October | 2025 | winter oak
4 posts published by winter oak during October 2025| winter oak
by W.D. James What is the US South? In 1930, a group of ‘Twelve Southerners’ published a manifesto in defense of Southern culture. They called the anthology of twelve essays “I’ll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition.” The contributors were primarily literary folks, most of whom had connections to Vanderbilt University. They … Continue reading Of Causes Lost and Lost Again| winter oak
Number 106 In this issue: 1. The Occupation by Paul Cudenec (who reads the article here) A lot of very clever people – economists, historians, sociologists and so on – spend their lives devising very clever theories about why our society is the way it is today. But none of their analysis will ever get … Continue reading The Acorn – 106| winter oak
by W.D. James In this series of reflections on America and ‘the faded republic,’ which I believe lies, now obscured, at its heart, pride of place should go to Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882). ‘The …| winter oak
by Paul Cudenec (who reads the article here) Has the external form of the Christian Church long been taken over by dark forces? This is the provocative suggestion made by the French philosopher Jacques Ellul, himself a Christian, in his 1984 book La subversion du Christianisme. He warns: “There exists a demonic and infernal power … Continue reading Christianity and the forces of evil| winter oak
by Paul Cudenec (who reads the article here) Last weekend I spent a night in the heights of the Cévennes mountains, near to the source of the Vidourle. As I gazed up at the great swathe of the Milky Way and marvelled at the sparkling infinity all around, my mind went back to other moments … Continue reading The night sky and the truth| winter oak
by Paul Cudenec (who reads the article here) UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, is a vast and sprawling agency with a 2024-25 budget of $685.4 million. [1] On November 16 2025 it will be marking its 80th birthday, being part of the raft of international institutions set up at the end … Continue reading Silencing so-called anti-semites: UNESCO’s war on the truth| winter oak
Paul Cudenec presents his latest book (and reads his words here) I have long been fascinated by the way in which the dominant system tries to restrict our thinking on so many levels. We are always …| winter oak
by W.D. James I’m obviously an American, so I ought to at least know what that is, right? Yet it’s a question I’ve struggled to come to adequate terms with for a very long time. Americans, and America itself, have always had something of an identity crisis. I think we do constitute an ethnos, a people, … Continue reading The Faded Republic| winter oak
by Paul Cudenec (who reads the article here) In my April 2025 article ‘The Big Plan and the Great Gaslighting’, I took a look at Political and Economic Planning (PEP), a think tank pushing “modernisation” in Britain in the 1930s. [1] President of PEP from its foundation was Israel Moses Sieff (“Baron” Sieff), a Zionist … Continue reading Financiers, Fabians and Fascists| winter oak
by Paul Cudenec (who reads the article here) It’s always an inconvenience for an occupying colonial force when “the natives are getting restless”. They tut-tut with irritation as the less-than-human riff-raff come together to demand an end to their exploitation and debasement under the imperial jackboot. The colonisers order their Imperial Propaganda Machine to smear … Continue reading The natives are getting restless| winter oak
by Paul Cudenec (who reads the article here) The Ford Foundation of New York City presents itself as a “progressive” and left-liberal entity. It says it is “a $16 billion internat…| winter oak
by Paul Cudenec (who reads the article here) It is not our belonging to nature that has been stolen from us by the industrial system, but our awareness of that belonging. The distinction is an impo…| winter oak
by Paul Cudenec (who reads the article here) If it was a certain kind of religious thinking that paved the road to this modern hell, then it was a certain kind of scientific thinking that pushed us…| winter oak
by Paul Cudenec (who reads the article here) In recent essays I have been looking at the divine magic of this world and the ways in which this has always been recognised and celebrated in tradition…| winter oak
by W.D. James From what we have learned of Socrates thus far in this essay series, it might sound odd to speak of ‘Socrates’ doctrine.’ After all, he had claimed that any wisdom he possessed was kn…| winter oak
by Paul Cudenec (who reads the article here) As the bulldozers of power and control progressively destroyed organic folk customs and beliefs across the world, some areas held out for longer. One su…| winter oak
by Paul Cudenec with photos by Ibraar Hussein [Audio version] “In the time when gods, spirits and human beings lived together in nature with the plants and the animals, everyone communicated,…| winter oak
by W.D. James What could a businessman ever want moreThan to have us sucking in his storeWe owe you nothing, you have no controlYou are not what you own – Fugazi, Merchandisei As we saw in th…| winter oak
This new article is by our friend Mees Baaijen, author of The Predators Versus the People. Mees will be giving a talk on the book at Real Left’s meeting in Stockport, Greater Manchester, UK, next S…| winter oak
by Paul Cudenec Russian thinker Alexandr Dugin (1962-) is often presented in Western media as being “the most dangerous philosopher in the world”, a radical critic of modernity. For tha…| winter oak
by Mike Driver “There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says ‘Morning, boys. How’s the water?’ And the two y…| winter oak
by Paul Cudenec An authentic mood of revolt had been swelling up in Russia for some time before 1917, with a previous attempted revolution in 1905-06 violently repressed by the tsarist regime. A gr…| winter oak
by Paul Cudenec I have always had a rather uneasy relationship with the “socialist” and “communist” left. On the one hand I have been deeply inspired by many thinkers and re…| winter oak
Updated 9/9/22 Charles the Great Resetter Global goals Impact imperialism Powerful players Banksters, cheats and spooks The bringer of light? Neo-colonial land-grabbing Shaping history 1. Charles t…| winter oak
