Culture
Joker’s Trick
The ultimate question for critics is this: where does the “incel hero” end and the “proletarian hero” begin?
Curtis Yarvin and the Perfect Imperfect Dictatorship
The intellectual adventure is over. There is a new conservative ethos beyond Trumpism that's ready to be articulated.
The Venice Bitch and Her Bad Boys
The music of Lana Del Rey's Norman Fucking Rockwell! cannot speak for itself. It isn’t actually the thing at hand.
Tony Robbins as a Political Educator
Mass exoterization of esoteric power-knowledge equals massive cultural-economic disruption.
The Escapism of Theories
Pedantry and enchantment in the platinum age of speculation.
Capeshit’s Endgame
The Marvel Cinematic Universe isn't a woke power fantasy. It's a multi-billion dollar exercise in complacency.
Narrative Displacement
Identity formation has been captured by an ideology that paints adversity as inherently destructive.
At the End of White Male History
When culture no longer includes you in its vision for the future, despair is the predictable outcome.
Ragnarok, but Dumber
The Vic Berger-FuckJerry meme feud tells us that a very stupid cyberpunk future has already arrived.
