Monthly Archives: October 2026

Ressentiment En France

October 28, 2026 – 9:12 am

Theodore Dalrymple, who has spent a working lifetime examining “life at the bottom“, has just published a brief and insightful article on the roots of Muslim unrest in France, and its opportunistic exploitation by provocateurs of the Left. An excerpt: Islam, unfortunately, seems to be a religion ill-adapted to minority status because it so successfully […]

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Report From The Front

October 27, 2026 – 2:59 pm

Having heard about the civil unrest that’s been troubling Europe these last days, the lovely Nina and I have decamped to Rome for a week, where we are monitoring the situation. We haven’t had time yet to do city-wide reconnaissance, but the situation on Via delle Carrozze, and in the charming nearby enoteca where we […]

By Malcolm | Posted in Foreign Affairs | Comments (0)

Liberalism and Islam: Two Christian Heresies

October 25, 2026 – 10:25 pm

Given the rising tide of Islam everywhere in the West, and the suicidal ignorance and unwisdom of bien-pensant liberals and useful idiots even at this late hour, I’ll repost a link to Edward Feser’s outstanding 2016 article explaining in thorough and lucid detail why Islam and Western society are utterly, irremediably (and lethally, if we […]

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Getting Hot In Here!

October 24, 2026 – 10:32 pm

Is it me? Even leaving aside the jacquerie underway in Europe, it seems, as we approach our midterm elections, that things are getting more Schmittian over here every day, and that talk of civil war is increasingly normalized. The political analyst Jennica Pounds, who calls herself “Data Republican“, suggests that plans are underway on the […]

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Terror And Slaughter Return!

October 17, 2026 – 11:21 pm

France is aflame, after decades of choosing suicidal unwisdom and stubborn denial of self-evident realities. Paris is convulsed by riots, while the lovely Town Hall of Limoges was just burnt to the ground. (I wonder if it had a “beautiful oak door”.) It’s tempting to think of this as some sort of divine retribution — […]

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Don’t Let The Door Hit Ya Where The Dog Shoulda Bit Ya!

October 15, 2026 – 7:29 pm

I haven’t had much to say about the American political scene for a while, and it has never in my lifetime felt more like an existential struggle between mortal enemies. But there are still some bright spots, and occasions for momentary happiness. In particular, to paraphrase Oscar Wilde: one would have to have a heart […]

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Happy Columbus Day

October 12, 2026 – 1:56 pm

…to all of you. Thanks as always for coming round.

By Malcolm | Posted in General | Comments (0)

Ave Verum Corpus

October 11, 2026 – 8:00 pm

How can this not be of transcendent origin? Frame your hypotheses as you like; I will refuse to believe them.

By Malcolm | Posted in Inner Work, Religion | Comments (0)

Ted Talk

October 8, 2026 – 11:46 am

A prescient writer had this to say, way back in 1995: First let us postulate that the computer scientists succeed in developing intelligent machines that can do all things better than human beings can do them. In that case presumably all work will be done by vast, highly organized systems of machines and no human […]

By Malcolm | Posted in Society and Culture, Technology | Comments (2)

What Now?

October 5, 2026 – 6:16 pm

I’ll say this: I never imagined that in late 2026 the #1 topic on social media would be philosophy of consciousness. But there it is, and it isn’t going to go away: the personhood of AI agents — we even call them “agents”! — is already, in some people’s minds, an urgent question. And as […]

By Malcolm | Posted in A.I. | Comments (0)

Songs From The Dusty Trail

October 3, 2026 – 8:05 pm

My new favorite musical artist is a fellow calling himself Buddy Mac, who has, just in the past couple of days, become famous on X. He performs a haunting, “lonesome cowboy” kind of music not heard much anymore, and does it so well that it pierced my heart. (Listen to “my pony and I”, and […]

By Malcolm | Posted in Music and Recording | Comments (0)

We Are No Longer A Serious People

October 1, 2026 – 2:26 pm

I read with dismay today of Tennessee’s botched execution of Christa Pike, who had been sentenced to death for her role in the cruel and gruesome murder of a young woman, Colleen Slemmer, in 1995. Not only was justice postponed for three decades, but when the time came, the authorities couldn’t even get the job […]

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