Tag: Issue 37

The Political Anthropology of Dalmacio Negro Pavón

The work of Dalmacio Negro Pavón reveals that politics cannot be understood without anthropology: the various conceptions of humanity throughout history are not mere theories but paradigms that have shaped the lives of peoples and conditioned political thought.

Dalmacio Negro Pavón, Pointing to the Future

Don Dalmacio’s most enduring legacy was his commitment to truth. By his side, we learned that truth was unbearable and the search for it afflicts most people. Submitting to its demands exacts a toll. Yet, we have willingly paid it.

Approaching the Thought of Dalmacio Negro Pavón

Attempting to expound someone else’s thought is always a high-risk endeavor. But since I recently declared Dalmacio Negro Pavón the most significant political thinker in Spain in recent decades, with all due caution, I will outline what I consider to be some of the interpretive keys to Negro Pavón’s thought.

The Gulag Beckons

We have been told repeatedly to be reasonable, to compromise. But the new totalitarians do not seek dialogue with us; they seek submission. Every concession—every retracted tweet, every groveling apology, every updated syllabus—only emboldens them. What can we do? Alvino-Mario Fantini has some suggestions.

 An Effect of Benediction

Those of a certain age will remember with fondness the celebrations of Christmas past, not in a ghostly fashion, but with the interior warmth of the brandy-soaked Christmas pudding.

Storming the Cathedral: Curtis Yarvin

Fusionism is the COBOL of the Right. While it will live as long as its believers live, it is hard to imagine it making new converts. Even converts from the Left will go directly to the new Right.

Theoretical Hallucinations

I have spent my career debating Marxists of all shades. One small dose of Hegel and history is usually enough to sober them up. In our Gothic world of theoretical hallucinations, there is not even a chance of genuine debate. One must either consent to the hallucination or else shut up.