The “red pill” sphere of influence on young, spiritually malnourished men is epically mistaken and misdirected, writes Harrison Pitt in The European Conservative. The movement’s rhetoric of (often limitlessly promiscuous) self-actualization is founded on thinkers like Nietzsche, Machiavelli and Darwin and is not, Pitt warns, grounded in traditional (and conservative) virtues like duty, self-sacrifice, piety and service.
Yay Brexit!
Brendan O’Neill in Spiked enthuses that Brexit is superior to just about anything else in the world. “There should be street parties” on the 10th anniversary of the popular vote to withdraw from the EU, he writes. “Let the bells peal for that momentous day when in our millions we said No to globalism.” The continuing surfeit of saboteurs and naysayers among Britain’s “idiot elites”, O’Neill snorts, are gripped by Brexit Derangement Syndrome.
