Politics -
The modern right
The modern right
9/11 made me
finally break with the left-liberal worldview
and start agreeing with conservatives
on foreign policy
(I had already long ago agreed with the right on economics).
I finally converted from liberal-left
to libertarian-right once I read the latter's arguments
in 2001-02.
What does "right" mean in the modern world?
Let me suggest a definition:
By "right" on this page I mean people that generally support the west
against its enemies.
Not all of the links on this page could be called "right-wing".
(I'm not even necessarily "right-wing" myself.)
But none of these are anti-west.
According to this definition, there are many right-wing groups and individuals
I disagree with and oppose, such as religious conservatives.
There are even self-described "right-wingers" who do not
support the west against its enemies,
such as isolationists and Israel-haters.
For a full discussion see:
Authors
Radio, TV, video
Selected blogs
- Politics news feeds
- Religion news feeds
- The blogging collective
Pajamas Media /
Open Source Media
- Belmont Club
(formerly here
and here)
by Richard Fernandez
(alias "Wretchard")
- Steven Den Beste
(formerly here)
- Bill Whittle
(formerly here)
- Right Wing News
-
Insults Unpunished by
Robert Prather
- Augean Stables by Richard Landes
- Summary of the war, Jan 2007
- "First of all, as a historian of civil society,
of the millennium-long struggle in the West to achieve this extraordinary marvel of the modern world,
this experiment in human freedom, I want to say:
European democratic civilization can fall before the Islamic challenge.
Something similar happened before, in the 5th century, when a culturally superior Roman civilization
fell to a primitive tribal Germanic culture."
- "Second, this is going to get worse before it gets better.
...
Once these movements, which in the past have killed 10s of millions, "take," they are like forest fires.
They cannot be stopped, at best they can be channeled.
We are in for a long and unpleasant conflict"
- "Third, modern media play a critical role in Global Jihad's success.
...
Let me cut to the chase. If this wondrous experiment in human freedom that was launched on both sides of the Atlantic in the late 18th century survives to the middle of the 21st century, historians will look back on the performance of the MSM in the first decade of that century
...
and give the journalists' "first draft of history" an F.
...
when historians look back, I think they will identify the MSM's appalling performance as one of the main sources
of the West's vulnerability to Global Jihad at the beginning of this century"
Dormant blogs
Miscellaneous blogs
- Israel
- Iraq
- Egypt
- The Big Pharaoh
(Egyptian, Muslim, anti-Islamist, lives in Egypt)
- He attacks the western media
for supporting Islamists and not anti-Islamist Muslims.
"I should be weeping because the Western mainstream media is telling the world that the only true faithful Muslims
are those who wear the stupid cloth on their head (that was nonexistent 30 years ago)
and separate boys and girls in schools. I should be weeping because Time magazine is showing us that only girls
clad in black with no makeup on are the true Muslims who are struggling between
their Islamic and their American identities. Meanwhile, those Muslims who disagree with the head veil,
who think that Islam needs reform a la all major faiths, and who believe that we cannot live like our Muslim brethren
did 1400 years ago are the "lesser Muslims" or the Muslims that are "out of the mainstream"."
- Malta
- Sweden
- Norway
- France
- Germany
- Spain
- Australia
Other good blogs
Dormant or extinct
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By "right" on this page I mean people that generally support the west
against its enemies,
for lack of a better term.
Not all of the links on this page could be called "right-wing".
(I'm not even necessarily "right-wing" myself.)
But none of these are anti-west.
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Dormant or extinct
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