Unorthodoxy

Democracy Failed and Brought a Return of Hitler - One thing to know about humans: they act for short-term benefits, and then blame someone else when things go wrong as a result, rather than looking into wh...

Are Law Schools Above the Law?, by Steve Sailer - From my new column in Taki's Magazine: Read the whole thing the

Thoughts on the 2024 College Football Playoffs - At last we have our 12 team College Football Playoff. And just like every playoff in the past few years there are those that are discontent with how it wor...

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...

The Frog And The Scorpion - By now you will have heard about the murderous attack on a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, by a Saudi doctor who had been living in the country for...

Real Housewives of Cologne, Episode 33 - “FOUR PLAY” My fourth birthday was the first that I still have conscious memory of, and the party I had is my first conscious memory of my birthday being a...

Convicted Terrorist Sues Saracen’s Head Pub Over “Deeply Offensive” Sign - Read it. Islamist Khalid Baqa has lodged a lawsuit against the landlord of The Saracen’s Head Inn in Amersham, Buckinghamshire. Baqa, who served four years...

Theodore Dalrymple Questions: What Are We Doing to Children? - Our favorite doctor dialed in to Chicago’s AM560 radio station in October to opine on the ongoing U.S. state-mandated form of child abuse called ‘gender tr...

Thoughts That Are Thought Can’t Be Unthought - One of the bigger news items from the past week was the apparent assassination of Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare (UHC), one of the largest med...

A Long December - open thread.

The Bible and the Church Part Two: What Belongs in the Bible? - In Part One we considered the dilemma raised, usually in the context of the “Catholic v. Protestant” dispute, about whether the Bible gave us the Church ...

AI slop is stylistically schizo and contradictory, human art is coherent and unified in style - A recent post from Scott Alexander on AI slop vs. human art asked respondents to guess whether certain images were made by AI or a person. If AI could fo...

Understanding the Left on Immigration - In lieu of the coming 2024 Kamala-Trump election shit show I have decided to resurrect this blog, but with no intention of regular posting. This will se...

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 ...

Instead of this worldly material sociality - what should we seek? - *There is no outer thing, group, institution, organisation or even religion, in our world that can protect against the dissolving qualities of the end time...

ADVENTCAzT 2024 – 21 – Ember Saturday 3rd Week of Advent – Visitation - A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation. Packed today! Sheen, Bacci, Troadec. Sort of like Tinker to Evers to Chance!

Dystopian possible future - Yep.

Not Tired of Winning Yet CLXXXIV - Long overdue news A Georgia court of appeals disqualified Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and her team from prosecuting President-elect Donald ...

Gilson on philosophy and its history - You might suppose from the title of Etienne Gilson’s *The Unity of Philosophical Experience* that it is a book about philosophy in general. And ultimate...

Feverish Binging and Longevity Very Seldom Combine - “Now it is well known, that in everything the ancients calculated on a longer duration, as well in their political systems, as in their monuments: we act w...

Simulation and Yellow Cards - That was when I learned about “simulation” for which he should have received a yellow card. Continue reading →

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 ...