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USCIS: Do Not Reform H-1B
The fundamental problem is this: each time USCIS publishes a reform, lawyers in Singapore, San Francisco, Beijing, and Hyderabad leap into action alongside a black market of labor traffickers to find ways to game the system.
Julia Schiwal
Oct 2112 min read


Towards a Dark Cathedral: Imagining a Right Institution
“We should seize the institutions of the left and turn them against the left. We need a de-Ba’athification program... my strategy is, de-institutionalize the left, re-institutionalize the right.” - J.D. Vance MEA CULPA In the auspicious year of 1984, the United States Congress established the United States Institute of Peace. President Ronald Reagan approved the establishment of the USIP, sponsored in Congress by Senators Mark Hatfield and Spark Matsunaga. Hatfield and Matsun
Julia Schiwal
Oct 722 min read


Post-Liberal Cinema in Five Films
Postliberal film does not exist. No director has set out to make a postliberal film. Just as no Soviet director set out to make dissident Soviet cinema. Soviet cinema became dissident in retrospect because the Soviet Union collapsed. If our Master and Margarita is The Camp of the Saints, our Hard to Be a God is Christmas with the Kranks.
Julia Schiwal
Sep 2517 min read


The Camp of the Saints: A Review
The Camp of the Saints is a beautiful and important book. If you buy and read just one book this year, make it this one. You will not regret it. An audiobook version is scheduled for release soon. If you are interested in history, literature, or politics, you should read the book. The novel may be the closest thing the West has to a true banned book, and for that reason alone, it demands your attention. A tattered, ragged copy has circulated around the halls of Congress for y
Julia Schiwal
Sep 1518 min read


Understanding the Bullets: Ironic Aesthetics and the Assassination of Charlie Kirk
Charlie Kirk’s assassin engraved the following on his bullets: - “Hey fascist! CATCH!” followed by arrows. - “O Bella ciao, Bella ciao,...
Julia Schiwal
Sep 1216 min read


Simple City: How Cartels Changed Crime in D.C.
Here is the goal of this article. I want to convince conservatives that all their talk of pervasive “social disorder” is silly: when you say “disorder,” you really mean the cartel. I want to convince liberals that when you ignore “social disorder,” you are really ignoring the cartel.
Julia Schiwal
Aug 1423 min read


Fascicle I: Disturbance, by Curtis Yarvin: Book Review
Passage Press has published Curtis Yarvin’s first book, Fascicle I: Disturbance. Curtis Yarvin is an American philosopher who writes about political theory, particularly monarchism, and identifies himself as an adherent of the Italian school of political philosophy, also known as Machiavellianism.
Julia Schiwal
Jul 2912 min read


Towards a Conservative Left: Book Review
Towards a Conservative Left: Selected Writings of Jean-Claude Michéa is an excellent addition to Vauban Books’ library of dissident literature, expanding on a tradition begun by George Orwell, that of “Tory Anarchism” or what others call “left-conservativism.”
Julia Schiwal
Jul 238 min read


NATO and the European Court of Human Rights
What is NATO for if there are barriers at Christmas markets after twenty years of war on terror?
Julia Schiwal
Jul 1510 min read


Pre-Politics: Before Left and Right
The Estate In 1789, the French Estates-General, comprising the clergy, nobility, and commoners, convened at the request of King Louis XVI...
Julia Schiwal
Jun 3019 min read


Lincoln, Marx, and Falcon Labor: A Left-Critique of Curtis Yarvin
I wrote this after watching the debate between Curtis Yarvin and Professor Danielle Allen of Harvard, hosted by Passage Press, which can...
Julia Schiwal
Jun 1427 min read


The Homeland Interview
Following up on my interview with Renaud Camus , I spoke with Kenny Smith, the leader of the Homeland Party in the United Kingdom. His...
Julia Schiwal
Jun 1350 min read


The First Political Order in Crisis
How do I get you to pay attention to this story? Tragically, if you are reading this, you have likely heard of this story before. I can...
Julia Schiwal
Jun 1318 min read


MAGA Maoism or the Jacksonian Tradition?
In early 19th century America, the emergent institution of wage-labor alongside the revolutionary industrialization of Northern...
Julia Schiwal
May 117 min read


The Coda of the Fly I: A Retrospective Account of the Postliberal Future
Over the past twenty years three transnational political factions have emerged within the Western world. These are what I would call an...
Julia Schiwal
May 817 min read
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