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Why is Korea Not Breeding? Part II

Analysis, Solutions, and Lessons If you prefer the audio of this article, click here. Find part I of this article here. In the last article, we examined the Korean national character. In this article, we will show why that character has been crushed by liberalism. We will then examine what

Transhumanism is a Dead End

Europeans Are Not Faustian If you prefer the audio of this article, click here. In my article on the alt-centre I spent some time rebutting Anatoly Karlin as a purveyor of the idea that liberals are the cognitive elite. For lack of space I simply dismissed his transhumanism as unserious

The Right’s Future Must be Parallel, and Counter-Revolutionary

What I Told National Conservatives in Brussels Last week I travelled to Brussels to attend the National Conservatism Conference. I was slated to speak on a panel on “The Future of Conservatism.” Whether the panel would actually happen seemed in doubt for much of the time I was there, since

Empire of Dollars 5

How the United States of America maintains control of the global monetary system - part 5: The petrodollar The petrodollar system is the practice of trading oil for U.S. dollars, and U.S. dollars only.[1] The petrodollar system was the result of a bilateral trade agreement the United

Deracination and the imagination

On the need for gravity when taking a leap In the seventh chapter of his Biographia Literaria (1891), Samuel Taylor Coleridge considers the work of the imagination as analogous to moving against and with the world’s gravity. “In every movement,” he says, “we first counteract gravitation, in order to

Reflections #9

The Uniparty I have been meaning to write about this topic for a long time now. The Uniparty comes up time and time again, especially on Unpopular Opinions with my good friend the Academic Agent and fellow guests. In layman’s terms, the basic premise behind the idea of the

That Old Confidence

He never looked back. Not once. Last year, just before Christmas, I was reading a book on the Cold War, and I remember being impressed by the ability and confidence of America’s leaders—men who safely navigated the nation through one of the most dangerous periods in its history.

Faith with Both Eyes Open

Examining Malcolm and Simone Collins' Religious Project The other day I saw Malcolm Collins’ most recent article in Aporia. It's worth a read, albeit still quite frustrating in some of its assumptions. A lot of people have been asking me about Malcolm and Simone Collins, the authors of pronatalist.org

The detritus of this technological moment

The ontology of the garbage truck and its phenomenological significance There’s no getting away from waste. I mean literal garbage, although there’s a deeper metaphysical resonance in the idea. For centuries, people used wagons to take away waste. By the 1920s open-top trucks were used for the same

Citizen disposal

Against state-approved suicide Towards the end of a recent Triggernometry conversation, Konstantin Kisin asks Kelsi Sheren, a former combat veteran, “What’s the one thing we’re not talking about that we really should be?” Without hesitating, she responds, “MAiD. Medical Assistance in Dying and what Canada is doing to

The Data Made Us Do It

There is no such thing as a "data-driven" decision Recovering from winter-time illness, I am returning to form on this SubStack by just reacting to the latest thing that caught my ire on the internet, this time the article Men Have Abandoned Marriage and Parenthood from the blog Graphs about

Self-immolation and oversocialisation

On the mimetic rivalry beneath auto-cremation “Lesser power does not let go, is not power at all. … Lesser power acts, and fails to accomplish.” — Tao Te Ching §38. “Whoever seeks to save his life will lose it.” — Jesus, Luke 17:33. We live in the age of the suicide selfie.

Degenerative AI

Why I won't be encouraging my students to outsource their intelligence “Not the external and physical alone is now managed by machinery, but the internal and spiritual also ... The same habit regulates not our modes of action alone, but our modes of thought and feeling. Men are grown mechanical in

The True Nature of the Culture War

Conservatives and many others on the political right fail to understand what exactly is this thing that we call the "culture war" and as a result, they are ineffective in their efforts to fight it. You may have heard this phrase, “the return of the strong gods” in reference to

The hidden against the manifest

On the demon of demythologisation in our time There’s a TED talk I saw circulating recently via the devil’s electric nervous system. In it, the Davos Alibi Bot, an imbecile named Yuval Noah Harari, develops a contrast between facts (like mountains and trees) and fictions (like God and

The Bones of a Dark Age Academy

An outline for restoration in the detritus of the old world The Trap of the Tragic Style Writers often receive questions they hate to answer. Unsurprisingly, those questions are the ones readers most commonly ask. The questions are not illegitimate or impossible to answer, it's just that they tug on

Real power

To hold the horizon is to rule the world “Great power, not clinging to power, has true power. Lesser power, clinging to power, lacks true power. Great power, doing nothing, has nothing to do. Lesser power, doing nothing, has an end in view.” Tao Te Ching §38, translated by Ursula

The Rise of the Right-Wing Progressives

Noting some confusions, making some distinctions A few months ago the prominent tech investor Marc Andreessen released a lengthy “Techno-Optimist Manifesto” that caused a big stir on certain segments of the internet. It’s a full-throated hymn glorifying technology, progress, and boundless growth, while castigating what it portrays as the

POSIWID and the Moderate Liberal Melt-Down

"The Purpose Of a System Is What It Does" Recently, several interesting Twitter controversies ran together and I felt it might be useful to do a write-up on SubStack. The initial thread concerned the concept of “POSIWID” or, put fully, “The purpose of a system is what it does". This

"It's just so very, very small"

Contemplating the smallness of transgender genitals in the vastness of the cosmos In the infamous South Park episode, "Chinpokomon", a new Japanese cartoon craze sweeps America. While at first appearing as an incomprehensible anime show for kids, the parents realize that the characters are transmitting subliminal messages to their children

Human Biodiversity

Happy Birth Day Given the bizarre spergout in response to Bronze Age Pervert’s now infamous “HBD” tweet, I deem it prudent to sidestep the commentary and examine what BAP actually wrote in his tweet. I will examine it sentence by sentence and discern what I find objectionable. While for

A New Heroic Archetype: Moving Beyond Tolkien

Stories for a Winter Age In the summer of 2023, Scyldings hosted a conference in Nashville, Tennessee. Many were drawn from across the USA to discuss an important subject: how can we forge a common foundation within the Dissident Right, with particular relation to the American context. The speeches were

Gifts of the Magi

Talk Presented at "The Mistletoe Masquerade 2023", Washington D.C. I have learned, doing talks more than a few times in 2023, that the easiest way to open is with a joke or, failing that, complaining at length about something that the audience finds irritating. However, at this stage in

Hard Times And The White Wargus

What do women crying for help on TikTok tell us about where we are at the end of 2023? Heading into the final furlong of a year is always a good time to take a breather and consider what you’ve just lived through and what particular trends or moments

A Brief Guide To Content Creation

I’ve recently had a growing number of people asking me for some tips and pointers on creating content. I thought I’d cobble together some of the tricks of the trade, as it were, that I’ve learned over the years. Naturally, my preferred form is the essay, either

The story of Hoydel

Letting go of the ten thousand things It’s one of the strangest folk tales and also one of my favourites. You can find it in Franz Xavier von Schönwerth’s collection, The Turnip Princess and Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales (Penguin, 2015). Anyone who knew the carpenter Hoydel wasn’

Building a Parallel Polity: Sketching Out the Road Ahead

I occasionally say on Twitter that conservatives should stop giving to the Republican Party and use the money to build autonomous parallel communities. What does that look like? Let's sketch it out. My regular readers will know that I argue several things at once in regard to the current moment.

The Holy Moments

Exploring the decline of cinema in four bad movies Autumn is a strange season, especially in America. There is a spirit hanging in the air, slowly dying. The pagan gods of Summer perish and return their power to be interned in the earth until judgment. And the living mark the

The Myth of Jewish High IQ

Before all other things, I study power and politics. Keen awareness of elite theory keeps one alert of Schmittian exceptions, which is to say when special allowances are made in one case but not in others. The vexed area of IQ research is one such case. For example, notorious race-denier

For the right to win, it needs a new formula

Every nation is run by an organized minority of its population, a ruling class, and that class always tells a story about why its members should be in charge. It could be the divine right of kings, it could be the mandate of heaven, or it could be popular election

Defending Hate: A Manifesto Against Ugliness

“There exist things worthy of disdain, and for every individual across time and space, hatred is a natural response. Why, then, is there a prevailing narrative advocating for the abolition of hate?”

Whatever Happened To The Midlife Crisis?

Pondering over the cultural trope of the midlife crisis It was my birthday this week and I quipped to my other half that I was at the prime age for a midlife crisis and she burst out laughing. I’m not actually having a midlife crisis but if I was

Woke: Collectivist or Individualist?

A short debate A while ago reader Charles Pincourt contacted me with some thoughts on the nature of the “Woke” revolution and its challenge to liberalism and civilization. I found that we disagreed in ways that made for an interesting discussion, so we decided to turn the conversation into a

Lectures on the Mind for Young Samurai, by Mishima Yukio

"The approximation of all forms of sex to the trifling, if expensive, escapist pleasure that comes from taking [sleeping] pills may be called the most critical phenomenon of our time." Lectures on the Mind for Young Samurai Mishima Yukio For Young Samurai Subscribe On Life After beginning life, people gradually

The Greatness of Simplicity

An addendum by William George Jordan While working on writing “Hard Lessons from Israel’s High-Tech Border Failure” earlier this week, including thinking through its arguments on the value of simple over complex systems, I kept finding my memory niggled by an old speech/essay on simplicity that I recalled

The Last Days Of The Not My Problem Bros?

As the good ship Dissident Right sails ever deeper and more precariously into the uncertain maelstrom of geopolitical tumult, my mind keeps returning to the beginning of the Russia/Ukraine war. As ever, when such happenings happen, factions are formed and friendships broken as everyone gets their takes in and

An Idol Crumbles

Some reflections on our current unraveling The gyre widens and the vibe shift continues. The world doesn't feel the same as it did in 2019, and never will again. There is a vague scent of apocalypse in the air. The old political formulas don't make sense. And people are starting

Canada in Crisis

“ If we consider that housing will continue to increase in cost given the proposed population growth, we know that multiplying the average housing price with the needed houses will give us the lowest estimated price possible. This equals $16,718,704,453,441.30.”

Is Woke Putting the Zionism Away?

Before starting, it is worth stating for the record that I am truly neutral in this conflict as I have mentioned many times on my shows and that the only true position is to defend your own people and not the causes of outgroups. I have told people not to

Welcome To The New Current Thing

My initial thoughts on the new conflict in the Middle East and what will surely become the new Current Thing Well, folks, it’s official — The New Current Thing is finally here. The New Thing arrived on my social media feed in the guise of a mutilated corpse of a

What is Freedom?

We have been told that freedom is the power to exercise our will to make choices without restraint. But for a Christian, freedom is something all together different. What is it? What is “freedom?” In today’s context we often associate the word “freedom” with the ability to exercise our

On Social Conformism

It’s been a while, so let me write down my thoughts. This will be a bit different because it’s an attempt at something a little more stream-of-consciousness, the sort of thing I think about driving my car. I wrote this all in one paragraph and then when back

THE STONE AGE MINDSET

Over the last few weeks, I have been exploring Orkney. It is a cluster of small islands that are located an hour north of mainland Scotland by ferry. One of its most striking features is that it is home to several Neolithic tombs, stone circles and domestic complexes. These monuments

The China Convergence

Yes, the West is becoming more like China. Here is the real reason why. I do believe this is the longest thing I’ve ever written, but also the most important. Read with a stiff drink. – N.S. Lyons Differences and tensions between the United States and China have never

20 Rules for "Frens"

A guideline for online discourse (Based on a popular tweet thread I wrote last year, I am expanding my points about what it means to be a “Fren” for the benefit of those looking to build and foster community in the dissident space) It’s a common observation that the

High Noon: The Warriors and The Merchants

In my forthcoming book, The Prophets of Doom, a recurring feature of the analysis – which, in fact, goes hand-in-glove with analysis derived from elite theory as per The Populist Delusion – is the notion that there are four broad social types who may rule. Oswald Spengler called them the Four Estates,

The Modern State vs. Authority

As I understand from listening to a conversation about it, the book The Ancient City describes moves by the ancient Roman city against the paterfamilias: the head of the family and his authority over his home. But I am not going to try to tackle the ancient world and will

Destroying Europe: The Final Stage

free, text Remember the story of multiple blind men describing the part of the elephant they are feeling? Medieval Europe was: * European * White * Christian * “Anarchistic” politically (my own emphasis with “Medieval Anarchy”), that is, politically de-centralized * Capitalist * Rationalist * Scientific * ...and more! However you want to think about it the "powers

The Paradox of Tony Blair: The Schmittian Liberalism of Divine Right

Carl Schmitt 101 is rooted in an insight by Thomas Hobbes who wrote: ‘It is men and arms, not words and promises, that make the force and power of the laws.’ From this Schmitt derives many of his core principles: all power is decisionist; neutrality is a myth; the essence

TUCKER CARLSON: A CLASH OF HIGH VS. MIDDLE

Tucker Carlson stayed on my feed far longer than I expected. As a Fox News anchor, he should have been the archetype of right-wing containment. Indeed, for many decades this had been his function. Tucker’s place within the regime was to be the token Republican; the plea for a

HOLY MOUNTAINS AND THE AMERICAN DISEASE

I recently took a month’s long trip to Canada. It was a trip I had always wanted to take since I was a boy; to leave the old world and venture to the bastion of freedom that was the Americas. What I had always imagined was more the frontier

JOIN THE CIRCULATION OF ELITES: A REVIEW OF FOUNDATIONS OF POLITICS

Disclaimer: The reviewer received a free registration in the course in return for a commitment to write this review. Many people hate their boss. Yes, he has formal authority as the guy who hires and fires and perhaps even assigns how many hours you work. That only rankles all the

THE BULLSHIT HAS TO BE GOOD

Recently my fellow countrymen and I have had the displeasure of reading about the wilful removal of Christian Krogh’s painting “Leif Erikson Discovering America.” The painting of Erikson proudly pointing at the coastline of an unknown land was prominently featured at the entrance of the old National Gallery. However,

The Temptations of Carl Schmitt

A long look at the man of the moment in a totalizing age of strife “Today will be very instructive for those still clinging to the idea of returning to norms and sacred institutions,” tweeted one popular young right-wing commentator shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court’s draft ruling

CYCLICAL HISTORY – A BRIEF INTRO TO GLUBB, TAINTER, AND TURCHIN

Among the thinkers who work within the broad school of cyclical history, many fall into one of two major camps: those who intuit or infer patterns in existing histories or narratives, and those who model the ebbing and flowing from a statistical viewpoint. The latter can more robustly verify the

Ukraine: The Strategic Landscape

An overview of the situation This article will overview the situation in Ukraine and give some predictions for the future. 1) Kherson A referendum was held in Kherson from September 23rd–27th. It asked: “Do you approve of having Kherson Oblast exit Ukraine, reforming Kherson Oblast into a self-governing state

Transcendences

Between limits and possibilities One of the most natural of human desires, a desire that is arguably at the very centre of everything we are and do, is the desire for transcendence. But as with all natural things, all apparent givens, this desire is part of the background of life.

THE HIGH TECH HALFWIT

Last summer, I was amazed to watch my five-year-old daughter get on her first bicycle and immediately ride it like she had been doing it all her life. She didn’t need a push first or someone to hold on and give her a sense of safety. There were no

POWER, TYRANNY, AND THE TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY

Alexis de Tocqueville foresaw that over time, democracy would become a conservative mechanism as opposed to a progressive one. Ever astute, De Tocqueville realised very early in his examination of the democratic systems in America and in his native France, that although each successive wave of franchise reform would entropically