Category Archive: POLITICS
The Camp of the Saints
(By Jean Raspail) (1973) [Trigger Warning] Western self-loathing has been increasingly documented, with the focus rarely on shame (the healthy recognition of past cultural excesses and infamies) but more particularly on Guilt and Submission. And white people have had their anti-racism homework set. Despite and perhaps because of this, we’ve seen, in recent decades, an elitist multi-cultural rejection of assimilation, an undocumented invasion of the West, run by an unholy trinity of criminal networks, corrupt NGOs and cynical governments (on the supply side, sending away not-their-best; on the demand side, pursuing a growth mirage and co-opting a furtive voting demographic)….
Continue Reading →Venezuela Ripostes
There is much to ‘unpack’ regarding the recent arrest and indictment of Nicolás Maduro, a gentleman personating the President of Venezuela. Venezuela benighted The U.S. has long considered South and Latin America as its backyard. In an 1895 border dispute between Venezuela and British Guiana, then U.S. Secretary of State Richard Olney warned Great Britain that “To-day the United States is practically sovereign on this continent, and its fiat is law.” And the CIA has had a presence in South America from before the agency was actually constituted in its present form. They were in Caracas in 1958 when Vice…
Continue Reading →Reflections on America
President Donald Trump delivers remarks to staff during a Christmas Reception in the White House, Monday, December 1, 2025. (Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian)
[From our U.S correspondent, fresh back from the States] American voters wanted Trump, but they got something else Like Australia, the United States has endured years of extreme left-wing policies. Several states remain firmly entrenched in this ideology, with California serving as a prime example. Higher taxes, anti-establishment protests, a lenient approach to drugs, and weak immigration policies are just some of the issues plaguing the state. California also gave the world Kamala Harris. The state should thank its lucky star-spangled banner that the rest of the nation didn’t declare war on it. In the lead-up to the 2024 US…
Continue Reading →Season of Life (Jeff Janoda, 2022)
"Hancock at Gettysburg" by Thure de Thulstrup, showing Pickett's Charge
Jeff Janoda is a Canadian teacher, historian and writer whose ability to research and vitalise historical events disparate in time and space is admirable. His terrific 2005 novel Saga takes us into the world of old Nordic stories. Sundog (2019) is a gripping yarn set in the last days of World War Two. His third novel, Season of Life pulls the reader into the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863. The American Civil War was known to The Varnished Culture through that historical textbook, Gone With the Wind and a few episodes of an interminable, sepia-coloured documentary tv series. Now…
Continue Reading →107 Days
(By Kamala Harris, 2025) Prologue On 15 November, 2022, former President Donald Trump announced his intention to run for the Presidential election in November 2024. In April 2023, indictments on Trump started revving-up, and in the same month, President Biden announced that he would run for re-election. On 5 February 2024, the Robert Hur report was released, effectively concluding that Joe Biden broke the law on classified documents but that there was no point in charging him because he was, effectively, off his rocker. By 12 March 2024, both Biden and Trump had become the presumptive nominees for President by…
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