Unorthodoxy

Gaslighting: Individualistic Manipulation - We know gaslighting: people portray reality inaccurately and repeatedly in order to skew your perception so that you do what they want. Most passive-aggres...

How We Got Here - Charlie Kirk was martyred, for speaking the truth and spreading the Gospel. One wonders how someone who adamantly preached nonviolence was violently murder...

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...

Kohler Launches $600 iPhone-Connected Toilet Camera That Monitors Your Health Through Waste Analysis - Read it. Kohler is expanding its line of bathroom products with Dekoda, an iPhone-connected device that’s designed to be attached to a toilet rim (via The ...

I’m Offended, Therefore I’m Right - At Quadrant, Dalrymple writes on the modern tendency to take offense: Now it seems obvious to me that the notion of tolerance (the queen of the modern virt...

Your should be studying female intrasexual competition - Here is a nice and insightful long-form video for thouse of you who like long-form content. Skip ahead to 6:00

The Future Is Already the Past - Can you believe that Back to the Future II Day, October 21, 2015, is, today, ten years in the past? Something that has been on my mind about that. The whol...

If “The Future Is Female”, We’re Doomed - Making the rounds today is an outstanding article by Helen Andrews, in which she argues what many of us (particularly in NRx) have been saying for long yea...

Fighting Stochastic Terrorism - I am back from a month-long hiatus made necessary by a lot of busy-ness in real life. As fun as touching grass may be, it’s now time to get back in the sad...

The Tenth Article – Baptism and Forgiveness - My last essay in this series on the Articles of the Creed was in June 2023. Its subject was the ninth Article on “The Holy Catholick Church.” I have re...

New Music - White energy open thread

Japanese Steppe origins: Breaking precious mirrors as a burial ritual - Before getting into the main topic, I'll just link to some observations I made in the comments to the previous post -- about a Korean royal clan claiming...

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 ...

Diocese of Scranton: Good News – TLM community given a great new church - I received a note that a FSSP TLM personal parish in the Diocese of Scranton has been given a lovely church for their use, St. Lucy. I’ve tried to open dio...

AI-dolatry among Christians is the flip-side of fundamentally anti-personal metaphysical assumptions - I have commented before about my dismay at AI-dolatry among so many self-identified Christians - specifically their failure to recognise and grasp that t...

Review LOOKING BACKWARD by Edward Bellamy - This is a column from some time ago, which I reprint here merely to ask the question: what is the mental illness of knowing not how anything works, not kno...

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What Came With Such Noise From the Doomed Temple of the Jews? - “Hosts joining battle, with arms flashing, had been seen in the sky; the Temple had been lighted up by flames bursting out of a cloud; the doors of the inn...

Vallicella on Immortal Souls - At his Substack *Philosophy in Progress*, my old buddy Bill Vallicella engages with my book *Immortal Souls: A Treatise on Human Nature*. Bill kindly op...

Principle and Action 24 - ← Chapter 23 Chapter 24 The effort of one who stands on tiptoe does not lead to rising To splay the legs excessively is not walking He who puts himself in ...

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 ...