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Everything In Democracy is Signaling - On the bell curve, we can map how many people think they are exceptions to how things normally operate. As the IQ level drops, just about everyone thinks t...

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...

Appeals Court Orders Judge to End Contempt Investigation of Trump Administration Deportation Flights - Associated Press, a Voice of the Crust. A federal judge must end his “intrusive” contempt investigation of the Trump administration for failing to comply w...

Eastern Steppe culture in Northwest America: Breaking precious copper decorated sheets for potlatches and funerals - Although I've established that the Japonic language family belongs to the broader Dene-Yeniseian family, which presently spans Siberia to the American So...

Time Flies - I’m seventy years old today. Crikey! I’ll apologize yet again for how sparse the content has been here lately. Blogging, like anything else, requires susta...

Pinched Until Popped - Budapest This was a devastating loss. There is no massaging this, no nuancing this, no qualifying this, no spinning this, no sugarcoating this, no butacksh...

Thoughts for Eastertide - He is risen! In each of the Gospel portraits of Jesus Christ the events of a single week occupy a sizeable portion of the text. This is the week whi...

Molasses heralds authoritarianism - We need to term for things that slow government to a crawl. Corruption it's not a good enough term because not everything is driven by corruption. There re...

Paul Ehrlich, Estimated Prophet - In The American Conservative, Dalrymple considers the career and legacy of the recently deceased Paul Ehrlich, the entomologist-turned-doomsayer whose Popu...

Springtime - open thread

Lying for Likes – The Epic Implosion of the Very Online Dissident Right - So the Next Big Thing recently happened, which is the US bombing of Iran, now nearing two weeks in duration at the time of this writing. This war has gener...

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 ...

Blasphemous Kitsch (What Does it Mean?) - “That in the captain’s but a choleric wordWhich in the soldier is flat blasphemy.” Shakespeare, Measure for Measure (1604) Nick Adams (born Adamopolous) is...

UpperCanadianCavalier encourages the young’uns to break their Boomer programming (i.e. to take the red pill) - Inside every zoomer and millennial is a spiritual boomer. A voice that was installed in you before you were old enough to question it. Cautious, deferen...

The "attribution of Mystery" PSYOP in "AI" and the Birdemic - We live in a world that is, in all its official operations, utterly materialist, spirit-less, God-less. However, such is our innate need for what we call...

Guest Post: On Nominalism - This is from a longtime guest here with the binary and cardological name of the Deuce wrote a comment so clear and trenchant that it bears repeating and em...

The New Neo-Scholasticism - My article “The New Neo-Scholasticism” appears in the Winter 2026 issue of the *American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly*. It is available for free dow...

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 ...