- U.S. News
- World News
- Africa
- Asia
- Australasia-Oceania
- Canada
- Europe
- Latin America
- Middle East
- Freedom
- First Nations
- Afric.-Americans
- Tibet
- Videos
- Technology
- Arts
- Film
- Literature
- Music
- Radio
- Television
- From Our Files
- Classic Essays
- Vintage Mencken
- Vintage Mercury
- Education
- Fiction
- Health
- History
- Opinion
- Reports
- Science
- Social Science
- Humor
- Leo Frank Audio Books
day-brown
End ‘Drug War’ Corruption
By Ann Hendon on February 9, 2011
by Day Brown THE DRUG WAR is out of control, and it’s causing a huge problem for hundreds of totally innocent rural property owners. A new dwarf hydroponic marijuana strain has hybridized with a local Ozark line — and that local strain had already been shrinking in size. Outdoor marijuana growers have always returned to […]
We Evolved in Villages; Cities are Unhealthy
By Ann Hendon on May 10, 2010
by Day Brown AT THE OPENING of The Golden Sayings of Epictetus, he notes how young artists practice with the eye, musicians the ear, athletes the body — and wonders if it is not possible to strengthen the mind before taking on the issues of philosophy. After all, weight lifters do not start out with […]
Elites to Abandon Declining Cities?
By Ann Hendon on April 17, 2010
by Day Brown THERE WON’T be a new Rome. The powers that be don’t need one anymore. Google is trying to develop a new faster network that will enable the power elites to live on the beach in Hawaii, each with their own Eagle’s Nest during the ski season, or whatever other scenic setting they […]
The X-urbs: Taxes for Something Useful
By Ann Hendon on April 15, 2010
by Day Brown THERE IS a way out of the ever-increasing tax spiral. Today, the big need is broadband to outlying areas. The fastest growing Census bureau demographic is the “X-urb”: upper middle class, entrepreneurial, and well-educated people who are moving to rural areas. Maybe they see multi-ethnic cities as powder kegs. Katrina was a […]
Literature, US News »
Homeless Jack on “Grabbing Some Pussy”
November 7, 2016
We discovered this piece scrawled on some foolscap left on our doorstep, an all-lower-case Kerouac-style stream of consciousness rap, and offer it as we found it. by H. Millard trump is an american original and a throwback to the days when americans were bursting with confidence and energy and the sheer joy of freedom and […]
Africa, History »
‘The Choice of Achilles’: John Alan Coey Against the New World Order
January 3, 2013
by T.R. Bennington AS EVER, BUT ESPECIALLY in our present state of civilizational malaise, there is a need for figures with the power to inspire — men who in less confused and cynical times would have been unabashedly described as heroic. One such figure is Corporal John Alan Coey, a young soldier who has perhaps […]
Science »
Quarter of Americans Convinced Sun Revolves Around Earth
March 2, 2015
“DOES the Earth go around the Sun, or does the Sun go around the Earth?” If you answered the latter, you’re among a quarter of Americans who also got it wrong, according to a new report by the National Science Foundation. A survey of 2,200 people that was released Friday revealed some alarming truths about […]
Reader’s Comments
Categories
Archives
Pages
Login / Register / RSS
Vintage Mercury »
Jailbirds
June 7, 2017
by Jim Tully; from The American Mercury, September, 1928; transcribed by Kevin I. Slaughter THE jail room was thirty-five feet long, twenty-five feet wide, and seven feet high. In this large cage were fifty prisoners. Some had been sentenced and were serving jail terms; others awaited trial, or removal to the penitentiary. The floor was of […]
Opinion »
The Old Right and the Antichrist
June 7, 2017
by Richard Spencer (pictured) The following address was given to the H.L. Mencken Club’s Annual Meeting; November 21-23, 2008. BEFORE William F. Buckley settled on writing God and Man at Yale in 1951, the 25 year-old had something quite different in mind as a debut volume. Buckley planned, and may have begun drafting, a book caustically […]
Literature »
The Fame of a Dead Man’s Deeds Audio Book: The Turner Diaries
September 24, 2017
by Bradford L. Huie for The American Mercury WHAT IS PROBABLY the most controversial novel ever written — The Turner Diaries — is the subject of this week’s chapter of our new audio book, The Fame of a Dead Man’s Deeds. (ILLUS.: The cover and autographed title page of a first edition copy of The Turner Diaries, […]
Names and Topics
- American Mercury
- Ben Bernanke
- Black Americans
- Douglas MacArthur
- Freedom
- H.L. Mencken
- Hugh Dorsey
- Human behavior
- Instapundit
- Insurance companies
- Internationalism
- IQ
- Iraq
- J. Peters
- Julius Evola
- Karl Marx
- Max Bedacht
- Polygamy
- Psychic powers
- Right wing
- States' rights
- Thought crimes
- US Constitution
- Washington DC
