Unorthodoxy

Altruism Creates Selfishness - People like easy answers, especially in the form of symbols which through the magic of categorical logic, “seem” to apply everywhere all at once, like a co...

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...

‘The Nation’ President Is Deceptive About His Publication’s Connection to George Soros - Newsbusters. The president of the leftist magazine The Nation Bhaskar Sunkara was up in arms over Vice President J.D. Vance’s connection of his publication...

Big Prey Syndrome - Orem, Utah As you know, or I hope you know, I’ve had a lot to say about the assassination of Charlie Kirk on the socials. Here, for the blog, where I tend ...

In Culture Wars, Museums Become a Battleground - Over at The Epoch Times, Theodore Dalrymple examines the ongoing politicization of Western cultural institutions—this time, museums. The direction of many ...

Brief note on political design - When we think about government we instinctively assume there will be only one unified government and that all functions will be concentrated into this sing...

Words Are Hard - I haven’t written anything about the murder of Charlie Kirk, partly because I’m still a bit lost in shock and grief, but also because I’m not really sure w...

Crossing a Line - The “nothing ever happens” crowd was once again proven wrong today, in one of the most horrific ways possible. While speaking at the opening event for his ...

“No Man is an Island” - James Dobson passed away on the 21st of August this year. When I heard the news it was the first time in years I had heard his name. The last time I he...

Ahead of its time - Futuristic. 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 ...

Ant. Fulcíte me flóribus, * stipáte me malis, quia amóre lángueo. - Today I was struck by an antiphon in the office of Lauds and Vespers for the 5th and final psalm of the hour, Ps 148. Ant. Fulcíte me flóribus, * stipáte m...

From stopped clocks right 2x daily dept: AB Premier Danielle Smith has a good idea for a change - (Hat tip: Greg M.): Dougie? Legault?

In Honor of the Hour when my Orotund Rhetorical Excess was Demeaned - A helpful soul on twitter told me my tweets would have more verve if I kept to the character limit, and he used Grok to summarize my (absurdly brief) three...

Meaningful places are objectively real to me - but why? - For me, there have always been only a few and specific "meaningful places" and I feel more-or-less out of it and adrift anywhere else. Where I live now...

The German Lesson (the Movie): Scapegoating for Peace - The German Lesson (the Movie): Scapegoating for Peace

Thucydides’ times and ours - All of my readers will no doubt have been following the horrific and heartbreaking news of the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk and it...

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 ...