Jeff Martin (Maximos)
Jeff Martin (Maximos) insouciantly repudiates the immoral swindle of consent, according to which he owes some measure of loyalty to the liberal political and social regime under which he has lived, offering him, as it has, the shelter of its laws. He finds that this swindle is an obstacle to his self-actualization as a reactionary, and the actualization of the self is what the liberal bargain claims to be about, is it not?
He accounts himself unworthy of the company in which he finds himself, and the of domestic felicities which he enjoys with his wife and two young sons. He is a lifelong resident of the greater Philadelphia area, and a fan of the local sports franchises, which may account for his affinity for lost and futile causes. He attended Cedarville College (now a University!), from which he earned a BA in philosophy, and would even have graduated summa cum laude had his alma mater believed in the Latin language.
He believes that, however good things may be today, they were surely better yesterday, and takes solace in the fact that, however bad things may seem for the traditionalist at present, they could always be worse. Nevertheless, mindful of the fact that no cause is ever truly lost because none is ever truly won, he holds forth the hope that, as the passional aspect of human nature must be held in subjection by the rational, so also may the liberal tendency one day be governed to its proper measure by the traditional, the historical principle of reason.
Articles
- I, Heretic, October 6, 2010
- What Is American Conservatism?, September 18, 2010
- Ylem, May 14, 2010
- Defining a Three-Dimensional Political Permutation Space, April 26, 2010
- The Theory of the Leisure Class: Application and Illustration, March 9, 2010
- Apes...., March 9, 2010
- Around the Interwebs, February 10, 2010
- On This APA Business, Help Me Out, February 2, 2010
- A Cornerstone of a Classical Music Collection, January 10, 2010
- Socially Useless, January 7, 2010
- Notes on Nostalgia, December 20, 2009
- Liberalism's (And Liberaltarianism's) Consent Problem, December 16, 2009
- Who? Whom?, December 5, 2009
- A Few Notes on the Swiss Minaret Ban, November 30, 2009
- On Hate Crimes, Help Me Out, October 29, 2009
- On Choosing One's Battles, October 24, 2009
- In Which I Agree With David Frum and Noah Millman, September 24, 2009
- If Only High School Math Teachers Were Allowed to Marry, These Things Would Never Happen, September 2, 2009
- Busoni Piano Concerto, Op. 39, Prologo, August 31, 2009
- Omnibus Response to Various Issues Raised by My Post on a Dessicated Conception of Property Rights, August 29, 2009
- Notes On the Dessicated Conception of Property Rights Prevalent in America, with Reference to Development, August 27, 2009
- What Collective Insanity Looks Like, Right-Wing Edition, July 25, 2009
- On Being Baited, July 24, 2009
- Unseen Chasms of Perdition, May 7, 2009
- Lowbrow Conservatism, April 23, 2009
- American Religion - The Iconography of Idolatry, April 22, 2009
- Of Hieroglyphs and Nihilism, March 6, 2009
- Imagine...., February 28, 2009
- Will Somebody Please Think of the Children!?, February 27, 2009
- Liberalism, Abortion, and Natural Law - Following Up, February 27, 2009
- Liberalism, Abortion, and Community - a Note, February 23, 2009
- In Which I Agree With Will Wilkinson; Or, Economists are Political Philosophers Who Write Bad Prose, February 3, 2009
- The Wager, February 2, 2009
- Revolting Cuisine, January 30, 2009
- Empire, Destroying Subsidiarity, January 21, 2009
- Political Rationality..., January 8, 2009
- Benny Morris on Zionism, January 7, 2009
- Of Family Resemblances and Psychoanalysis, January 5, 2009
- Impolitic Questions, January 4, 2009
- What's Wrong With Meritocracy, December 14, 2008
- On Blagojevich, December 13, 2008
- The Homintern Strikes Back, December 9, 2008
- A Note on Political Correctness and the Rule of Law, December 6, 2008
- Because the Bourgeois Life is Unaesthetic and Anti-Heroic, November 24, 2008
- Random Reflections, Post-Election, November 5, 2008
- Stratfor on Iran, Russia, and America Geostrategy, October 11, 2008
- Douthat on the Ayers Strategy, October 10, 2008
- Exhausted, October 8, 2008
- Sharia Law Comes to the U.K., September 15, 2008
- The Strategic Importance of the Black Sea, August 29, 2008
- There is No War for History, Because History Does not Have an Immanent Telos, August 29, 2008
- Not Bad, But Tragic, August 17, 2008
- But of Course They Talk That Way..., August 13, 2008
- Shorter RiShawn Biddle:, August 13, 2008
- Learned Thoughts on the Russian-Georgian Question, August 13, 2008
- Sphere-of-Influence Sauce for the Hegemonist Gander, August 10, 2008
- Your Daily Reminder..., August 7, 2008
- Unitary Executive Theory, August 6, 2008
- Solzhenitsyn Misunderstood, August 5, 2008
- Words Fail Me, July 31, 2008
- Piling On, July 30, 2008
- Conservatism In Exile, July 21, 2008
- Gun Control and the Holocaust of the Particular, July 17, 2008
- The Strategy of Openness, Revisited, July 16, 2008
- P.Z. Myers Thinks Like a Bronze-Age Pagan, July 15, 2008
- Not the Common Good, June 27, 2008
- Why? Because, Without Beauty, Life Is Void of Meaning, June 18, 2008
- Soviet Religious Liberty Comes to America, June 18, 2008
- Weak Tea, Part II, June 18, 2008
- The Winner Should Be Christian Civilization, June 18, 2008
- Strong Brew and Weak Tea - Updated (See Below), June 17, 2008
- You, Too, Can Play Budget-Buster, June 17, 2008
- Yes, He Did, June 17, 2008
- The Nation-State Writ Large, June 16, 2008
- All Hail the Irish!, June 15, 2008
- An American Politboro, June 14, 2008
- The Revolution, Like a Zombie, Still Stalks the Earth, June 9, 2008
- Ratifying My Undying Contempt, June 9, 2008
- The EU and the American Conservative Establishment - A Remark, June 6, 2008
- A Miscellany of Aggravation, II, June 5, 2008
- Unconscionable, June 1, 2008
- Slick Marketing and Packaging, May 30, 2008
- Beyond Belief, May 30, 2008
- Cash Value of the Playboy Philosophy, May 29, 2008
- Marital Simulacrae and Commodification, May 28, 2008
- Why Might That Be?, May 22, 2008
- Unserious, May 20, 2008
- China's Ascendancy is Not Inevitable, Only Probable, May 20, 2008
- One Should Understand Talking Points Before Parroting Them, May 16, 2008
- Gaseous Clouds of Self-Deception, May 12, 2008
- Health Care and Social Obligations, May 11, 2008
- Housekeeping, May 11, 2008
- The Cognitive Elite and the Legitimation Crisis, May 9, 2008
- At What Point Does This Slot Into a Larger Narrative?, May 2, 2008
- Insurance and Genetic Testing, May 1, 2008
- Symbol of Hubris, May 1, 2008
- Compare and Contrast, May 1, 2008
- Baubles of the Meritocracy, April 29, 2008
- Why Bother?, April 29, 2008
- Hail Caesar! We Who Are Now Subjects Salute You! (Part II), April 23, 2008
- A Note on Lincoln-Bashing on the Right, April 23, 2008
- Prosecution Creep, April 23, 2008
- Barbarism, April 22, 2008
- Let Them Drink Wheatgrass, April 22, 2008
- Interventionism as Pseudo-Patriotism, April 9, 2008
- Our Patrimony for a Pot of Filthy Lucre, April 2, 2008
- Notes on Music, April 1, 2008
- Regulation Returns, Because Moral Hazard is Now Structural, April 1, 2008
- Primitive Accumulation, Postmodern-Style, March 31, 2008
- The Weak Reeds That Pierce Our Hands, and the Illusion That Makes Them Weak, March 29, 2008
- Why Artists Tend Not to be Conservative, March 29, 2008
- Lighter Fare II, March 27, 2008
- Lighter Fare, March 27, 2008
- Intellectual Checks and Balances, March 25, 2008
- A New Sovereign Immunity, March 21, 2008
- It's Not a Conspiracy If Done In The Open, March 19, 2008
- The Weak Reeds That Pierce Our Hands, March 18, 2008
- The Spoiled-Child Mentality in American Diplomacy, March 17, 2008
- Letting the Cat Out of the Bag, vol. MMCXVI, March 16, 2008
- Dept. of Not Sure We Should Go There, March 14, 2008
- A Note on Technology, Labour Arbitrage, and the Legitimation Crisis, March 13, 2008
- Corporatist Blackmail (and Whining), March 12, 2008
- Not a Furtive Exploration of Scandal-Porn, March 11, 2008
- End the Abomination, March 10, 2008
- A Brief Note on the Idea of a Public Orthodoxy, March 9, 2008
- Kindling for the Bonfires, March 5, 2008
- Classic Literature of Twentieth-Century Conservatism* (Updated), March 4, 2008
- Remembering the Real Bill Buckley, February 27, 2008
- Buckley Vs. Gore Vidal, February 27, 2008
- Memory Eternal, February 27, 2008
- Just Brilliant, February 25, 2008
- Original Possession And Nationhood, February 24, 2008
- Reflections on Kosovo, in the Wake of Independence, February 22, 2008
- Before You Wallow in the Schadenfreude...., February 21, 2008
- Just An Hypothesis..., February 21, 2008
- Covenants With Death, February 20, 2008
- I'm Weary of That Annoying FISA Debate, February 18, 2008
- How Dodgy Debt Becomes A High-Grade Leveraged Security, February 18, 2008
- Funniest take on the Rowan Williams/Sharia Controversy, February 13, 2008
- Imad Mughniyeh Takes the Dirt Nap, February 13, 2008
- Mere Ideas in the Saddle, February 13, 2008
- The Utopian Universalist Chronicles, Part MMMCXLVII, February 8, 2008
- The House Swept Clean, February 7, 2008
- Oblivion Beckons, February 6, 2008
- Dumpster Diving During the Primaries, February 4, 2008
- What Globalization Means, Revisited, January 31, 2008
- Economic Karma, January 31, 2008
- Rousseau Was Wrong. Is Anyone Surprised?, January 31, 2008
- Hail Caesar! We Who Are Now Subjects Salute You!, January 30, 2008
- Liberal Fascism, Revisited, January 29, 2008
- The Iconography of Late Liberalism, January 28, 2008
- The Wages of Debt and Speculation, January 24, 2008
- Understanding Liberal Fascism, January 23, 2008
- Are Intrinsic Injustices Becoming Litmus Tests on the Right?, January 23, 2008
- Inane Liberal (?) (Im)Pieties, January 22, 2008
- Why Our Distributism Debates Are Not Exercises in Romanticism, January 14, 2008
- Category Error, January 10, 2008
- More Chesterton, Apropos of a Certain Notion of Inevitability, January 9, 2008
- Chesterton on Defining 'Capitalism' and 'Socialism', January 7, 2008
- Living in the Idiocracy, January 6, 2008
- Money (In God We Trust), January 5, 2008
- The Anglican Implosion, Part 894,897,345, December 20, 2007
- Just A Note Or Two From Your Resident Skeptic of Capitalism, December 20, 2007
- The Discourse of Empire is Untruth, December 20, 2007
- Is It 1984 Yet?, December 19, 2007
- A Note on National Review and Religion, December 18, 2007
- Of Slipping Masks, December 18, 2007
- LGF Goes to Seed, December 18, 2007
- ...And I Reject Conservative Assaults Upon Logic, December 17, 2007
- Object Lessons in Immigration as Agent of Political Change, December 12, 2007
- The Significance of Kosovo in Our Historical Moment, December 12, 2007
- An Anti-Kant Attack Ad, December 12, 2007
- Not Ready for Civilization, part II, December 10, 2007
- Leszek Kolakowski on the Devil, The Enlightenment, and The Reformation, December 10, 2007
- For No Particular Reason..., December 7, 2007
- Energy Resources and American Geostrategy, November 17, 2007
- A Neoconservative Noble Lie - Debunked?, November 15, 2007
- If Norman Podhoretz Had Written the Declaration, November 13, 2007
- The Sand Castles of Liberalism, and What Lies Beyond, November 13, 2007
- What "The Russia Thing" Is All About: The Case of Georgia, November 13, 2007
- Against the Environment, For Nature, November 10, 2007
- Constitutional Illiteracy, Chapter MMMCXVI, November 9, 2007
- A Note on Radical Life Extension, November 6, 2007
- Wow... Just Extraordinarily Disappointing, November 3, 2007
- Social Conservatives Concede The Game, But Think They Are Winning, November 3, 2007
- The Trouble With the WWIV Crowd..., October 31, 2007
- The Other New Fusionism..., October 30, 2007
- Power Corrupts, and Hegemonic Power Makes One Stupid, October 27, 2007
- A Note on Persian Aspirations and Western Responses, October 26, 2007
- On Certain People Who Steal Oxygen, October 25, 2007
- What is Hegemony Really Worth?, October 24, 2007
- I, Heretic, October 24, 2007
- Russiablogging..., October 22, 2007
- Hegemonism is Unpatriotic, October 18, 2007
- A Miscellany of Aggravation, October 13, 2007
- Property Taxes, October 12, 2007
- Character Before Knowledge*, October 12, 2007
- World Without End, Amen, October 6, 2007
- A Note on Nature as an End, October 4, 2007
- Why Will Wilkinson Has No Argument, September 27, 2007
- The Utopia of the Utilitarians, September 25, 2007
- What Globalization Means, September 21, 2007
- The Bushian Folly, In Cartoon Format, September 21, 2007
- Privatized Profits, Socialized Costs, Writ Large, September 20, 2007
- Foucault and the Iranian Revolution, August 30, 2007
- Baffled by Bafflement, August 29, 2007
- Globalist Family Values, August 22, 2007
- Anticommunism and American Decadence, August 21, 2007
- In a Nutshell.., August 20, 2007
- One Nation, One Vote, One Time, August 18, 2007
- Economics as Ideology vs. Economics as Humane Discipline, August 17, 2007
- Metanarrative and Enemy Combatants, August 15, 2007
- Andrew Sullivan's Incomprehension, Chapter MMXVI, August 14, 2007
- Augustine on Infancy, August 14, 2007
- What "Fighting Them Over There" Really Means, August 10, 2007
- Willful Disregard of Reality, August 9, 2007
- The Wages of Unbelief, August 8, 2007
- Mysteries of Conservatism, Item 794, August 5, 2007
- Betraying the Magic, August 5, 2007
- Through Russian Eyes, August 2, 2007
- Don't Listen to What They Say, Watch What They (Don't) Do, July 26, 2007
- Discriminating Against the Jihad, July 25, 2007
- American Religiousity - A Fragment, June 22, 2007
- The Content of Our (Leaders') Character (and Portfolios), June 6, 2007
- Instrumental Reason and Leisure, June 6, 2007
- Why I Read Nietzsche, June 5, 2007
- An Evocation of the Age - What Have We Become, Part II, June 4, 2007
- Nietzsche and Conservatism, June 4, 2007
- America's Strategy of Openness, June 3, 2007
- Imagine..., June 2, 2007
- What Have We Become? - Part 1, May 31, 2007
- Opiate of the Economists, May 23, 2007
- Which Freedom?, May 10, 2007
- In Saecula Saeculorum, Amen., May 9, 2007
- Neoconservatism and Political Economy - A Reply to a Comment, May 4, 2007
- American Religion: Mammon, May 3, 2007
- A Primer on Neoconservatism, May 2, 2007
- The Interminable Dialectic of Modernity: Theoconservatism, May 1, 2007