The Weekly Sanfedisti

       Monarchism did not come naturally to me or any other American Monarchist I suspect; the concept was there, and it wasn’t. It was King Arthur and his Knights; it was Shakespeare, it was something foreign, European in a way that didn’t make sense to our way of life. I was always some sort of conservative even as a youth, but I could never answer that philosophical question of what was conservatism? Was it to conserve something in society in policy? A way of life? Conservatism in 1950 obviously did not look the same as conservatism in 2010 so what then? Was I defending a temperament toward slow and incremental change in society or was I defending actual policy decisions, and if I believed the former the latter couldn’t possibly be true.        Let’s take something like same-sex marriage for example, now that it is the law of the land am I supposed to defend it from the perspective of the institutional conservative? If you look at polling ...

                                                                                           Russia is in a pretty poor state if the best it has is the incompetent Putin, I must admit I drank from the Putin is playing 4D chess Kool-Aid for several years, convinced that his geopolitical maneuvering was something more substantial than the foolish decisions they seem to be at face value, but seemingly his only saving grace is that he can rely on the Western powers to be more incompetent than he. The Ukrainian situation highlights these two clumsy powers fighting for supremacy.       There are two converging stories at play in the current Ukraine situation, the first is of the West and the EU. After the...