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Recent Appearances (September 2023)

I was honored to appear in five different venues in the past month. Topics were particularly spicy, the result of media hit pieces on me which attracted attention from different quarters, as well as the rising discussion around “no enemies to the Right.” Shows where I appeared were: 1) CROSSPOLITIC, where we talked about the intersection of Christianity, NETTR, and Foundationalism, sometimes with non-trivial, but helpful, disagreements. 2) Evangelical podcaster Jon Harris and his show Conversations That Matter, where I laugh uncontrollably at the fantasies of my enemies. 3) Last Things, of armed patronage networks and the coming revolutions. 4) With the channel Evangelical Dark Web, more takes on Christian matters as tied to my political thought. 5) On the Canadian podcast Blood Satellite, of warlordism and wealth. Links and embeddings are below.

On Manual Work for Men

Published by Charles Haywood

Those who rule us seek to stamp out masculinity. Over the pastseveral decades their attacks have been wildly successful, as a glance around you will show. True, in some families, boys are still raised to be men. But when they leave home, the never-ending attacks of the feminizers pick off many, because in every area of mainstream American life, masculine behavior is anathemized and punished. Only those willing to pay heavy personal costs can defy this never-ending coercion. Some men resist, and some even reverse the indoctrination, discovering and adopting masculinity on their own—although without broader social support and traditions, such self-taught men run the risk of caricaturing masculinity. What we need is a mechanism for any man, at any age, to begin centering and cultivating real, well-rounded, durable masculinity. Fortunately, such a mechanism is readily available and teachable—taking up tool-based manual work.

The Sunlilies: Eastern Orthodoxy As a Radical Counterculture (Graham Pardun)

Published by Charles Haywood

It’s time for a palate cleanser, a turn away from politics and from endless talk of the evil man does to man. Today our focus is a lovely and inspiring book of Eastern Orthodox meditations on prayer, revolving largely around the natural world as a manifestation of God’s will and love. I have been saying at my own Orthodox church for the past few years, to some skepticism from the cradle Orthodox, “Orthodoxy is the coming thing!” And maybe I am right. After all, as the subtitle of The Sunlilies says, Orthodoxy offers a radical counterculture, and given that sweeping change is what our society needs, and will get one way or the other, Orthodoxy may well be a major part of building our future.

Recent Appearances (August 2023)

Published by Charles Haywood

I was honored to appear in six different venues recently. These were: 1) With Auron MacIntyre, for the second time, where we discussed the new kulaks. 2) With Benjamin Boyce, of entrepreneurship, feudalism, and more. 3) On Chronicles Magazine’s new podcast. 4) A second appearance on the American Warrior Society podcast. 5) With Michael Farris, of Russia, Ukraine, and beta males. 6) With Hrvoje Morić on TNT Radio, of why preemptive surrender is bad. Details and embeddings are below.

The Fortress: The Siege of Przemysl and the Making of Europe’s Bloodlands (Alexander Watson)

Published by Charles Haywood

I suspect not one in a thousand Americans could locate Galicia, a historically-important area spanning what is now southeastern Poland and western Ukraine, on a map. To be fair, Galicia is today not on most maps, since it’s not a country, and never has been. It is, or was, a land of many ethnic groups, ruled by the Austrians from the 1700s until 1918, and before that by the Poles. In the middle of Galicia lies Przemyśl, now a Polish town near the Ukrainian border. During the early days of World War I, Przemyśl was repeatedly the scene of ferocious battles, which are the topic of Alexander Watson’s The Fortress. The history offered here is vivid and compelling, and it also usefully illuminates today’s Russo-Ukraine War.

America’s Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything (Christopher Rufo)

Published by Charles Haywood

Christopher Rufo has earned a stellar reputation as both analyst of, and strategist against, the poison of “critical theory.” In America’s Cultural Revolution, with verve, precision, and clarity, he explains what critical theory is, where it came from, and how, over the past fifty years, it was used by the Left to conquer America. His real target, however, is much older, because critical theory is merely the latest iteration of Left ideology, inevitably corrosive and parasitical, conceived in the Enlightenment and birthed in 1789. And, no surprise, the fruit of the Left’s latest conquest has been the same as always—the extreme degradation of a decent, productive society. Rufo’s explicit purpose is to inspire a counter-revolution. This is a tall order. After all, despite successes Rufo and his allies have had in several quarters, the Left today utterly dominates all areas of American life, not only all levels of government, directly or indirectly, but also private enterprise, education, media, culture, the military, and religious institutions. That this has led America to a dead end is irrelevant …

Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future (Patrick Deneen)

Published by Charles Haywood

Vladimir Lenin taught that “he who says A must say B.” He was correct, but Patrick Deneen has not listened. Deneen says A, that our Regime, our ruling class, is destructive and evil. But he then refuses to say B, that the Regime is therefore wholly odious and illegitimate, and before any new system is possible, it must be destroyed. Instead, Deneen’s response to A is magical thinking. When the people peacefully complain enough, you see, the Regime will dismantle itself voluntarily and hand over power to a new ruling class, which will hold and implement opposite views on every matter under the sun. This absurd fantasy, even when cushioned within much fancy philosophy, harms rather than advances the postliberal project.