More than twenty years ago, as a very young man, I traveled in Ukraine. In one place, the local authorities were excavating a mass grave from the 1930s. Hundreds of skeletons, men and women, many with flesh and clothes still attached, had been laid out on wooden platforms, for attempted identification before reburial. If you| The Worthy House • Towards A Politics of Future Past -
Reading this third volume of Richard Evans’s massive study of the Third Reich, scenes from the television show The Man in the High Castle kept flashing before my eyes. That show (based on a Philip K. Dick book) posits a National Socialist victory in World War II, and depicts how the postwar Greater German Reich| The Worthy House • Towards A Politics of Future Past -
Once upon a time, it seemed that Russell Kirk might, as he so devoutly wished, “redeem the time.” For two brief, shining moments, in the late 1950s and the early 1980s, Kirk’s efforts must have seemed to him like they might bear permanent fruit. But the moments passed, and it is clear now (in the| The Worthy House • Towards A Politics of Future Past -
A friend of mine has been pushing me to look into Jordan Peterson for the past six months. I thought, since my friend is conservative, that Peterson offered right-wing politics, and it is true that he has recently been in the news for his thoughts on certain charged topics. However, Peterson does not, in fact,| The Worthy House • Towards A Politics of Future Past -
I am here to give you back your future. Like Yeats’s golden bird, I will tell you of what is past, and passing, and to come. Here I offer an exposition of my, and what should be our, political program, both philosophy and movement, Foundationalism. What is Foundationalism? Foundationalism is a reflection of reality, and| The Worthy House • Towards A Politics of Future Past -
