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Jane Doe in Charge
e. The athleisure debate is each individual woman’s attempt to “get in on the action,” substituting her ketamine orgy with her well-shaped ass, her libidinal expression, which men desire, thus powering her control over men.
Julia Broussard
3 hours ago8 min read
Nothing Left: Not Right
A Review
Julia Broussard
Oct 56 min read
Mishima Against Type: A Review of Forbidden Colors
A review of Yukio Mishima's Forbidden Colors
Julia Broussard
Aug 1311 min read
Tombs of Globalization
In the coastal city of Ravenna, which was, for a short time, the capital of the Ostrogothic successor kingdom to the Roman Empire, there is a tomb to King Theodoric. Aesthetically, the tomb is almost entirely Gothic, except in construction, as the Roman technique of placing large unmortared stone blocks together for the walls was used. One should not mistake this tomb’s rather simple design as indicative of a weak king: the dome itself is a two-hundred-ton slab of rock, shipp
Julia Broussard
Jun 257 min read
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 Broussard
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 Broussard
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 Broussard
Mar 2610 min read
Peter Thiel Proletarian
The Book of Revelation is sort of like a game of blackjack.
Julia Broussard
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 Broussard
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 Broussard
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 Broussard
Dec 17, 202521 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 Broussard
Nov 12, 20259 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 Broussard
Oct 21, 202512 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 Broussard
Oct 7, 202515 min read
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