Monthly Archives: September 2025

Service Notice

September 23, 2025 – 10:01 am

Sorry, again, for how slow it’s been here; there’s just been too much going on in my offline life to think much about writing (and frankly I think I’m just slowing down a bit as the years march on). Also, the lovely Nina and I are off scurrying about the globe again: this time we’re […]

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Words Are Hard

September 12, 2025 – 8:07 pm

I haven’t written anything about the murder of Charlie Kirk, partly because I’m still a bit lost in shock and grief, but also because I’m not really sure what ought to be said. So I’m just going to sit in front of the page for a few minutes here and see what comes out. First […]

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Things Fall Apart

September 10, 2025 – 4:12 pm

The prominent conservative writer and speaker Charlie Kirk has just been shot at a public event in Utah. As I write, he is reported to be in critical condition. Mr. Kirk is a young man, with a wife and children. Let us hope and pray that he survives this attack. We are in a very […]

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Of Carnages And Kings

September 8, 2025 – 11:35 am

Curtis Yarvin, formerly “Mencius Moldbug” and now America’s best-known monarchist, posted a snappy thread on X yesterday, in response to an acerbic tweet by the Trump administration’s Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security, Stephen Miller. Miller was commenting on the murder of 23-year-old Irinya Zarutska, who was stabbed fatally in the throat […]

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Is Liberty An Absolute Good?

September 6, 2025 – 2:07 pm

Albert Camus once said: “For whomever is alone, without a god and without a master, the weight of time is terrible. One must then choose a master, God being out of style.” Is liberty, the most sacred of American values — and a concept that has taken, in recent decades, its most radical form, stripped of all corresponding responsibilities, and of all obligations to virtue — […]

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