Monthly Archives: April 2022

Heads Up

April 24, 2022 – 1:08 pm

The Russian Embassy in Ottawa just posted this on Twitter: Wheels within wheels…

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Small States Are Wunderbar!

April 23, 2022 – 7:58 pm

I’ve got something entertaining for you: the thoroughly based Hans-Herman Hoppe (author of Democracy: The God That Failed) in a panel discussion on the merits (or in Hoppe’s view, the pestilential demerits), of the E.U. Among other things, Hoppe argues the case for subsidiarianism and decentralization (which, as readers of this blog will know, I […]

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The Department Of Reality

April 19, 2022 – 9:04 pm

Here’s one of the best essays Moldbug has published in a long time: The Cathedral or the Bizarre. In it he revisits the foundations of what, way back in Chapter 4 of his Open Letter to Open-Minded Progressives (2008), he first called “the Cathedral”: the curiously coordinated institutions of journalism and academia that seem to […]

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Home!

April 17, 2022 – 12:15 pm

We’re back from Savannah. It really is a beautiful place, and I’m sure we will visit again. The gracious architecture, the charming little squares that break up the urban density, and the fragrant, luxurious flora all provide the unforgettable aesthetic effect of a high civilization in a kind of sated languor. It was perfect for […]

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Service Notice

April 10, 2022 – 11:04 pm

Ah, this world… I’d hoped I might have had something original, or at least interesting, to say in the few days since my last, rather apologetic post — but it’s Spring, and the lovely Nina and I haven’t gone anywhere since March of 2020, so on an impulse we are heading South for just a […]

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A.W.O.L.

April 6, 2022 – 11:42 pm

Jeepers, where does the time go? I had no idea it had been so long since I’ve written anything here; I’ve been distracted with what’s known as “IRL” stuff (which, I suppose, is not altogether unhealthy). Among the things I’ve been doing has been reading a lot. Right now I’m re-reading a book called The […]

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