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  1. Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel

    It's not often that I have to take a break from a book, but I needed three days off from page after page of purple prose about people neither pleasant nor entertaining nor interesting.

    Wolfe's 1929 Bildungsroman, a coming of age in North Carolina novel, was once thought to put Wolfe on a level with Hemingway or Faulkner.

    Not many critics would hold him in such esteem today; I believe this revaluation is well deserved. Wolfe never used one word when he could cram in ten, preferably with much "poetic" diction and overuse of alliteration. Not every writer has to write the stripped down prose of Hemingway, not every darling has to be murdered, but an editorial slaughter would have been welcome here.* Wolfe also lacks the insight and imagination exercised by Faulkner with regard to race in the South.

    Getting to the last of the 500 plus pages of wordy self indulgence this afternoon felt like the end of an ordeal.

    Am I being unfair? Wolfe is sometimes described as an author best appreciated by young men. I admit that I might well have been impressed had I read him as an adolescent; I'm glad I did not, as the book might have done irreparable damage to my prose style.

    #Books #ThomasWolfe #LookHomewardAngel #USLiterature #AmericanLiterature #20thCenturyLiterature #NorthCarolina #Bildungsroman

  2. Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel

    It's not often that I have to take a break from a book, but I needed three days off from page after page of purple prose about people neither pleasant nor entertaining nor interesting.

    Wolfe's 1929 Bildungsroman, a coming of age in North Carolina novel, was once thought to put Wolfe on a level with Hemingway or Faulkner.

    Not many critics would hold him in such esteem today; I believe this revaluation is well deserved. Wolfe never used one word when he could cram in ten, preferably with much "poetic" diction and overuse of alliteration. Not every writer has to write the stripped down prose of Hemingway, not every darling has to be murdered, but an editorial slaughter would have been welcome here.* Wolfe also lacks the insight and imagination exercised by Faulkner with regard to race in the South.

    Getting to the last of the 500 plus pages of wordy self indulgence this afternoon felt like the end of an ordeal.

    Am I being unfair? Wolfe is sometimes described as an author best appreciated by young men. I admit that I might well have been impressed had I read him as an adolescent; I'm glad I did not, as the book might have done irreparable damage to my prose style.

    #Books #ThomasWolfe #LookHomewardAngel #USLiterature #AmericanLiterature #20thCenturyLiterature #NorthCarolina #Bildungsroman

  3. Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel

    It's not often that I have to take a break from a book, but I needed three days off from page after page of purple prose about people neither pleasant nor entertaining nor interesting.

    Wolfe's 1929 Bildungsroman, a coming of age in North Carolina novel, was once thought to put Wolfe on a level with Hemingway or Faulkner.

    Not many critics would hold him in such esteem today; I believe this revaluation is well deserved. Wolfe never used one word when he could cram in ten, preferably with much "poetic" diction and overuse of alliteration. Not every writer has to write the stripped down prose of Hemingway, not every darling has to be murdered, but an editorial slaughter would have been welcome here.* Wolfe also lacks the insight and imagination exercised by Faulkner with regard to race in the South.

    Getting to the last of the 500 plus pages of wordy self indulgence this afternoon felt like the end of an ordeal.

    Am I being unfair? Wolfe is sometimes described as an author best appreciated by young men. I admit that I might well have been impressed had I read him as an adolescent; I'm glad I did not, as the book might have done irreparable damage to my prose style.

    #Books #ThomasWolfe #LookHomewardAngel #USLiterature #AmericanLiterature #20thCenturyLiterature #NorthCarolina #Bildungsroman

  4. Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel

    It's not often that I have to take a break from a book, but I needed three days off from page after page of purple prose about people neither pleasant nor entertaining nor interesting.

    Wolfe's 1929 Bildungsroman, a coming of age in North Carolina novel, was once thought to put Wolfe on a level with Hemingway or Faulkner.

    Not many critics would hold him in such esteem today; I believe this revaluation is well deserved. Wolfe never used one word when he could cram in ten, preferably with much "poetic" diction and overuse of alliteration. Not every writer has to write the stripped down prose of Hemingway, not every darling has to be murdered, but an editorial slaughter would have been welcome here.* Wolfe also lacks the insight and imagination exercised by Faulkner with regard to race in the South.

    Getting to the last of the 500 plus pages of wordy self indulgence this afternoon felt like the end of an ordeal.

    Am I being unfair? Wolfe is sometimes described as an author best appreciated by young men. I admit that I might well have been impressed had I read him as an adolescent; I'm glad I did not, as the book might have done irreparable damage to my prose style.

    #Books #ThomasWolfe #LookHomewardAngel #USLiterature #AmericanLiterature #20thCenturyLiterature #NorthCarolina #Bildungsroman

  5. Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel

    It's not often that I have to take a break from a book, but I needed three days off from page after page of purple prose about people neither pleasant nor entertaining nor interesting.

    Wolfe's 1929 Bildungsroman, a coming of age in North Carolina novel, was once thought to put Wolfe on a level with Hemingway or Faulkner.

    Not many critics would hold him in such esteem today; I believe this revaluation is well deserved. Wolfe never used one word when he could cram in ten, preferably with much "poetic" diction and overuse of alliteration. Not every writer has to write the stripped down prose of Hemingway, not every darling has to be murdered, but an editorial slaughter would have been welcome here.* Wolfe also lacks the insight and imagination exercised by Faulkner with regard to race in the South.

    Getting to the last of the 500 plus pages of wordy self indulgence this afternoon felt like the end of an ordeal.

    Am I being unfair? Wolfe is sometimes described as an author best appreciated by young men. I admit that I might well have been impressed had I read him as an adolescent; I'm glad I did not, as the book might have done irreparable damage to my prose style.

    #Books #ThomasWolfe #LookHomewardAngel #USLiterature #AmericanLiterature #20thCenturyLiterature #NorthCarolina #Bildungsroman

  6. Stephen Wolfe grew up in Napa, California,
    and his father was an admirer of the right-wing pundit and erstwhile GOP presidential candidate Pat Buchanan.

    After attending West Point and serving in the Army, Wolfe earned advanced degrees before leaving academia to
    “do the Wendell Berry thing”
    in North Carolina with his wife and four kids.

    Over the summer, Wolfe, 41, agreed to speak with me on the condition that I refer to him as “Dr. Wolfe”
    and call him an “expert on Christian nationalism.”

    The Dr. Wolfe I spoke with was a more muted version of the firebrand I’d watched online.

    He said his ideal version of America would be led by a Caesar figure.

    Gay marriage would be strictly prohibited.

    Women would not be allowed to vote
    —instead, men would vote for their households.

    When I brought up the bit from his book about heretics being killed, he grew annoyed.

    “I do think it’s permissible, in principle, for a state to suppress theological heresy,
    but that doesn’t mean that it’s prudent or proper,
    suitable in every circumstance or every tradition or way of life.”

    The Founding Fathers, he added, had encouraged religious liberty,
    so killing heretics would not be appropriate in the United States that we inhabit.

    We turned to remarks he had made at a recent conference convened by Brian Sauvé:
    “I think we need to reflect on this idea of Judeo-Christianity,
    or Judeo-Christian worldview,
    or Judeo-Christian whatever,
    and really eradicate that from our thinking.

    Because if we say that America is a
    Judeo-Christian country,
    then it can’t be a Christian country, okay?”

    What role, I asked him, would Jews play?

    After a deep sigh, he told me that they would be allowed to “exercise their religion freely.”

    We spoke a week before Vance’s RNC speech,
    and Wolfe’s remarks helped me understand what the TheoBros heard in Vance’s phrase about
    "America as a people".

    The founders, Wolfe noted, intended for their country to be “Anglo-Protestant with an American inflection.”

    America, he continued, is “a place of settlement and rootedness,
    but it’s an open ethnicity in which people can become one of us.”

    Which is to say that, like some others, Wolfe is not necessarily opposed to the idea of nonwhite people in America
    —as long as they agree to assimilate to the Anglo-Protestant dominant culture.

    In this telling, America is not a pluralistic society at all,
    but rather one in which there exists an uneasy truce between Christians and those they reluctantly tolerate.

    Toward the end of our conversation, I asked Wolfe what motivated him.

    “I want Christians to be more assertive and to recognize the Christian heritage of the American way of life,
    and to seek to restore that,” he said.

    “This is a Christian country, and we’ve got to work to restore it to what it once was"

    In his keynote address at Sauvé’s conference, titled “Why Multicultural Pluralism Fails and What to Build Instead,”
    Wolfe called the concept of America as a melting pot
    “an early 20th-century idea cooked up by a Jew in New York who despised the confident Anglo-Protestant establishment.”

    WASPs were the “distinct ethnicity” of America, he insisted,

    and America should only welcome those who aspired to assimilate.

    As he put it, “This is our homeland, and we welcome you on the condition of conformity.”

    Or, in the words of JD Vance, America “is a group of people.”

    motherjones.com/politics/2024/

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  7. William Wolfe served in the Trump administration
    both as the deputy assistant secretary of defense
    and as director of House affairs at the Department of State.

    He is also an alumnus of #Heritage #Action,
    a sister organization of the Heritage Foundation,
    the arch-conservative think tank behind Project 2025,
    whose chief architect, Russell Vought, posted on X that he was “proud to work with @William_E_Wolfe on scoping out a sound Christian Nationalism.”

    A few months later, the Bucks County Beacon uncovered a lengthy online manifesto on the goals of Christian nationalists.

    The document, which listed Wolfe and Joel Webbon as contributing editors
    and Oklahoma Sen. #Dusty #Deevers as a co-author,
    called for “civil magistrates” to usher in 💥“the establishment of the Ten Commandments as the foundational law of the nation.”

    The manifesto doesn’t specify exactly how Christian nationalists should achieve these goals.

    As Tabachnick, the extremism researcher, interprets it, the TheoBros are imagining a utopia where “they are going to be free to be entrepreneurs in all different senses,
    including the tech world that they’re mixing with so freely.”

    The key, she said, is that authoritarianism “is required to have the utopian vision.”

    Last year, the extremism watchdog group Right Wing Watch posted a video of Wolfe quoting a scripture passage.
    There are times when “even the God of peace proclaims by his providence, ‘to arms!’” he says.

    “If we have ever lived in a point of time in American history since then that we could argue that now is a time ‘to arms’ again, I think we are getting close.”

    William Wolfe’s Christian nationalism manifesto made the rounds on social media,
    but in mainstream conservative outlets,
    it was #Stephen #Wolfe
    (no relation to William)
    who brought TheoBro ideas to the wider world.

    In his book, which was praised by editors at the Federalist and the American Conservative,
    Wolfe paints America as a “#gynocracy” whose government and culture have been feminized by unhappy women leaders.
    (Sound familiar?)

    He has stated on X that women should not have the right to vote, and that “interethnic” marriage can be “sinful.”

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  8. Stephen Wolfe grew up in Napa, California,
    and his father was an admirer of the right-wing pundit and erstwhile GOP presidential candidate Pat Buchanan.

    After attending West Point and serving in the Army, Wolfe earned advanced degrees before leaving academia to
    “do the Wendell Berry thing”
    in North Carolina with his wife and four kids.

    Over the summer, Wolfe, 41, agreed to speak with me on the condition that I refer to him as “Dr. Wolfe”
    and call him an “expert on Christian nationalism.”

    The Dr. Wolfe I spoke with was a more muted version of the firebrand I’d watched online.

    He said his ideal version of America would be led by a Caesar figure.

    Gay marriage would be strictly prohibited.

    Women would not be allowed to vote
    —instead, men would vote for their households.

    When I brought up the bit from his book about heretics being killed, he grew annoyed.

    “I do think it’s permissible, in principle, for a state to suppress theological heresy,
    but that doesn’t mean that it’s prudent or proper,
    suitable in every circumstance or every tradition or way of life.”

    The Founding Fathers, he added, had encouraged religious liberty,
    so killing heretics would not be appropriate in the United States that we inhabit.

    We turned to remarks he had made at a recent conference convened by Brian Sauvé:
    “I think we need to reflect on this idea of Judeo-Christianity,
    or Judeo-Christian worldview,
    or Judeo-Christian whatever,
    and really eradicate that from our thinking.

    Because if we say that America is a
    Judeo-Christian country,
    then it can’t be a Christian country, okay?”

    What role, I asked him, would Jews play?

    After a deep sigh, he told me that they would be allowed to “exercise their religion freely.”

    We spoke a week before Vance’s RNC speech,
    and Wolfe’s remarks helped me understand what the TheoBros heard in Vance’s phrase about
    "America as a people".

    The founders, Wolfe noted, intended for their country to be “Anglo-Protestant with an American inflection.”

    America, he continued, is “a place of settlement and rootedness,
    but it’s an open ethnicity in which people can become one of us.”

    Which is to say that, like some others, Wolfe is not necessarily opposed to the idea of nonwhite people in America
    —as long as they agree to assimilate to the Anglo-Protestant dominant culture.

    In this telling, America is not a pluralistic society at all,
    but rather one in which there exists an uneasy truce between Christians and those they reluctantly tolerate.

    Toward the end of our conversation, I asked Wolfe what motivated him.

    “I want Christians to be more assertive and to recognize the Christian heritage of the American way of life,
    and to seek to restore that,” he said.

    “This is a Christian country, and we’ve got to work to restore it to what it once was"

    In his keynote address at Sauvé’s conference, titled “Why Multicultural Pluralism Fails and What to Build Instead,”
    Wolfe called the concept of America as a melting pot
    “an early 20th-century idea cooked up by a Jew in New York who despised the confident Anglo-Protestant establishment.”

    WASPs were the “distinct ethnicity” of America, he insisted,

    and America should only welcome those who aspired to assimilate.

    As he put it, “This is our homeland, and we welcome you on the condition of conformity.”

    Or, in the words of JD Vance, America “is a group of people.”

    motherjones.com/politics/2024/

    #Heritage #Action #Andrew #Isker #Andrew #Torba #Gab #refugees #Paul #Gottfried #Richard #Spencer #William #Wolfe #Big #Eva #Josh #Abbotoy #Claremont #Institute #Project2025 #Heritage #Foundation #Chris #Buskirk #Rockbridge #Network #Leonard #Leo #Peter #Thiel #Vance #Josh #Clemans #Charles #Haywood #warlord #Nate #Fischer #Brian #Sauvé #Mefferd #Joel #Webbon #dominant #man #submissive #woman #Hawley #Johnson #Lee #Vance #Trump #Turning #Point #USA #Tucker #Carlson #flamethrower #Douglas #Wilson #Calvinism #Vance #hypermasculinity #birthrates #ethnonationalism #misogyny #TheoBros #Calvin #Rushdoony #homeschooling #charismatic #New #Apostolic #Reformation #reformed #TheoBros #apostles #prophets #Bible #postmillennialism #Aaron #Renn #Andrew #Isker #Douglas #Wilson #shared #history #patriarchal #Christian #nationalism #young #pastors #Christian #prince #women #flogging #Franco #multiculturalism #Taylor #Swift

  9. Stephen Wolfe grew up in Napa, California,
    and his father was an admirer of the right-wing pundit and erstwhile GOP presidential candidate Pat Buchanan.

    After attending West Point and serving in the Army, Wolfe earned advanced degrees before leaving academia to
    “do the Wendell Berry thing”
    in North Carolina with his wife and four kids.

    Over the summer, Wolfe, 41, agreed to speak with me on the condition that I refer to him as “Dr. Wolfe”
    and call him an “expert on Christian nationalism.”

    The Dr. Wolfe I spoke with was a more muted version of the firebrand I’d watched online.

    He said his ideal version of America would be led by a Caesar figure.

    Gay marriage would be strictly prohibited.

    Women would not be allowed to vote
    —instead, men would vote for their households.

    When I brought up the bit from his book about heretics being killed, he grew annoyed.

    “I do think it’s permissible, in principle, for a state to suppress theological heresy,
    but that doesn’t mean that it’s prudent or proper,
    suitable in every circumstance or every tradition or way of life.”

    The Founding Fathers, he added, had encouraged religious liberty,
    so killing heretics would not be appropriate in the United States that we inhabit.

    We turned to remarks he had made at a recent conference convened by Brian Sauvé:
    “I think we need to reflect on this idea of Judeo-Christianity,
    or Judeo-Christian worldview,
    or Judeo-Christian whatever,
    and really eradicate that from our thinking.

    Because if we say that America is a
    Judeo-Christian country,
    then it can’t be a Christian country, okay?”

    What role, I asked him, would Jews play?

    After a deep sigh, he told me that they would be allowed to “exercise their religion freely.”

    We spoke a week before Vance’s RNC speech,
    and Wolfe’s remarks helped me understand what the TheoBros heard in Vance’s phrase about
    "America as a people".

    The founders, Wolfe noted, intended for their country to be “Anglo-Protestant with an American inflection.”

    America, he continued, is “a place of settlement and rootedness,
    but it’s an open ethnicity in which people can become one of us.”

    Which is to say that, like some others, Wolfe is not necessarily opposed to the idea of nonwhite people in America
    —as long as they agree to assimilate to the Anglo-Protestant dominant culture.

    In this telling, America is not a pluralistic society at all,
    but rather one in which there exists an uneasy truce between Christians and those they reluctantly tolerate.

    Toward the end of our conversation, I asked Wolfe what motivated him.

    “I want Christians to be more assertive and to recognize the Christian heritage of the American way of life,
    and to seek to restore that,” he said.

    “This is a Christian country, and we’ve got to work to restore it to what it once was"

    In his keynote address at Sauvé’s conference, titled “Why Multicultural Pluralism Fails and What to Build Instead,”
    Wolfe called the concept of America as a melting pot
    “an early 20th-century idea cooked up by a Jew in New York who despised the confident Anglo-Protestant establishment.”

    WASPs were the “distinct ethnicity” of America, he insisted,

    and America should only welcome those who aspired to assimilate.

    As he put it, “This is our homeland, and we welcome you on the condition of conformity.”

    Or, in the words of JD Vance, America “is a group of people.”

    motherjones.com/politics/2024/

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  10. Stephen Wolfe grew up in Napa, California,
    and his father was an admirer of the right-wing pundit and erstwhile GOP presidential candidate Pat Buchanan.

    After attending West Point and serving in the Army, Wolfe earned advanced degrees before leaving academia to
    “do the Wendell Berry thing”
    in North Carolina with his wife and four kids.

    Over the summer, Wolfe, 41, agreed to speak with me on the condition that I refer to him as “Dr. Wolfe”
    and call him an “expert on Christian nationalism.”

    The Dr. Wolfe I spoke with was a more muted version of the firebrand I’d watched online.

    He said his ideal version of America would be led by a Caesar figure.

    Gay marriage would be strictly prohibited.

    Women would not be allowed to vote
    —instead, men would vote for their households.

    When I brought up the bit from his book about heretics being killed, he grew annoyed.

    “I do think it’s permissible, in principle, for a state to suppress theological heresy,
    but that doesn’t mean that it’s prudent or proper,
    suitable in every circumstance or every tradition or way of life.”

    The Founding Fathers, he added, had encouraged religious liberty,
    so killing heretics would not be appropriate in the United States that we inhabit.

    We turned to remarks he had made at a recent conference convened by Brian Sauvé:
    “I think we need to reflect on this idea of Judeo-Christianity,
    or Judeo-Christian worldview,
    or Judeo-Christian whatever,
    and really eradicate that from our thinking.

    Because if we say that America is a
    Judeo-Christian country,
    then it can’t be a Christian country, okay?”

    What role, I asked him, would Jews play?

    After a deep sigh, he told me that they would be allowed to “exercise their religion freely.”

    We spoke a week before Vance’s RNC speech,
    and Wolfe’s remarks helped me understand what the TheoBros heard in Vance’s phrase about
    "America as a people".

    The founders, Wolfe noted, intended for their country to be “Anglo-Protestant with an American inflection.”

    America, he continued, is “a place of settlement and rootedness,
    but it’s an open ethnicity in which people can become one of us.”

    Which is to say that, like some others, Wolfe is not necessarily opposed to the idea of nonwhite people in America
    —as long as they agree to assimilate to the Anglo-Protestant dominant culture.

    In this telling, America is not a pluralistic society at all,
    but rather one in which there exists an uneasy truce between Christians and those they reluctantly tolerate.

    Toward the end of our conversation, I asked Wolfe what motivated him.

    “I want Christians to be more assertive and to recognize the Christian heritage of the American way of life,
    and to seek to restore that,” he said.

    “This is a Christian country, and we’ve got to work to restore it to what it once was"

    In his keynote address at Sauvé’s conference, titled “Why Multicultural Pluralism Fails and What to Build Instead,”
    Wolfe called the concept of America as a melting pot
    “an early 20th-century idea cooked up by a Jew in New York who despised the confident Anglo-Protestant establishment.”

    WASPs were the “distinct ethnicity” of America, he insisted,

    and America should only welcome those who aspired to assimilate.

    As he put it, “This is our homeland, and we welcome you on the condition of conformity.”

    Or, in the words of JD Vance, America “is a group of people.”

    motherjones.com/politics/2024/

    #Heritage #Action #Andrew #Isker #Andrew #Torba #Gab #refugees #Paul #Gottfried #Richard #Spencer #William #Wolfe #Big #Eva #Josh #Abbotoy #Claremont #Institute #Project2025 #Heritage #Foundation #Chris #Buskirk #Rockbridge #Network #Leonard #Leo #Peter #Thiel #Vance #Josh #Clemans #Charles #Haywood #warlord #Nate #Fischer #Brian #Sauvé #Mefferd #Joel #Webbon #dominant #man #submissive #woman #Hawley #Johnson #Lee #Vance #Trump #Turning #Point #USA #Tucker #Carlson #flamethrower #Douglas #Wilson #Calvinism #Vance #hypermasculinity #birthrates #ethnonationalism #misogyny #TheoBros #Calvin #Rushdoony #homeschooling #charismatic #New #Apostolic #Reformation #reformed #TheoBros #apostles #prophets #Bible #postmillennialism #Aaron #Renn #Andrew #Isker #Douglas #Wilson #shared #history #patriarchal #Christian #nationalism #young #pastors #Christian #prince #women #flogging #Franco #multiculturalism #Taylor #Swift

  11. Stephen Wolfe grew up in Napa, California,
    and his father was an admirer of the right-wing pundit and erstwhile GOP presidential candidate Pat Buchanan.

    After attending West Point and serving in the Army, Wolfe earned advanced degrees before leaving academia to
    “do the Wendell Berry thing”
    in North Carolina with his wife and four kids.

    Over the summer, Wolfe, 41, agreed to speak with me on the condition that I refer to him as “Dr. Wolfe”
    and call him an “expert on Christian nationalism.”

    The Dr. Wolfe I spoke with was a more muted version of the firebrand I’d watched online.

    He said his ideal version of America would be led by a Caesar figure.

    Gay marriage would be strictly prohibited.

    Women would not be allowed to vote
    —instead, men would vote for their households.

    When I brought up the bit from his book about heretics being killed, he grew annoyed.

    “I do think it’s permissible, in principle, for a state to suppress theological heresy,
    but that doesn’t mean that it’s prudent or proper,
    suitable in every circumstance or every tradition or way of life.”

    The Founding Fathers, he added, had encouraged religious liberty,
    so killing heretics would not be appropriate in the United States that we inhabit.

    We turned to remarks he had made at a recent conference convened by Brian Sauvé:
    “I think we need to reflect on this idea of Judeo-Christianity,
    or Judeo-Christian worldview,
    or Judeo-Christian whatever,
    and really eradicate that from our thinking.

    Because if we say that America is a
    Judeo-Christian country,
    then it can’t be a Christian country, okay?”

    What role, I asked him, would Jews play?

    After a deep sigh, he told me that they would be allowed to “exercise their religion freely.”

    We spoke a week before Vance’s RNC speech,
    and Wolfe’s remarks helped me understand what the TheoBros heard in Vance’s phrase about
    "America as a people".

    The founders, Wolfe noted, intended for their country to be “Anglo-Protestant with an American inflection.”

    America, he continued, is “a place of settlement and rootedness,
    but it’s an open ethnicity in which people can become one of us.”

    Which is to say that, like some others, Wolfe is not necessarily opposed to the idea of nonwhite people in America
    —as long as they agree to assimilate to the Anglo-Protestant dominant culture.

    In this telling, America is not a pluralistic society at all,
    but rather one in which there exists an uneasy truce between Christians and those they reluctantly tolerate.

    Toward the end of our conversation, I asked Wolfe what motivated him.

    “I want Christians to be more assertive and to recognize the Christian heritage of the American way of life,
    and to seek to restore that,” he said.

    “This is a Christian country, and we’ve got to work to restore it to what it once was"

    In his keynote address at Sauvé’s conference, titled “Why Multicultural Pluralism Fails and What to Build Instead,”
    Wolfe called the concept of America as a melting pot
    “an early 20th-century idea cooked up by a Jew in New York who despised the confident Anglo-Protestant establishment.”

    WASPs were the “distinct ethnicity” of America, he insisted,

    and America should only welcome those who aspired to assimilate.

    As he put it, “This is our homeland, and we welcome you on the condition of conformity.”

    Or, in the words of JD Vance, America “is a group of people.”

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  12. William Wolfe served in the Trump administration
    both as the deputy assistant secretary of defense
    and as director of House affairs at the Department of State.

    He is also an alumnus of #Heritage #Action,
    a sister organization of the Heritage Foundation,
    the arch-conservative think tank behind Project 2025,
    whose chief architect, Russell Vought, posted on X that he was “proud to work with @William_E_Wolfe on scoping out a sound Christian Nationalism.”

    A few months later, the Bucks County Beacon uncovered a lengthy online manifesto on the goals of Christian nationalists.

    The document, which listed Wolfe and Joel Webbon as contributing editors
    and Oklahoma Sen. #Dusty #Deevers as a co-author,
    called for “civil magistrates” to usher in 💥“the establishment of the Ten Commandments as the foundational law of the nation.”

    The manifesto doesn’t specify exactly how Christian nationalists should achieve these goals.

    As Tabachnick, the extremism researcher, interprets it, the TheoBros are imagining a utopia where “they are going to be free to be entrepreneurs in all different senses,
    including the tech world that they’re mixing with so freely.”

    The key, she said, is that authoritarianism “is required to have the utopian vision.”

    Last year, the extremism watchdog group Right Wing Watch posted a video of Wolfe quoting a scripture passage.
    There are times when “even the God of peace proclaims by his providence, ‘to arms!’” he says.

    “If we have ever lived in a point of time in American history since then that we could argue that now is a time ‘to arms’ again, I think we are getting close.”

    William Wolfe’s Christian nationalism manifesto made the rounds on social media,
    but in mainstream conservative outlets,
    it was #Stephen #Wolfe
    (no relation to William)
    who brought TheoBro ideas to the wider world.

    In his book, which was praised by editors at the Federalist and the American Conservative,
    Wolfe paints America as a “#gynocracy” whose government and culture have been feminized by unhappy women leaders.
    (Sound familiar?)

    He has stated on X that women should not have the right to vote, and that “interethnic” marriage can be “sinful.”

    #Andrew #Isker #Andrew #Torba #Gab #refugees #Paul #Gottfried #Richard #Spencer #William #Wolfe #Big #Eva #Josh #Abbotoy #Claremont #Institute #Project2025 #Heritage #Foundation #Chris #Buskirk #Rockbridge #Network #Leonard #Leo #Peter #Thiel #Vance #Josh #Clemans #Charles #Haywood #warlord #Nate #Fischer #Brian #Sauvé #Mefferd #Joel #Webbon #dominant #man #submissive #woman #Hawley #Johnson #Lee #Vance #Trump #Turning #Point #USA #Tucker #Carlson #flamethrower #Douglas #Wilson #Calvinism #Vance #hypermasculinity #birthrates #ethnonationalism #misogyny #TheoBros #Calvin #Rushdoony #homeschooling #charismatic #New #Apostolic #Reformation #reformed #TheoBros #apostles #prophets #Bible #postmillennialism #Aaron #Renn #Andrew #Isker #Douglas #Wilson #shared #history #patriarchal #Christian #nationalism #young #pastors #Christian #prince #women #flogging #Franco #multiculturalism #Taylor #Swift

  13. William Wolfe served in the Trump administration
    both as the deputy assistant secretary of defense
    and as director of House affairs at the Department of State.

    He is also an alumnus of #Heritage #Action,
    a sister organization of the Heritage Foundation,
    the arch-conservative think tank behind Project 2025,
    whose chief architect, Russell Vought, posted on X that he was “proud to work with @William_E_Wolfe on scoping out a sound Christian Nationalism.”

    A few months later, the Bucks County Beacon uncovered a lengthy online manifesto on the goals of Christian nationalists.

    The document, which listed Wolfe and Joel Webbon as contributing editors
    and Oklahoma Sen. #Dusty #Deevers as a co-author,
    called for “civil magistrates” to usher in 💥“the establishment of the Ten Commandments as the foundational law of the nation.”

    The manifesto doesn’t specify exactly how Christian nationalists should achieve these goals.

    As Tabachnick, the extremism researcher, interprets it, the TheoBros are imagining a utopia where “they are going to be free to be entrepreneurs in all different senses,
    including the tech world that they’re mixing with so freely.”

    The key, she said, is that authoritarianism “is required to have the utopian vision.”

    Last year, the extremism watchdog group Right Wing Watch posted a video of Wolfe quoting a scripture passage.
    There are times when “even the God of peace proclaims by his providence, ‘to arms!’” he says.

    “If we have ever lived in a point of time in American history since then that we could argue that now is a time ‘to arms’ again, I think we are getting close.”

    William Wolfe’s Christian nationalism manifesto made the rounds on social media,
    but in mainstream conservative outlets,
    it was #Stephen #Wolfe
    (no relation to William)
    who brought TheoBro ideas to the wider world.

    In his book, which was praised by editors at the Federalist and the American Conservative,
    Wolfe paints America as a “#gynocracy” whose government and culture have been feminized by unhappy women leaders.
    (Sound familiar?)

    He has stated on X that women should not have the right to vote, and that “interethnic” marriage can be “sinful.”

    #Andrew #Isker #Andrew #Torba #Gab #refugees #Paul #Gottfried #Richard #Spencer #William #Wolfe #Big #Eva #Josh #Abbotoy #Claremont #Institute #Project2025 #Heritage #Foundation #Chris #Buskirk #Rockbridge #Network #Leonard #Leo #Peter #Thiel #Vance #Josh #Clemans #Charles #Haywood #warlord #Nate #Fischer #Brian #Sauvé #Mefferd #Joel #Webbon #dominant #man #submissive #woman #Hawley #Johnson #Lee #Vance #Trump #Turning #Point #USA #Tucker #Carlson #flamethrower #Douglas #Wilson #Calvinism #Vance #hypermasculinity #birthrates #ethnonationalism #misogyny #TheoBros #Calvin #Rushdoony #homeschooling #charismatic #New #Apostolic #Reformation #reformed #TheoBros #apostles #prophets #Bible #postmillennialism #Aaron #Renn #Andrew #Isker #Douglas #Wilson #shared #history #patriarchal #Christian #nationalism #young #pastors #Christian #prince #women #flogging #Franco #multiculturalism #Taylor #Swift

  14. William Wolfe served in the Trump administration
    both as the deputy assistant secretary of defense
    and as director of House affairs at the Department of State.

    He is also an alumnus of #Heritage #Action,
    a sister organization of the Heritage Foundation,
    the arch-conservative think tank behind Project 2025,
    whose chief architect, Russell Vought, posted on X that he was “proud to work with @William_E_Wolfe on scoping out a sound Christian Nationalism.”

    A few months later, the Bucks County Beacon uncovered a lengthy online manifesto on the goals of Christian nationalists.

    The document, which listed Wolfe and Joel Webbon as contributing editors
    and Oklahoma Sen. #Dusty #Deevers as a co-author,
    called for “civil magistrates” to usher in 💥“the establishment of the Ten Commandments as the foundational law of the nation.”

    The manifesto doesn’t specify exactly how Christian nationalists should achieve these goals.

    As Tabachnick, the extremism researcher, interprets it, the TheoBros are imagining a utopia where “they are going to be free to be entrepreneurs in all different senses,
    including the tech world that they’re mixing with so freely.”

    The key, she said, is that authoritarianism “is required to have the utopian vision.”

    Last year, the extremism watchdog group Right Wing Watch posted a video of Wolfe quoting a scripture passage.
    There are times when “even the God of peace proclaims by his providence, ‘to arms!’” he says.

    “If we have ever lived in a point of time in American history since then that we could argue that now is a time ‘to arms’ again, I think we are getting close.”

    William Wolfe’s Christian nationalism manifesto made the rounds on social media,
    but in mainstream conservative outlets,
    it was #Stephen #Wolfe
    (no relation to William)
    who brought TheoBro ideas to the wider world.

    In his book, which was praised by editors at the Federalist and the American Conservative,
    Wolfe paints America as a “#gynocracy” whose government and culture have been feminized by unhappy women leaders.
    (Sound familiar?)

    He has stated on X that women should not have the right to vote, and that “interethnic” marriage can be “sinful.”

    #Andrew #Isker #Andrew #Torba #Gab #refugees #Paul #Gottfried #Richard #Spencer #William #Wolfe #Big #Eva #Josh #Abbotoy #Claremont #Institute #Project2025 #Heritage #Foundation #Chris #Buskirk #Rockbridge #Network #Leonard #Leo #Peter #Thiel #Vance #Josh #Clemans #Charles #Haywood #warlord #Nate #Fischer #Brian #Sauvé #Mefferd #Joel #Webbon #dominant #man #submissive #woman #Hawley #Johnson #Lee #Vance #Trump #Turning #Point #USA #Tucker #Carlson #flamethrower #Douglas #Wilson #Calvinism #Vance #hypermasculinity #birthrates #ethnonationalism #misogyny #TheoBros #Calvin #Rushdoony #homeschooling #charismatic #New #Apostolic #Reformation #reformed #TheoBros #apostles #prophets #Bible #postmillennialism #Aaron #Renn #Andrew #Isker #Douglas #Wilson #shared #history #patriarchal #Christian #nationalism #young #pastors #Christian #prince #women #flogging #Franco #multiculturalism #Taylor #Swift

  15. William Wolfe served in the Trump administration
    both as the deputy assistant secretary of defense
    and as director of House affairs at the Department of State.

    He is also an alumnus of #Heritage #Action,
    a sister organization of the Heritage Foundation,
    the arch-conservative think tank behind Project 2025,
    whose chief architect, Russell Vought, posted on X that he was “proud to work with @William_E_Wolfe on scoping out a sound Christian Nationalism.”

    A few months later, the Bucks County Beacon uncovered a lengthy online manifesto on the goals of Christian nationalists.

    The document, which listed Wolfe and Joel Webbon as contributing editors
    and Oklahoma Sen. #Dusty #Deevers as a co-author,
    called for “civil magistrates” to usher in 💥“the establishment of the Ten Commandments as the foundational law of the nation.”

    The manifesto doesn’t specify exactly how Christian nationalists should achieve these goals.

    As Tabachnick, the extremism researcher, interprets it, the TheoBros are imagining a utopia where “they are going to be free to be entrepreneurs in all different senses,
    including the tech world that they’re mixing with so freely.”

    The key, she said, is that authoritarianism “is required to have the utopian vision.”

    Last year, the extremism watchdog group Right Wing Watch posted a video of Wolfe quoting a scripture passage.
    There are times when “even the God of peace proclaims by his providence, ‘to arms!’” he says.

    “If we have ever lived in a point of time in American history since then that we could argue that now is a time ‘to arms’ again, I think we are getting close.”

    William Wolfe’s Christian nationalism manifesto made the rounds on social media,
    but in mainstream conservative outlets,
    it was #Stephen #Wolfe
    (no relation to William)
    who brought TheoBro ideas to the wider world.

    In his book, which was praised by editors at the Federalist and the American Conservative,
    Wolfe paints America as a “#gynocracy” whose government and culture have been feminized by unhappy women leaders.
    (Sound familiar?)

    He has stated on X that women should not have the right to vote, and that “interethnic” marriage can be “sinful.”

    #Andrew #Isker #Andrew #Torba #Gab #refugees #Paul #Gottfried #Richard #Spencer #William #Wolfe #Big #Eva #Josh #Abbotoy #Claremont #Institute #Project2025 #Heritage #Foundation #Chris #Buskirk #Rockbridge #Network #Leonard #Leo #Peter #Thiel #Vance #Josh #Clemans #Charles #Haywood #warlord #Nate #Fischer #Brian #Sauvé #Mefferd #Joel #Webbon #dominant #man #submissive #woman #Hawley #Johnson #Lee #Vance #Trump #Turning #Point #USA #Tucker #Carlson #flamethrower #Douglas #Wilson #Calvinism #Vance #hypermasculinity #birthrates #ethnonationalism #misogyny #TheoBros #Calvin #Rushdoony #homeschooling #charismatic #New #Apostolic #Reformation #reformed #TheoBros #apostles #prophets #Bible #postmillennialism #Aaron #Renn #Andrew #Isker #Douglas #Wilson #shared #history #patriarchal #Christian #nationalism #young #pastors #Christian #prince #women #flogging #Franco #multiculturalism #Taylor #Swift

  16. Cary Wolfe on “Another Moral Vocabulary”

    Friday on the stoop.

    This is from Natasha Lennard’s 2017 interview with Cary Wolfe in The Stone:

    On the one hand, rights discourse is Exhibit A for the problems with philosophical humanism. Many of us, including myself, would agree that many of the ethical aspirations of humanism are quite admirable and we should continue to pursue them. For example, most of us would probably agree that treating animals cruelly, and justifying that treatment on the basis of their designation as “animal” rather than human, is a bad thing to do.

    But the problem with how rights discourse addresses this problem — in animal rights philosophy, for example — is that animals end up having some kind of moral standing insofar as they are diminished versions of us: that is to say, insofar as they are possessed of various characteristics such as the capacity to experience suffering — and not just brute physical suffering but emotional duress as well — that we human beings possess more fully. And so we end up reinstating a normative form of the moral-subject-as-human that we wanted to move beyond in the first place.

    So on the other hand, what one wants to do is to find a way of valuing nonhuman life not because it is some diminished or second-class form of the human, but because the diversity and abundance of life is to be valued for what it is in its own right, in its difference and uniqueness. An elephant or a dolphin or a chimpanzee isn’t worthy of respect because it embodies some normative form of the “human” plus or minus a handful of relevant moral characteristics. It’s worthy of respect for reasons that call upon us to come up with another moral vocabulary, a vocabulary that starts by acknowledging that whatever it is we value ethically and morally in various forms of life, it has nothing to do with the biological designation of “human” or “animal.”

    Having said all that, there are many, many contexts in which rights discourse is the coin of the realm when you’re engaged in these arguments — and that’s not surprising, given that nearly all of our political and legal institutions are inherited from the brief historical period (ecologically speaking) in which humanism flourished and consolidated its domain. If you’re talking to a state legislature about strengthening laws for animal abuse cases, let’s say, instead of addressing a room full of people at a conference on deconstruction and philosophy about the various problematic assumptions built into rights discourse, then you better be able to use a different vocabulary and different rhetorical tools if you want to make good on your ethical commitments. That’s true even though those commitments and how you think about them might well be informed by a deeper and more nuanced understanding of the problem than would be available to those legislators. In other words, it’s only partly a philosophical question. It’s also a strategic question, one of location, context and audience, and it shouldn’t surprise anyone that we can move more quickly in the realm of academic philosophical discourse on these questions than we can in the realm of legal and political institutions.

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