0600 – Wake up, start coffee maker. 0605 – Check Twitter for new “notifications.” Check email for new posts from Dampier, Land, Social Matter, The Mitrailleuse. Etc. Check Drudge to see if the world ended overnight. 0620 – Begin reading local newspaper. Front section is a mish mash of local crime, state legislature blather, Christians beheaded by ISIS, chickens […]
Remember the donkey, Benjamin, from Animal Farm? He is a dissident intellectual who sees how things really are, providing exposition to the reader about how the ridiculous, surreptitious deception defines the post-revolution farm. He’s not a resister, he’s not a rabble-rouser and he’s not counter-revolutionary. He is passive, and he passively speaks the sober truth, with […]
Once moreMy quondam dean in University HallStands in the breach of peace, whence he will callDown fire on the bald, woolly heads of allProfessors of the other point of view,Who, flanked and enfiladed and too few,Will soon throw down their dated arms of course,And yield themselves to a superior forceOf well-drilled intellectual police,Sworn on honor […]
Randomly poll American citizens if there are any U.S. states that they believe should combine. You aren’t going to field many offers. Next ask them if there are any states they’d prefer to see broken up. Suggestions are, again, likely to be few and far between. How about states that should see their borders re-drawn? […]
ANTI-WORK IS THE LATEST INANE IDEA FROM LEFT-LIBERTARIANISM I call myself a libertarian, but boy do libertarians get on my nerves. The freedom philosophy used to be about trashing government aggression and poking fun at statism. But thanks to the rise of left-libertarian organizations, the philosophy has been infiltrated by ignorant hacks. Libertarianism is now […]
The King Dude has been kind enough to have me back again tomorrow, so if you’re a Sirius XM listener, consider making it a part of your morning commute. The show runs from 6-9 AM on Patriot 125. So far the guests I’ve got lined up are Edwin Black (author, IBM and the Holocaust), Roger Stone […]
Sorry for the long break since the last one of these, I just don’t really have the time to do them weekly, so here’s a Hail Mary request. If there is anyone out there who would be interested in doing a secession link round-up weekly, I’d love to hand it over. Ideally it would remain fairly long, with […]
The Future Evolution Of Proprietary Cities Terdapat beberapa dialog mengenai apakah yang Tyler Cowen ucap untuk negara pemegang saham. Negara pemegang saham ialah susunan tata atur teritorial dimana pembikin ketetapan mempunyai stimulan moneter untuk performa: Pengambil ketetapan akan dikasih penghargaan untuk ketetapan yang ke arah pada perkembangan periode panjang. Skema ini kontras dengan demokrasi, dimana […]
I believe I first heard of Opus Dei in 1999 when I was working on a political campaign with a good friend who I would describe as a “devout” Catholic. I was interested in the Church at the time, mainly for its central place in the history of the West. My friend and I had numerous late-night discussions (beer […]
Progressive journalist and civil libertarian Glenn Greenwald has a motto: “Misapplying private death etiquette to public figures creates false history and glorifies the ignoble.” He rejects the idea that atrocious public figures deserve a reprieve from condemnation upon their death. By his philosophy, if they commit sins in the public square, then let ‘em have it […]