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American Entropy

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GAIL JARVIS: Do Confederate Monuments Harm Society More Than Rioting? (9.24.2020)
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The legacy media would have you think so.
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WAYNE ALLENSWORTH: The Twilight of the USA and the Way Forward (9.24.2020)
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There's a chill in the air warning us to prepare for winter.
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CLYDE WILSON: Questions for Our Time (9.18.2020)
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There are a few things we ought to figure out.
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NEIL KUMAR: The Futility of Constitutional Originalism (9.11.2020)

There's no point arguing about a dead document.
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​GAIL JARVIS: Dumbing Down and the Third Reconstruction (9.3.2020)

​The clueless American public is a soft target for Marxists.
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​CLYDE WILSON: Trump Wins. What Then? (9.3.2020)
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Let's not have high expectations.
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​CLYDE WILSON: Fads (8.28.2020)

​Some are more dangerous than others.
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ILANA MERCER: The Insurrection Act Was Good Enough for Jefferson, So Bring It! (8.28.2020)
What are you waiting for, Mr. President?
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​CLYDE WILSON: What's in a Name? (8.15.2020)

​Let's get moving on replacing our tainted history.
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ROBERT PETERS: Two Americas (8.15.2020)

​Are we an idea, or a people?
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​CLYDE WILSON: Whatever Happened To History, Part 2 (8.8.2020)

​One cannot be a great leader without a meaningful understanding of history.
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ILANA MERCER: Systemic Racism or Systemic Rubbish? (8.8.20)

American racial policies are built upon a baseless concept.
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CLYDE WILSON: Responsibility and Esteem in Public Office (7.29.20)
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How far we have fallen from the Founding Fathers' expectations.
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CLYDE WILSON: National Garden (7.15.20)

The proposed garden of heroes has some questionable selections - and few Southerners.
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JOHN DEVANNY: America's Culture War: The Long View (7.10.20)
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 The historical perspective points to some difficult truths.
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​ROBERT PETERS: The Bolsheviks are Coming (7.15.2020)
Between the managerial elite and the Red Guard, they have the bases covered.
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​NEIL KUMAR: Foundations of the Egalitarian Regime, Part 6
The final part of the series examines "hate crimes."

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​NEIL KUMAR: Foundations of the Egalitarian Regime, Part 5
The framers envisioned judicial review, not judicial revision.

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​NEIL KUMAR: Foundations of the Egalitarian Regime, Part 4
The 14th Amendment, as written, is misconstrued.

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​NEIL KUMAR: Foundations of the Egalitarian Regime, Part 3
Irregularities surrounded the passage of the 14th Amendment.

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NEIL KUMAR: Foundations of the Egalitarian Regime, Part 2
The distortion of the Commerce Clause planted the seed for the "civil rights" agenda.

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​NEIL KUMAR: Foundations of the Egalitarian Regime, Part 1
The policy that subverts the deplorables serves the elites.

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BOYD CATHEY: Cancel Culture Will Decimate Us... If We Let It. (7.6.2020)
 Do we have the will to preserve the soul of our nation?

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CAROLINA CONTRARIAN: The Sorcery of Trump (7.6.2020)
The President seems to have some supporters under a spell.

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CLYDE WILSON: The Rule of the Kevins (7.6.2020)
These unremarkable self-preservationists are tools of the system.

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CLYDE WILSON: Whatever Happened to History? (6.30.2020)
Americans are a people with no understanding of the past our of ourselves.

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GENE KIZER, JR.: The Washington ComPost: Fake News and Fake History (6.25.2020)
Their rationalization for erasing history is full of errors.

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AL BENSON: Tucker Carlson and Bad History (6.18.2020)
He usually gets it right, but he needs a lesson on the War Between the States.

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GAIL JARVIS: Media, Academia, and Decades of Appeasement (6.22.2020)
America's obsession with racial issues has only made things worse.

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CLYDE WILSON: More on the Way We Are Now (6.18.2020)
Thoughts on the continuing absurdities of our nation.

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BOYD CATHEY: "Damn Lies" about George Floyd, Police Violence, and Racism (6.18.2020)
The narrative is a farce, but the destruction is real.​

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ILANA MERCER: The Barbarians are in Charge (6.18.2020)
Scenes from the sacking of America.

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CLYDE WILSON: The Second Phase of Revolution: Rule of the Red Guards (6.11.2020)
The insurgents have taken to the streets.

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BOYD CATHEY: The Riots and the Destructive Failure of the Egalitarian Myth: A Vindication of Secession (5.31.2020)
Disregard for the laws of nature has inevitably led to disunion.​

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JAMES RUTLEDGE ROESCH: A Citizen's Arrest Gone Wrong - or a Lynching? (6.5.2020)
The author examines the facts versus the perceptions of the Ahmaud Arbery case.

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​GAIL JARVIS: Nancy Pelosi, A Media-Created Celebrity (5.17.2020)
Who needs achievements when you have the press on your side?

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​CLYDE WILSON: The Way We Are Now (5.10.2020)

The author checks up on the state of the nation.

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JOSEPH R. STROMBERG: Perpetual Blather for Perpetual Strife (4.12.2020)
​Our language has been corrupted and weaponized.

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​JAMES RUTLEDGE ROESCH: The Dubya of the Democratic Party (4.2.2020)
Biden aims to be the next clownish face of a ruthless state.

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​NEIL KUMAR: The Final Frontier (4.4.2020)
Our rulers fiddle as the ultimate taboo is breached.

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​NEIL KUMAR: An Environmental Right (3.24.2020)
​Conservationism naturally belongs to the right, and we should reclaim it.

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CLYDE WILSON: A Strange People (3.6.2020)
Americans are full of contradictions.

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H.V. TRAYWICK, JR: The Age of Aquarius (2.28.2020)
A performance of Hair made him ask, "What's wrong with radical egalitarianism?"

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​NEIL KUMAR: American Regress (3.6.20)
​The nation is in decline. Who is to blame?

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​BRETT MOFFATT: A New Name for Washington? (2.22.20)
​The abominable city needs a more fitting moniker.

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JOHN DEVANNY: Girondins, Montagnards, and the Forever Revolution (2.2.20)
Modern American politics echoes the French Revolution.

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H.V. TRAYWICK, JR: Tyranny of the Majority (2.2.20)
Rights can be violated by groups as well as individuals.​

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WALT GARLINGTON: City vs Countryside (12.8.19)
The differences are irreconcilable. Might a plural executive system be the answer?

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NEIL KUMAR: Horatio Alger is Dead (2.22.20)
Our contemptuous oligarchy killed the American Dream.

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ILANA MERCER: The Punishing Agenda of the Anti-Punishment Movement (1.25.2020)
Libertarians who oppose all incarceration are wrong.

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NEIL KUMAR: The Culture Wars, Part 2 (1.25.2020)
Are you ready to fight to win?

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BOYD CATHEY: Normals vs. Insaniacs (1.20.2020)
The struggle for our country intensifies, and will become worse with election 2020.

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NEIL KUMAR: The Culture Wars, Part 1 (1.13.2020)
​We must oppose the creeping necrosis championed by our enemies.

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VALERIE PROTOPAPAS: Cultural Entropy (12.29.19)
The debased state of the arts reveals something about the national culture.

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BOYD CATHEY: The Historic Impeachment Vote: The End of the Democratic Charade? (12.20.19)
The ruling class is determined to stop the populist uprising.

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NEIL KUMAR: The United States of Epstein (12.20.19)
The sordid saga is emblematic of the decay of the nation.

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ILANA MERCER: Multiculturalism Elbows Anglo-Americans Out (12.18.2019)
The newcomers make no apologies for pushing traditional Americans aside.

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AYLA STEWART, WIFE WITH A PURPOSE: Leaving Public Life: My Retirement Letter (11.30.2020)
The most censored Christian mother in America has a warning for conservatives.

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​NEIL KUMAR: Hawks or Cuckoos? (11.30.19)
Are warmongering neocons crazy, or worse?

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CLYDE WILSON: How We Like Our Presidents (11.18.19)
Americans want politicians with personal appeal.

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ILANA MERCER: How Democracy Made Us Dumb (11.1.19)
Great minds of the past warned of its dangers.

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BOYD CATHEY: American Politics and the Exile of Southern Conservatives (10.26.19)
​Can Trump survive with only Neocons as allies?

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JOHN DEVANNY: The Times They Are A Changin'? Not So Much. (10.13.19)
Decades after his death, Alinsky's disciples are still applying his rules.

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CAROLINA CONTRARIAN: The Climate Con (10.6.19)
The actions of environmentalists belie their sincerity.

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BOYD CATHEY: Conservatives, Race, and the Merchants of Hate (10.1.2019)
Conservatives have failed to impede the madness of leftists.

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ILANA MERCER: US Businesses are Itching to import Cheap Foreign Labor (9.23.18)
What's good for citizens is bad for stockholders.

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AL BENSON: They Are Shutting Trump Down (9.7.19)
​He appears to have been engulfed by the swamp.

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ILANA MERCER: American White Male Misery is Real (9.27.19)
But the media won't admit the truth.

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DISSIDENT MAMA: Identity-less-ness (8.26.19)
​Cultural and personal emptiness are the tragic results of racial politics. 

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WALT GARLINGTON: From Women's Suffrage to Transgenderism: A Warning from Louisa McCord (8.23.19)
Women's greatest power comes from embracing their God-given roles.

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ILANA MERCER: Do We Still Have a Country? (7.31.19)
Our most fundamental rights are not being enforced.

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​​JAMES RUTLEDGE ROESCH: What to the American is the Fourth of July? (7.2.19)
​​The awful truth: There is nothing to celebrate.

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CLYDE WILSON: Random Thoughts on the Sorrows of Empire (6.23.19)
Further reflections on the way we are.

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ILANA MERCER: 'Visas for the Brilliant' is Kushner Code for Replacing You (6.9.19)
The H-1B visa category is a huge high-tech hoax.

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JOSEPH R. STROMBERG: The Great Litmus Test: Trump and His Detractors (6.9.19)
What has the Trump Interregnum meant for America?

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CAROLINA CONTRARIAN: Beyond the Black Pill (6.4.19)
​How do we look past the end of the road?

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BOYD CATHEY: Time to Disestablish Our Public School System (5.19.19)
Robert Lewis Dabney Saw the Problem 143 Years Ago.

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CLYDE WILSON: Still More Sorrows of Empire: War and Rumours of War (5.16.19)
​So much for the promise of "No more foreign wars."

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​CLYDE WILSON: More Sorrows of Empire (4.30.19)
More about the Way We Are.

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JOHN DEVANNY: States' Rights, Local Governance, and the Limits of a Politics of Tolerance (4.28.19)
​Without a return to regional governance, war is inevitable. 

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DAVID DEMING: An Open Letter on Higher Education (4.20.19)
A conservative professor calls for reform.

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BOYD CATHEY: Pat Buchanan and Our American Greek Tragedy (4.9.19)
​The icon carries the torch for the Old Republic.

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BOYD CATHEY: What does the Mueller report really mean? (3.25.29)
​The fact are in, but that may not matter to those with Trump Derangement Syndrome.

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PAUL GOTTFRIED: What are the Permanent Things Now? (3.25.19)
​Is there anything left for Conservatives to conserve?

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​CLYDE WILSON: The Sorrows of Empire: The Way We Are Now (3.21.19)
Notes on the harsh realities of life in our late-stage empire.

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CLYDE WILSON: American Journalism: Through a Glass Darkly (3.17.19)
The public has had enough of the imperious, deceptive press.

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​ILANA MERCER: ​Kamala's Collectivist Values Village (3.17.19) 
Be wary of politicians who talk about "our values."

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CAROLINA CONTRARIAN: From the Trump Train to the Yang Gang (3.14.19)
​Some disaffected Trumpers have a surprising new obsession.

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​​ILANA MERCER: It's not Identity Politics, It's Anti-White Politics (3.8.19)
​Pundits are dancing around the issue. Let's call it what it is.

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​​CLYDE WILSON: Welcome to Carthage (3.2.19)
Satan is here, and he is on a roll.

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​BOYD CATHEY: For Fear of Being Labeled a Racist (2.24.19)
​A simple show of courage could change the game.

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RONALD F. MAXWELL: Bush Budget Freezes Out ICE (2.19.19)
The latest budget betrayal leaves nationalists with an existential question.


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RONALD MAXWELL: ​Dear President:  No surrender! (1.10.19)
An open letter from Ronald F. Maxwell, the distinguished creator of the films "Gettysburg" and "Gods and Generals," to President Trump.
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