Unorthodoxy

Ouroboric Yin-Yang - Some wonder aloud what went wrong with the Boomers. After all the Boomers were not just hippies and 68ers, but also the “Me Generation,” an entire group de...

The Horse in History: Ancient Greece - In spite of the derisive remarks often uttered concerning Xenophon's advice to young riders, and his advice on horsemanship in general and the care of hors...

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...

Thought for the Day - Remember: Kidney, not carotid—that way you don’t care how sharp the knife is, plus you don’t have to clean up all that mess. Oh, and it reduces the amount ...

The third world is not going to make it - An overlooked fact is that these third world countries have woefully inadequate environmental regulations. Persistent organic pollutants are pollutants tha...

What Inmates Told Me Should Change How We Do Justice - Dalrymple draws on his experience as a prison doctor to argue in The Telegraph that longer sentences earlier in criminal careers would dramatically reduce ...

Get A Life! - Here’s a fun little AI toy: Any Human Ever.

Turning Judas vs Growing Up - Magdeburg Dateline from the same city where I happen to be, in advance for what could be an upcoming Sunday that changes everything. If you read my social ...

Late Summer Questions - 1. Late summer is for ___. 2. What is the most beautiful aircraft? 3. Example of good driving music? 4. Is romance still thriving? 5....

SS Paul and James on Faith and Works - Recently I responded to a social media post from an apologist for the Roman Church. In the post, the Roman apologist made the oft-repeated claim that th...

Eskaleut origins of Manchurian / Tungusic language family - Time to start a new standalone post, though as always most of what I publish will be in the comments section. I'll be continuing work on the Eskaleut ori...

On Thomas Massie, or How Not to Form a Counterelite Movement - As many long-time readers and Twitter/X mutuals may know, I was (and still am, in many ways) an old school NRx-style neoreactionary. Now, while many on the...

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 ...

The omni-surveillance agenda rolls-on towards its own annihilation - Whenever I interact with the mainstream of institutional life, I am aware that the totalitarian omni-surveillance agenda continues, and continues... And ...

Nah, just grifters like Genius there -

Army Brats and Navy Juniors - The idea of a military society different from the general society is one I have heard many people from military families discuss. My father was career Navy...

Saving Stories that Save - “You know, I said, that we begin by telling children stories which, though not wholly destitute of truth, are in the main fictitious . . .” Plato, The Repu...

Just war doctrine and Congress’s war powers - As I have argued since it began, President Trump’s war on Iran fails to meet several of the conditions of traditional just war doctrine. Not the least o...

LEEverything became clear to me.” - From The Four Quartets East Coker […] IV. The wounded surgeon plies the steel That questions the distempered part; Beneath the bleeding hands we feel The s...

Creatura - The following poem was written under the pseudonym “Monos” for Volume 4 of Julius Evola’s “La Torre” magazine. For those who have been paying close attenti...

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 ...