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Left Singularity

nickland — 2012-12-05T15:11:07+08:00

Leftists are not troubled by the fear that the masses might revolt against the left, but rather each leftist fears he mi...

Friday Linkage (2012 / 11 / 30)

nickland — 2012-11-30T14:28:03+08:00

Remember that moment when Lawrence Auster spanked Mencius Moldbug for his progressive modernist flirtation with Henry VI...

Friday Linkage (2012 / 11 / 23)

nickland — 2012-11-23T14:29:49+08:00

Eric Dondero isn't taking the election result well. Neither is Robert Stacy McCain: “Even before the unmitigated politic...

Reality Rules

nickland — 2012-11-20T16:05:23+08:00

The name social Darwinism is a modern name given to the various theories of society that emerged in England and the Unit...

What We Deserve

nickland — 2012-11-09T18:07:05+08:00

Obama got what he wanted -- a second term. Now the people who voted for him are going to get what they voted for... and ...

Forward!

nickland — 2012-11-07T16:15:19+08:00

That was all thoroughly unambiguous. It turns out that Obama really is the FDR for this turn of the gyre. Nate Silver an...

Regime Redecoration Randoms

nickland — 2012-11-06T16:53:21+08:00

Here in Shanghai, we receive the US presidential election results on Wednesday morning, making this the last chance to v...

Anarchy on the Old Right

nickland — 2012-11-06T11:20:10+08:00

Over at The American Conservative, the Old Right has expressed its smoldering dismay at the country’s political prospect...

Lure of the Void (Part 3b)

nickland — 2012-10-26T15:52:36+08:00

Recognizing the head start obtained by the Soviets with their large rocket engines, which gives them many months of lead...

Lure of the Void (Part 3a)

nickland — 2012-09-29T15:27:53+08:00

There are two related questions posed by human exploration. First, is there anything economically useful to do out there...

Lure of the Void (Part 2)

nickland — 2012-09-06T16:29:24+08:00

... it’s important to understand what Apollo was, and wasn’t. It was a victory in the Cold War over the Soviets, but bec...

Lure of the Void (Part 1)

nickland — 2012-08-15T18:47:24+08:00

…the idea that we are no longer able to accomplish feats we once could do (like travel to the Moon) clashes with the pre...

The Dark Enlightenment (Part 4f(inal))

nickland — 2012-07-20T12:01:35+08:00

It’s time to bring this long digression to a conclusion, by reaching out impatiently towards the end. The basic theme ha...

The Dark Enlightenment (Part 4e)

nickland — 2012-07-03T12:01:35+08:00

Democracy is the opposite of freedom, almost inherent to the democratic process is that it tends towards less liberty in...

The Dark Enlightenment (Part 4d)

nickland — 2012-06-15T16:06:31+08:00

The origins of the word ‘cracker’ as a term of ethnic derision are distant and obscure. It seems to have already circula...

The Dark Enlightenment (Part 4c)

nickland — 2012-05-17T13:15:55+08:00

In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent...

The Dark Enlightenment (Part 4b)

nickland — 2012-05-03T13:29:59+08:00

Although black families and parents of boys aren't the only ones who worry about the safety of adolescents, Tillman, Bro...

The Dark Enlightenment (Part 4a)

nickland — 2012-04-19T12:52:44+08:00

My own sense of the thing is that underneath the happy talk, underneath the dogged adherence to failed ideas and dead th...

The Dark Enlightenment (Part 4)

nickland — 2012-04-01T16:52:51+08:00

Liberals are baffled and infuriated that poor whites vote Republican, yet voting on tribal grounds is a feature of all m...

The Dark Enlightenment (Part 3)

nickland — 2012-03-19T08:50:42+08:00

The previous installment of this series ended with our hero Mencius Moldbug, up to his waist (or worse) in the mephitic ...

The Dark Enlightenment (Part 2)

nickland — 2012-03-09T16:24:14+08:00

David Graeber:It strikes me that if one is going to pursue this to its logical conclusion, the only way to have a genuin...

The Dark Enlightenment (Part 1)

nickland — 2012-03-02T16:40:51+08:00

Enlightenment is not only a state, but an event, and a process. As the designation for an historical episode, concentrat...

Bonfire of the Vanities

nickland — 2012-02-24T12:35:26+08:00

As an ideological mantra, ‘Never Again’ is associated primarily with the genocide politics of the 1940s, and in this con...

Signs of Progress

nickland — 2012-02-07T16:54:34+08:00

The more sophisticated animals become, the worse they get at connecting with reality. As they cephalize, and socialize, ...

New Year Cheer

nickland — 2012-01-06T16:28:21+08:00

2012 is a year that arrives pre-branded. It’s the last opportunity to end the world on schedule. By the end of December ...

Political Humor

nickland — 2011-12-29T17:52:52+08:00

The prospect of Technological Singularity, by rendering the near future unimaginable, announces “the end of science fict...

The God Confusion

nickland — 2011-12-19T11:22:22+08:00

"Do The Three Abrahamic Faiths Worship The Same God?" Peter Berger asks, on his blog at the American Interest. His answe...

Suspended Animation (Part 5)

nickland — 2011-12-09T13:37:47+08:00

Does Postmodernism still seem cool to anybody? -- Probably not. Having sold whatever simulacrum of a soul it might have ...

Suspended Animation (Part 4)

nickland — 2011-12-02T17:18:12+08:00

By the beginning of the second decade of the new millennium, the world had begun to adapt itself to a problem that had t...

Suspended Animation (Part 3)

nickland — 2011-11-25T16:50:09+08:00

I wish I was saying it's going to happen soon… this is the longest running crisis in which people have been giving false dates, people turning up for summits saying it has to be resolved, nothing happens and pe...