Academically, I am a Political Scientist and a Gardnerian Witch, in both cases for about 40 years. I encountered the Craft soon after gaining my Ph.D. at Berkeley. I cut my ideological teeth as a young conservative in high school … Read more
Tag: conservatism
The Pathology of NeoConservative ‘Manliness’
Harvey Mansfield is a leading Neoconservative scholar, as well as having been Bill Kristol’s mentor at Harvard. In 2006 Mansfield published Manliness to facilitate supposedly emasculated American males in regaining pride in their inner selves, while persuading emasculating American women … Read more
Neoconservatism’s Paradoxical Origins
Thoughts on shooting Congressmen and the dissolution of America
Capitalism or Crony Capitalism? Why terminology matters.
Liberalism, Conservatism and spirituality, Part III: the crisis of nihilism and the decline of liberty
Witches and Pagans now has Part III of my essay on liberalism, conservatism, their intellectual and moral collapse and what spiritualities of immanence might be able to do to revitalize them. If you wonder why liberals are so weak and … Read more
Understanding Liberalism and Conservativism: the value of Pagan insights for both
Part II of my essay on Liberalism and Conservatism is now up at Witches and Pagans. In Part II I argue that both liberalism and conservatism have difficulties in creating a coherent outlook that Pagan insights help to heal.… Read more