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# Tuesday
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/48496/
- Published: 2019-05-28T06:05:15.000Z
- Updated: 2019-05-28T06:05:15.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Miscellaneous, #wpChunk

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Miscellaneous Rambling

Well, summer is here. I had a very good weekend. The forecast called for rain throughout the weekend . . . and we only got a little. Actually, we got quite a bit, but it came at night or in big dumps, so 90% of the weekend was open for outdoor activities.

I got the rest of the fields planted. It took a humongous effort Saturday morning. Even with 30 minutes of help from Marie and Max, I was having troubles moving the rest of the day.

![Ceiling. Trastevere](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Ceiling.-Trastevere-225x300.jpg)

I broke down and bought a new book: *[*The New Right*](https://amzn.to/2Mm3mi6?ref=thedailyeudemon.com)*, by Michael Malice. I didn't much care for Malice the first few times I heard him, but I've warmed to him over the past year or so. I can't say I'm a big fan, but I listened to all five episodes of "**[Michael Malice Week" at the Tom Woods Show](https://tomwoods.com/ep-1414-michael-malice-on-immigration-culture-and-the-new-right/?ref=thedailyeudemon.com)** and decided I had to buy this book.

I've spent quite a bit of time reading about and studying the conservative movement (the main corpus: *[The Conservative Mind](https://amzn.to/2HESaZF?ref=thedailyeudemon.com)*, *[The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945](https://amzn.to/2ECMTzR?ref=thedailyeudemon.com)*, and *[Catholic Intellectuals & Conservative Politics in American 1950-1985](https://amzn.to/2wnKO6D?ref=thedailyeudemon.com)*), so I figured I needed to have this book in my mental bank as well.

That, at least, is how I justified the purchase in my own mind.

![Ceiling. Trastevere](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Ceiling.-Trastevere-225x300.jpg)

I also bought James Burnham's *The Machiavellians*. I was shocked to hear Malice say Burnham is a bridge between the Old Right and the New Right (though I'm not sure what he means by "Old Right" . . . to be honest, I'm not even positive he uses that term . . . "Old Right" has traditionally referred to the pre-WWII Spencer-like conservatives in the Albert Jay Nock camp). When I started studying conservative works in the 1980s, Burnham was already an "old man" of the right, basically well past his prime. It fascinated to hear him brought back up. I remember greatly enjoying his classic *Suicide of the West*, though I can scarcely recall anything about the book in particular, prompting me to take it off the shelf this weekend.

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