claes ryn

Veritas et Sapientia – Good #MAGA Leaders Don’t Start Wars, They Avoid Them

Mandeville, LA - Realistic though they were about human weaknesses, the Framers sought to promote the common good. They looked in particular to the republics of Greece and Rome for models as well as warnings. The Constitution was to protect the better self of the American people against bouts of ignorance, intoxication, or fear. - Claes Ryn. Without [r]epublican virtue—self-discipline, modesty, and devotion to the public things—their constitutional system could […]

March 14, 2018 5

Transcripts

Reviving Gentleman of Character

Why We Must Revive Gentlemen Of Character To Restore Order - Claes Ryn Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "This article in The American Conservative, it’s about the moral and cultural preconditions of peace or of cordial relations among individuals, peoples, and civilizations. To boil down the argument to essentials, it is this: if you want good relations, if you want peace, then you have to have peaceful individuals on both […]

October 24, 2014 12

Listeners Lounge

Another “Conservative” Chides Me For Non-Intervention “Folly”

Mandeville, LA - It takes one whale of a leap in reasoning to use the example of Communism's most famous Communist critic -Solzhenitsyn- to backup the claim that Our Empire is the one be-knighted by Almighty God to police the planet, protect those who cannot vote and covertly re-arrange the political systems of countries at our pleasure. But then again, reason, Christian Just War theory and humility have never been […]

July 21, 2014 5

Transcripts

What Is a “New Jacobin”? Same As The Old Jacobins But They’re Not French

You Aren't Patriotic If You Are Anti-War Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "What this guy is basically saying is that you and I are chicken hawks. In other words, we want all these guys to go off and fight our wars for us, but we’re too big of a sissy to actually go and enlist. Nothing could be further from the truth, from my point of view. Number one, […]

February 27, 2014 9

Transcripts

Conservatism Should Come First And Has Nothing To Do With Politics

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Conservatism is an intellectual exercise. It is an exercise in thinking, in bringing the magnificent past, the history that we have to draw from, which is unbelievable, the history we have to draw from, the events, the great writers, the philosophies. This is part of the equation. It’s not just the founders. There were people before founders. The founders are part of it, sure, […]

October 29, 2013 7

Transcripts

Enough Already With The “USA! USA!” Jingoism, Let’s Try A Little Localism

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – What we need is an alteration in manner of thinking. Manner of thinking today is jingoistic “USA! USA!” as opposed to localistic. I don’t want to say republican or individualistic because individualism is also part of what’s rotten at the core of society today. Daniel Larison has this intriguing post at The American Conservative Magazine last night, “Rejecting Jingoism and Groupthink.” Check out today’s […]

October 24, 2013 5

Liberty

Claes Ryn: Patriots vs Nationalists

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - There’s a difference between sincere patriotism and nationalism. I’ll take a stab at it and I will channel Claes Ryn to do so. This is just a brilliant little eight-paragraph essay on Patriotism, Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism. This is from Professor Ryn's book The New Jacobinism, which you can find a link to on Amazon on this page, here's an excerpt of what he wrote... […]

July 30, 2013 6

Transcripts

Claes Ryn Warns Of The New Jacobins And True Democratic Mob Rule

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Constitutionalists are raised, structured, socialized, you could say institutionalized to be constitutionalists. This does not happen much any longer, which is why our United States Constitution can be as seemingly useless and not referred to or deferred to as you would like to see it or as it once was. Check out today’s transcript for the rest…

May 20, 2013 7

Founders Television

America Wasn’t Magically Created in 1776

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Video and Audio - There was an America and an American people long before the Founding, long before the writing and ratifying of the Constitution. But don't tell the Decepticons, or New Jacobins as Claes Ryn calls them, because they will tell you that American Exceptionalism was born in 1776... but it's just not true. There was over a century of American tradition before 1776, and […]

May 20, 2013 1