The Third Rail and the Fifth Column
The Woke Right is a Woke fifth column working internally against the American conservative movement.
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Reciprocal Tolerance
Less well known [than other paradoxes] is the paradox of tolerance: Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance.
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What George Washington’s Death Can Teach Us About Woke
George Washington died at his home on at the age of 67 froma a particularly bad and sudden upper respiratory infection.
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The Woke Cult of Transgression
The principle of the cult of transgression is defined by Herbert Marcuse in “Repressive Tolerance”, where he calls it “liberating tolerance."
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Catharsis or Civilization: A Statement from Our Founder on the Life of Charlie Kirk
I’ve been trying to share a particular message for a couple of years now, and I can never quite find the words. I doubt I will tonight, but I have…
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The Dark Heart of Woke: Manufactured Alienation
Woke is a distorted consciousness born out of a sense of alienation and is therefore a way of seeing the world and acting in it.
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Why Cult Beliefs Don’t Stop When Proved Wrong
A cult called the Seekers was infiltrated by Leon Festinger to understand why they believed what they believed and how their beliefs worked
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Foundations of a Free Society
Even societies which apply enormous amounts of force claim to be the true champions of freedom even though others see them as authoritarian.
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The Parasitical Faith of Communism
I released a controversial podcast titled “Communism Is Not Atheist,” and a lot of people didn't really hear what I said in it.
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Woke Right: Same Energy, Opposite Direction
One of the best ways to think of “Woke Right” without getting into the philosophical and technical weeds is “same energy, opposite direction.”
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The Architecture of Marxist Beliefs
Woke Right has the same “architecture of belief” as Marxism, and this is to help people better understand why the Woke Right is “Woke.”
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How Liberalism Has Not Failed: Patrick Deneen Has Failed Conservatism
Liberalism now stands on trial, accused of engineering its own destruction—a charge that echoes ever louder amid the thunder of political turmoil.
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The Dialectic of the Strong Gods: A Review of R.R. Reno’s Return of the Strong Gods
Given this book is dialectical and critical, but for a right-wing "traditionalist" imaginary, I think it qualifies as Woke Right unambiguously.
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A Beginner’s Guide to the Woke Right
We’ll fight for our values with the clarity and unity that have always defined us. The Woke Right is a detour, not our destination.
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The Betrayal of Burke: A Moral Rebuttal to Yoram Hazony, the Woke Right’s Favourite Philosopher
One of the loudest voices in the self-styled “New Right,” presents himself as a steward of Burke’s tradition.
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Douglas Murray, Dave Smith, and the Troubling Rise of Wokespertise
Wokespertise is a selective favoring of outsider narratives perhaps sprinkled with a generous dash of conspiracy theorizing.
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The Woke Right’s Elitist Coup: Inside the MAGA Civil War
By necessity, we begin here: Most of MAGA is not Woke Right. Few conservatives even lean Woke Right.
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Man With Three Faces: Politics, Pathology, and the Modern Selves
Most of the time, everyone believes they’re talking about the facts, the “what’s happening” level of conversation, but sometimes they’re really talking about something deeper.
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Emergency and the Philosophy of Leftism
This philosophy is not exactly a deep resentment of the past; It’s a romantic resentment of history as civilization itself.
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Stalin’s Soviet DEI Program
Communists don’t throw away destructive things that achieve their ultimate purpose of consolidating their own power.
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