A NEW REVOLUTION?  Consider this quote.  It's from a new piece in City Journal:

Back in April, an article by James Pogue in Vanity Fair revealed the emergence of a collection of “podcasters, bro-ish anonymous Twitter posters, online philosophers, artists, and amorphous scenesters”—sometimes called “‘dissidents,’ ‘neo-reactionaries,’ ‘post-leftists,’ or the ‘heterodox’ fringe . . . all often grouped for convenience under the heading of America’s New Right”—who represented the “seam of a much larger and stranger political ferment, burbling up mainly within America’s young and well-educated elite.”

That last bit about the demographics of this so-called New Right may have been what got the Times’s attention. But Pogue had even more striking news: these dissidents, he wrote, had established “a position that has become quietly edgy and cool in new tech outposts like Miami and Austin, and in downtown Manhattan, where New Right–ish politics are in, and signifiers like a demure cross necklace have become markers of a transgressive chic.” This may have been the most alarming news of all for the paper of record: somehow, traditionalist right-wing conservatism had perhaps become cool.

What?  Are we serious here?  A conservative revolution?  People running in the streets of lower Manhattan in Brooks Brothers suits waving copies of "The Road to Serfdom"?  In fact, the author, one N.S. Lyons, is very serious, which is why this piece, "A New Counterculture," is a must-read.  You don't have to agree with every word to see its significance.

We're hearing rumblings all the time that many young people, even on college campuses, are waking up to the reality of what the leftist establishment is really like.  They are a minority right now, often pummeled into silence by the threats from leftist thuggery.  But they are talking to each other.

It may take time, and the mainstream media will try to ignore it, or ridicule it.  But the first stirrings of a counterculture are being felt.       

September 23-24, 2022