In March 2020, the world declared war on COVID-19. The use of martial rhetoric with reference to peacetime political conflicts – the War on Drugs, the War on Poverty, the domestic arena of the War on Terror – has a long and dubious history in American politics. The appeal is obvious. Warlike language depicts every … Continue reading Dispatches from the Corona War

There is something sinister in the springtime this year. Rather than a serving as a yearly reminder of rebirth and natural beauty, the blooming trees and emergent grasses wear the face of some ancient enemy, awoken from its long slumber. The spreading pestilence makes one long for the dormancy and stasis of winter. This atmosphere … Continue reading The Purgative Fantasy: Reflections on Nihilism, Accelerationism, and the Apocalypse

Despite their many social ills, one might judge the decades prior to World War I to be the last period of sanity in the West. It was truly the last epoch in American history in which the values of old Europe still held any sway, when criticism of modernity by men of the Right still … Continue reading The WASP in the Wilderness

Few now remember them… yet still some go wandering, sons of forgotten kings walking in loneliness, guarding from evil things folks that are heedless. (Tom Bombadil, “Fog on the Barrow Downs,” The Fellowship of the Ring) In memory of Christopher Tolkien The Dúnedain were descended from the seafaring kings of ancient Númenor, who had settled … Continue reading The Rangers of the North

This time of year, when autumn fades into winter, has been particularly evocative to me ever since I was a child. Of course, “the holiday season” has a special meaning for many people, and their reasons are probably for the most part quite similar to mine. There is a shared seasonal nostalgia for the cold … Continue reading Autumnal Reflections

Among those on the Right who address man’s relationship to the rest of the natural world, one finds a variety of approaches. There are the anthropocentric conservationists, who promote the “wise use” or prudent management of natural resources for future generations. There are the Social Darwinist varieties, who view humanity as a purely biological part … Continue reading Metaphysics and Integral Ecology

I have returned, for a time, to the lakes and forests of my childhood. Returned to the knotted post oaks and the impenetrable blackjack pines, to the dense undergrowth and brambles, to the thick forests echoing with the song of cardinals and sparrows and scissortails and crows by day, the humming of cicadas and tree … Continue reading Midsummer

We all know the story. In 1492, Columbus discovered the New World. By the seventeenth century, British North America had become a refuge for Englishmen fleeing religious persecution and tyrannical government, where colonists like the Pilgrims and the Puritans sought to create a wholly new society, a “City on a Hill,” serving as a beacon … Continue reading The Historic American Nation

The following is meant as an introductory reading list. Some of these works are straightforward in their focus on man’s relationship with the natural world; others are significant insofar as they express and develop the holistic, organic, and traditional ethos that must undergird any genuine and lasting attempts to preserve wild nature. All stand as … Continue reading A Dark Green Canon

“Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.” (Philippians 4:8) Decadence is a defining feature of modern life, indeed a … Continue reading Purity, Aristocracy, Transcendence