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James Fishback Says Florida Is Not an Economic Zone. Can This Message Take Him to the Governor’s Seat?
His platform: zero foreign lobbyist money, total cancellation of H-1B visas at the state level, no data centers, and no homes owned by Blackstone. On the surface, this might sound like a grab-bag of slopulist sentiment, but there might be more than meets the eye.
Julia Schiwal
Nov 2925 min read


The Case for Fishback
Nearly 40 young men, nearly all white, have killed themselves as a result of Nigerian cyber criminals running a sextortion racket . They have killed more Americans than ISIS. This affects very few people. Normal Americans are suffering from many small issues, little gaps in the social contract that globalization’s vicious children are prying further apart. One reflection of this is the wide popularity of the “Nick 30 ans ” meme, originally from France and adopted across the W
Julia Schiwal
Nov 2913 min read


Gottfried on Groypers: A Review of The Essential Paul Gottfried
A doorway is defined in Jewish law as a side post and something that goes across it. Many American cities have an “eruv,” a wire tied from pole to pole that stretches around the city. The purpose of the eruv is to allow some Jews to carry items outside of their homes on Shabbat, the Jewish Sabbath. Symbolically, this represents the extension of private space in the public square. The United States and the United Kingdom are the only countries on Earth outside of Israel that h
Julia Schiwal
Nov 129 min read


Will Trump Become Joe Biden?
Trump may be edging towards Biden's mistake.
Julia Schiwal
Nov 76 min read


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


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 715 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
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