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With the left depressed in 2025, much of the cultural energy belongs to the right. But where’s it going to go? One increasing possibility appears to be that newly self-confident right-wingers are getting into various kinds of New Age woo, the occult, gnosticism, RFK Jr. junk science, paganism, Indian esotericism, Chinese numerology, health food fads, etc. In other words, all the old craziness satirized by Umberto Eco in Foucault’s Pendulum, plus some new innovations like AI cults and God knows what else. G. K. Chesterton supposedly said, “The first effect of not believing in God is to believe in anything.”...

For his speaking portion of the evening, Sailer read an essay which appeared in Noticing titled, “What If I’m Right?”. A common theme of his work is the chasm between elite narratives and the lived experiences of ordinary Americans...

The more I think about it, the more the following speculation makes sense: that Obama's spiritual advisor, Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr., is trying to sabotage Obama's campaign. Rev. Wright has multiple reasons to do it: 1. Spite: Obama dumped him at the last moment from his big spot on national TV giving the invocation at Obama's kickoff rally in Springfield last winter. 2. Glory: Wright craves attention the way Britney Spears does. 3. Ideology: Wright despises the idea that whites would give a black man like Obama an even break. As he told Obama when they first met...

Steve Sailer is presently the Film Critic at The American Conservative and contributes regularly to their Arts and Letters section. He is also one of the main reasons why this particular reader subscribed to their magazine as I regard its analysis of social issues to be excellent. Before taking a position with TAC he was previously, and remains to this day, an accomplished journalist. Mr. Sailer has his own website where he has established an archive of essays and columns which one should take the time to peruse. He also writes for vdare.com and is the founder of the Human...