Category Archives: Liberalism
Was the Immigration Act of 1924 Illiberal?
In modern liberal historiography, the efforts of eugenicists towards immigration restriction in the United States, which eventually led to the Immigration Act of 1924, are perceived as having been illiberal, and therefore morally in contradiction with the liberal founding principles of the North American republic. But were they really? The Immigration Act of 1924 was [...]
Egalitarians as Moral Lunatics
The Psychotic Left: From Jacobin France to the Occupy Movement Kerry Bolton (Black House Publishing, 2013) In ‘Equality as an Evil’, published in April 2012 in Alternative Right (and recently re-posted on that same site), the argument is made that it is difficult not to see White egalitarians as suffering from an undiagnosed psychopathology, particularly [...]
Quality, Not Equality
The Specious Origins of Liberalism Anthony Ludovici London: Britons Publishing Group, 1967 Obscure today, but until seventy years ago a well-known and prolific author and translator, British artist and writer Anthony Ludovici is best remembered today as a proponent of aristocracy. The Specious Origins of Liberalism, published in 1967, was his last book, and while [...]
The ‘Immigration’ Debate is a Waste of Time
For close to half a century now those at the Right end of political conservatism throughout the West have been protesting government immigration policy. Much has changed during this period, only invariably for the worse: if twenty, thirty, forty years ago it was thought that the governments of the day were letting in too many [...]
Is It a Liberal Value to Silence Opposition?
Back in June, the organisers of the Canadian Immigration Report (CIR) were invited to appear as witnesses before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration to present arguments in support of Bill C-31, also known as the Protecting Canada’s Immigration System Act. The bill, sponsored by the Minister of Citizenship, Immigration, and [...]
Those Awful 1950s
The Product Pleasantville is a 1998 film directed by Gary Ross (Big, The Hunger Games) and produced by him, Steven Soderbergh (Sex, Lies and Videotapes, Contagion), Jon Kilik, and Bob Degus. High school siblings David (Tobey Maguire) and Jennifer (Reese Witherspoon) have diametrically opposite social lives. Jennifer is superficial and extroverted; David is shy and [...]
Death to Modernity
To create, you must first destroy. That is the implication behind the French (but in reality European) New Right’s Manifesto for a European Renaissance, authored by Alain de Benoist and Charles Champetier thirteen years ago and recently republished in book form by Arktos Media. And what is it that needs to be destroyed? It is [...]
Facing the Future as a Minority
