Posts from the ‘Uncategorized’ Category

  • Why We Fight

    “Corporatism” or Mercantilism?

    November 28th, 2011 | Uncategorized | Jack Donovan | 1 Comment

    Jack Donovan on OWS, “Corporatism” and Guillaume Faye’s Why We Fight.

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  • Occupy Portland - Police Occupation

    This Is What Real “Occupation” Looks Like

    November 13th, 2011 | Humor, News, Portland, Uncategorized | Jack Donovan | 2 Comments

    Half-assed commie bandwagon protests are a dime a dozen in this town. You’ll recall that Portland hosted another copycat display of pointless public emoting this summer, and Jesse Jackson has to re-route his tour bus every time a cop shoots some nut job waving a weapon. I found a bunch of hippies camping out, smoking [...]

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  • The Crucible of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”

    The Crucible of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”

    May 10th, 2010 | Uncategorized | Jack Donovan | Comments Off

    Matt Moody has interviewed a good cross-section of homosexual men in the armed forces who are currently serving, in the closet, with dignity and without fanfare or showboating, under “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” He asks some good questions, and they have some good answers. This extended piece deserves more attention — it seems like the [...]

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  • MAN vs. Person, and Whining

    MAN vs. Person, and Whining

    May 4th, 2010 | Uncategorized | Jack Donovan | Comments Off

    I recently spoke about “21st Century Masculinity” to a group of young men at a local private high school. It was an experience I am thankful for, and the kids seemed to enjoy it as well. My write up of my presentation and a bit of the discussion can be found at AlternativeRight.com. One of [...]

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  • Alphas, Male Hierarchy and The Form

    Alphas, Male Hierarchy and The Form

    December 6th, 2009 | Uncategorized | Jack Donovan | Comments Off

    New piece art The Spearhead – Alphas, Male Hierarchy and The Form Men push down and look up. A man establishes his own position by applying pressure on the men around him. The men who succumb to that pressure fall beneath him. They may resent him or covet his status, but in some way they [...]

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  • Thumos and Gameness – A Fighting Spirit

    Thumos and Gameness – A Fighting Spirit

    November 27th, 2009 | Uncategorized | Jack Donovan | Comments Off

    Prompted by Harvey C. Mansfield’s Manliness, which I am carefully re-reading, I started working my way through Plato’s Republic today. Mansfield introduced me to the concept of thumos, spelled thymos in Allan Bloom’s notes for The Republic. θυμός When Plato (as Socrates) introduces the concept in Book II, he compares a noble dog with a [...]

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  • The Spearhead – Gameness

    The Spearhead – Gameness

    November 4th, 2009 | Uncategorized | Jack Donovan | Comments Off

    New review posted to The Spearhead. Gameness – On Sam Sheridan’s “A Fighter’s Heart.” The first hundred pages of Sam Sheridan’s A Fighter’s Heart made me want to pack it in and take up needlepoint. After graduating from high school, Sheridan joined the Merchant Marines, went to Harvard to study art, sailed around the world [...]

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  • Wherever He Went He Carried His Own Pack

    Wherever He Went He Carried His Own Pack

    October 19th, 2009 | Uncategorized | Jack Donovan | 2 Comments

    Recently, I went on a walk around Portland with Mr. Blake, and we visited the bronze statue of Theodore Roosevelt in the park blocks across from the Portland Art Museum. This inscription below the statue reads… “He was found faithful over a few things and he was made ruler over many. He cut his own [...]

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  • A man’s chief quality is fortitude

    A man’s chief quality is fortitude

    October 19th, 2009 | Uncategorized | Jack Donovan | Comments Off

    Appelata est enim a viro virtus: viri autem propria maxime est fortitudo. “The term virtue is from the word that signifies man; a man’s chief quality is fortitude” Cicero, “Tuscul.”, I, xi, 18. Very bushido. h/t ex cathedra

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  • Writing About Men is Important

    Writing About Men is Important

    October 18th, 2009 | Uncategorized | Jack Donovan | 4 Comments

    My new piece, “Writing About Men is Important” is up at The Spearhead today. “Real men don’t read books about masculinity or sit around talking about manhood.” I’ve heard it more than a few times. Masculinity is associated with action, so men who simply write about men’s issues are sometimes taunted with accusations of defective [...]

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