Vladimir Putin

A Newer, Better Cold War

In case you"€™ve been on vacation in an Internet-less corner of the world, you already know that Russia has a military presence in Crimea. And if you"€™re on Twitter or spend any time torturing yourself with the neocon echo chamber, you know that the usual suspects are reacting like it's 1968 ...

Col. Oliver North

America Is a Communist Country

When I was 19 I attended college briefly before dropping out and returning to my promising career of shifting aimlessly from job to job. During my initial stint at UMass I had the pleasure of meeting Col. Oliver North. I shook hands with the man, who had a firm grip and a no-nonsense demeanor. We ...

Mencius Moldbug aka Curtis Yarvin

Overreacting to Neoreaction

Mainstream liberal blogs have recently discovered the neoreactionary movement, also known as the Dark Enlightenment, which is a plucky collection of backward-looking upstarts that started to gel sometime in late 2012. The only unifying themes in coverage are an unfounded sense of hysteria and a ...

The Progressive Roots of Prohibition

December 5, 2013 was the 80th annual Repeal Day, AKA the day that Prohibition was repealed. It is the highest holiday for me and my coreligionists, the American Drunkards (Unreformed). Prohibition is widely regarded as the biggest mistake in American policy ever. It’s hard to imagine ...

Dayna Morales

Peak Victimhood

Dayna Morales is a waitress currently on suspension at Gallop Asian Bistro in Bridgewater, NJ. Ms. Morales is the most recent entrant into the growth field of hate hoaxing, i.e., falsely claiming to be the victim of a so-called “hate crime” for fun and profit.  Here’s what ...

Asa Butterfield in Ender's Game

The Boycott on Normalcy

I caught Ender’s Game last night and was quite surprised: The film subtly advocates for values of liberal governance. The plot centers around a gender-integrated, multicultural global military of wise children in a world with strict population control. The takeaway “lesson” is ...

We Have Nothing to Fear but the Manosphere Itself

Women, beware: There’s a new emerging threat online. This week two journalists whose prior experience includes folding T-shirts at Abercrombie & Fitch and writing celebrity profiles of Demi Lovato discovered the manosphere lurking in the darkest recesses of the Internet. 20/20 has ...

Rise of the Sugar Babies

The government is shut down. Or at least something like 17 percent of it is. Big deal. They did the same thing when I was in high school. From what I remember"€”and spending my twenties in near-constant consumption of marijuana and pornography might have dulled my memory a bit, so please correct ...

Death in June

The Leftist “€œF”€ Word

“Fascism” is the preferred political swear word of the left. Fascism was largely a European phenomenon, and an anticapitalist one to boot. In America we got FDR’s alphabet soup instead of jackbooted thugs rocking Hugo Boss. Still, all you have to do is tell a bunch of unemployed ...

Nobody Escapes the Progressive Inquisition

In what will come as a surprise to absolutely no one who follows him on Twitter, the roguish bro reactionary Pax Dickinson has been defenestrated and sent off to a labor camp where he will toil alongside John Derbyshire, Pat Buchanan, and Jason Richwine while being reeducated in the virtues of ...