Monthly Archives: December 2019

Service Notice

December 28, 2019 – 9:33 am

Taking a little holiday break. Back soon.

By Malcolm | Posted in General | Comments (4)

Merry Christmas!

December 25, 2019 – 11:35 am
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An Inconvenient Truth

December 23, 2019 – 6:13 pm

I’ve just read a fine paper by Nathan Cofnas, a doctoral student in philosophy at Oxford, on the censorship. suppression, and misrepresentation of scientific and philosophical inquiry into the heritability of intelligence and the statistical distribution of intelligence in different human populations. The gist is this: that a great deal of evidence has already been […]

By Malcolm | Posted in HBD | Comments (19)

Hang ‘Em High

December 20, 2019 – 6:34 pm

Some good news: a major MS-13 bust in Long Island.

By Malcolm | Posted in Society and Culture | Comments (7)

Repost: What Is The Right?

December 19, 2019 – 6:39 pm

Looking out over the rubble of our political system today, I’m reminded of a post from 2015, in which I argued that the political struggle of Right versus Left is not a contest of different policy preferences, but something far more basic, and more universal, even than human existence itself: the struggle against entropy, against […]

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JM Smith On Reason

December 17, 2019 – 2:30 pm

A theme of some recent posts here has been the limitations of reason. Reason is a machine: if properly maintained and frequently inspected, it does what it does well enough, but like any machine it can only do some things and not others. Moreover, it is in the nature of this machine not to deal […]

By Malcolm | Posted in Reason and Philosophy | Comments (10)

This Thing All Things Devours

December 14, 2019 – 11:50 pm

I’ve just read Propaganda (1928), by Edward Bernays. Bernays, who died in 1995 at the uncommonly advanced age of 103, was the founder of the modern era of marketing and public relations. (Some would call this a “science”, as it does have an empirical and experimental side.) Bernays makes clear his opinion that the great […]

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Fog In Channel, Continent Cut Off

December 14, 2019 – 4:49 pm

Wellfleet Harbor this afternoon:  

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Over There

December 12, 2019 – 10:10 pm

Outstanding news: it looks like the Right has won a major victory in Britain’s national elections today.

By Malcolm | Posted in General | Comments (4)

This Is Far From Over

December 11, 2019 – 12:02 am

Here’s an interview given Tuesday by Attorney General Barr. He discusses the Inspector General’s report, and reminds us that it was limited in scope and power, and that the full investigation is the one being conducted by John Durham. (Mr. Barr tells us not to expect anything from that until mid-2020.) Eighteen minutes in, Mr. […]

By Malcolm | Posted in Politics | Comments (3)

Racist Thing #109

December 9, 2019 – 3:05 pm

Physics.

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Drive Home

December 8, 2019 – 5:17 pm

Unless you’re au fait with the musical genre known as “progresssive rock”, you’ve probably never heard of the British musician and producer Steven Wilson. He’s best known as the leader of the now-defunct band Porcupine Tree, but he’s also made quite a few records on his own. I admire his work, which is always good […]

By Malcolm | Posted in Music and Recording | Comments (3)

The Parallel Postulate

December 7, 2019 – 2:18 pm
This entry is part 4 of 8 in the series Pilgrim's Progress

Last spring I wrote a post in which I described my dissatisfaction with the atheist, fully materialistic world-model I had inhabited (and defended with vigor, sometimes even cruelty) all my life. I’d come to see that there were essential questions to which it provided no good answers — and that the “scientism” it was built […]

By Malcolm | Posted in Reason and Philosophy, Inner Work, Religion, Ruminations | Comments (26)

Angelo Codevilla On The Unraveling Of America

December 4, 2019 – 1:37 pm

In a recent item at American Greatness, Angelo Codevilla acknowledges that America is divided beyond the possibility of reconciliation. [R]estoring anything like the Founders’ United States of America is out of the question. Constitutional conservatism on behalf of a country a large part of which is absorbed in revolutionary identity; that rejects the dictionary definition […]

By Malcolm | Posted in Society and Culture, Politics | Comments (1)

Michelle Obama in 2020?

December 1, 2019 – 9:11 pm

With the Democratic slate of candidates looking weaker by the day, a lot of people are whispering about Michelle Obama entering the race. She would be a much stronger opponent, I think, than any of the current crop of hopefuls, and the idea of her getting in has some on the Right worried. I don’t […]

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