The dead end of the Boer identity movement

There’s a British left-liberal journalist called Fraser Nelson, who spent a good chunk of his career manipulating conservatives through his editorial position at The Spectator. In 2017, he was interviewed on Swedish television about Trump’s victory, and had this to...

Trusteeship: The ideology of empire

A forgotten term these days is the notion of Trusteeship. It carries no great power today, because it lacks the barbed edges of outright white supremacy, and it lacks the progressive radicalism of post-Marxian revolutionary nativism. But it was the guiding philosophy...

How the Cochoqua made the Cape

The founders of most nations are generally those who have pledged independence from some greater nation, or else established a system which united disparate nations with a shared heritage. But in the case of the Cape, it was unity between two hitherto completely...

South Africa as the world in miniature

Back in 1987, Nick Land, an eccentric post-Marxist (now right-wing) philosopher from the University of Warwick wrote an essay titled “Kant, Capital, and the Prohibition of Incest: A Polemical Introduction to the Configuration of Philosophy and Modernity”....

What’s wrong with the Cape Independence movement?

The Cape independence movement is in trouble. The strange failure of the movement to take off can be attributed to a variety of environmental factors, but at a certain point we must turn inward and ask difficult questions. In the next article, Martin van Staden will...