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- Because without this, is there really any freedom? The only thing dumber is Reason denying that ethnic groups vote for similar candidates. If you’d like more on immigration, don’t miss Mangan and...
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Review of “Foundation” by Isaac Asimov
Policymakers, aka “social scientists,” tend to have a simplified framework for understanding man. We live in an era in which one understanding, homo economicus, is steadily being replaced by another,...
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“Skilled immigration”
Mangan argues that it’s unreactionary to support skilled immigration: Meanwhile meanwhile, Walter Russell Mead says we’ve got to have more skilled immigrants. I’ve heard it said that Mead is actually a...
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- Progress in Afghanistan - Charles Murray’s next book. - The red pill for women. - The sociology of dysgenia. - Everyone’s talking about pitbulls. I think Paleo Retiree started it. I know a fair...
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Review of “Foundation and Empire” by Isaac Asimov
I’m not sure what to say about this book that I didn’t say about the last book. This one’s like that one, only more so. It’s divided into two parts. In the first, what’s left of the Empire is at war...
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- New blog: “I named the blog after Thomas Carlyle’s birthplace in the hope that something good will start here as well.” - In other new blog news, Nick Land is now blogging at a new site and there’s...
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Review of “France: The Tragic Years” by Sisley Huddleston
It has always appeared to me that the tragedy of our time is that the public, in consonance without professed democratic principles, should presume to exercise a real control over diplomacy while being...
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- Say what you will about Berlusconi, but he understands democracy almost as well as he understands women. I think these things are probably related. - Round-up of thoughts on WWI. - If your policy...
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The mandarins
Arnold Kling rounds up the latest articles criticizing the ruling class. There are two ideas about the elite/lower-class divide that seem to be held by people who think about these issues. The first...
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What to do
There’s a lot of hand-wringing in these parts of the interwebz about what reactionaries should do. I have no idea. I certainly have no grand plans to change the world. I like knowing what’s going on...
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Review of “Wool (1-5)” by Hugh Howey
What can I say about a book that has a five star rating on Amazon with almost 4,000 reviews? Especially since the movie rights have already been sold. The books are all self-published (spoilers in the...
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- A good long article about the suicide of a census worker that the lefties tried to gin up into a right-wing violence story. - The price of progress is truth - Bryan Caplan discusses how minorities...
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Learn to take (and give) shit
Someone recently asked me for some non-generic career advice. My advice was to learn take and give shit. Beyond the fundamentals, nothings served me better than some friendly shit-giving. Frankly, this...
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Review of “My Brother Ron” by Clayton Cramer
Perhaps nothing better illustrates the modern notion of “freedom” better than an anecdote from the annals of deinstitutionalization: Joyce Brown, aka Billy Boggs, a homeless person living on the...
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Sometimes, I think I’m crazy. After all, we live the era of diversity fanaticism. Yet, no matter how hard I try, I seem be unable to bask in the warm, healing, and all-powerful glow of diversity. But,...
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- Nick Land and Spandrell have more thoughts on what to do. - On not having kids. - On Christopher Lasch: “Lasch argued that today’s liberal elites have ‘the vices of the aristocracy without its...
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- You are should read this whole thing (HT: Isegoria). - In a related post, Paleo Retiree says: These days, I love tracking and exploring the Dark Enlightenment, and it’s great fun to steer a few...
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Harry Dexter White
Harry Dexter White was a spy. Thanks, Captain Obvious. Let’s examine some excerpts from the article. Over the course of 11 years, beginning in the mid-1930s, White acted as a Soviet mole, giving the...
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- Basically everyone linked to this “White in Philadelphia” article. It’s worth reading if you haven’t. Also, here’s Nick Land, Rod Dreher, Chuck, Heartiste, - Marion Barry doesn’t want to be...
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- Moldbug returns to, what he’s previously described as, the dire problem. From the former, a few selections. On the process of calculating GDP: For example: how much more fun of a computer is an...
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