Just Another Orthodoxy

Greetings from the Late Stages, Part 2

The sad dead end of the Intellectual Dark Web: Bret Weinstein joins Alex Jones.

In Part 1, I examined the “late stages”—to borrow a phrase from the left—of anti-capitalism and also of the religious right. The late stage, in my usage, is the point at which an ideology or movement has worked through its initial premises to their consistent implementation, which often means that its initial claims about what it wanted to accomplish are belied by its consistent pattern of action.

I will continue to examine this pattern in Part 2, but first another update on late-stage anti-capitalism.

The Banner of Lenin and the Banner of Hamas

Starting last weekend, college campuses across the country have bene overrun by far-left, pro-Palestinian protesters who have seized campus buildings and put up “intifada” banners.

Ostensibly, the protests are a response to civilian casualties in Gaza during Israel’s war against Hamas. But I would remind you that the far left threw in its lot with Hamas immediately after October 7, celebrating the terrorist groups’ spree of rape and murder without waiting for the Israeli response. That’s what we’re still seeing in these protests, including the fact that Jewish students can now expect to be targeted by a vicious left-wing antisemitism.

This is what happens to a leftist movement that defines itself by what it is against.