Unorthodoxy

License to Invert Good and Evil - Inversion occurs when we ban some methods (killing, drinking) instead of re-orienting toward a goal. If you say that war is forbidden, then you have said t...

Nice, But We’re Not Supposed To Be - Imprecatory Psalms. You'll never hear them preached on Sunday mornings. It's dangerous. The sentiments sound selfish and vindictive to our Enlightened ears...

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...

Planned Parenthood Sues Trump Administration Over Planned Defunding - Read it. Planned Parenthood sued the Trump administration on Monday over a provision in President Donald Trump’s sweeping domestic policy bill that would s...

Nothing To See Here! - Well, we have now been assured by the DOJ that Jeffery Epstein didn’t kill himself, that he had no “client list”, and that there is no evidence that he eve...

A single piece of life-saving gardening advice - Sand. When you build your raised beds make the soil about 30% sand. This is because sandy soil is much easier to weed than any other type of soil, esp...

Make Me Sick - In this week’s Takimag column, Theodore Dalrymple dives into the consequences of a story from England, where a doctor has been suspended for selling fake s...

What’s Wrong With This Picture? - I’m going to break in to our vacation for a moment to make an important point about all this. Don’t worry, fam, I’ve been paying attention to the important...

it’s gonna be an endless summer - sunshine and an open thread

State of the Dominion – 2025 - Seven years ago I entitled my annual essay for our country’s birthday “State of the Dominion – 2018.” This was during the premiership of Captain Airhead...

Axiality and the Lack Thereof - Before beginning this piece, I’d like to take a moment to encourage everyone to go over and check out The Neo-Feudal Review’s tribute to the ZMan. Sadly, w...

Gawr Gura memorial song: "In the Real World" by the Little Vir-maid - The virtual shark-girl streamer who took the world by storm officially graduates today. I have a whole backlog of tribute songs I'll be posting here. Thi...

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 ...

Sage advice. It might choke you up. - Ever the optimist, from my desire to improve my chess game I look at chess videos and books. I lately came upon a bit of advice from a somewhat eccentric w...

You look as dumb and fake and geh as Stephen Harper in a cowboy hat, born-again Albertan, Pandering PeePee! - So funny. Hey, remember when Carney kicked your ass and you even lost your seat? Once a loser, still a loser. Always will be a loser, even if he wins his s...

Bonald's explanation for AI-dolatry - The archetypal modern senior manager: heroic, far-sighted, at the cutting edge... A corrupt, mediocre, spiteful, psychopath Bonald has come up with a ...

Appearing Tonight on GEEK GAB - Yours truly is being interviewed tonight 10.00 pm Eastern Time on GEEK GAB by the irreplaceable and inimitable Daddy Warpig, Father of Gamergate, concernin...

What’s the real endgame with AI? - I don’t believe for a minute that the “industrial scale plagiarism” algorithms can adequately replace truly intelligent workers. So how to explain the fact...

Talk it out - Time again for an open thread. Now’s your chance to get that off-topic comment off your chest. The burning philosophical or theological question you’v...

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 ...