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Empire of Dollars 6 Part 6: The dollar weapon (1 of 2) The Gauls used the double-edged long sword to advance through modern-day Italy to overrun the Roman army and sack the city of Rome. The British had the Maxim gun and the Enfield rifle which allowed them to conquer vast swathes of the

The Collapse Of The American Empire, Part III: Diplomacy and Soft Power America’s prestige has rapidly declined. The 2003 war in Iraq, the 2008 financial crisis, Edward Snowden’s exposure of the NSA’s spying program, the weaponization of the US dollar, and America’s diplomatic isolation in support of Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza have chipped away at the

Reflections #10 A world of infinite choice 412 television channels. 85 genders. 18,000 movies and shows on Netflix. 7.9 million streamers on Twitch. 3.7 million new videos uploaded to You Tube daily. I have often spoken about how modern life lacks coherence and meaning: I think one of the

Clarifying the record on Biden "The Deep State finally has a boss." X, in its sloppy yet energetic way, has corrected the Biden campaign for me: While this is not quite how I would put it—it seems like an odd confusion of my 2020 and 2024 endorsements—and I am a radical monarchist, the

IM—1776 Summer Events Come and say 'hi't As some of you know, I am the contributing editor of IM—1776. Last month we held an event with Chris Rufo in New York City to celebrate the launch of ISSUE °IV: Counterrevolution, which featured Rufo’s manifesto, “The New Right Activism.” I had the

Don’t save Democrats from their own campus disaster My dear conservative friends, we need to have a talk. This is more of an intervention than anything else. You must stop protecting institutions that are committed to destroying your way of life. The university system hates you. It always has. It will continue to hate you until it is

A Depoliticized Future There is a common critique of liberalism that runs something like this. All human existence is political. Liberalism attempts to ‘paper over’ the political nature of society. Therefore liberalism denies the basic facts of human nature. I agree with this argument. However, I believe that it is often based on

Biden/Harris 2024 "Without continuity, there is no change." As most longtime readers know, I have endorsed the Democratic candidate in every election since 2008, except 2016—when, for professional reasons, I was not writing. As a lifetime Democrat—and Foreign Service brat—and grandson of progressive Jewish  activists from Brooklyn, I was

A civil rights lawsuit exposes anarcho-tyranny in action Federal officials have leveled a discrimination lawsuit at the Sheetz convenience store chain, alleging that the company’s use of criminal background checks as a screening mechanism for employees falls afoul of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Although Joe Biden’s Department of Justice says it

Critical Mass Modern cities are a critical mass of different people, competing ideologies and countless manifestations of globalisation that produce chaos and confusion at almost every level. In truth, I had been struggling for an introduction, a logical starting point for this article for days on end and in my own personal

The Road to "De-Flanderization" Weaver's Banquet Talk, April 2024 Here, I am supposed to give a talk on a subject. And I always speculate that, at one of these get-togethers, maybe I should do a deep dive on a particular topic like Bluegrass or my favorite Italian films or the new Dune movie. But

Citizenship and the 2nd Amendment On March 8th of this year, Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman issued a ruling. The Obama-appointed judge sided with an illegal immigrant, Heriberto Carbajal-Flores, and held that illegals are protected under the 2nd Amendment and have the right to bear arms. Reactions were mostly boilerplate. Progressives either ignored it or used

Classical liberalism’s excremental excuses According to recent reports, a gay Spanish politician who belongs to the country’s left-wing governing party has been forced to resign after pictures surfaced of the municipal councilor eating his own excrement. While disgusting, the existence of yet another degenerate politician would be unremarkable, if not for the fact

Weekly Highlights From the Japanese Press No. 3 Covering Tokyo Shinbun for March 25 to March 30, Weekly Shincho for March 28, and Weekly Bunshun for March 28 Weekly Highlights From the Japanese Press No. 3 Japan, Past and Present is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid

‘Democracy’ Means Never Having to Hear ‘You’re Fired!’ On fortifying managed democracy from ‘political interference’ I try not to let myself get dragged into writing quick reaction pieces on breaking news or stuff other people write. It’s a bad habit of the internet age. But what can I say, sometimes I just can’t help it. Sometimes

What the left can teach the right about political power Political power is not a toy. It is not a trophy awarded to the winner of the debate club. Power is a game, but it is the game of kings. It is chess, not checkers. If you intend to play the game, you had better come with a serious strategy

Waiting for "Mark Zero" A meditation on a favorite pulp novel I woke up on my birthday to see a bridge collapsing. My wife was watching it on her iPad. "You've got to see this. There's been an accident" she said. I watched the video from start to finish. Then she said in a

Gaza and the laws of war As the father of a toddler, I am obviously distressed to hear that toddlers are being maimed and killed by bombs paid for by my tax dollars. I want this shambolic slaughter-circus to stop. I think every institution involved in it, from UNRWA to the UN to Hamas to the

Richard Dawkins, champion of atheism, mourns Christianity’s decline In a recent appearance, the notorious atheist Richard Dawkins lamented the lost influence of Christianity, going so far as to declare himself a “cultural Christian.” While achieving a level of notoriety for his work in the field of biology, Dawkins became best known for his vocal opposition to religion in

Weekly Highlights From the Japanese Press No. 2 Covering Weekly Bunshun for March 21, 2024 Weekly Highlights From the Japanese Press No. 2 Weekly Bunshun1, March 21, 2024 Issue Self-Immolation in Solidarity with Palestine Machiyama Tomohiro2, like the entire mainstream Japanese press, stands in solidarity with Palestine. But instead of emitting the shrill denunciations that you find elsewhere,

Why regime charity poses a big problem MacKenzie Scott, the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, recently announced her intention to engage in another round of philanthropy by donating $640 million to charity. Of the $60 billion she received after splitting with her husband, Scott has already given over $16 billion to various nonprofit organizations. To most

Why the left fears beauty A British museum owned by Cambridge University recently overhauled its art exhibits and introduced new signage warning that paintings of the British countryside could trigger “dark nationalist feelings.” Another sign in the exhibit explains, “Landscape paintings were also always entangled with national identity. The countryside was seen as a direct

Weekly Highlights From the Japanese Press No. 1 This is the first installment in what will hopefully be an ongoing series of weekly highlights of Japan news as reported in Japanese sources. Weekly Highlights From the Japanese Press No. 1 Barbarization à la Japonaise is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming

In the latest victory against right-wing extremism, police officers pull a 16 year-old girl out of chemistry class and advise her to stop posting Smurf-themed AfD-friendly content to TikTok I wrote in February about the plans of Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) to combat “right-wing extremism,” by re-purposing the regulatory state to restrict the speech, travel and economic activity of people with inconvenient opinions. She wants to use state resources to intimidate “those who mock the state,” and she

Interview: Ryszard Legutko Liberal Democracy, Communism, and totalitarian temptations in free societies In my recent essay “Poland and the Demon in Democracy” I discussed the political turmoil happening in Poland through the lens of Polish philosopher Ryszard Legutko’s 2016 book The Demon in Democracy: Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies. After the essay

A republic’s shield or tyranny’s sword? In the modern world, it is difficult to imagine a nation without a professional standing military force, but throughout history such a force has been considered at odds with the liberty of the people. The debate was far from settled when the United States was founded. While many consider it

A conversation about monarchy "Now and for the foreseeable future, any election is either plenary or nugatory." One David Volodzko, whom I know not otherwise but who writes about “communism, fascism and radical movements,” and who was apparently fired by the Seattle Times for improperly comparing Hitler to Lenin—skilfully earning the ire of

Why Olaf Scholz is not a "peace Chancellor," why Ukraine still stands a good chance of getting their cruise missiles, and why the entire debate surrounding Taurus is such a riddle The Taurus leak continues to dominate German headlines. It is an incredible embarrassment for the Luftwaffe, and for the Scholz government it is yet another in a long line of unwelcome crises. Some have ventured to characterise Olaf Scholz as the “peace Chancellor,” opposed to war-hawks like Emmanuel Macron, who

The German energy transition threatens to be an unaffordable, unrealisable disaster, according to the government's own independent auditors The German Bundesrechnungshof, or the Federal Audit Office, is an independent government body charged by statue with overseeing the economic management of the Federal Republic. Last week, they published a devastating “Report … on the implementation of the energy transition” in Germany. Every one of its fifty-eight pages represents a brutal

Dispatch: A Question of Loyalty A return to the rough-and-tumble 1790s “I have, for sometime past, viewed the political concerns of the United States with an anxious, and painful eye. They appear to me, to be moving by hasty strides to some awful crisis; but in what they will result—that Being, who sees, foresees,

America’s true identity crisis We live in an ideological age. Communism, fascism, classical liberalism, progressivism, democracy, capitalism — we fight wars over these terms even though some of these ideologies are dead and others have become meaningless. Modern people think of ideology as something constructed before a society begins, something that defines a civilization from

The right was wrong about virtue-signaling A video of a family with four “transkids” went viral across social media this week. Many conservatives were justifiably appalled and pointed out that the chances of randomly having four children with severe body dysmorphic disorder in the same family are incredibly low. Commenters on the video suggested that the

Reflections #6 Broken Britain When l was researching some articles at the end of last year, I stumbled on a new You Tube niche of sorts: people that basically go across the UK highlighting the decline of major cities and towns on the ground. You Tubers like the Wandering Turnip, Charles Veitch,

Ghosts of an Undiscovered Country A review of "Thrilling Adventures Among the Early Settlers" by Warren Wildwood The following is an excerpt from a book review published on the OGC SubStack reviewing "Thrilling Adventures Among the Early Settlers" by Warren Wildwood. Back in the old days of YouTube, just before COVID, when the sides of

Google really is programming our kids Google found itself embroiled in controversy last week after the company’s Gemini artificial intelligence demonstrated an almost comical adherence to woke ideology. Multiple users found that the AI had a peculiar bias against white people, removing them from almost every historical context. Gemini repeatedly rendered popes, Vikings, medieval knights,

He who would be Cringe I am a realist first and foremost. This means, in the tradition of Aristotle, I am concerned with the world as it is and not how I wish it to be. The combination of political realism and rightwing politics is often depressing. Our side of things has been on a

Navigating America's moral wasteland On the surface, Americans all value the same things. Life, liberty, equality, the rule of law, the pursuit of happiness — these terms form the basis of our shared moral language. If a nation is to forge a shared identity, it must share a moral vision, an understanding of what the

Dispatch: Lamp of Experience I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past “I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.” —Patrick Henry Lamp of

But why do they hate you? I recently appeared on the 2 Bit Podcast. At the end of the show Jason asked me why the Regime (‘They’) hate us. This essay is an edited version of my response. I intended to just post a transcript but it turned into a essay all its own.  Check out

Confucius Says “lol, lmao” On the very basics of governance This will be a very short post, just a little something that came to mind as I continue work on other material. But since it amused me I figured I’d share it with you all as well. I was watching a bit of

Putin and Biden are two sides of the same oppressive coin The American right suffers from a chronic failure of knowing what time it is, and nothing revealed that fact more clearly than the recent death of the Russian dissident Alexei Navalny. Navalny, the 47-year-old outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin, died suddenly while serving a long prison sentence on charges of

Ruled by Men or Governed by the System? We are locked within the tyranny of the administrative state, governed by the administrative system. What is the alternative? It is to once again be ruled directly by men. Once you begin to seriously question the administrative state in its various forms and manifestations, people will ask the obvious question,

Hope and Tragedy in the Wilderness Prologue to Greatness Battle of the Monongahela During the French and Indian War, a British expeditionary force under the command of General Edward Braddock was en route to capture Fort Duquesne near present-day Pittsburgh but clashed with a mixed detachment of French irregulars and Ottawa, Ojibwa, and Potawatomi warriors along

Reflections #4 Ali G – the comedy sketch that became a meme and then became reality In the late 90s, one character in British comedy stood out among many, having a broad appeal that bridged traditional class, age and racial barriers – Ali G. Ali G is a veritable spaghetti junction of identity politics.

Unplugging from the devil's electric nervous system On rediscovering various textures of investments In a children’s book no longer in print called Arthur’s New Power (1978), Russell Hoban tells a quirky story about a family of very human-like crocodiles who, at the start of the tale, have so overused and overloaded the power circuit of

By their Fruits ye shall know them Recently the discourse in our corner of the internet has been consumed with POSIWID. This acronym, which stands for ‘The Purpose of a System Is What It Does’, comes to us from the world of engineering. In short, the idea is that regardless of the intent of the designers, a

Poland and the Demon in Democracy Liberal authoritarianism’s tusks have been bared across the Westt “Democracy has won” in Poland following the election of a new government in October – or at least so declared the country’s new prime minister, Donald Tusk. The former top European Union official’s party only won 30% of the

‘Somalia first’ and other alarming signs of a failing American empire Every gardener is fighting a constant battle against chaos. Hard work must be done to construct planter beds, pull weeds, and generally repel the relentless forces of nature that seek to take back what the gardener has built. If the garden is to persist, its owner must transmit the importance

Football! Football! Football! Football! Nixon liked football. So you must like it! Because you like Nixon, right? If this article were about college football, I’d feel a little different about it. At least college teams represent real institutions in specific localities; many of the players may still be from out of state,

Leftism is a Parasite I appeared on the Carousel Podcast recently to talk about how the conservative movement is fake and gay. One of the things that came up is a definition of the right and conversely a definition of the left. This is a fundamental issue, but one that’s often missed. Left

Texas must hold the line While journalists and pundits are busy debating the fallout from the Republican primary, the real battle for the future of America is occurring on the Texas border with Mexico. The Biden administration has enacted a malicious open-borders policy welcoming millions of illegal aliens into the country and facilitating a full-scale

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz calls for nationwide protests to defend democracy against the consequences of his own policies During the pandemic, our leaders claimed to act on behalf of the health concerns of the oldest and the sickest, effectively reducing all of Germany to a farcical authoritarian care home for the immuno-compromised. While the worst abuses of that era have passed, the lunacy and hysteria have persisted, assuming

The purpose of a pundit is what he does "This fantasy has no more relevance to the actual system than any other fantasy." One nice principle for analyzing systems—entirely parallel to Ranke’s historical rule of drawing history “as it really was,” and Burnham’s political rule of “real meanings,” but not loaded with any historical or political

Women Can't Compete With A.I. Girlfriends Hoes Mad While I generally avoid arguing with women on the internet, this article is particularly terrible and worth commenting on purely as a repudiation to the “longhouse.” First things first; DO NOT USE A.I. GIRLFRIENDS. Do NOT download the app, do not play with them just for fun;

Reworlding art On teaching young artists about the necessity of revelation The following is a talk I delivered on 20 January 2023 in Durban, South Africa, to a group of teachers at the Kwazulu-Natal Independent Education Board conference. It distils quite a bit of my recent thinking around art creation and creativity.

New Orleans is America A guest post by George Bagby This is a guest post by a dear friend and mentor of mine George Bagby. I’ve spoken with him often on my show, and he offer a unique perspective on  current events that I hope you’ll enjoy. Please check out his YouTube

Civil rights laws killed the Constitution A minor panic has broken out among the chattering class after a few conservative commentators showed an interest in questioning the civil rights revolution and its accompanying legal framework. Liberal and conservative publications alike have expressed grave concern that anyone might question the need for an oppressive bureaucracy that has

You will probably die of a cold "Nothing can stop scientists from stamp-collecting viruses to pad their resumes."ext People, even smart people, are so mindkilled these days. It will probably be the death of us all. Here’s how. Usually the smart people start by learning statistics. Statistics paralyze your ability to reason logically. Also, they

Liberals are bad and they know it Several weeks ago I wrote a piece on how the left disenchants and deconstructs heroes. This post called The Tyranny of Just, explored how progressives will leverage minor truths to demolish broader cultural narratives. You see exactly what I’m talking about in the new Napoleon movie. Instead of focusing

Adharmic Echoes: The Face of the Void Creatures roam the interwebs like spiders at night, crawling across your pillow and seeking a warm place to rest. Nestling up to your head to absorb your dream-heat, while others jump into the snoring pit of doom, absent-mindedly, nightmarishly munched, but in dreamland, a crunchy, consciously forbidden snack. People have

The German farmers are greatly angry and there are a lot of them: An early report from the gathering great farmers' rally in Berlin We are now a week into the great German farmers’ protest, and the main event is set for tomorrow in Berlin. 10,000 demonstrators are expected; the rally will begin at 11:30am. Speakers will include Johann Rukwied, President of the German Farmers’ Association, and also Finance Minister Christian Lindner.

The Great German Farmer Protests Have Begun First came the farmers’ protests in the Netherlands, then the Freedom Convoy in Canada. Now the farm protests have reached Germany. The background is simple: On 15 November 2023, the Federal Constitutional Court declared the budgetary manipulations of the Scholz government unconstitutional, in one stroke depriving our rulers of 60

Social and Emotional Patronage I recently spoke to BogBeef from The Good Ol Boyz on my podcast. If you’ve heard Bog talk at all, you’ve probably heard him speak about patronage. He certainly did not originate this idea, but he is responsible for spreading it on the right. At the most basic

Immigration is a weapon Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez received enthusiastic applause during a recent appearance on “The Daily Show” after announcing her intention to solve the border crisis, not with some ridiculous solution like building a wall, but by granting documentation to every illegal immigrant in America. At this point, “The Daily Show” audience must consist

Heroin liberals and cocaine conservatives "The difference between conservatism and cocaine is that you can OD on cocaine." Political orientations in present America are best regarded as fundraising narratives. Democratic politics proper—the contest for sovereign power by organizations or individuals with massive support, decided by counting heads—is basically dead. In the present American

As Alternative für Deutschland approach 40% support in East Germany, a right-leaning CDU faction announce plans to break away from the Union and found a new party that will cooperate with AfD In September, three East German states – Saxony, Thüringen and Brandenburg – will hold elections for state parliament. Alternative für Deutschland are now by far the strongest-polling party in each of these states. In Saxony, for example, they are polling at an-time high of 37%: The SPD – the party of federal Chancellor

My top 9 reads of 2023 Many people start the new year with the resolution to read more books that deepen their understanding of the world around them. I am often asked for reading recommendations, so I have habitually collected and shared the most thought-provoking books I encountered in the previous year. These are not books

Cyberpunk 2077 is Reactionary I don't consider myself a hardcore gamer, but I do indulge in video games for about a week 2-3 times a year before returning to my usual routine. My most recent affair has been with Polish developer CD PROJEKT RED’s Cyberpunk 2077 2.0. The game recently released a

The importance of capturing castles Boycotts, elections, school shootings, waves of illegal immigration, riots, pandemics, foreign wars, inflation — the political battles cycle past us so rapidly it can be difficult to focus on any given event. Journalists write feverish articles, and pundits voice their outrage, drawing media attention to the crisis of the week. Whenever

Stay sane in ’24 by focusing on the real fight The stretch between Christmas and New Year’s day always feels like the necessary calm before a moment of great transition. The chaos of holiday preparations has come and gone, the children are still home from school, and work slows to a crawl as the world awaits the beginning of

The Case for Coercive Christianity There are many out there who think that the Christian way is persuasion, not coercion. They thus reject the idea of writing Christian moral teaching into law. It is time to address this concern. As some Christians begin to assert a more muscular presence in the public sphere, working out

Savages and Succession If you’ve been on the internet long enough you’ve become too calloused to exhibit normal human emotions. After a decade of furries, lol-cows, and goon-caves it becomes difficult to feel visceral disgust. Emotions like disgust and revulsion become weaker with repeated use. Rarely, will I see something that

How the climatoids spent the summer lecturing us on the permanent drought that climate change has brought to Central Europe, and how they have earned nothing but rain for their hubris June headlines: "Germany is facing permanent drought." August headlines after a rainy summer: "Rain is no help against drought." December headlines after still more rain: "There is no more drought." In the past year, Germans have had to read a great deal about how carbon dioxide-induced drought is on the

The Tyranny of 'Just' Written listening to Creed I don’t like talking about mass casualty events. The rush to use the biography of the murderer as political fuel is gross. However, to make a point, I’m going to break my rule. I can’t remember which specific event started this conversation. It

Academic Agent on 'The Anywhere-ization of all Places' taken from our interview on 11/6/2023 This is the start of a new experiment. I’ve decided to upload moments from my show where the guest has expressed something profound as a sub-stack post. I’ve edited what was said only to improve clarity as a written piece.

New Survey: Fewer Germans feel free to express their political opinions in 2023 than in any year since the early days of the Federal Republic The Allensbach Institute for Public Opinion Research regularly polls the German population, among other things to construct a dubious “Freedom Index” for the Federal Republic. This Index purports to measure the social and political status of whatever it is that “freedom” amounts to in Germany, on a scale ranging from

A techno-pessimist manifesto "One can easily see Trotsky at Burning Man." Are you a techno-optimist? This is a serious condition—as common as prediabetes. Don’t laugh. You can treat your prediabetes—and your techno-optimism, too. 30% of Americans are prediabetic. All Americans are prediabetic, in a sense—we all have access to

Reflections #3 The farce that is Tory Britain in 2023 I have spent most of the last two months researching and writing a number of articles on both Britain’s economy and on mass immigration. Quite honestly, I am mentally exhausted and need a rest, I have read countless articles and watched

The conservative case against satanic altars Every society organizes itself around an idea of the sacred. This may sound silly to contemporary ears, but it continues to be true even if modern people have convinced themselves they are too advanced to indulge in such primitive notions. Statues are monuments designed to inspire reverence, and the kind

Claudine Gay, Plagiarist Claudine Gay is a pseudointellectual who specializes in being a Diverse Black Female Academic. She first served as a Diverse Black Female Academic at Stanford University, before leaving to become a Diverse Black Female Academic at Harvard University. In 2018, Harvard decided it would be even more Diverse of them

Don’t end the Bud Light boycott Conservatives are constantly complaining about the left’s domination of culture, but they rarely take the actions necessary to make a difference. Corporate executives are acutely aware that offending progressive sensibilities can quickly end their careers, while offending the right carries little or no consequence. I can remember dozens of

An inquiry into Fuggalu, or: How the guardians of German democracy aim to protect our democratic constitution by punishing those who argue that the pandemic response was anti-democratic Something has gone very wrong with the way establishment politicians and journalists talk about “democracy” “Democracy” and the various concepts associated with it have acquired a mysterious new semantic range that nobody will acknowledge or discuss. This problem has grown so obtrusive that whenever any politician or media personality begins

GOP leaders long to DIE Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) drew some heat over the weekend after attacking his own party for being too white while speaking at the Oxford Union. McCarthy claimed the Democrats “actually look like America” while the Republicans “look like the most restrictive country club.” This, mind you, while he

Left-Right Parity Should the Right use Leftist strategy? The question as to whether or not the Left are fundamentally correct in their political strategy is one often debated on the Right. Should we adopt their strategies? It is often true that “the woke are more correct than the mainstream,” as they say.

"RSV Wave Underway" screeches the German press, as winter viruses rise unremarkably and in accordance with long-standing seasonal trends Now that the EMA has approved new RSV vaccines, journalists have another virus to stir anxiety about. During the pandemic, journalists discovered a new occupation, one which was particularly appealing for the small effort it required. This occupation consisted of consulting any of the numerous Covid dashboards and weekly virus

Jay Bhattacharya punks Karl Lauterbach for a bizarrely mistaken rant about John Ioannidis & the German media realise their health minister is an international laughingstock I know that some of you are impatient with my posts about German politics, and particularly my repeated pieces on our retarded Health Minister. I get that this can seem like inside baseball, and that all of you suffer under the very similar idiocies of your own Covid politicians. But,

Don’t conserve institutions that hate you At their founding, the institutions of a civilization were created to serve the needs of its citizens and perpetuate their way of life. These organizations transmit and safeguard the values of the culture from which they arise. As a civilization grows and the scale of its operation increases, the people

The UK Economy: Lots of Problems, Few Solutions - part two The UK Economy – Lots of Problems, Few Solutions Part Two Housing Crisis The property market and its many problems are so complex and layered that many analysts speak of multiple housing crises at once. In the UK, there is a never-ending housing bubble. House prices in Britain have increased by

The New Zealand Vaccination Records Leak: A New Analysis by William Briggs and Some Lesser Thoughts of My Own As everybody in this corner of the internet knows, a New Zealand Te Whatu Ora employee named Barry Young leaked four million vaccination records from New Zealand’s “pay per dose” vaccine program to Steve Kirsch on 8 November. The records pertain to doses administered to individual patients at apothecaries

Bavaria in the Snow In a brief Zeit article on winter fashion from 13 October 2023, one reads the following deeply amusing lines: Winter may no longer be cold, but our jackets are getting thicker and thicker. This fashion satisfies our longings for a climate that no longer exists. …. This year saw the highest

Snowy Open Thread: Expiring Unwanted Expensive Covid Vaccine Edition Today, southern Bavaria is covered in snow. No trains are running, the Munich airport is closed, many shops have not opened, and children are enjoying fierce snowball fights before the offices of the plague chronicle. The trees bend under the weight of their white blankets; one of them (thankfully not

The Cyber Threat Intelligence League, Sara-Jayne Terp, and the unbearably idiotic schoolmarms who have been unleashed to censor the internet Michael Shellenberger, Alex Gutentag and Matt Taibbi have continued their reporting on the “Censorship Industrial Complex” with a new piece on an odious organisation called the Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) League. Their revelations provide fresh details about the early history of the public-private campaign to censor the internet in the

Is Karl Lauterbach replacing two-thirds of STIKO, the "independent" German vaccine advisory body, to ensure the approval of shiny new RSV jabs from Pfizer and AstraZeneca? German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach is working hard to restructure the entire German public health bureaucracy, according to the lessons our rulers have derived from the Covid pandemic. The purpose of his reforms are hard to work out, and ominously, nobody at the Health Ministry will explain them. A little-known

The competency crisis is upon us Our current managerial elite predicates its rule on the notion of expertise. Americans once believed that “popular will” granted a ruling class legitimacy, but that story has been replaced with one of scientific knowledge and credentials. The modern political formula frames the world as a complex series of interconnected scientific

Let's Skip the News Boy Let's skip the news boy (I'll go and make some tea) Arabs and Jews boy (too much for me) They get me confused boy (puts me off to sleep) And the thing I hate--Oh Lord! Is staying up late, to watch some debate, on some nation's fate – Genesis, “Blood on

The Incompetent Authoritarianism Of The Irish State On the curiously incompetent Irish State and the Empire's Celtic Problem Readers will no doubt be aware of the recent migrant stabbing spree in Ireland that resulted in fiery but peaceful scenes erupting on the streets of the capital, Dublin. The following day I went in search of ‘‘takes’’ that

Infighting and internal divisions intensify among German climate activists and their patrons in government, as political momentum shifts decisively to the right Political movements derive cohesion from the momentum and energy they command. With the wind at their backs, adherents are willing to overlook their divergent interests and fight for a common cause. As these movements lose momentum and face hardening opposition, they suddenly find themselves rent by infighting and factionalism. Being

Clearpill yourself on Gaza "You just like to see tanks pop their turrets while the driver bakes." Are you an American or European? Do you have feelings about the war in Gaza? Stop. You shouldn’t. You should be totally clear on the question—in the Scientology sense. Your Kantian moral imperative is to

The UK Economy – Lots of Problems, Few Solutions Introduction The United Kingdom’s economy is in very bad condition and has been for some time now. Britain’s economy is marked by low growth, rising debt, low productivity, prolonged high inflation, and a lack of investment. The British government is burdened by debt and has its hands tied

BBC declares "Black women most likely to die in medieval plague" after unnamed "academics at the Museum of London" collect doubtful statistics on 145 medieval skeletons in an uncited unavailable study The internet is presently having a laugh at the BBC for their declaration that “Black women” were “mostly likely to die” in the 14th-century plague. Black women of African descent were more likely to die of the medieval plague in London, academics at the Museum of London have found. The

Who was responsible for the draft resolution, circulated among the state health ministers of Germany, demanding the vaccination of teenagers contrary to regulatory advice? Some final notes on the 2021 campaign to vaccinate German children and the importance of 28 July. I must make a correction to yesterday’s post on the bizarre campaign to vaccinate German children against the recommendations of regulators and in the absence of all evidence. It is important enough

The bizarre campaign to vaccinate German children against the recommendations of regulators and in the absence of all evidence Whys were German politicians were so eager, in summer 2021, to vaccinate school children? This was the question at the centre of yesterday’s post. I mean it in a very specific way. I understand this was a time of general vaccine mania, when everybody from local paediatricians to Chancellor

Why were German politicians so eager to vaccinate children, and why are they lying about it now? Here is a riddle: Why were German politicians so eager, in summer 2021, to vaccinate children? Why did they place public pressure on vaccine regulators to recommend child vaccination? Even a few months ago, I would’ve said this was no great mystery. Before August 2021, everybody still operated on

Ampeldämmerung: Scholz government in crisis after doubtful budgetary manoeuvre to fund Green climate fantasies with unused Covid funds is declared unconstitutional For my entire life, German governments have lit money on fire with great abandon. The pandemic was a particularly insane period of spending. Among the final acts in this spree was a supplementary budget pushed through by Merkel’s government in April 2021, allocating an additional 60 billion Euros for

On the curious schemes of various activists, ideologues and politicians to minimise the emission of certain atmospheric gases by restructuring our energy supply and thereby our entire civilisation As the insanity of the pandemic era recedes, I find myself writing more and more about climate politics. Many of my posts on this matter – especially the last one – elicit disagreement from readers who believe that my arguments validate the premises of climate propagandists, who want me to know that

Line Go Up PART 2 How the elites benefit from mass immigration: part 2 Proposition 3 Migrant labour reduces labour costs Immigration is advantageous to those in industry that benefit by importing low-skilled, low-wage labour onto our shores. Immigration increases the size of the workforce and increases the government’s tax base as well. Immigration

Study: Liquid natural gas, the great future hope of Robert Habeck's Green energy policy, causes up to THREE TIMES more emissions than coal Let us review some recent history: In 2021, Germany owed 27% of its total energy supply to natural gas. We imported over 40% of this natural gas from Russia. Then the Ukraine war happened, and by September the gas had slowed to a trickle. To compensate, we increased imports from

The Green Paradox: Why unilateral emissions restrictions may actually increase fossil fuel production and will always fail to do anything about atmospheric CO2 levels Periodically, journalists realise that our climate policies are doing absolutely nothing to reduce CO2 emissions. The latest entry in this amusing genre of reporting comes from N-tv and the Deutsche-Presse Agentur: The planned global production of coal, oil and gas continue to significantly exceed levels required to mitigate climate change.

Why the migrant crisis is a self-inflicted catastrophe for the European political establishment The mass importation of regime clients from the third world, under the pretence of high-minded liberal values, has become a runaway phenomenon threatening the very political order that authored it. Some valued readers objected to my remark in yesterday’s post that the political establishment appears “completely powerless” to stop

After a 17-hour meeting to address the escalating migrant crisis, German federal and state politicians produce a 5000-word resolution that promises nothing and offers no meaningful solutions at all On Monday, negotiators from the German federal and state governments met to hammer out a solution to the migration crisis. The states themselves have been overwhelmed by the flood of refugees, whose numbers exceed all available infrastructure and financial resources. The federal government – the worst we have had since 1949

Mechanisms Toward Local Sovereignty Made possible by the abundance of land available, America’s European founding stock sought denominational freedom in the New World. Entire congregations of Christians traveled across the Atlantic Ocean on ships such as the Mayflower to establish colonies that were closely tied to their religious beliefs, as well as the

An Uncanny Valley At The Cenotaph On peculiar unreality of British Political life. The somewhat modestly named “Behavioral Insights Team” carries this passage on their website in which they “face up to the challenges” of climate action: Prioritizing actions. Some behavioral barriers will be tougher to address than others. In one project, we found that encouraging

Why Daylight Saving Time is Stupid The twice-annual clock fiddling ritual is a pointless pain in the ass and it should be abolished everywhere On 29 October, the superstitious annual ritual known as Daylight Saving Time ended in Europe, and for my American readers it will end this coming Sunday, on 5 November. For half or

The European Union walks back its ruinous proposal to mandate minimum energy efficiency standards for buildings, as the political will for climate policies continues to crumble across the West Climatism is slowly dying, and the only remaining question is how long it will yet linger and how much damage it will do before it is gone. Everything that comes out of Brussels is a foul multilayered onion. On the outside is the laughable impossible childish impossible utopian idealism. As

As the German Health Ministry drowns in millions of unwanted vaccine doses, Karl Lauterbach begs Germans to please, please line up for their fifth jab From the erstwhile vaccine propagandists at Der Spiegel, who I think are also tiring of the insipid autumnal vaccination liturgy and its noxious political enablers: Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach has again called on people to get a booster vaccination. “Despite the pandemic and awareness campaigns, the importance of the

Live Your Own Truth: Finding Our Way Out of the Dead End of Propaganda, Mimesis and the Idea of Personal Genius to Begin the Process of Birthing a New Culture It is vitally important that we learn how to once again "ground" ourselves. But we cannot do this with reason or science. We cannot do it with universals. The only way out is through. Critical theory.  Post-modernism.  Politically, these terms spark revulsion in many.  They are looked upon as the

Line Go Up How the elites benefit from mass immigration: part one 1 in 6 people in the UK were born overseas. 700,000 Polish-born people are in the country.[1] Between 2001 and 2020, net migration accounted for 60% of the UK’s population growth.[2] Since 2000, the UK has had

First Nord Stream, now Balticconnector: What is happening to European Baltic gas pipelines? On 26 September 2022, the Nord Stream pipelines bringing Russian gas to Germany via the Baltic Sea were attacked in a series of clandestine bombings. According to Seymour Hersh, the sabotage was planned by the Biden administration in late 2021, and carried out by U.S. Navy divers in collaboration

The Managerial Menace Back in August, the Wall Street Journal ran a long article on the insane spending of American public universities, with special emphasis on their proclivity for expensive building projects. This is an issue very close to my heart. I spent over a decade in American academia, at several different very

Hard Lessons from Israel’s High-Tech Border Failure Thoughts on complex systems, failure cascades, and the international order Over the last two weeks, I have, like everyone else, been closely following Hamas’ horrific attack on Israel and the resulting war. So many others have already done an eloquent job covering it at a general level that I’m

Christian Drosten, enduring virologoid villain, demands mass livestock virus testing and scientific truth panels to enhance pandemic preparedness and marginalise people who disagree with him Christian Drosten, the malevolent virologoid at Berlin Charité who achieved international prominence in 2020 as court virus astrologer to the Merkel government, and who acted for years as the public face of hygiene restrictions in the Federal Republic, is one of the great villains of the pandemic. From lockdowns to

Crazy Munich doctor earns nationwide press coverage with call for Germans to resume indoor masking because "we have a lot of infections right now," even though we don't Clemens Wendtner is an oncologist and head physician at the Munich Schwabing Clinic. Despite his total lack of epidemiological qualifications, he rose to prominence in the pandemic because he ended up treating some of the very first officially recognized Covid infections in Germany. In those early days, he was fond

Dystopian Fiction (2019) Back in 2019, I was traveling back from a conference and stuck in an airport with only my iPad. I started writing a Dystopian Fiction in the “Notes” feature. I had a strong desire to write something that had no plot, no characters, no emotional hook, and no resistance narrative.

The very same Europe that stopped travel over a virus cannot close its borders against the global south, even as the failure to do so threatens the viability of establishment parties and the EU itself Europe has entered its second great migration crisis since 2014. Numbers are now at levels not seen since the aftermath of the Libyan civil war in 2014. Here, from the Italian Institute for International Political Studies, is a graph of migrant arrivals in Italy from January 2010 through September 2023:

State elections in Bavaria and Hessen show the establishment parties to be in decline as political momentum shifts decisively to the right Yesterday was election day in Bavaria and Hessen. Just over 23% of the entire German population had the chance to express their political preferences at the ballot box. The results were not only a slap in the face to the parties of the federal coalition, but also yet another sign

IM-1776: The Edward Luttwak Tapes The paradox of American power I recently had the privilege of interviewing Edward Luttwak for IM-1776 (The Edward Luttwak Tapes). Edward Luttwak is an expert in international relations and military strategy, who first rose to prominence at the age of 26 with the publication of his first book, Coup d’

Nobel Prize awarded to mRNA researchers in effort to "Encourage hesitant people to opt for vaccination in the reassurance that it is safe and effective" On 2 October, the biochemists Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman received the Nobel Prize for medicine and physiology, for their contributions to the development of mRNA vaccine technology. In 2005, Karikó and Weissman solved a crucial problem that had bedeviled all prior attempts to develop RNA-based therapies. This problem was

Empire of Dollars 4 How the United States of America maintains control of the global monetary system - part 4: U.S. Treasury bonds It is a mistake to think of the U.S. dollar as just one thing, as in just a unit of currency, because it is not. It is various nodes

Carnival of the Animals, by Kure Tomofusa "I am, more essentially, criticizing the fact that these anti-discrimination movements are ruled by the delusion called human rights ideology." Carnival of the Animals Kure Tomofusa1 It was from around 1970 that the acts of denunciation of the various organizations of the anti-discrimination movement exemplified by the Buraku2 Liberation League3

On Meritocracy Within the contemporary works of fiction in which the main character becomes a ruler, the most common trope is as follows – The country is run by hereditary nobles. They are greedy, unconcerned with the well-being of their subjects, and incompetent. They look down on commoners and discriminate against them. The

The Aesthetics of Manliness, by Yukio Mishima "Clothing [...] is none other than that which expresses the characteristics of the sex, the characteristics of the aggressive combative male. Clothing is sexual." The Aesthetics of Manliness by Yukio Mishima There was a man who, unable to help being wealthy, had ten suits made every month at a tailor in

Preface to Asia, Europe, Japan, by Ōkawa Shūmei "World history in the true sense of the word is nothing other than the history of the confrontation, antagonism, and unification of East and West." Preface to Asia, Europe, Japan Ōkawa Shūmei1 Subscribed For the past year, I have in more than ten lectures in various places striven solely to

Covid Juice 3.0 hits the shelves in Germany, with interest at such record lows that many doctors have not even bothered to stock it The latest Covid Juice release is for sale in Germany as of today, and Health Minister Karl Lauterbach was first in line. There’s abundant evidence that he’s not a great fan of vaccination; he got his third dose in secret, well after the rest of the vaccinators, and

Renowned idiot Karl Lauterbach shows his vaccine pass to the cameras, reveals once again that his 2022 claim to be quadruple vaccinated is a lie The idiot Health Minister of the Federal Republic of Germany, Karl Lauterbach, has beclowned himself again, leaking additional evidence that he lied about receiving a second booster in Spring 2022. To recap: By late summer of last, Lauterbach had spent many weeks urging a fourth dose on all and sundry,

Study: With each Covid vaccination, healthcare workers get sicker – applying for progressively more leave and taking more analgesic medication after each dose “Inability to work following COVID-19 vaccination” is a modest paper just published in Public Health (paywalled, but available here as a preprint from last November), analysing data from the ‘CoVacSer’ cohort study, conducted out of Würzburg to monitor the effects of Covid infection and vaccination on healthcare workers. Of 1,

More details on the very strange efforts of the German Health Ministry to hide internal details of the Covid response from a parliamentary investigative committee More details have emerged on the measures of Karl Lauterbach’s Health Ministry to conceal internal details of the pandemic response from the German public.

Dissident Thoughts #1 A new series begins here on my Substack aiming to address cultural and social issues in a more concise and direct way than I deal with monetary issues.

Dissident Thoughts #2 The deconstruction of everything Increasingly, life has lost all structure, purpose and meaning. We look around us and we see chaos. We live in a world that is completely disenchanted. The Frankfurt School believed that if you render everything meaningless then society becomes unworkable. This has been achieved by deconstructing

Vaccines and the Midwit Effect, or: Why smart people seem to believe all manner of crazy things, and smarter people seem to believe them even harder Some weeks ago, this Swedish study on the correlation between cognitive ability and readiness to accept Covid vaccination made the rounds. It irritated a lot of people, particularly in these circles, for appearing to support the observation that getting vaccinated is just something that more intelligent people do – and, by

On Bisexuality I often hear from advocates that “bisexuality” is logically consistent. That may or may not be true, but it doesn’t matter for my argument. Bisexuality may be or seem to be logically coherent within itself, but that logic on its own may be baseless and ultimately incoherent. Bisexuality is

In act of divine retribution, equestrian statue of Angela Merkel collapses spontaneously under its own weight Certain natural events – however seemingly insignificant – achieve so perfectly a higher symbolic meaning, that it is hard not to see in them a divine message. Such is the case with the only equestrian statue erected to honour former German chancellor Angela Merkel, which yesterday collapsed spontaneously under its own weight.

Authoring Caesar: Part Two The imposition of mob rule, the ultimate and end result of democracy, damages individual autonomy. It threatens and often eliminates your natural rights: life, limb, and property. We are at whatever mercy the mob grants us, if any. Every time a legislative body meets, all people are on the butcher’

CORONATION STREET AND THE “REALITY” OF THE AVERAGE CONSUMER TV SOAPS AND THE “REALITY” OF THE AVERAGE CONSUMER. It is an obvious point to say that this sphere is a niche. We do not represent the majority opinion nor have the power to do so. To further state that the majority of the public is not capable of such

Prophets of Doom and the Sensible Centre I recently attended this year’s Witan and was able to procure an advance copy of Neema Parvini’s “Prophets of Doom” (hereafter Prophets). This is the much anticipated second volume of Parvini’s projected sensible centrist trilogy. It aims to counter the regime by creating a rival, coherent canon

ON WOMEN On Women is a title I read too often and dread to read no less. The Dissident Right spends thousands of hours tormenting itself over the place of women in both the movement and the world that the movement seeks to birth. Members of multiple Christian denominations, Nietzschean vitalists, and

Book Review: The Prophets of Doom by Neema Parvini “This volume should be a healthy part of every Sensible Centrist’s Library.”

TOLKIEN AND THE FIGHT AGAINST ENTROPY The Lord of the Rings wrestles with the problem of entropy. Its heroes battle against the ever-increasing power of darkness. The walls of the keep crumble, the nations are in decline and the will of the warrior is shaken. Evil stretches its long fingers into many places. Only one course

OPPENHEIMER’S MADNESS Recently I watched Oppenheimer. So, apparently, has the World. Such is the suggestion of the media at least. Oppenheimer has unleashed an explosion (my apologies) of commentary. It is understandable. The picture is dense, sophisticated, and slick. Compared to the slop we are usually fed, a film of substance is

Man, Woman, and the Interregnum Tyrans In what I call the postmodern interregnum tyrans, there is an ever expanding and unhealthy conflict between the sexes. This gulf must be closed and if it is unnaturally prevented from doing so it will bring continuous disaster. Men and women need each other in proper balance, to regulate their

THE INTERNET IS DOOMED An old ballad speaks of John Barleycorn, grown, reaped, and sown. He is an inoffensive chap, pale and wan with a little beard. Spoken of fondly, he must eventually be killed to be of use. His body is made to grain and, to stretch this personification to its most grotesque,

THE OCEANGATE TITAN IN RETROSPECT. There are, no doubt, as many idiotic opinion pieces regarding the events surrounding the Oceangate Titan as idiotic journalists draw breath. Every inch of the incident, and the ensuing scandal, has been analyzed with the sort of dauntless crudity only the media can summon. Minutae has been picked over and

Scyldings Nashville I arrived in Nashville on the Friday and was met at the airport by fellow speaker Mike of Pol, who was very funny and gracious to me and I was treated like a beloved guest by him the entire time. Soon we were chatting up a storm about our lives

THE ( NOT SO ) YELLOW PERIL A specter hangs over the East. Tyranny, Despotism, immorality, degeneracy, disregard for the sanctity of life, and a burning desire to conquer and sweep away all that is good in the world. Only one thing stands between us and them: figuring out who ‘they’ actually are. We seem to think

THE DOOMED HISTORY OF BRITISH REVOLUTION Britons, and the English in particular – are not a revolutionary bunch, it’s not in our nature. Whenever the topic comes up, this vague point seems to be raised. It’s something in our culture, or simply in the water perhaps. We just get on with it and make things

Dharma and Adharma “Do the needful.”

The Boomer Cruise: Day of the Pillow A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of traditionalism. All the powers of GloboHomo have entered into an unholy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and President, Managers and intelligentsia, French Radicals and German police spies. Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as regressive by

MUSK, TWITTER, AND YOU. This is an evolving story, and so in an effort to not date the below too much – we shall focus on some wider context, rather than the exact events unfolding. But it remains to be established that – subsequently to buying a significant stake in Twitter and refusing to be integrated

Those Who Walk Away from Hogwarts How Professor McManus defeated House Slytherin The Fall of House Slytherin Perhaps it's a Millennial defect in my soul, but I have an odd inclination to explain political ideas with references to Harry Potter. Actually, I am not particularly fond of the books, but it's indisputable that they have captured

LONGING FOR THE FRONTIER The Walking Dead TV series has finally come to an end. For eleven years the post-apocalyptic show has graced our screens. In that time, it has gained a major following. The fifth season premiere was watched by 17.3 million people. Spin-off shows have been spawned, while there are new

UNDERSTANDING THE 13/50 A common misconception surrounds the 13/50 statistic, which is unfair to the African American minority within the United States. Aggregate data does not support the claim that 50% of all crimes in America are committed by highly melanated individuals. As seen in the figure provided, Blacks are not callously

Mulvaney And The Terrible Elephant Man Elephant Man (1980) is a biographical drama directed by avant-garde filmmaker David Lynch. It’s based on the real life of Joseph “John” Merrick, a man living in Victorian England suffering from a rare medical condition called neurofibromatosis type 1. The condition caused abnormal growths and deformities all over his

Interregnum There is a space of time that between two definitive points, called the indefinite. It is the difference between “the” and “a/an”. A nation could be any nation, while the nation is an identifiable entity. No one cares about a king, a president, a Prime Minister, a pope, or

PUTIN IS UPENDING THE TABLE Much is afoot in international markets, this much is obvious. Between existing inflationary pressures to supply chains, fiat currency printing, and financial market troubles in regional markets (notably China’s property sector, and Turkish currency devaluation), there would already be a bumpy few years in our collective economic future. Then

MOVIE REVIEW: IMPERIUM (2016) J.K Rowling has done something again and the left is mad. This time, her intellectual property has been licensed out by a video game company, which has gone on to release HOGWARTS: LEGACY. This game takes on what the task of simulating what it might be like to live

THE 1913 FEDERAL RESERVE ACT The Federal Reserve is the central bank of the United States of America. It issues the U.S. dollar, which happens to be the world reserve currency. The Federal Reserve is the most powerful institution in the world today, arguably the most powerful ever: this is because it has total

QUESTING FOR IMPERIUM Man is hungry by nature. Whether it be for adventure, experience (of a sort), control, understanding, or ownership, he wishes to know what is beyond the next hill – metaphorical or literal. He wishes for growth, in himself and his holdings. He wishes to be able to answer the question with

THE REALITY OF REPARATIONS Well, there is not much to say. It’s finally happened. I remembered conversations had with people coming on a decade ago now on the topic of ludicrously effeminate liberals screeching at the top of their lungs for reparations on Youtube. The white man, in their world, was the primordial

WOES VERSUS SARGON: LIVING WITHIN THEIR STORY Millennial Woes has returned to Twitter from exile and on his second day is stirring up debate on right-wing Twitter, setting his sights on Carl Benjamin. Carl is the edge of the dissident right closest to the acceptable array of opinions of the Overton window, so much so that even

Chimpanzee Power Politics A couple of months ago, I produced a video entitled ‘Chimpanzee Power Politics’. It focussed on the pioneering work of the primatologist Frans de Waal. In his book Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex Among Apes, de Waal analyzed the behavior of a group of Chimps housed at Burgers Zoo in

A RATIONALIST’S ARGUMENT FOR IRRATIONALISM “Some men have been rational for short periods- this is the sum total of the appearance of Reason in History. But they have never made history, as it is irrational.” (Yockey, 2022) I don’t believe that I am the first young man to become enraptured by the ideas of

ROCKWELL’S AMERICA Few people could point to a more renowned American artist than Norman Rockwell. His works stretch across the 20th century highlighting the ideals of contemporary America. Exploring the themes of masculine virtues, literature, Presidents, Civil Rights, American liberties, and Space Exploration. Rockwell’s brush has told the story with vividity,

THE CRISIS OF MODERN SECULARISM Modern Secularism is in crisis. There is a common view that traditional religions are in their own crisis, which is largely true, there is a certain amount of ignorance of how our ideas of secular society are being completely changed, if not supplanted. While this is not a strictly new

ROLLING FOR POWER: THE INTERSECTION OF ELITE THEORY AND D&D A hooded figure stalks silently down a corridor toward a room at the end of the hall. Voices can be heard from just beyond the door discussing matters of state and war. Creeping silently forward, the hooded man stops for just a moment, then swiftly kicks open the door. With

IN DEFENCE OF LARPING Within the usual discourse around this topic, larping is defined as the incomplete, perhaps insincere, and by implication – fruitless attempt to embody or achieve something. An example might be that one would larp as a knight in Quixotesque fashion, or conversely to larp as a revolutionary. This term has fairly

IDEOLOGICAL AMNESIA Ideology, like religion; matters to people. So much so that it will make them throw away their lives in the hopes that their chosen doctrine will be empowered. No amount of money will convince a man to sacrifice his life in such a way. Clearly, ideology matters, with differing contents

Authoring Caesar: Part Four “Where there’s a will, there’s a way:” all can be overcome through the power of will; but one must first possess it. It’s been a long period of growth towards higher Civilization in the West. We have been seated high for so long that the notion of

Authoring Caesar: Part Three The greatest failure of Democracy is in empowering the incapable and immoral. This brings the wretches into an unfair conflict with moral and just people over power. Armed with this evil, the immoral wretches slash at righteous good, before good knows what hit it. Democracy breeds naïveté towards the human

Authoring Caesar: Part One Western man stands on a precipice before a path ridden with obstacles; behind us lay our progenitors: “old”, “obsolete”, and “incapable”. Whiffs of their essence lay within us, hopefully enough to make a difference. Ahead lies our future, our progeny, and all we will, our canvas. We cannot correct the

FIFTH-GENERATIONAL WARFARE – BEYOND ARMIES AND MEN The established wisdom, from both historical precedent and common logic; is that to wage a war, no matter how sophisticated the tools may be, a hardy man with an iron will is still required to wield it. We in the West seem to have abandoned that principle and chosen instead

THE ETERNAL QUESTION: BUT IS IT ART? If you were once like me, you used to think that beauty was wholly subjective – in the eye of the beholder – and the question as to what made something art was an intellectual query and not something of pertinent or immediate concern. But then, perhaps like me, you once went

Trains, Biplanes, and Autogynephiliacs Categorization vs. Corporatization

Rats, Wires, and the Problem of Urukai “Preparation is Salvation.”

Book Review: “The Populist Delusion” by Neema Parvini “Power permits no rival.”

SPOTLIGHTING ART FOR THE MOTH-LIKE MASSES Editors Note: Edward White (aka KingEmperorPenguin) is an author and Youtuber. Readers are greatly encouraged to check out his work with the above links. Last year, I uploaded a video on YouTube called It’s Time to Move On (Fans of Critic YouTube Are Not Seeking Good Entertainment). This essay

THE EROSION OF THE CLASSES Modern society is dedicated to the material matters in life over the transcendent and this is wreaking havoc on the conventional classes of men. Our managerial ruling class has promoted a classless, uniform society to the detriment of the traditional classes. Men no longer realize why they should accept their

Cringe and Propaganda “Zeal takes the strength of man’s spirit and convictions and violently opposes meaninglessness and nihilism.”

CREATING FROM THE RIGHT A challenge that all of us dissident right-wingers face is the need to retake culture. We lament that the left subverts traditional values and attacks our way of life. In the political arena, there is a clear-cut path to victory. Victory in politics will not guarantee victory in culture. Victory

ONE RING TO RULE THEM ALL Working carefully, methodically, diligently, he makes a tiny little capsule. It is hidden, safe, barely perceptible to his predators. Enclosing himself, he lays dormant, silent for about two weeks. Then, he emerges. Now with wings, now a creature of flight, a caterpillar has changed into a butterfly. Or did he

BUILD YOUR TRIBE The globalized, disenfranchised, sterilized, secularized, urbanized, and the personalized world which our children are being born into idolizes the deracinated individual above all else. The deracinated individual is rootless, isolated, and bereft of both heritage and meaningful ties to the culture of their ancestors. The deracinated individual is therefore easily

BORDERLINES: CHRISTIANS & PAGANS The Christian-Pagan Question has gripped this sphere of things as early as Dr. Revilo P. Oliver’s critiques of the religion following his removal from the Buckleyite National Review sphere. This faultline has made us aware of its presence through the tremors which emanate forthwith, taking the shape of arguments

WOULD YOU LIKE TO SHARE? On March 23, 2010, the United States President, Barak Obama, signed into law the Affordable Care Act, or as it is more fondly referred to as ‘Obamacare’. It was such an important and inspiring bill that its chief advocate in the US legislature, the Speaker-of-the-House, Nancy Pelosi, encouraged members of

CONFLICTING TRADITIONS AND UNIVERSAL TRUTHS Part of the draw, if not the main draw, to studying topics such as power relations, social dynamics, and political trajectories – is the promise of unearthing some universal qualities which will make sense of the world in some underlying way. Conversely, there is the opposite proposition: that all traditions are

A PASSING THOUGHT ON SPENGLER’S CYCLE The Spenglerian cycle, at least in part, has been accepted as the God-given truth by most on the side of it. I argue elsewhere that this is due to Spengler being a prophet and not a philosopher. Yet even prophets have trouble predicting the entire future, and every theory has

OWNED AND BORROWED POWER Networks of influence and influence hierarchies are something that are well-known, and well understood in principle, but specificities around what the peak of any such network would look like – are often elusive. There may be disagreement on whether, in practice, a large number of small nodes exist, or one great

A TANGIBLE SHAPE OF PARALLELISM Asha Logos, a content creator whose channel everyone in Our Thing should be subscribed to, recently put out a call for parallel institutions on our side of things. This article serves as both an answer and a further call, like the relayed trumpeters atop watchtowers on the borders of East

THE GOLDEN MEAN Eudaimonia: Aristotle and most of his contemporaries used this phrase to speak of the end goal of humanity: a life well-lived. To successfully live life, they argued, one had to rationally apply virtuous principles to moral dilemmas. One of the principles used by Aristotle was that of the Golden Mean.

THE POWER OF THE MERCHANT Counter-Economics is a term used to describe the process of cutting off the State from access to resources. It is the direct action through black or grey markets against the power of the Ruling Elite. Where we are taxed, one must avoid paying; where the State builds a monopoly, one

LESSONS FROM HOPPE: YOU ARE NOT WELCOME HERE There are forms of organizations that cause society to degenerate. This is the underlying theory in much of Hoppe’s work, from “Democracy: The God that Failed” to “Getting Libertarianism Right”, and there are lessons to be taken here for any right-winger, even those who reject the Austro-libertarian approach of

INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY & THE RULING CLASS A fundamental lament about modern industrial society is the atomization of society. Individuals struggle to find meaning in social orders that destroy and subvert traditions. A valuable line of questioning rests at the very beginning of industrialization: Why? Advanced tool use is a hallmark of humanity. We define industrial tools

TYRANT ON THE CORRIENTES Dr. Francia is a name little-known among those of our community. A tragedy considering he fulfilled Carlyle’s vision of a Great Man and Bronze Age Pervert’s (BAP) vision of a Man of Power. Carlyle has spoken of Dr. Francia at length in an essay of the same name