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Nathan Pinkoski is a postdoctoral research fellow at St. Michael’s College in the University of Toronto.

May 1, 2020|

The Strange Rise of Bourgeois Bolshevism

by Nathan Pinkoski|

Hundreds of Antifa, Black Block, and Democratic Socialists of America gathered near City Hall in Portland, Oregon on February 8, 2020, to protest an announced Ku KluxKlan rally (Photo by John Rudoff/Sipa USA via AP Images).
We should contemplate American socialism’s fate: it deepens individualism and statism, and is not the rival but the patsy of state capitalism.

February 19, 2020|Bernie Sanders, communism, socialism, state capitalism

Sanders Erases the Progressives from History

by Nathan Pinkoski|

Bernie Sanders rally during the New Hampshire presidential primary at Franklin Pierce University, Ringe, New Hampshire (Andrew Cline/Shutterstock.com).
American socialists do not just aim to move the policies of the Democratic Party to the left, but to repudiate the whole history of American Progressivism.

October 25, 2019|Canada, George Grant, Lament for a Nation, Liberal Party, Nationalism, Populism, Quebec, Reform Party, Stephen Harper

Is Canada’s Liberal Nationalist Regime Ending?

by Nathan Pinkoski|

St-Hermenegilde, CA - October 13, 2019: Elections Canada Vote sign in front of a polling station (photo by Marc Bruxelle at Shutterstock.com)
Canada's recent election demonstrates the abiding wisdom of George Grant’s 1965 essay, Lament for a Nation: The Defeat of Canadian Nationalism.

March 29, 2019|Brexit, Emmanuel Macron, European Union, Jean Monnet, Konrad Adenauer, Nationalism, NATO

Macron Calls for the EU Superstate

by Nathan Pinkoski|

PARIS, FRANCE: Emmanuel Macron campaigns for the French presidential election of 2017.
No longer a stealth project, the EU superstate is openly declared. Inside and outside its frontiers, its goal is hegemony.

Book Reviews

A Mirror of the 20th-Century Congress

by Joseph Postell

Wright undermined the very basis of his local popularity—the decentralized nature of the House—by supporting reforms that gave power to the party leaders.

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The Graces of Flannery O'Connor

by Henry T. Edmondson III

O'Connor's correspondence is a goldmine of piercing insight and startling reflections on everything from literature to philosophy to raising peacocks.

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Liberty Classics

Rereading Politica in the Post-Liberal Moment

by Glenn A. Moots

Althusius offers a rich constitutionalism that empowers persons to thrive alongside one another in deliberate communities.

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James Fenimore Cooper and the American Experiment

by Melissa Matthes

In The American Democrat, James Fenimore Cooper defended democracy against both mob rule and majority tyranny.

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Podcasts

Stuck With Decadence

A discussion with Ross Douthat

Ross Douthat discusses with Richard Reinsch his new book The Decadent Society.

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Can the Postmodern Natural Law Remedy Our Failing Humanism?

A discussion with Graham McAleer

Graham McAleer discusses how postmodern natural law can help us think more coherently about human beings and our actions.

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Did the Civil Rights Constitution Distort American Politics?

A discussion with Christopher Caldwell

Christopher Caldwell discusses his new book, The Age of Entitlement.

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America, Land of Deformed Institutions

A discussion with Yuval Levin

Yuval Levin pinpoints that American alienation and anger emerges from our weak political, social, and religious institutions.

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