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In this week’s podcast, I attempted to synthesize the current moment, drawing on the analysis of commentators like Robert Reich and looking at the deeper structural forces at play. We are witnessing a low-level civil war across the West, but it isn’t the traditional battle between socialism and capitalism. Instead, it is a conflict between two factions of capital itself.
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This article examines the powerful conservative and völkisch (ethno-nationalist) currents that developed in opposition to Weimar Germany’s cosmopolitan modernity, arguing that this “Other Germany” constituted not merely a political opposition but a comprehensive counter-culture with its own distinct aesthetics, intellectual traditions, and social practices. It demonstrates how the “conservative revolution”—a term describing thinkers who sought revolutionary means for reactionary ends—provided the ideological underpinnings for the rejection of parliamentary democracy, liberalism, and the perceived cultural decay of urban civilization. Through analysis of philosophical texts, youth movements, veteran organizations, and popular literature, this article traces how figures like Oswald Spengler, Ernst Jünger,…
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The sight of 100,000 protestors marching through London under the banner of the far-right was a jarring spectacle. The rhetoric, the tactics, and the sheer organizational slickness felt alien to many, an importation of a distinctly American style of political grievance. When the protest was amplified by a broadcast message from Elon Musk, an American oligarch, calling for the overthrow of the British government, the source of this new energy became impossible to ignore. This was not a spontaneous, grassroots uprising. The demonstration on British streets was the product of a well-funded, highly organized, and long-standing transatlantic project to export…
