Unorthodoxy

Chicago-Area Leaders Call for Illinois to Abolish History Classes, by Steve Sailer - From NBC5Chicago: The people who say that history textbooks overlook the contributions of women and minorities are people who can't remember what was in th...

Perfect Mushrooms - Whether or not the keto diet turns out to be solid wisdom or just a fad, the habit of eating mushrooms comes to us from our ancestors and therefore, will s...

ASL: the answer - I mentioned that there was a little trap in the previous post that mentioned ASL. It was actually contained in this sentence: *Consider, for example, the p...

Sermon: Christian Victory - Editor’s note: The following sermon by Christopher Newman Hall is extracted from The World’s Great Sermons, Vol. 6 (published 1908). To him that overcome...

State of the left singularity -

360 Small Numbers - 11111122222122, (((((0))))0), 293 111111222222, (((((0))))), 127 11111122222212, (((((0)))))0, 254 111112122222, ((((00)))), 277 111112212222, ((((0)0))), ...

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...

Excerpts and Discussion of Rod Dreher’s “The Benedict Option” - Prologue (mine, not Dreher’s) The book is an extended exposition of what is at heart a very simple thesis and message. That premise: “Genuine, traditional ...

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 Reservationsby 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...

Chicago-Area Leaders Call for Illinois to Abolish History Classes, by Steve Sailer - By Steve Sailer Source: Steve Sailer

Today in Progressive Totalitarianism - ‘I Have Never Been Called That’: Dr. Birx Responds To Pelosi Criticism The Panopticon Is Already Here Portland Recorded More Homicides In July Than Any Mon...

Saint Anthony - I must admit to being puzzled by *Anthony*, a recent BBC "documentary". At least that's what they call it. It's about black yoot Anthony Walker who was kil...

Song about Anna Khachiyan vs. the leftoids (Marina & the Diamonds tune) - Easing back into my regularly scheduled posting with another tribute song to an anti-woke left figure, Anna Khachiyan, following the one about Aimee Terese...

No Dogwhistling - The most malignant empire in modern history might be the one that presently has military bases all over the world. Or it could be the EU. Or it’s the ancie...

Being true to nature in art and religion (from the archive) - Being true to nature in art? How about also applying this realism to psychology, philosophy, politics? We need to unblock real human nature and stop the c...

Books About Things Never Read - The August edition of New English Review has Theodore Dalrymple worried about the current cultural level of France specifically and the Western world more ...

Christianity, Darwinism, and Marxism - I was just entering high school when I developed an interest in the “scientific creationist” response to the Darwinian theory of evolution. By the end o...

What We’ve Lost - I had a post ready to go here yesterday, but I sent it off to American Greatness and they picked it up, so I’ll ask you to read it there. Note: a disclaime...

Vote Mary Pat Carl. - Guest post by Puggg If you can vote in the city of St. Louis, take a Democratic ballot on August 4 and vote Mary Pat Carl for Circuit Attorney. Just to ge...

Contact - I deletaed this blog for security reasons. If you wish to talk I can be reached at roystonviolet@protonmail.com Don't expect me to use my real name.

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The Last Great Puritan Awokening - Whoever it was that said religion in America and the West is dying had no idea what they were talking about. The past week has made this abundantly clear....

AMA Clip: talking about Regeneration -

Glitches in the Matrix: Overcoming Deterministic Systems - Even the most deterministic computer program can create unexpected outcomes; the same goes for the wider world which surrounds us. Glitches in the system...

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...

Tora Bora - In the mid-2000s, I was in a teaching methods class with an Army vet who had recently come back from Afghanistan and had been at the Battle of Tora Bora in...

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 ...

Why it's best to be English - I take it that being English is the best thing to be - since the mass media regard it as so shameful. The rule in mainstream culture is Anything But Englis...

Surviving Hurricane Isaias and Other Fantasies - ‘Informer’ … means one who gives information. It means what ‘journalist’ ought to mean. The only difference is that the Common Informer may be paid if he t...

2 August until midnight: “Portiuncula” Plenary (or Partial) Indulgence - From midnight tonight to midnight tomorrow, 2 August, you can gain the “Portinuncula” Indulgence. This indulgence seems to have been granted directly by Ch...

A statement from David Bentley Hart - *NOTE: David Bentley Hart and I have had some very heated exchanges over the years, but I have always found him to be at bottom a decent fellow. That re...

Nostalgia - There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshne...

Cyberpunk has become reality - It's pretty remarkable that we get to watch the country transform into a cyberpunk dystopia in real time https://t.co/uCIWVfuA2y pic.twitter.com/ab5yh6kZrx...

Reclaiming My Time - I watched as much of this hearing as I could stand, as a way of mortifying the flesh. My stoic indifference to pain was insufficient: my will broke. His co...

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 ...

Attack on the Historical Catholic Church and Other Kinds of Ignorance in the Calls for a Reformation of Islam - So-called moderate Muslims like Dr. Zuhdi Jasser have repeatedly claimed in radio and television interviews that all Islam needs in order to get away from ...