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Thomas Ernest Hulme, 1883–1917

3,338 words

Some day a wonderful book will be written on the art of persuasion, a new sophistic. One may suppose that psychology will ultimately become as complete a science as geometry and mechanics are now. It will be possible then to predict the effect of an argument on a man’s mind as surely as one can now predict the eclipse of the moon. On the basis of this developed science will be built an infallible set of rules for converting a man to any opinion you like. Read more …

Published: December 3, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, elite psychology, elites, Gustave Le Bon, history, liberalism, mass psychology, North American New Right, propaganda, reprints, rhetoric, social psychology, T. E. Hulme | Comments closed

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It’s Game Over in America

Matt Parrott

The Patriots lost

830 words

I didn’t watch the Super Bowl, but I did end up finding out about Chrysler’s dramatic attempt to frame the massive federal bailout of their floundering corporation as something to get patriotic about. During the half-time commercial break, Clint Eastwood snarls that “It’s half-time in America” . . . Read more …

Published: February 6, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, bailouts, Detroit, Matt Parrott, North American New Right, originals, protectionism | Comments closed

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Violence & “Soft Commerce,” Part 3

Dominique Venner

657 words

Part 3 of 3

Translated by Greg Johnson

The System is Nourished by Fake Opposition

A Tariff in Time . . . Saves Billions:
The Proposed Automotive Industry Bailout

Greg Johnson

Thomas Hart Benton, "Steel in America Today," 1930

1,231 words

November 20, 2008

Free markets mean competition. Competition means winners and losers. Some losers even lose their shirts and go out of business. When a business fails, this should be regarded as a success for the capitalist system as a whole. That goes for really big businesses as well as small ones. In a capitalist system, nobody is “too big to fail.”