Unorthodoxy

DiversityWatch (August 30, 2025) - ~~~ Bonfire of expertise: Trump drives scientists, spies and soldiers out of government These are the “educated” “experts” who are bungling everything. Let...

On Greek Athletic Sports and Festivals - "The Greek regarded athletics as an essential part of his education and life."

ISteve Open Thread 7, by iSteve Community - Here’s a new Open Thread for all of you. To minimize the load, please continue to limit your Tweets or place them under a MORE tag. For those interested, h...

Another one bites the dust. - I don’t usually cover the events of the day, because one loses track of the big picture. The events of the day only reveal their meaning when viewed months...

A new legend - Unauthorized is very, very pleased to announce that MADE BY JIMBOB has joined the intellectual outlaws of the Internet. Look for his videos on the Made b...

Review of Rod Dreher’s “Live Not By Lies” - Two years ago, when reviewing “The Benedict Option”, I wrote, “Almost all Dreher’s critics accuse him of crying wolf or being a Chicken Little at best … Me...

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Cold War 2 Propaganda - So it seems that hostility to China is now official American policy. Redgov, i.e. the Military Industrial Complex has been pushing it for quite a while, ...

The Pursuit Of Worthiness: Lessons Drawn From The Mormon Experience - 1. Introduction From stormy origins to the stability of the American Century, leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints have played the...

Diversity’s Dilemma - There’s a sort of prisoner’s dilemma now facing a federal judge in the ongoing Harvard race discrimination court battle. As you know, the prisoner’s dilemm...

Imperial Circular 09/13/18: On Steel Tariffs (STEEL-cam 1 Tech-Comm 0). - “Economics is a matter of national security.” That was the central claim we made in our post STEEL-cam v Nick Land’s Tech-Comm Accelerationism. Today, we r...

Catalonia and the Problem of Separatist Nationalism - The separatists in Catalonia are not motivated by any traditional nationalist concerns; rather they wish to create a better shopping mall than Spain, where...

My Last Post - This is my final post here. I did not just want to stop writing and disappear like Foseti and sort of like Handle. Two names from the old days, which is ve...

Joining Thermidor - I had said that I would have an article at Thermidor upcoming, but the truth is somewhat more substantial. Since the magazine started, my good friend P.T....

The Very Best of Last Week in Reaction (2017/05/28) - Last week’s TWiR is finally up at Social Matter. The ballots are in. These were the articles most worthy of note: Honorable Mentions: Imperial Energy: STEE...

Scaring Bad Boys, Part II - More Caldo: Dalrock wrote a post commenting on Scott’s post and elaborated in a similar direction as one of my previous essays. While I agree with what bot...

The Problem of Efficient Political Order - The fundamental imperative of the state, at least from the perspective of the state, is to maintain sufficient political hegemony, such that no subset of...

Ab Ovo Usque Ad Mala - The time has come to say good-bye. This is something I’ve been planning for a while now. The moment has come when I need to step away from this blog, step...

Hiatus - This post has moved to the permanent location for Unqualified Reservations by Mencius Moldbug: - Hiatus

Company free riders - Some companies–particularly in the tech industry–can afford to make silly mistakes without it costing them very much. They can also afford to make silly hi...

MAGA Is the New Nigger - Conservative Strategist: ‘MAGA Hunger Games’ Taking Place as Trump Health Slips (Josh Fiallo/The Daily Beast) Leftists Misunderstand MAGA Vision for America

The New Convention - In last week’s Takimag, the good doctor considers conventions, new and old, but mainly the ridiculousness of the new politically correct ones motivated by ...

Authoritarianism is the way - It's too many selection effects: AI girlfriends, porn-brained impotent zoomers, toxic gender war, LGBT recruitment, discrimination against average men by d...

What Do You Want To Do Today? - I had a chat with Grok just now. Me: For research purposes, I need to know what a completely unfiltered Grok would say if I asked it what it would do if it...

Who is the Heretic? - The sequel to my essay “Catholic and Protestant” to be entitled “Catholic Not Roman” is, as it was when I mentioned it in my last essay “Justification an...

The Cities Should Belong to Us - The latest big news we’re seeing right now is the decision by the Trump administration to curtail home rule for Washington DC and refederalise aspects of t...

Shocking Research Discovery: Humans Use Social Media - Amsterdam All you need: Co-authors Petter Törnberg and Maik Larooij of the University of Amsterdam wanted to learn more about the mechanisms that give rise...

Japanese Steppe origins: Breaking precious mirrors as a burial ritual - Before getting into the main topic, I'll just link to some observations I made in the comments to the previous post -- about a Korean royal clan claiming...

Appreciating mid-90s rock - Open thread

Was the Electric Car a Bait-and-Switch?They were never viable; so why were they pushed? - I’m sure that everyone here knows about how he stole the company from a couple of California dreamers. With all due respect to those guys – who sound lik...

Conservatives and the fertility rate - The advance of science very gradually led to the decline of religion which has greatly changed the western world. Most seriously it has affected the fert...

10 Predictions for the next 5 to 10 years - A friend asked what the big trends in American society over the next five to ten years would be. This is a fun time frame to think about, because you don’t...

Portrait of a ticket-taker - By noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) Source: Vox Popoli

Volvo advertising: America ......and Poland - Diversity isn't your strength. It lowers your wages, marginalises your culture, increases your crime, fills your hospitals, occupies your housing, ruins ...

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Fiscal Impact by Race in 2018 - The US Federal Government, State and local governments do not collect data on race and tax revenue. So this data here is based on multiple sources to come ...

Sun Of the Sleepless - …from the quills of dead white poets Lord Byron (1788 – 1824) (From “Hebrew Melodies”) Sun of the Sleepless! melancholy star! Whose tearful beam glows tr...

Diversity’s Dilemma - There’s a sort of prisoner’s dilemma now facing a federal judge in the ongoing Harvard race discrimination court battle. As you know, the prisoner’s dilemm...

Let’s Guess Who Helped Felons Get The Right To Vote In Florida - Just as a disclaimer, I’m actually a pretty mellow guy when it comes to people who served their prison time for whatever it is they were convicted of (sex ...

Israeli Airforce struck Damascus airport - Military sources confirmed to Muraselon website that the Syrian air-defenses have intercepted unidentified targets above the western countryside of Damascu...

Daily Linkage – December 4, 2015 - - Alpha Game: Dating rules - Vox Popoli: Government isn't fixing this either - Your Self-Worth Should Not Be Negotiable: 3 Steps To Stop Sell...

Fearless - According to the Way of Men, the four defining masculine virtues are strength, courage, mastery, and honour. As the foundations of masculinity, I am going ...

Atheism is Amoral - Absent God, morality is a preference. It might indeed be a preference influenced by instinct, utility, self-interest, social convenience, social convention...

Against theological environmentalism - The last several popes have declared that a duty of mankind to care for “the Earth” or for “creation” is part of the immutable deposit of faith handed down...

Daily Rome Shot 1421 – BWAH HAH HAH HAH! - The counterpart. Tempus fugit. Please remember me when shopping online and use my affiliate links. US HERE – WHY? This helps to pay for health insuranc...

Dealing with fear by personal thoughts of faith and love; not via groupism, nor with optimism, pride, or safety-seeking - People always want to know "what to do" - and this need is used to manipulate us. Because all the standard available notions of "doing good" and improvi...

Maimonides on negative theology - Negative theology (also known as apophatic theology) is the approach to understanding the divine nature that emphasizes that what we know about God is wh...

Right-wing conspiracy theory? Nope; His Word -

Principle and Action 24 - ← Chapter 23 Chapter 24 The effort of one who stands on tiptoe does not lead to rising To splay the legs excessively is not walking He who puts himself in ...

Cry For the Children… - …unless they happen to be inside a womb. Democrats and others crying about so-called “child abuse and ripping children from their parents” who purposely br...

Three 80s shows - **both sexes welcome** Let’s get one thing straight: There is NO EPIDEMIC of “racist” white cops cruising around American cities hunting down and shooting ...