The Hidebound Press is a supplementary blog to the Hidebound Convivium YouTube channel. Whereas the channel deals with literary and cultural topics that might be acceptable to a YouTube audience, the Press is a running opinion column in which I serve up articles on a variety of political and philosophical topics considered “beyond the pale” of current discourse.
The Hidebound Press takes a few notions as axiomatic, and those who do not share those first principles may profit from being a regular reader of the Press, but will likely never be satisfied with any of the stances I take. It is best to lay those principles on the table from the start, I think.
For one, this newsletter takes as axiomatic that Christianity is true, and the entailments of that proposition: historical, philosophical, and metaphysical are at the heart of my work.
Secondly, this work is heavily inspired by the Neo-Reactionary Movement (NRx) and other schools of the New Right. This is a Right-Wing newsletter, as Right-Wing is understood in the context of United States politics. This newsletter accepts that certain goods perceived by men of the Right: traditional families, honoring the dead, piety, patriotism, and so forth, are, in fact, goods.
Finally, I am not a policy analyst, a wonk, a boffin, or a scientist of any type. I am not a particularly intelligent person, nor creative, nor particularly original. Those who read this newsletter beware, you are reading the products of a literate peasant, nothing more and nothing less. I am not interested in precise questions of policy, and the small gears that whir inside the big machines of power. I am a dreamer; I have big and impressive thoughts. I am a man of whimsy, I am not a leader.
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