JORDAN PETERSON IS HALF RIGHT

by Brett Stevens 

On the Alt Right, arguing what the Alt Right is has become a perpetual quest, mainly because like most conservative movements, the Alt Right are gut-instinct-level realists who have no idea how to articulate that intuition as ideology or policy. They just know, approximately, what is right for the long-term.

LIBERALISM AND LOW SELF ESTEEM

Liberals finding their natural level.

by Sean Last

In this post I am going to argue that one important reason why many people adopt a liberal political ideology is that it boosts their self esteem by allowing liberals to view themselves as noble warriors in a great battle against evil. There is a good deal of empirical data which is consistent with this theory. But I will also be making use of some evidence which is purely anecdotal. I fully recognize the limitations of such data. But I am still going to talk about it because it adds something meaningful to this theory.

The first question that needs answering is why liberals would need to increase their self-esteem in a way that conservatives do not. The answer is simple: liberals have less self esteem than conservatives to begin with.

SCIENCE DEFEATS LIBERALISM

by Brett Stevens

"If a fool would persist in his folly, he would become wise," wrote William Blake in his Proverbs of Hell.

This proverb is widely misinterpreted as meaning that we can make a wise man out of a fool. That is not so; what it means is that a fool who tries new versions of the same foolish thing will eventually discover the truth of the thing he's undertaking. It's another way of saying we learn by error.

In 1789, with the French Revolution, the West formalized its enlightenment ideal: the human form comes before nature and God, and is the ultimate ideal.