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Saad’s Suicidal Empathy: A Review
Gad Saad's Suicidal Empathy promises to diagnose the pathologies of the liberal left and inoculate its readers against them. It does neither.
Julia Schiwal
May 196 min read
Why Mullin’s DHS Should Release Deportation Numbers
Blue states offer more for illegals to stay than the Red administration is paying them to leave.
Julia Schiwal
May 118 min read
The War Was Meaningful; Life Is Absurd
In Kurt Vonnegut’s 1985 novel Galápagos, a mysterious disease wipes out human fertility, bringing about a silver-haired apocalypse. The parallel to our real-world situation should be obvious, and this is one of the reasons I’ve wanted to return to this novel.
Julia Schiwal
Mar 2610 min read
Peter Thiel Proletarian
The Book of Revelation is sort of like a game of blackjack.
Julia Schiwal
Mar 313 min read
Art Beyond the Honesty Cage: A Few Thoughts for Lomez
In 1964, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky published the novel Hard to Be a God, which was later adapted into a black-and-white film by Aleksei German and released to critical acclaim in 2013. Hard to Be a God, both the book and film, follow Anton, also known as Don Rumata of Estor, an undercover operative from future Earth sent to the alien planet of Arkanar...
Julia Schiwal
Feb 2613 min read
De-Escalation Through Strength: Trump Must Invoke the Insurrection Act
Not invoking the Insurrection Act is an irresponsible mistake that will allow obstruction to continue, leading to unnecessary death and violence, and inflaming tensions.
Julia Schiwal
Jan 265 min read
Conspiracies and the Competency Crisis: The Kirk Assassination with Toby Houchens
10,000 hours of ‘whodunit’ content. No major reports on the obvious: a lethally outdated model dominates an unregulated profession, failing Trump twice, and getting Charlie Kirk killed. This is how incompetence, not conspiracy, is changing American history.
Julia Schiwal
Dec 17, 202521 min read
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 29, 202525 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 29, 202513 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 12, 20259 min read
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