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April 26, 2017

The Cost of Desegregation

We have been hailing the Civil Rights Era as a grand and universal success for decades. Desegregation is an unquestionable good in the eyes of all good Americans. So, let’s take a

August 3, 2020

Editor’s Note: Last Redoubt comes back after a couple of weeks without posting. It’s been a while, and I’ve accumulated a few odds and ends that don’t call for a full post. Hate is bad. So we are told. Of

December 16, 2019

Decline And Fall Of The United States

September 11, 2017

Alt-West (Hard Right) Manifesto

Culture·History·Philosophy·Religion

Curve Balls and Whatnot

July 20, 2017

So, you find yourself in a tough situation. I mean, really, it is a bad deal. Maybe your family is under attack in some way. Maybe you just lost your job. Maybe

Culture·History

Man of the West: Nathaniel Bacon

July 19, 2017

We can imagine that most of the colonists to the new world were hardy folk. They were leaving civilized society, for various reasons, and coming to an untamed, harsh wilderness in America.

Culture·Family·History·Politics

Do You Know Who You Are?

July 15, 2017

It is a simple question, and most of us probably expect we know the answer. In fact, we may well have a good handle on who we are at this moment in

History·Literature

Book Review: The Fourth Turning

July 8, 2017

Is our culture falling apart right on time? Sometime around the year 2005, perhaps a few years before or after, America will enter the Fourth Turning… a spark will ignite a new

History·Literature

"The Qualities of the Dog" by Pliny the Elder

July 6, 2017

Editor’s note: The following is excerpted from The Best of the World’s Classics, edited by Henry Cabot Lodge (published 1909). Among the animals that are domesticated with mankind there are many circumstances

History·Politics

Calling the Top

July 5, 2017

Peter Thiel says the voters’ bull has a long way to run: Investor Peter Thiel— who stumped for President Donald Trump at the Republican National Convention and has remained close to the

Culture·History

Happy Independence Day

July 4, 2017

While it is fashionable among some commentators to bemoan the fact that the United States is not the same nation it was 240 years ago, it’s also silly and short-sighted. No, America

Culture·History·Politics

The Declaration of Independence

July 4, 2017

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political

Culture·Finances·History·Philosophy

Modern Galt's Gulch

July 3, 2017

Ayn Rand might have a Godless nutcase in the end, but we have to recognize that, despite failing at logic with a dedication mostly reserved for the most zealous cult member, she

Children·Culture·Family·Firearms·Fitness·History·Philosophy

Prepare Your Sons

July 3, 2017

As we have often argued on this site, we really do hope and pray for peace. Yet, as we have also pointed out, it does not appear that peace is what awaits

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