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Andy Nowicki

Andy Nowicki is a self-identified Catholic reactionary — and a confessed ex-liberal. He is the author of two books, The Psychology of Liberalism: Character Study of a Political Movement and God, Oswald, Conspiracy, and Modernity. He works as a journalist in a small Georgia town.

Mr. Nowicki operates his own blog, Dyspeptic Myopic, at www.andynowicki.blogspot.com.

His regular column for TLD appears under the standing series title, Notes from Underground.

• Mr. Nowicki detects something bubbling in the popcult, something he takes to be irrepressible: "Abortion horror movies: 'Forget the children.'" Whether you agree or disagree with him on the permissibility of abortion, you must, I think, salute his perceptiveness. (February 18, 2008)

• Ken Burns's latest TV documentary has prompted Mr. Nowicki to explore the uses and misuses of nostalgia — not to mention its outright exploitation by some of the worst savages in American public life — in this typically thoughtful column: "The 'good old days' of total war." (November 27, 2007)

• I can't remember whether it happened to O.J. or not, but it is certainly unusual to see a strong, accomplished black man being booed by white left-wingers. Mr. Nowicki deftly explores that embarrassment for our political culture in "'My race, right or wrong' / Vick and his defenders." What strikes me about this column is how calm and well-balanced it is, seeing as how it's thoughtcrime. (September 3, 2007)

• We won't stop pointing out the illiberalism of liberals, because they won't — or can't — stop being illiberal. Mr. Nowicki adds to the indictment: "An open letter to liberals: I'm still mad at cha." (July 16, 2007)

• The bold and fearless Mr. Nowicki identifies a consolation that I reckon you won't expect in a grisly genre of today's cinema: "The bright side of 'torture porn.'" (June 14, 2007)

• Scrutinizing Mel Gibson's latest subtitled opus, Mr. Nowicki finds significance beyond the fact that something by Hollywood's most-hated man made it into general release and actually earned some money: "'Apocalypto': Seeking a new beginning." (February 16, 2007)

• According to Mr. Nowicki, Sean Hannity and David Horowitz have a peculiar way of pursuing truth, assuming they're trying to do any such thing: "The mugging of Mark Weber." (December 22, 2006)

• Mr. Nowicki explores what it means to harbor unpopular opinions in our suffocating time: "Dissent and punishment." (November 13)

• On the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Mr. Nowicki meditates provocatively on "Loving death: How the West is lost." (September 11)

• Sampling a couple of right-wing, pro-war talk shows, Mr. Nowicki revises his opinion of an old left-wing description: "Hate radio." This vigorous piece uncompromisingly stands up for what Westerners used to consider civilization, and as you will no doubt assume, I simply love its conclusion. (August 12)

• Whatever one can say about the Thought Police and their cheerblock, it's hard to call them a loving and charitable bunch, as Mr. Nowicki recognizes in his latest unapologetic venture into crimethink: "The hate experts." (June 24)

• Again plumbing the darkness of his local cineplex, Mr. Nowicki expertly dissects the film that has been hailed as Hollywood's "first anarchist movie": "P for Preposterous." (March 30)

• Mr. Nowicki says the Muslims have made their point in the Toon War: "Don't mess with Mohammed." But according to our writer, a Western prophet who once had difficulty in Denmark made some points, too, that Westerners would do well to take. (March 3)

• In this entry, Mr. Nowicki recounts some ugly experiences in the blogosphere involving what I think of as one of our era's defining habits of mind: "Thrice banished, twice shy." The tale is disturbing — but funny withal. (February 3, 2006)

• According to Mr. Nowicki, a new movie has our "contemporary guardians of acceptable discourse" knitting their brows and waxing admonitory: "A dangerous agnosticism: 'Emily Rose' and the cultural commissars." (September 24, 2005)

• Near the 60th anniversary of the nuclear attacks on Japan, Mr. Nowicki finds a few things to say, from his dreadfully old-fashioned perspective, about today's brave word-warriors who salivate for more and better massacres: "'Doing what it takes.'" (August 13)

• In this installment, Mr. Nowicki juxtaposes two recent imbroglios-at-law to remarkable effect: "The law: in our own hands or in no one's." (July 9)

• Nietzsche wrote: "If you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." Fair enough. But surveying the current scene Mr. Nowicki has a somewhat different take: "Gazing into the abyss: It's a little late for that." (March 25, 2005)

• Mr. Nowicki finds a striking parallel between the war against Christmas and another widespread cultural deformation: "Post-modern Herods: The aborting of Christmas." (December 23, 2004)

• On the very eve of the Day of the State, the not-so-optimistic Mr. Nowicki looks at the Reds and the Blues and asks: "Why not secession?" (November 1, 2004)

• The Sacred Day of State-Worship is still six weeks away, but it sounds as though Mr. Nowicki has already had it up to here: "I loathe democracy." (September 19)

• The big established critics dislike M. Night Shyamalan's latest flick "The Village," and Mr. Nowicki thinks he may know what's eating them: "Maybe it does take a Village." (August 4)

• Assisted by Dr. Orwell, Mr. Nowicki cuts right to the center of a certain linguistic tumor: "Grow this!" (July 17)

• Mr. Nowicki is really doing his best to help us come to terms with our fate: "White extinction: Look on the bright side." (May 28)

• Watching the collapse of our civilization, Mr. Nowicki observes that the monstrosities don't always come shambling and lurching upon us in the order you'd expect. But he also finds consolations. One is small; the other, large: "First as tragedy, then as farce." (April 12)

• While attending the 2004 American Renaissance Conference, Mr. Nowicki identified an important philosophical divide between at least two of the speakers and, he suspects, among the audience as well, provoking him to ask: "Does white plus might make right?" (March 5)

• In his first column as a regular TLD writer, Mr. Nowicki detects a double standard in the resentment over Mel Gibson's film: "'The Passion' and the furor: Jews behaving badly." (February 23)

• As a TLD reader, Mr. Nowicki started his march toward regular-writer status with this "guest observation" on some obtrusive propaganda he spotted in an otherwise mundane article: "Training the sheeple." (February 8, 2004)