Home - Politics - The modern right


  Introduction - What is the right?

Media and writers

Blogs and link services

Countries:

What am I?

Who would I vote for?

The Irish right

Capitalism

The right and freedom

Europe and America

The U.S. military

The modern left


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.




Introduction - What is the right?

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:




Media and writers


Authors


Radio, TV, video



Blogs and link services



Main blogs I read


Dormant blogs



Little Green Footballs (LGF)

I always liked LGF and Charles Johnson. He is secular, pro-science, classically liberal, and he is hostile to Islamism because he believes in the Enlightenment.

I always liked him, at least until his blog war with Robert Spencer and others. Even then, my problems are not with actual positions he holds (I agree with him on the European far right) but rather with his blogging and linking behaviour.

LGF was a great counter-jihad blog from 2001 to 2008. But after 2008, it started getting progressively more boring. First came the tedious blog war and linking war. Then there is the obsession with creationism (I agree with him on creationism, but it's not what I come here for. Richard Dawkins does that stuff much better.) Then, after Obama won, LGF started drifting to the left. He started to get obsessed with right-wing extremists and other uninteresting people. Often when I visit now, I leave within two minutes because every entry is uninteresting. And it used to be one of the most lively sites on the Internet. Some days he reads like Andrew Sullivan. Some days the old LGF comes back, though.




The LGF blog war

There is an ongoing argument between LGF and some other anti-jihad blogs:



The argument began over the nature of Vlaams Belang and the Sweden Democrats. LGF was pointing out their anti-semitic and neo-Nazi past (and perhaps present). Some other counter-jihad blogs were defending them as now reformed allies against the jihad. This, though, rather reminds me of the claim that the BNP has "reformed". I find the LGF view of these groups the most convincing.


Charles Johnson escalates the dispute:


Charles Johnson looks like he is losing this dispute:



Miscellaneous blogs



A blog I used to read



Countries



UK blogs


Other good blogs


Dormant or extinct



Irish blogs

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.



General Irish blogs




What am I?




Who would I vote for?




Return to Politics page.



Feedback: Comment on this page

About feedback

  1. Enter URL:

  2. Select one:
    This URL doesn't reference your site. It's just something you should see.
    This URL references your site.

  3. This image contains a password:
    Enter password (this is to confirm you are not a spam program):