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If you’re a nationalist of any persuasion, it seems important to think seriously about the fact that a large number of very destructive modern wars that killed a lot of people were...
Over the past few years, San Francisco has become emblematic of the dysfunction and ideological excesses of Democratic-run cities. The follies of the city's leaders shouldn't be un...
"Feminism Against Progress offers a sober assessment of the fruits of feminism. Women ... have had their sexuality freed from the restraints of patriarchy only to be captured by th...
In 2015, @Tinkzorg recounts, Sweden underwent a collective frenzy in response to the European refugee crisis. Paeans to multiculturalism and immigration became obligatory, and fail...
Trump isn’t a principled “anti-imperialist” in a left-wing sense—he’s more of an instinctual America first isolationist. But regardless of his motives and despite his inconsistenci...
Nixon, we have been told, was a corrupt, megalomaniacal politician who got his comeuppance when some plucky journalists uncovered his most egregious misdeeds. There's just one prob...
High IQ people are concentrated in elite education and professions, and as such very likely to be obedient functionaries of state power—not only "easy to control" but involved in o...
"The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling," @meganphelps's podcast, is very good in part because it connects key themes of Rowling's Potter novels—sorcery, magic, etc—with the dynamics of...
A larger takeaway of this story (also evident in many similar ones) is that authority in elite educational institutions has shifted away from faculty and towards a volatile allianc...
The fervor with which AOC, Nina Turner, etc embraced the “gas stoves are literal murder” talking point was a good indication of where the DSA/Bernie wing of Dems is post-Covid: des...
Belatedly reading @Alex__1789 on neoliberalism and the late Cold War. One implication is capitalist democracies maintained legitimacy while imposing harsh fiscal discipline because...
In varied contexts, de-emphasizing individual choice in favor of structural causes has become de rigeur. In this light, the covid-era construction of “the unvaccinated” as a class...