Unorthodoxy

Consumerism - In human history, consumerism seems to be a relatively recent arrival. Some of it was brought on by the availability of mass-manufactured products, somethi...

What Do You Think of Biden's Pardon for Hunter?, by Steve Sailer - I would have been okay with Trump pardoning Hunter as a gesture of reconciliation.

The Trial of Verres - In the early days of the year 70 B.C., a deputation from the cities of Sicily arrived at Rome and sought an interview with a young Senator, who was already...

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...

The STEEL-cameralist Manifesto Part 12: A Reactionary Vision of World Order. - Contents 1: Introduction. 2: Geopolitical Players. 3: Premises, Principles and Problems. 4: Purpose, Structure, Argument and Model of a Reactionary World O...

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...

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

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...

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...

Pardon Him - Washington, D.C. (1) I have no problem with it. (2) I would have done it myself. (3) Trump insinuated that he was going to. (4) Which makes Trump’s whining...

No Love Lost - Back at Takimag, Dr. Dalrymple takes issue with an absurd quote from a modern psychologist in a book he happened to open during a visit to a friend’s bathr...

Is Something Cooking? - How many of you think we are going to get all the way to January 20th without some kind of radically disruptive “black swan” event? (The obvious candidate ...

Hating Thanksgiving - Read it. It wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without turkey, long lines, and people browsing their phones for Black Friday deals in which the products had their pr...

The Left Must Be Crushed - Well, Election 2024 is finally over and Trump won. This means we can all sit back and relax and watch everything on our wish list fall into place, right? R...

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...

Equality and Justice - I recently wrote, as I have done in the past, that equality is an idol that Modern man has substituted for the good that the ancients called justice. To...

November Rain - Open Thread.

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...

War Telegrams 10-25 - https://hybridwar.substack.com/p/war-telegrams-10-25-573

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 ...

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 ...

Coincidence? - The Novus Notre Dame v. A freemasonic temple. What's the difference? pic.twitter.com/OSvsvq6CaR — Michael of Nineveh (@MichaelNineveh) December 1, 2024

Defence against Psychic Attacks of the totalitarian-materialist kind - Traditional psychic attacks are (or were) of a *spectacular* nature; such as a person being made sick, or becoming possessed with mind and body under contr...

Interesting take, too - (Hat tip: goose): https://bioclandestine.substack.com/p/hunters-pardon-is-about-ukraine ⚠️HOLY SHIT⚠️ Joe Pardoned Hunter for all crimes he might be involv...

A World without Dogwhistles - I was trying to tell my children what it was like to live in a society where no one, and I mean NO ONE, noticed, mentioned, or applauded or condemned a man...

Zubia on Hume and liberalism - “Hume’s Trojan Horse,” my review of Aaron Alexander Zubia’s new book *The Political Thought of David Hume: The Origins of Liberalism and the Modern Polit...

The “Why was Trump allowed to win?” mystery - What is indisputable is that the Left controls all the real power in the Western world–all of the key communication, finance, and administrative nodes. So ...

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

Logic, Science, the Existence of God, and Chickens and Eggs - One of the most popular arguments for the existence of God is St. Thomas Aquinas’ Cosmological argument that deals with the reality of causation. Skeptics...

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