Unorthodoxy

(Good / Self-Pity / Externalization) Versus (Evil / Autonomy / Internalization) - Let us stop, as hikers do, to consult the map to be sure of our course. We are looking down on a valley we left. It is a pleasant green place but it is sur...

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...

Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome - Ex-feds join forces to reimagine government post-Trump (Sean Michael Newhouse/GovExec.com) The Deep State strikes back. “It’s A Tinder Box”: GOP Members Co...

And Ten Steps Back - Magdeburg; Butler, Penn. All the warning signs that Magdeburg nutbar gave out starting two years before the fact. All the warning signs that the Butler nut...

Congress is a marketplace for the purchasing of laws - Let us imagine that you install trading machines on the floor of the House and Senate. Each one of the 535 members of Congress set a quota for their yes vo...

Does Wisdom Require Talent? - JM Smith, an occasional reader and commenter here, has a fine short post up over at The Orthosphere, in which he considers an assertion by Eugene William N...

The Theologians’ Cross - In this essay, written at the request of a colleague and former classmate, we shall be considering the subjects of election and predestination. This is...

Broken Telescopes - In this piece, Dalrymple argues that our gaze is magnetized by distant crises while the sufferings nearest to us, those we might actually relieve, are negl...

Some Unsolicited Advice for MAGA and Republicans - As we all know, the Republicans appear to have taken quite a drubbing in last Tuesday’s off year elections. Among other things, they lost the slate of stat...

November is for deep thoughts - open thread

The collapse of the imperial-scale welfare system, due to over-production of recipients (a special case of general imperial over-extension) - I haven't waded into political dIsCouRsE for awhile, since there has been nothing new to add from what I've already said. But with the looming possibilit...

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 ...

Life Hacks and Bucket Lists are symptoms of profound spiritual degeneracy - *Get them while they're young...* Sometimes the massive popularization of a term is symptomatic of deep civilizational disorder: two instances are Life...

HERESY from Pope Leo! - Look. Ketchup is divinely revealed as a basic food group. I get it. I get it, in fact, by the demijohn. But this has to stop. Something must be done. ...

Glad I’m not in that situation, brr - I suspect Ms. Marshall is doing the younger generation of men, particularly Zoomers, a disservice in not having sympathy for their position, but so it goes...

Announcement from my Publisher - John C. Wright’s newest Starquest epic, Spaceman in the Iron Mask, is officially out on Amazon and already in the Top 20 of new releases in Galactic Empire...

Engineered Forgetting - “Up to the beginning of the last century, history was very difficult to ignore, or to forget. As paradoxical as it may seem, it was the multiplication of t...

Pope Leo on immigration enforcement - Pope Leo was recently asked by a reporter about the deportation and detention of illegal immigrants. In response, he made the following remarks: I thin...

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 ...