Literature
Garden-Variety Geopolitics: A Review of The Jungle Grows Back
Robert Kagan has a refreshingly un-Whiggish description on the liberal world order. But his prescriptions inherit no such imagination.
Invoking Liberation: A Review of Provocations
Camille Paglia's latest book, a compilation of her own work, carries an air of finality.
My Friend Karl: A Review of My Struggle: Book Six
Karl Ove Knausgaard is moved by myth and tradition in a way that betrays his calculated political apathy.
In Defense of Myself
“Guilty or no,” the hangman intoned, “he was in need of editing.”
Beach Nietzsche: A Review of Bronze Age Mindset
A Bronze Age Pervert's guide to ideology
A Different Grim Future
Cyberpunk was born from left-liberal anxiety. But as dystopia unfolds, that same ethos is powerless to do anything but applaud.
After Discourse: On The Use and Abuse of Magazines
Consensus-based journalism thrived in more predictable and less anxious times. It doesn't today.
Ending the Long 20th Century
Decentralization technologies are plastic explosives for the demolition of the ugliest side of globalization.
The Wasteful Game We Have to Play
A new book, The Case Against Education, argues the unthinkable: that schooling is a massive waste of society's resources.
Humanities Against Humanity
Soft academic disciplines have become a self-referential feedback loop of bullshit.