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Not many professors of literature lead what you would consider a glamorous life. Except for the few who get to teach whatever courses they want to, it’s pretty repetitive. They get locked into a rhythm where they teach the same classes over and over again, each time to a new group of students who ask generally bad questions and write generally bad papers. Even worse, the modern professor of literature is always on the defensive. He has to justify the study of literature to a skeptical student base and a skeptical administration as well. That is, both groups want to […]

In the interest of keeping us all on our toes, Social Matter has conducted an interview with Michael McGregor, managing editor of the always interesting Radix Journal, and Gregory Hood, a frequent contributor to Radix, along with Counter Currents and American Renaissance. Note: In the style of Vdare, some links come from the authors and some from the editors. Hubert Collins: Everyday there seems to be more and more commentary on “neoreactionaries” (NRx), sometimes loosely called the “Dark Enlightenment.” However, I don’t think they’ve received much strong analysis from the perspective of someone more to the right and less mainstream […]

Good intentions are all that matter in the religion of Americanism. The purer that you can portray your intentions to be, the more reach that your words will find. People who reveal the negative consequences of actions taken with the purest intentions tend to be regarded as cranks. This is because their ranting tends to make the new moral crusade more difficult to sell. In some cases, bad consequences seem to be the entire point of the exercise. When the well-intentioned struggle ends in death, those deaths can be portrayed as a demonstration of how sincere the beliefs that motivated […]

On Sunday, September 21, climate groups around the world rallied attendees for a People’s Climate March. The event was the largest environmental protest event in history, with participants in 150 countries. In New York alone, 400,000 people jammed the streets. In the aftermath, the participants boasted on their Facebook pages and blogs: “Epic is too weak a word to describe the NYC ‪#PeoplesClimate ’march‘. It was big big BIG. City = shutdown”, “Thanks for the best weekend, NYC! I marched with 400,000 people to save the planet!”, “The latest count says 400,000 people to save the planet! Almost half a million people […]

Tumblr is directly downstream of the academy, which might be a little difficult to accept at first glance. When you take the occasional look into the various absurdities and neuroses, the asylum-wall scribblings of the broken individuals that populate Tumblr, you probably don’t immediately associate them with the manicured and orderly lawns of your state’s university. But that’s where they came from. If you took a walk around your typical college campus, you’d see what I mean. You would see the putrescent heart of Tumblr-style social justice—which is not just identity politics but victim identity politics—festering unabated. Some of the […]

Alternative title: How To Be Patriarchal In An Unpatriarchal Society This week is the Social Justice Industrial Complex week at Social Matter. My fellow writers will delve deep into the belly of the beast. What I’m after today is a little something different. Supposing you’re already satisfied with the existence of the SJIC, what’s to be done? The workshop here is a quick and get-your-hands-dirty introduction to socio-sexual group dynamics, but the main point is to provide concrete steps to understand and defend against the poison drip of group subversion by women. Moving forward, I’ll just take Social Justice to mean […]

The typical social justice warrior is a student or a graduate from a Western liberal arts program. Their beliefs are in no way exceptional. They are repeating what they learned in class, which was reinforced by the university administration, and then further stoked by the media and the culture. What do they want? Equality. How far are they willing to go to achieve their desires? Well, not far at all. The farthest that they’re willing to go is to write, make videos, write some more, and occasionally go out to an unarmed protest, which will dissipate with an imperceptible impact […]

Flesh and blood networking, face-to-face with handshakes and eye contact and everything, is obviously the gold standard of organized resistance. It’s meaningful, it’s immediate, it’s resilient in ways that networking via internet is not. The people who you know in real life could provide you support if the proverbial shit hit the proverbial fan tomorrow. The people you know over the world wide webs could not, no matter how much camaraderie you feel with them, no matter how well disposed toward you they might be. A little sobering, but true. And yet digital networking has a lot to recommend it, […]