Monthly Archives: March 2024

Noticing

March 31, 2024 – 10:27 pm

Over American Greatness, Jeremy Carl discusses Steve Sailer’s new book, and the man himself. (If you don’t know who Steve Sailer is, you should; he is arguably the sharpest and most influential American thinker and writer of the last quarter-century, and were it not for the suffocating taboos enforced by our cultural commissars, he would […]

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In Your Face, Christians

March 30, 2024 – 5:09 pm

The White House has decided to dedicate this Sunday to its malevolent, Gnostic project of obliterating every sacred thing, every natural category, and every stone in the foundation of the American nation. “But wait,” you say, “this Sunday’s Easter!! Couldn’t they at least have picked some other day?” Gosh, you’re right. I’m sure they’d just […]

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Why Study History?

March 27, 2024 – 11:03 pm

“Most of all, perhaps, we need intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has any magic about it, but because we cannot study the future, and yet need something to set against the present, to remind us that the basic assumptions have been quite different in different periods and that much which seems […]

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Auron MacIntyre On Nick Land On Acceleration

March 26, 2024 – 4:40 pm
This entry is part 7 of 7 in the series Accelerationism

What we used to call the “reactosphere” has added some fine younger contributors over the last few years. One of the best is Auron Macintyre, who does podcasts (both on his own and with guests), YouTube videos, and a column at Substack (you can also follow him on X). I give him my highest recommendation: […]

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In A Nutshell…

March 24, 2024 – 11:52 pm

Victor Davis Hanson, move over. It doesn’t get any more concise than this: This woman KNOCKS IT OUT OF THE PARK?! I double dare you to give her a listen.? pic.twitter.com/dP1A9EgZ3g — ?? Pismo ?? (@Pismo_B) February 24, 2024 Looking back over the past decade or two, I’m reminded of Churchill’s remarks in 1938: I […]

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Blast From The Past

March 23, 2024 – 5:50 pm

Something I ran across online earlier today reminded me of a project I worked on long ago (late 1985), when I was a staff engineer at Power Station. It was a record by the great Japanese pianist and singer Akiko Yano, and I hadn’t heard it, I think, since the album came out in early […]

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In The Belly Of The Beast

March 22, 2024 – 8:34 pm

I love the Outer Cape, where I live, but the prevailing ideology out here is as “blue” as it gets. (Aside from the occasional reactionary like me, there is also a subclass of people around here who build and fish and dig and pave and fix things — in other words, who earn a crust […]

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A Scruton Sampler

March 21, 2024 – 6:45 pm

The great Roger Scruton would have been 80 this past February 27th, and to commemorate the event, Jash Dolani, a poster on X, put up a list of 11 Scruton quotes, which I repost below: 1. Scruton on the fundamental right-wing impulse: “Conservatism starts from the sentiment that good things are easily destroyed, but not […]

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Power, Meet Truth

March 20, 2024 – 8:20 pm

Hunter Biden’s former business associate Tony Bobulinski testified today for the House Oversight Committee’s impeachment inquiry. I haven’t had a chance to review the testimony itself — but hoo-boy, his opening statement is a corker. (Some clips from the hearing are here.) (Don’t get too excited, though, or start imagining there will be actual consequences. […]

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Service Notice

March 18, 2024 – 4:24 pm

We’re away in NYC for a few days. Back soon. (Will be glad to get home.)

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It’s A Hell Of A Town

March 14, 2024 – 8:56 pm

A man has just been fatally shot on a crowded A train in Brooklyn, during rush hour. The videos I’ve been seeing (I’m not posting them here, but you can find them in seconds on Twitter) show people cowering afterwards in the train, which was stopped at the Hoyt-Schermerhorn station in Brooklyn. (I can’t count […]

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This And That

March 13, 2024 – 7:32 pm

I haven’t been able to do any substantial writing for a bit – I’m still foggy from this virus I’ve had (though I’m recovering now, it was a nasty bug, with fatigue and cognitive wooziness to rival the Wuhan Red Death itself). I also had to make around trip from Wellfleet to JFK on Monday […]

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Any Questions?

March 9, 2024 – 8:23 pm

“The rules are simple: they lie to us, we know they’re lying, they know we know they’re lying, but they keep lying to us, and we keep pretending to believe them.” – Elena Gorokhova, A Mountain of Crumbs

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What To Do?

March 8, 2024 – 6:14 pm

Commenter “Landroll” asks, in response to my previous post about the incremental militarization of the New York City subway system: Like the line from the song says, “Whatcha gonna do about it?” I don’t know what song that is, but: So far, what I’ve done about it has been to move out of New York, […]

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Over There

March 7, 2024 – 3:18 pm

Our reader and commenter ‘mharko’ has left some excellent remarks on a thread at Bill V.’s place about our worsening political situation. Go and have a look, here. (Sorry not to have responded myself, mharko. I’m still quite foggy and unwell with this damned respiratory virus I’ve been battling, and it’s been all I can […]

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Breach Of Contract

March 7, 2024 – 2:52 pm

In response to an extraordinary rise in subterranean crime over the past few years, New York Governess Kathy Hochul has announced that she will be deploying National Guard troops and State Police in the NYC subways in an attempt to make the system safer, or at least to seem safer. They will apparently be conducting […]

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Good Riddance

March 5, 2024 – 7:05 pm

I note with grim satisfaction the retirement of the maleficent Victoria Nuland, the meddlesome witch whose machinations in Ukraine gave us the Maidan revolution in 2014, and everything that has happened since. In my opinion she has the blood of hundreds of thousands, the collapse of the Ukrainian nation, and the useless expense of many […]

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Who Knew?

March 4, 2024 – 10:33 pm

Get ready for a shock: men and women have different brains.

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Axioms And Theorems

March 2, 2024 – 6:32 pm

Imagine a large-scale mathematical society whose aim is to work together to broaden the scope of demonstrated mathematical truths. The way they would go about this is by building upon the theorems that have already been proven: finding new relations and isomorphisms between existing theorems, and proving new ones. They wouldn’t all work on the […]

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Repost: On The Taxonomy Of Civil War

March 1, 2024 – 3:18 pm

In the course of the ongoing conversation about America’s prospects over at Bill Vallicella’s website, Bill mentioned two of the various types of civil wars (in my view, there are at least three). Having written an article about exactly that at American Greatness four years ago, in the runup to the last election, I posted […]

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Say Her Name

March 1, 2024 – 2:23 pm

Today in the small town of Woodstock, Georgia, there will be a funeral for Laken Riley, a University of Georgia student who was brutally murdered by a Venezuelan man here in the country illegally. Four years ago the nation tore itself to pieces in a summer of violent rioting over the death of George Floyd, […]

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