The Great Fiction – Actual Anarchy https://www.actualanarchy.com The Real Deal Anarchy - No Rulers, Not No Rules Thu, 31 Jan 2019 17:46:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8 https://i0.wp.com/www.actualanarchy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/cropped-LOGO_ONLY_BARE.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 The Great Fiction – Actual Anarchy https://www.actualanarchy.com 32 32 123619502 A Valediction https://www.actualanarchy.com/2019/01/31/a-valediction/ Thu, 31 Jan 2019 17:46:31 +0000 https://www.actualanarchy.com/2019/01/31/a-valediction/ I started the blog that would become The Great Fiction on February 15, 2012. Almost exactly seven years (and two name changes) later, I’ve decided … Source: The Great Fiction – A Valediction

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]]> 7169 Equality, the Unattainable Ideal https://www.actualanarchy.com/2019/01/06/equality-the-unattainable-ideal/ Sun, 06 Jan 2019 17:04:18 +0000 https://www.actualanarchy.com/2019/01/06/equality-the-unattainable-ideal/ Trying to catch up on my post-holiday podcast backlog, I finally listened to Tom Woods’ interview from mid-December with sociologist Jason Manning, author of The … Source: The Great Fiction – Equality, the Unattainable Ideal

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]]> Trying to catch up on my post-holiday podcast backlog, I finally listened to Tom Woods’ interview from mid-December with sociologist Jason Manning, author of The …
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]]> 7087 Just Don’t Call it Fusionism: Frank Meyer’s Defense of Freedom and Virtue https://www.actualanarchy.com/2018/11/19/just-dont-call-it-fusionism-frank-meyers-defense-of-freedom-and-virtue/ Mon, 19 Nov 2018 13:13:49 +0000 https://www.actualanarchy.com/2018/11/19/just-dont-call-it-fusionism-frank-meyers-defense-of-freedom-and-virtue/ Historian Thomas Fleming once observed that “memory is not history.” Fleming’s point was that the way we remember things is not necessarily the way they … Source: The Great Fiction – Just Don’t Call it Fusionism: Frank Meyer’s Defense of Freedom and Virtue

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]]> 6953 Rediscovering Conservatism https://www.actualanarchy.com/2018/10/22/rediscovering-conservatism/ Mon, 22 Oct 2018 15:56:00 +0000 https://www.actualanarchy.com/2018/10/22/rediscovering-conservatism/ Last Friday was Russell Kirk’s 100th birthday. There was a time that it seemed that such an occasion would have been met with widespread celebration … Source: The Great Fiction – Rediscovering Conservatism

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]]> 6892 On Hiatus https://www.actualanarchy.com/2018/08/15/on-hiatus/ Thu, 16 Aug 2018 01:40:51 +0000 https://www.actualanarchy.com/2018/08/15/on-hiatus/ Regular readers of this site (bless you) may have discerned a pattern in my last few articles of reconsidering positions I have formerly taken or considering questions from new perspectives. This is not to say that my basic beliefs have… Source: The Great Fiction – On Hiatus

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]]> 6700 Russell Kirk on the Atomic Bombs https://www.actualanarchy.com/2018/08/10/russell-kirk-on-the-atomic-bombs/ Sat, 11 Aug 2018 02:54:43 +0000 https://www.actualanarchy.com/2018/08/10/russell-kirk-on-the-atomic-bombs/ This past week marked the 73rd anniversary of the United States’ atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan (on August… Source: The Great Fiction – Russell Kirk on the Atomic Bombs

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]]> This past week marked the 73rd anniversary of the United States’ atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan (on August…
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]]> 6674 Thoughts on Liberty and Culture https://www.actualanarchy.com/2018/08/05/thoughts-on-liberty-and-culture/ Mon, 06 Aug 2018 01:14:52 +0000 https://www.actualanarchy.com/2018/08/05/thoughts-on-liberty-and-culture/ I generally try to avoid writing in the first person or being overly self-referential on this site. One reason for… Source: The Great Fiction – Thoughts on Liberty and Culture

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]]> 6653 Libertarian Infighting and the Primacy of Culture https://www.actualanarchy.com/2018/08/04/libertarian-infighting-and-the-primacy-of-culture/ Sat, 04 Aug 2018 16:40:32 +0000 https://www.actualanarchy.com/2018/08/04/libertarian-infighting-and-the-primacy-of-culture/ According to the Libertarian Party’s official newspaper, “2016 was a banner year for the Libertarian Party.” What was the measure… Source: The Great Fiction – Libertarian Infighting and the Primacy of Culture

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]]> 6648 Reassessing the Supreme Court Case for Trump https://www.actualanarchy.com/2018/07/01/reassessing-the-supreme-court-case-for-trump/ Sun, 01 Jul 2018 18:29:48 +0000 https://www.actualanarchy.com/2018/07/01/reassessing-the-supreme-court-case-for-trump/ During the 2016 election, one of the main conservative arguments for Donald Trump was that the next president would likely… Source: The Great Fiction – Reassessing the Supreme Court Case for Trump

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]]> 6529 Peace Through Plurality https://www.actualanarchy.com/2018/06/30/peace-through-plurality/ Sat, 30 Jun 2018 15:50:26 +0000 https://www.actualanarchy.com/2018/06/30/peace-through-plurality/ In his 1948 classic, Ideas Have Consequences, conservative scholar Richard Weaver wrote, That it does not matter what a man… Source: The Great Fiction – Peace Through Plurality

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