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Albion’s Hidden NuminaPeter Shaffer’s Equus
The Uffington White Horse, Oxfordshire 2,486 words Peter Shaffer’s 1973 play, Equus, is arguably the most pagan work of art created in the 20th century. Ostensibly an extended dialogue between a...
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Disenfranchised Autism
1,168 words Rick Wilson, a GOP strategist, has made some clickbait headlines by saying that alt-rightists are “screamers and crazy people who have Hitler iconography in their Twitter timelines” and...
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Vaxxed!
1,547 words On a recent trip to California, I got to spend some time in Ojai, a small, rustic town, high in the mountains, north of LA. Ojai is known as an enclave of a certain type of California...
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Is Xenophilia a Mental Illness?
1,583 words A Vice article published on Tuesday has reignited the debate over whether racism (or “pathological bias,” to use the clinical term proposed by psychiatrists) should be considered a mental...
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In Defense of Dysfunction
1,729 words “But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked. “Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat: “we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.” “How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice. “You...
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Being Liked By Others While Hating Yourself
Frederic Remington, The Puncher, 1895. 1,172 words As I understand it, most people would strongly prefer that others approve of them even if it means being untrue to themselves — and that’s something...
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The Magical Autism of Lee Mavers
3,253 words Who are the greatest underachievers in music history? A few names come to mind. Of course, you have The Sex Pistols, who became a national cultural phenomenon in Britain and then broke up...
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Cargo-Cult Politics
1,995 words Czech version here One of the most fascinating phenomena in the world are cargo cults: new religions that emerged on the islands dotting the Pacific Ocean after the departure of Japanese...
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Austerity, Not Autism
1,672 words If you have spent any amount of time around dissident politics, you have probably heard several references to “autism,” with various people and things frequently described as autistic. This...
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Kargo kult v pravicové politice
Runwaye mají přilákat letadla s nákladem 1,761 slov English original here Kargo kulty patří mezi snad nejvíce fascinující fenomény světa: nová náboženství, jež se objevila na ostrůvcích rozesetých v...
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Talent: A Review
2,148 words Tyler Cowen & Daniel Gross Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2022 The identification and proper allocation of...
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The Worst Week Yet: August 6-12, 2023
2,395 words Say “Hi” to Gen Alpha, America’s First Majority Non-White Generation In his 1920 book The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy, Lothrop Stoddard warned that unless an...
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The Union Jackal, August 2023
2,310 words Sepoys on the dark side of the Moon India may not seem to lie within the remit of this column, but bear with me. Britain’s ex-colony — which seems to be a description that fits a lot of...
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What’s the Matter with “Social Metaphysics”?
Nathaniel Branden in the 1960s. 4,191 words “What’s all the fuss about Dr. Mengele when Nathaniel Branden is alive and well and living in LA?” – A former member of Ayn Rand’s inner circle In the 1960s,...
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