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What the Regime Thought Would Happen

Understanding Managerial Wokeism

Let the Real Decolonization Begin

The Corrupted Moral Evolution of our Educated Era

Are We Approaching the Inflection Point?

Mrs. Jellyby and "Effective Altruism"

The Problem with "Lawfare"

Reign of Terror City

The Three Human Cultures

Stay in your Lane, Politicians

Kissinger on Leadership

Hanson on the New Nihilists

The Grinding Injustice of "American Despotism"

And the Wokeys are Weak Too

Yes, Trump as President was Weak

Let's Talk "Internal Contradictions"

Why Won't Dems Compromise?

The Three Stoogettes of the Ivy League

The Three Moralities

OK, Now I Get Modern Monetary Theory (MMT)

Henry Kissinger RIP

The Censorship Industrial Complex

The Market Incentivises Good Behavior

Climate: Waiting for Defeat

Dem MAGA Pushback for Thanksgiving

Kissinger on Foreign Policy

Thank You Dear Lefties

Who Is To Blame for Economic Malaise

Is Milei Just Another Clown?

How to Think About Foreign Policy

Liberal Jews Will Stay Home

The Interconnection of Life World and Abstract World

Can AI Be Creative?

Wake-up Call for Liberal US Jews

The Three Worlds

What If It Was Women That Ruled the World?

The Folly of Bidenomics

No, Obama is not the Puppet Master

How Far Will the Regime Go?

Abstract World vs. Life World

The Mirage of the Government Directed Economy

Woke Hits a Pothole

Humans on the Cusp of Literacy

Yes, But Let's Go Big

Understanding The Moment

Guilt and Innocence

Unity or Diversity?

A Bit of a Cock-up on the Victim Front

Housing and Debt and Savings and Interest Rates

Fixing the Economy

The History of Breaking Things

The Logic of Hamas Terror

Why Liberalism Failed

Jeffrey Tucker's List of Bad Ideas

Carl Schmitt: Monster or Teacher?

Ideology and Reality

The World isn't Organized

Israel, Hamas, and Victimhood

Yes, But What Should be Next?

What We Need is Limited Politics

Politics Never Solves Anything

Strategy: Reform or Collapse?

Who Would Want to be House Speaker?

Reason, Revelation, Tradition?

"Jacobin" on Carl Schmitt

Now It's Woke Struggle Sessions

Who Are Our Friends, Enemies?

Learning the Woke Buzzwords

I don't know

Reality Check Warning!

Expanding Carl Schmitt's "Distinctions"

"We Won the Battle of Ideas"

Hanania on the Deep State

The Slow Death of Bush Republicanism

Now Liberals are Anti-Union

Of Course Professors Lean Left

The Empty Promise of "Justice"

Climate Risk and Risk Management

Censors Need a War

Beyond Tactics and Strategy

When the Looting Has to Stop

State of Play in Our Idiocratic Regime

Economy: When Does the Other Shoe Drop?

White Flight: You Did It, Dear Liberals

A Look at a Previous Regime Change

Woke Theater: Going Broke

Lefty Bookstores in Olympia, WA

Star Chambers Ancient and Modern

What IS It about Secret Police?

The Menace of the Administrative State

Lahaina: Par for the Course

Debate: The Day After

Ruler Delusion Psychosis

The Mortgage Humbug: US and France

Finding the Thread in Biden's Failures

Vivek's Worldview: From America to the Individual

Government: The Culture of Betting the Farm

Two Americas: Madrid and Santa Fe

Downtown Disasters: the Fruit of Politics

What if 2024 is a Blowout?

Bidenomics vs. Reaganomics

Adam Smith, Graeber and the Question of Barter

What is Debt: After 5,000 Years?

Schools as Indoctrination Factories

Dealing with NGO-driven Courts

Wrong From the Start

End-of-Regime Desperation

Educated Class Women and Abortion

Barbie Soliloquy

Today's Stagflation: What's to Blame?

Politics as Friend vs. Enemy

ChatGPT on Politics and Slavery

The De-banking Thing

If AI is the Next Big Thing...

Government, Political Elites Know Nothing About the Economy

The Sacred Center of the World

Denial: There Are Two Rivers in Egypt

Education, Politics, Reality

It's Not Just a Question of Firing Bureaucrats

Don't Rock the Boat, Say Experts

Civility: Missing the Point

Conspiracy vs. Incompetence, Part II

Conspiracy vs. Incompetence

All Rulers Need a Big Thing

Understanding the Liberal Quandary

Student Debt, Round Two

Real Estate Debt, Student Debt

Politics Equals: Gift Friends and Punish Enemies

On the Fourth of July, 2023.

Lefty Agrees with Me on Medieval Romances

Dear Liberals: Your Ideas Don't Work

Supreme Court Finally Blasts College Racism

Let's Celebrate Pride Month

What Will the Next "Pioneers" Be Like?

In Our Age of Decadence

Suppose Kids Stop Going to College

Maryhill Art Museum

'Muricans at Multnomah Falls

So You Want a Regime Change

National and Un-National Holidays

Eric Hoffer on Political Movements

It's Not the End of History, Frank

Tucker: Against the War Party

Trump Indictment: War by Other Means

Christianity vs. Neo-paganism

Let Trump and DeSantis Fight it Out

White Flight, Black Flight...

Information is Surprise; Wealth is Knowledge

Why are Big Finance and Big Woke in Bed Together?

Oh No! Latino White Supremacy!

Neoliberalism: a Liberal Pejorative

Left but not Woke

The Problem with Directing Traffic

Are Drag Shows the modern version of the Minstrel Show?

Memorial Day in Connecticut

Is the Great Enrichment Over?

Politics and the Enemy

Reasons Why Top-down Government Doesn't Work

Individual Rights vs. Group Rights

Wokism: New Age or End of an Era?

Brits Stumbling Towards "National Conservatism"

Reparations: What's the Game?

Whatabout the Wokey White-Collar Unemployed?

Durham Report: Two Realities

The Mentally Ill, Down the Ages

Reinventing Human Sociability

Understanding Our Political Elite On Climate

Fukuyama: Leaving Out the Educated Class

Reparations is Just Business as Usual

The Left's Obsession with "Justice!"

Dems Whack Trump, Thomas, J6ers

But What If "Public Goods" Don't Help the Poor?

Forget Woke. How About Digital Currency?

In Politics You Never Say You are Sorry, Alex Berenson

Who is the Loser: Biden? Trump? Michelle?

Top Down vs. Bottom Up

Tucker Week: Status Report

The Tempter: "Ye Shall Be As Gods"

The Tucker Carlson Defenestration

Are the Educated Lost to the GOP?

Biden's Climate Five Year Plan

Politics Defines the Enemy

Is California or Nigeria More Corrupt

Reality Check on Trump, MAGA, Far Right, etc.

The Blind That Cannot See

Using Government to Fake Up Your Fantasy

Biden Dems: Geniuses or Idiots?

Fukuyama: Nobody Here But Us Educated Bureaucrats

Understanding Chicago and Failing Dem Cities

The Democrats' "Structural Advantage"

Sacrifice and Atonement Down the Ages

How Much Ruin Does It Take?

Why Nations Go Broke

The Folks That Fight the Elite's World Wars

World War: It's Not a Bug, It's a Feature

Cutting Pensions in France

A Case of Ruling-Class Cowards

Trans vs. Feminist

Thinking About Small Minorities

Where Do You Think This Ends Up

Whether It's Banks or Pejoratives...

In the Douro: I am Shocked

Never Mind the Trump Arrest

What Does FDIC Actually Do?

What Could Go Wrong?

More on Fukuyama and State vs. Stateless Society

Does SVB rhyme with SBF?

The Trouble with Government Spending

US Budget Forecasting

How to Stop the Gadarene Swine in Time

Diagnosing What Ails Us

Women and University Education

Light at the End of the Education Tunnel

The Dems' War on Workers

It Doesn't Matter Who is President

What is "a Threat to Democracy"

If Politics is not the Royal Road to Justice

Biden Nationalizes DEI

Next up: Reaganomics 2.0

Military Guy Against Endless War

Of Course We Are All Fools Heading for Disaster

Get yer Egalitarian Society Here!

The Most Dangerous Fantasy

Transgender-as-Mental-Illness Misses the Point

Just What is "Liberal Nationalism"

Politics is Not the Answer

It's Not The Corruption, Newt

Democrats as the Party of "Out-groups"

Can We Solve the Spending Problem?

When You are the Rulers

Life After Conservatism

Hierarchy, Equality, and Culture

Race: Put it Where the Sun Don't Shine

Is There Any Alternative to the Market?

Two Lefties Start to Change Their Tune

German Guilt, White Guilt and Thermidor

Suppose We Privatized SocSec and Medicare

Yes, Why Has Modern Art Lost Its Way?

The Mirage of "Egalitarianism"

The Future Can't Be Planned

Intellectuals and Common Americans

Rights and Equality and Pigs and Shell Money

Critiques of Neoliberalism

The Debt Limit and the Yield Curve

Putin and Xi: Tipping Point Anyone?

WEF, Bilderberg: Do We Care?

What Do We Do About the Lies?

Lookin' for Trouble

The Band Plays On

Educated Women Doubting the Sexual Revolution

Is The Ordinary Middle Class Done For?

Markets vs. Government

Is the Speaker Fight Good or Bad?

A Politics that Fights for Commoners

The Dead End of "Equity"

Behind Closed Doors

Our World War Educated Rulers