection of articles about the once-affable, now alienated; the once-watery Anglican, now atheist; the once-hard-line against Islam, now self-dhimmified; the once-conservative, now nihilist John Derbyshire. Britain is dead, a collection: Below are the blog articles I wrote on this theme in early 2007 .Should oath-taking on the Koran be allowed?: In a traditionalist America it would be understood that Islam is incompatible with our system of government, our Constitution, our entire way of life. The unprincipled exception defined: The unprincipled exception is a non-liberal value or assertion, not explicitly identified as non-liberal, that liberals use to escape the suicidal consequences of their own liberalism, without questioning liberalism itself. Jared Taylor and American Renaissance: Articles relating Jared Taylor and particularly to the 2006 AR conference in which anti-Semitism ran amuck.Draft manifesto: Together facing the new Islamic jihad: Since I have been so critical of the leftist, secularist manifesto against Islamism, �Together facing the new totalitarianism,� that was Why the non-West and the West hate the West: In a widely discussed article that was spiked at National Review Online, John Derbyshire writes that non-Westerners envy and resent The only way the West can be saved: What can turn this hideous situation around? There is only one thing that can do it: Westerners must feel the horror that liberalism has wrought. Fixing the Founding: While devotion to the U.S. Constitution has always been a defining mark of traditionalist conservatism, traditionalists nevertheless tend to see Pipes finally admits the problem is Islam, not �radical� Islam: In his article, Pipes has, for the first time that I�m aware of, laid out in categorical terms the real nature of historical and actually existing Islam.Islam�s war against humanity: As long as there is some piece of illegimately �occupied� Muslim land anywhere in the world, any suicide murder that will help drive out the occupier is justified. Is my criticism of Jewish attitudes the same as Kevin MacDonald�s?: In response to my criticism of Kevin MacDonald�s anti-Semitic critique of the Jews, three readers told me that they saw Analysis of Fukuyama�s article on Islamic radicalism: What Fukuyama really means is that radical Islam is spawned by modern alienation, and has nothing to do with the Islamic religion. How comforting, how satisfying. The Bush and McCain ideology of national extinction: extinction . According to Senator McCain, as a nation conceived in an idea, in liberty, our �one shared faith� is that our nation �will prove better than any nation made from a common culture.� The war against Islam and the War of the Ring: But the second point is the Germanic, civilizational element of Tolkien s myth, the heroic staving off of a recurrent threat from the East, from Mordor, and how this connects with the deepest themes of European civilization.Neoconservatives denial of the immigration problem: Here is the latest in the reprints of my articles that were published in the pre-Internet era. This article appeared The Search for Moderate Islam published at FrontPage: My two-part article, The Search for Moderate Islam, which criticizes Daniel Pipes s thesis that moderate Islam is the solution to The Way of the WASP: The WASP character is the American character. It is the mold, the template, the archetype . Without the WASP it would be another country altogether. William Muir s theory of Muhammad: Mahomet yielded to the temptations that Jesus rejected. Therefore, if Mahomet was indeed inspired by a supernatural being, it was not God but someone else.Still the forbidden topic after all these years: Multiculturalism is far more than a radical ideology or misconceived educational reform; it is a mainstream phenomenon, a systematic dismantling of America s unitary national identity in response to unprecedented ethnic and racial transformation.Neoconservative realizes moderate Islam is a fiction: The inherent logic of Islam, to which the moderate Moslems are unable to offer any principled resistance, leads inevitably toward global jihad. A traditionalist approach to the marriage amendment: It was a major error on the Founders part to fail to make it sufficiently clear in the Constitution and other documents that our society and our form of government are dependent on the underlying cultural, moral, and religious character of America.Islam: the problem and the solution: In connection with Mark Helprin s argument that victory in the war on terror means restoring the dar al Islam to The new dhimmitude: Dhimmitude, the subordinate status of Jews and Christians under Muslim domination, has existed since the beginning of Islam. Today, under How do we defeat militant Islam?: While I was and am a strong supporter of the Iraq war, I have been increasingly worried about the course NR waves the white flag at homosexual marriage: Ramesh Ponnuru s cover article in the July 28 National Review urges complete and total surrender to homosexual marriage. Nowhere does Tony Blair and the anti-anti-American right: Blair s pro-American conservatism is not unlike that of David Horowitz or Norman Podhoretz: a single, too emphatic virtue that in a variety of ways provides cover for an ongoing general move to the left.Natural sex differences versus liberal individualism: When faced with a strong individual exception to the general rule of sex difference, Lowry has no principle that can stand against the inclusion of a woman in a previously and naturally all-male instititution; which inclusion must of necessity lead to the transformation of that institution and the breakdown of the very sex distinctions that Lowry values. John Fonte s call for a fusionist, patriotic conservatism: Your thesis, that patriotic conservatism is the force that binds together the otherwise disparate strands of economic conservatism and social conservatism, is absolutely correct in my opinion. Anti-black discrimination still rampant; more racial preferences needed: The problem points to the solution, which is that whites, instead of speaking pious lies about racial equality, need to start speaking the forbidden truth about race differences.Are homosexual acts right?: The single most important question in the current debate over homosexuality is whether it s good for those sexually attracted to Stanley Kurtz on taboos and fairness: Stanley Kurtz has a generally sensible discussion at NRO of the practical function of sexual taboos, that by defining what How is homosexuality to be understood?: The Family Research Institute argues that homosexuality is not the result of a developmental disorder but is a vice, which, like other vices, its practitioners freely choose or allow themselves to become habituated to because they enjoy it.Is the French National Front giving up on France?: Even as French Muslims continue to gain in numbers and political influence, the right-wing National Front has been moving as amazing The meaning of official nihilism: What does it mean that our society has officially rejected the notion of a common moral reality in which all Thomas Fleming on the 9/11 attack: Fleming s gripe is empire, and he says the mass murder of 9/11 is the price that must be paid for it. It took him less than three paragraphs to join the ranks of the root causes theorists.Social change and radicalism: Current departures such as gay marriage are often defended as examples of the natural development of institutions with the times .Traditionalism what and why?: Here s an initial sketch of a discussion of traditionalist conservatism that attempts to develop it out of a general analysis On the Meaning of Racism: Today most people would describe this simple preference for one s own�stated plainly as it is here�as racist or xenophobic (if we are speaking about white people, that is); and all the powers of the state are directed toward its elimination. Knowledge, science and managerial liberalism: What is knowledge? The question has been supremely important in modern times. Before we could know about the world, it More on racism etcetera: Some thoughts suggested by current discussions of racism and antisemitism: The natural outlook is that there are a variety of Why is the race card trumps?: How can current public discussions of race be explained? Why the belief that sick and evil motives are everywhere, polluting The Lott issue: On the occasion of a long-time colleague s hundredth birthday Trent Lott paid a compliment that suggested that Federally-mandated integration had Inclusiveness and power: A common Leftist claim is that established moral principles serve the interests of the ruling classes. Oddly, the claim isn t Is segregationism �bigotry�?: The most worrisome thing about the Trent Lott affair is the adoption by almost every mainstream conservative commentator of the What s wrong with moderate anti-feminism: What is missing from Sommers� view is any acknowledgement or defense of prior, customary discrimination, namely the institutionalization of natural and traditional sex-role stereotypes in society. The difference between liberalism and leftism: There is continuing confusion, especially in the minds of conservatives, between the terms �liberal� and �left.� I will argue here, Why Jews welcome Muslims: (Note: A greatly expanded version of this article was published at FrontPage Magazine in June 2004, and is also discussed The Pope on immigration: Here s the Pope s message for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees, which I gather is an annual event in Restricting the immigration debate: The point is that immigration restrictionism cannot be simply dismissed as �scapegoating,� �exploitation,� or any other symptom to be analyzed by the social psychiatrists, but that it is exactly what it claims to be�fear of excessive immigration and its social, cultural and political consequences. It�s a view that must be accepted or refuted on its own merits.What open-borders conservatives mean by assimilation : All the Republicans would have to do is turn themselves completely into a welfare-statist, Spanish-speaking, open-borders party and, by Jacoby s lights, the assimilation of Hispanics into America would be complete. The Breakdown of Western Form: What is happening in the West is not only Third-Worldization through immigration, but self-imposed Third-Worldization, consisting of a breakdown of The fraud of pluralism: It should be obvious that in the modern world there s no such thing as a pluralistic society. After all, life Blair on social cohesion: The managerial welfare state rolls on, extending its responsibilities into more and more of social life. Tony Blair wants to How Immigration Destroys Our Freedom: The recent mass raids of London homes and the arrests of scores of persons for �hate-speech� remind us that diversity, The Idea of a Traditionalist Society: Conservatives complain very forcefully, but aren t as good at saying what they want. Unless we can say what we want, Jihad as Liberals See It: The notion of Jihad as the moral overcoming of one�s own evil tendencies�indeed the very concept of an objectively existing good and evil�is also anathema to Western liberals, since, like war itself, it betokens differentiation, inequality, and exclusion. So, how do liberals respond to the spiritual redefinition of Jihad? Why is the Left groovy?: I ran into a discussion of why leftism over at 2blowhards.com that was interesting because it dealt with the problem More on antiessentialism: Another thought on that crowd-pleasing topic, essentialism. Many claim that Islam and the West can t be in conflict because there The essence of antiessentialism: Comments about the clash of civilizations and such like provoke complaints about essentialism, the supposed error or sin of attributing A darwinian leftist: There are some interesting things in Unity is Health: An Evolutionary Left, an article by a neo-lefty British journalist who Quid sit America?: What is America and what is it to us? It s an odd and difficult question, even more so perhaps than Another Modest Proposal: Impose America s Decadent Culture on the Muslims: For one who is attached to the Ally McBealized West, the Ally McBealization of the rest of the world becomes a practical necessity.Reply to John Carney: While John Carney has the right to take exception to my recent statements about Buchanan and Rockwell, both at VFR In Defense of Buchanan and Rockwell (by John Carney): (The below entry was authored by John Carney on September 26, 2002, when he had posting privileges at VFR during The continuing presence of Nazism: Why Nazism? Many of the theories proposed to explain something so horrible and bizarre have had an ulterior purpose it was Steele s Moral Trap: On one hand, Steele affirms civilization and the principles that undergird it. On the other hand, he insists that those principles only deserve to survive if they can achieve a racial equality that is inherently impossible to achieve. He pretends to believe in life, but seeks death. Against interpretation (of 9/11): Here in New York we didn t know what to say about the September 11 atrocities, so we repeated old patriotic Why Liberals Oppose Unilateralism: The attempt to eliminate all power must lead to the concentration of all power in a global totalitarian state. The True Cause of the Civil War: Moral Libertarianism: The Rockwell/neo-Confederate program does not simply deny any transcendent value to the United States as it has existed since 1865; it denies any transcendent value to the original United States as well, since it regards that nation as having had less sacredness than a shot-gun wedding, and less permanence than a day-laborer s job. God and man at PBS: I hadn t been tempted to watch the PBS special last night on the religious implications of 9/11. My only exposure Is freedom from religion neutral?: The ACLU wins some and loses some. They sometimes have trouble getting monuments to the Ten Commandments out of public More theorizing about liberalism: In the current Telos Paul Gottfried has a Reply to James Kalb (not on line) in which he discusses several Where to go?: It may be true I believe it is that American society is mostly good, if only because no society could last a Seeing the truth of what has happened to America: There is nothing I can say to relieve you of this experience, which all of us must pass through in our own way. And we must pass through it again and again until we are relieved of our pleasant illusions relating to the basic soundness and goodness of our present society. The antinomies of autonomy: Autonomy means self-rule, and liberalism makes it the supreme political goal. The coherence of classical liberalism depends on its ability The basically leftist character of modern conservatism: On most of the fundamental issues relating to the survival of our culture, conservatives accept the works�and the underlying principles�of the left.Scruton s Godless conservatism: In the past day I ve run twice into Roger Scruton s 1996 Wall Street Jounal piece on Godless Conservatism , from which What is conservatism?: An online publication asked me to write a column on what is a conservative, so I put together a draft .Is the enforced conformity of PC different from that of traditional society?: Since it claims that power is bad, the politically correct regime must pretend not to have any. Of all types of regimes, it is the hardest to understand and resist. Conservatism as orthodoxy: What kind of conservatism is possible today? Conservatism was originally defense of accustomed ways, mostly because of the goods they The Real PC : As can be gleaned from Plato s analysis, a society s openness to unlimited diversity is not primarily a question of economics or ideology or class; it is at bottom a moral phenomenon, connected with all the other moral concerns of society.What is the place of freedom?: What is the proper place for freedom? Certainly the liberal view that freedom is a self-contained final standard for politics The normality of liberalism: Why is something as radical as inclusiveness ideology normal, so that if you disagree with it you re an irrational extremist? Centralization and tradition in the Church: A disturbing thing about the bishops response to the scandals resulting from entrenched homosexuality in the priesthood is that it The Problem Is Not Relativism, But Equality: Since the liberal democrats (also known as conservatives) have no concrete vision of natural, cultural, and spiritual order, they cannot offer effective resistance to the leftist relativists.Why Conservatives Call PC Tyranny Silly : Why do mainstream conservatives persist in calling political correctness dopey and silly, despite the fact that PC is progressively taking over the Western world?Who is the extremist?: In America today traditionalist conservatism seems quite radical. It rejects technocracy and egalitarian hedonism the central tenets of current political and More on liberal tyranny: A couple of years ago I wrote an essay on The Tyranny of Liberalism. Now I have a sequel that The present corruption of the Church illustrates the truth of Romans 1: In the Church sex abuse scandal, the spiritual pathology outlined by Paul in the first chapter of his Letter to the Romans has been confirmed in spades. What is to be done II: What to do? There s plenty for right-wingers to complain about but solutions are notoriously scarce. A couple of days ago What is to be done?: So what does a traditionalist conservative do when he becomes convinced that public life is proceeding on fundamentally bad principles? How procedural liberalism leads to substantive liberalism: When neoconservatives harken back to the dream of M.L. King, they don t understand that it really WAS a dream, that is, it never existed.Human rights as the path to global tyranny: Previously, it was considered non-debatable that states should not torture people for their political views. Now it is considered non-debatable that states must eliminate parental authority, open their borders, and make all their citizens economically equal.Why the human rights treaties?: Why is it that human rights treaties get signed with such alacrity? On its face, The Convention on the Rights Will liberalism continue to be successful?: Why does liberal society function as well as it does? Ordinary people and theoreticians complain about it, its proponents have America: proposition nation?: There isn t much more inhuman in our national life than the notion that the United States is a creedal or My Norman Problem�and Ours: Podhoretz gave as an example of the supposed victory of conservatism the fact that homosexuals now wanted to alter the institution of marriage to include single-sex relationships. One wondered how Podhoretz could see this inconceivably radical innovation as a conservative triumph. The Upanishads: On reading the Upanishads: they have a certain prestige in the modern world because on their face they are philosophical The Neocons Go Left: One after another, prominent, mostly younger, neoconservative authors have been announcing their surrender in the culture wars. Liberals, conservatives and the good life: You can t beat something with nothing, so what do traditionalist conservatives put up to oppose the liberals? The answer is Why is everything hate ?: An annoying but puzzling feature of the left-wing rhetoric that passes for mainstream today is its tendency to reduce everything Tradition and federalism: Free institutions, free men, free thought something of the sort is needed for tradition. Tradition isn t forced, administered, or intentionally created .

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