Attack the System- The World Has Had Enough Of These Fanatics! 1st May 2026By Rev. Chuck Baldwin: Published: Thursday, April 30, 2026 Download free computerized mp3 audio file of this column (To subscribe to my columns at no cost, click here.) “It’s [Zionism] a messianic movement that is trying to force the end. They don’t share American interests. In fact, it’s […] The post The World Has Had […]Keith Preston
- Ernest Renan’s Aristocratic Dream 1st May 2026The Oligarchy of Intelligence vs. the Tyranny of Stupidity Antoine Dresse and Arktos Journal Apr 27, 2026 Antoine Dresse (“Ego Non”) rescues Ernest Renan from the reductive clichés that have long obscured his thought, whether as militant anticlerical or proto-civic nationalist. The real Renan, Dresse argues, was a […] The post Ernest Renan’s Aristocratic Dream […]Keith Preston
- A school counselor comforted her crying student new to the United States. Her tender response is an emotional lesson in empathy. 1st May 2026April 30, 2026 | Read online School counselor and social worker Korynn Patterson comforts new student. A school counselor comforted her crying student new to the United States. Her tender response is an emotional lesson in empathy. “I’m always happy to be a safe space for […] The post A school counselor comforted […]Keith Preston
- The World Has Had Enough Of These Fanatics! 1st May 2026
- Samizdata
- Have an interesting Walpurgis Night 30th April 2026Air traffic over Prague this time of year… Walpurgis Night by Bernard ZuberPerry de Havilland (Prague)
- When luxury beliefs turn lethal 30th April 2026“The people pursuing luxury beliefs are engaged in a kind of status competition. Who can épater la bourgeoisie with the boldest, most transgressive political statements? After Oct. 7, 2023, we saw this kind of status-jockeying on college campuses, where elite students vied to become the most fervent supporters of Hamas and Hezbollah. Keffiyeh scarves became […]Johnathan Pearce (London)
- Samizdata quotes of the day – hold people responsible for their actions 29th April 2026Already, the Golders Green terrorist is being explained away as “he suffered from mental health issues”. As a therapist, I’m sick of this. It is circular. Only someone seriously unhinged could commit such a heinous act. Hold people responsible for their actions. – James Esses — And for added context… — It’s worth remembering that […]Perry de Havilland (Prague)
- Have an interesting Walpurgis Night 30th April 2026
- Wisdom Dancer
- Systems indoctrinate, deprecate questioning and doubt, produce reactive citizens, and blame them(An extension of a few points I mentioned in this video concerning education.) So-called educational systems teach young students what to believe, how to behave, and perhaps skills deemed necessary—not to question. (To a considerable degree, teaching what to believe … Continue reading →Wisdomdancer
- Excerpt: a chorus of the living, an orchestra of echoesA brief excerpt taken from Book III of Volume I of The Constellation of Man. These metaphors, like others I use in the book, introduce realism concerning the novelty of our personal appearance on preconstructed stages of history and human culture, atop mind … Continue reading →Wisdomdancer
- The Liberating Value of ReconciliationTwo things amaze me, again and again, about American enthusiasm for rancor in politics. I. Vengeance welcomes and relishes any opportunities to humiliate or oppress one’s opponents, but shows no foresight of how this creates a precedent—a legal and cultural … Continue reading →Wisdomdancer
- Systems indoctrinate, deprecate questioning and doubt, produce reactive citizens, and blame them
- Mr. Mean-Spirited
- VISITING THE REMAINS OF BENJAMIN DECASSERES IN TUCSON 31st May 2021Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:8.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:107%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} by John GrauerholzThere are particular geographic locations that, for one inexplicable reason or another, seem […]Mr. Mean-Spirited
- YOUR OWN MEDICAL RECORD WILL BE USED AGAINST YOU 29th April 2021by John Grauerholz Your medical record is something that will always be used against you. Your medical history only exists to record your physical humiliations. A doctor is not there to cure you, but to cause you as much consternation as possible. A physician’s role is not to heal a patient of your ilk, but […]Mr. Mean-Spirited
- THE FUTURE OPPRESSES US 24th March 2021Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:8.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:107%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} by John Grauerholz It is the future that persecutes us. The communitarians would have us break […]Mr. Mean-Spirited
- VISITING THE REMAINS OF BENJAMIN DECASSERES IN TUCSON 31st May 2021
- The Hoover Hog
- Wandering Near Sawtry
- A Review of Ed West’s “Small Men on the Wrong Side of History”… 21st February 2020One might think that few people were more annoyed by the 2019 British general election than the conservative author and commentator Ed West. Here he was, preparing to publish his book Small Men on the Wrong Side of History (Little, … Continue reading →bsixsmith
- In Defence of Andrew Sabisky… 16th February 2020The first time I met Andrew Sabisky we walked through central London for hours and neither his energy or my interest flagged. This is a rare combination. There are people who can talk for a long time and there are … Continue reading →bsixsmith
- 2019 14th December 2019I began this decade in London, a physical wreck, mentally ruined, almost friendless and facing the grim realisation that not only was “creative writing” a titanically stupid course to pick but my writing sucked. As bad as all this was, … Continue reading →bsixsmith
- A Review of Ed West’s “Small Men on the Wrong Side of History”… 21st February 2020
- Razib Khan
- Matthew Schmitz: Christianity as identity, New Atheism and the Texas of Lord Hanuman 28th April 2026Today Razib talks to Matthew Schmitz, a journalist who previously served as an editor at the religious journal First Things. He is the cofounder of the online magazine Compact, alongside Edwin Aponte and Sohrab Ahmari. He currently serves as editor of Compact, religion editor of Washington Post Opinions, and co-host of the podcast Against the Grain. Compact His essays on politics and culture have appeared in The New […]Razib Khan, Matthew Schmitz
- Russ Greene: the rise of Total Boomer Luxury Communism 25th April 2026The rise of the gerontocracyRazib Khan
- Megan McArdle: the follies of populism, impending fiscal crisis, and the whirlwind of AI 25th April 2026On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to returning guest Megan McArdle. She is the author of The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success and a Washington Post columnist and op-ed board member. McArdle grew up in New York ...Razib Khan, Megan McArdle
- Matthew Schmitz: Christianity as identity, New Atheism and the Texas of Lord Hanuman 28th April 2026
- Entitled to an Opinion
- Puck of Pook’s Hill 27th March 2026I heard about this Rudyard Kipling book via J. G. Keely’s recommendations, the same place I heard about Dictionary of the Khazars from (the other book on that list I’ve read is Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, another public domain book I read on a Kindle, but I’d already heard of that earlier). I primarily associated Kipling […]teageegeepea
- Remembrances of Robert Trivers 26th March 2026He died earlier this month, but I didn’t think to blog about it until now. I reviewed his “The Folly of Fools” back in 2021. He was less successful a popular science author than Richard Dawkins or E. O. Wilson, despite them basing so much of their popular work on his ideas. He was also […]teageegeepea
- The Case Against Education 28th February 2026I have been reading Bryan Caplan’s blogging for decades (he was listed on my blogroll as being at EconLog when I started this blog nearly two decades ago), but of his books I had previously only read “The Myth of the Rational Voter“. It is something of a coincidence that I picked up his second […]teageegeepea
- Puck of Pook’s Hill 27th March 2026
- Evolutionist X
- To Critical Race Theory, or not to Critical Race Theory? 5th July 2021Like the uncollapsed quantum state holding Schrodinger’s cat in a state of simultaneous life and death, whether a school is “teaching critical race theory” or not seems to depend entirely on whether the inquiring person wants them to. Are you anti-CRT? Then, you may rest assured, American schools most certainly aren’t teaching CRT. (If you […]evolutiontheorist
- Review: Seven Pillars of Wisdom, by T. E. Lawrence 26th June 2021Wisdom has built her house; she has set up its seven pillars. — Proverbs 9:1 T. E. Lawrence is the Lawrence, of Arabia, and Seven Pillars of Wisdom is his autobiographical account of his time spent serving in the British and Arab armies during World War One. If you’ve seen the movie, you’ve got the […]evolutiontheorist
- Review: Lawrence in Arabia 10th June 2021Scott Anderson’s Lawrence in Arabia is, quite obviously, about the famous T. E. Lawrence “of” Arabia. The book ranges significantly wider than Lawrence’s personal account, however, shifting between the perspectives of Ottoman officials, German spies, American spies, Zionist spies, and of course British spies. I read this book concurrently with The Berlin-Baghdad Express, so my […]evolutiontheorist
- To Critical Race Theory, or not to Critical Race Theory? 5th July 2021
- Human Stupidity
- Make Western Civilization great again! Dishonesty was its downfall! Honesty can fix it. 13th April 2023We boldly claim to change the world, with one simple dogmatic rule! TOTAL HONESTY, and intolerance for deception, can change the world for the better. One simple rule! Honesty is the #1 necessity for a modern scientific society PC deception and lies are the CAUSE for the downfall of Western civilization. Total honesty and full disclosure are […]Programmer
- HIgh school teen faces 10 years in prison for sexting female classmate 23rd March 2022HIgh school teen faces 10 years in prison for sexting female classmate Teen sexting case highlights severity of N.C. sex offender laws A North Carolina teenager faces felony sex crime charges after police discovered sexually explicit photographs of a sixteen-year-old girl on his cell phone. Cormega Copening is a seventeen-year-old high school student at Jack […]Human-Stupidy (Admin)
- Vote counting corrupted in USA, infiltrated by dishonest leftist activists 15th October 2021Formerly honest and unbiased vote counting is another institution infiltrated with and taken over by leftist activists. Leftists think deception is virtuous to reach higher goals. Dishonest partisan election officials “cured” problem ballots. This must be exposed, opposed, reversed. Continue at Sincerity.netWait, there is more! This article continues! Continue reading »Vote counting corrupted in USA, […]Programmer
- Make Western Civilization great again! Dishonesty was its downfall! Honesty can fix it. 13th April 2023
- Der Geist (Union of Egoists)
- The Real Meaning of Sabotage: A 1913 IWW Classic by Gerald O. Desmond 10th February 2026This essay, “The Significance of Sabotage,” is reprinted from Industrial Worker, Volume 5, Issue 12, June 12, 1913. The Industrial Worker was the official newspaper of the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.). The author, Gerald O. Desmond, is believed to be one of the many pseudonyms used by Arthur Desmond, who is best known […]Kevin I. Slaughter
- The Freewoman by Rebecca West 9th October 2025From Time and Tide for July 16, 1926 pp. 648-649 I have been asked to write an account of the Freewoman, and those who asked me were wise, for that paper, unimportant as it was in content, – and amateurish in form, had an immense effect on its time. But unfortunately, I have forgotten nearly […]Trevor Blake
- Little Black Cart/Ardent Press (R.I.P.) + Union of Egoists + Underworld Amusements 27th June 2024On December 31, 2023 the Berkeley anarchist publisher and distributor Little Black Cart / Ardent Press closed shop after many years of the project producing fascinating and challenging work, often finding it brought them at odds with many in the anarchist milieu they operated in. After the Underworld Amusements edition of The Unique and Its […]Kevin I. Slaughter
- The Real Meaning of Sabotage: A 1913 IWW Classic by Gerald O. Desmond 10th February 2026
Category Archives: Culture
The Human League (9/7/25, Kew Gardens, London, England, UK)
The second Wednesday of July saw me make another visit to Kew for the same reason I did the time before: The Human League. Having last seen them from an elevated distance at Wembley’s OVO Arena, it was good to … Continue reading
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Tagged 80s, Blancmange, Kew Gardens, synthpop, The Human League
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Gary Numan (25/6/25, Concorde 2, Brighton, England, UK)
It took Gary Numan announcing a series of warm-up shows for his Glastonbury debut to get me back down to Brighton for the first time in fucking decades. Granted, I already had several other visits marked on the calendar prior … Continue reading
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Tagged Agency-V, Brighton, Concorde 2, darkwave, electronica, Gary Numan, synthpop
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Forever Now Festival (22/6/25, The National Bowl, Milton Keynes, England, UK)
Named for the Psychedelic Furs song of the same name, Midsummer Sunday’s Forever Now festival had been billed as the UK’s answer to Stateside’s Cruel World, that is, a showcase of post-punk, and post-punk—adjacent, bands past and present. Having been … Continue reading
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Tagged 80s, Berlin, Billy Idol, Cruel World, Death Cult, Forever Now, Johnny Marr, Kraftwerk, Milton Keynes, new wave, PiL, post-punk, synthpop, The Chameleons, The Psychedelic Furs, The The, UK Decay
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Nine Inch Nails (18/6/25, The O2 Arena, London, England, UK)
Wednesday night’s Nine Inch Nails gig was one much anticipated, given that I hadn’t seen Trent and co. live since 2007 and had to fight the AXS algo like hell to wrest a ticket from its maw. As such, I … Continue reading
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Tagged Boys Noize, electronica, industrial rock, Nine Inch Nails, The O2
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