Paleo Picks

"When you remember that the American Revolution was fought against an imperial power, that U.S. was born in a struggle against an occupying army, and that its victory against the British was an inspiration to anti-imperialist liberals everywhere, it is a shaming thing to have to come here to describe how it ended in tragedy, betrayal, and a short and ugly decline," said Justin Raimondo to an audience in Paris — The American Empire: A Finale.

"Localists tend to take for granted that dependence on distant centers of wealth and power, which the interdependence at the heart of globalism requires, is antithetical to a decentralized political and economic order," writes Daniel Larison — Localism vs. Globalism.

Jeremy Beer suggests "the widespread anger aroused by the speed cameras reveals that there is much more at stake here than a few citizens, like me, with axes to grind" — The Surveillance State and Me.

"New York has a lot of these stories, if only the culture-levellers and uniformity police would let them be told for more than Sunday-supplement interest," wites Gerald J. Russello, telling one of them — Regionalism in the NY Times.

"For liberals and conservatives alike, respective limitations on sexual or economic liberty that result from constraints within a local setting are an unacceptable restriction upon liberty or opportunity," writes Patrick Deneen — Deadly Vices.

"By leaving the religious ghetto to right the mainstream society, the likes of a Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson undermined older taboos that had nurtured among evangelicals a sense of being resident aliens, pilgrims on a journey to a different homeland, enduring hardships now for untold future comforts," writes D. G. Hart — In And Of the World: How Culture Is Transforming Born-Again Protestants.