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Reaction Papers - When future archaeologists conduct an autopsy of modernity, they will conclude that much of what went wrong can be explained by the reaction paper that too...

The Roman Soldier - Like all soldiers of the ancient world, the Roman soldier was originally the able-bodied man of a small community, fighting to protect his folk and his lan...

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: Modern Dating -

Got tolerance? The new landscape of warfare - The purpose of a thing is what it does and not what it says it does. This is the basic axiom that can disentangle all kinds of lies and nonsense. The instr...

Merry Christmas. - Guest post by Puggg Me, I hope that 2026 isn’t as eventful as 2025. Because 2025 for me was when my house came within 2100 feet of taking a direct tornado ...

Disorder at a Soccer Match - In this very short piece at City Journal, Dalrymple reports on the good news about the recent violence at a football match in Birmingham.

Dead Continent Walking - The latest issue of Chronicles offers an excellent analysis, by Srdja Trifkovic, of the sorry state of Europe, and of the calculus behinds its bellicose re...

The Right Has a Republicans Problem - A few weeks ago, I gave the Republican Party some unsolicited advice about what they should do if they want to get back into the saddle and start winning e...

Uncovering the prehistory of Japanese: The structure and origins of Japonic verbs - In a series of lectures published in the comments section to the previous 2 posts, I discovered and detailed the Yeniseian origins of the Japonic languag...

What the Hell? - Hell has been a topic of much discussion online this past week, and not due to any speculation that the polar vortex that meteorologists are predicting ...

New Year’s Eve Party - 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

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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 ...

ASK FATHER: Must we do penance, abstain from meat, on Friday in the Octave of Christmas? - This is a question which comes up each year. It came up again today. Must we do penance on Friday within the Octave of Christmas? The short answer is YES. ...

Merry Christmas - Merry Christmas to all my readers. I love you all (including the grinches out there). May God bless you and yours!

Winny and the Blessing Angels - Winny and the Blessing Angels By L Jagi Lamplighter For Christmas, I shall share a story, but first… a story about the story: A few years ago, as we were l...

Merry Christmas Day - Coventry Carol by Maddy Prior - *The Massacre of the Innocents*, by Pieter Breughel the Elder; this is the subject matter of the Coventry Carol Many people's favourite sad carol - the ...

Lo, how a rose e’er blooming - Lo, how a Rose e’er bloomingfrom tender stem hath sprungof Jesse’s lineage comingas saints of old have sung.It came, a floweret bright,amid the cold of win...

The New King is Not Like the Old - “Hark! the herald angels sing, ‘Glory to the new-born King.’” Charles Wesley (1739) “Jesus answered, ‘My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were o...

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 ...