Cincinnatus Smith

Mar 28, 2024 | quillette.com | Sohale Andrus Mortazavi |Cincinnatus Smith |Jaspreet Singh Boparai |Megan Gafford

A review of How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement by Fredrik deBoer, 256 pages, Simon & Schuster (September 2023). The left is undergoing an overdue reckoning. Progressive mass movements have achieved little more than mass in recent years. Occupy Wall Street didn’t beget economic redistribution, to say nothing of Marxist revolution. Large-scale marches for gun control and climate action produced neither.

Mar 28, 2024 | quillette.com | Cincinnatus Smith |Jaspreet Singh Boparai |Megan Gafford |Aaron Sarin

TranscriptColeman Hughes: Black people don’t need another apology. We need safer neighborhoods and better schools. We need a less punitive criminal justice system. We need affordable healthcare. And none of these things can be achieved through reparations for slavery. And the obligation of citizenship is not transactional. It’s not contingent on ancestry. It never expires and it can’t be paid off. For all these reasons, Bill H.R. 40 is a moral and political mistake.

Mar 28, 2024 | quillette.com | Cincinnatus Smith |Jaspreet Singh Boparai |Megan Gafford |Aaron Sarin

TranscriptColeman Hughes: Black people don’t need another apology. We need safer neighborhoods and better schools. We need a less punitive criminal justice system. We need affordable healthcare. And none of these things can be achieved through reparations for slavery. And the obligation of citizenship is not transactional. It’s not contingent on ancestry. It never expires and it can’t be paid off. For all these reasons, Bill H.R. 40 is a moral and political mistake.

Mar 27, 2024 | quillette.com | Cincinnatus Smith |Herbert Bushman |Conor J. McKinley |Marilyn Simon

After the end of the Second World War, the American Old Right underwent a transformation from being a loosely connected band of libertarians, nativists, and isolationists towards a more cohesive ideological conservative movement aimed at confronting the threat of collectivism and atheism posed by the Soviet Union abroad and the left at home.