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Schmitt Distinctions Extended

The Familial Distinction

Left and Right: Trying to Censor Speech

Misunderstanding the Point of Free Market Competition

Don't Worry About White Men or Feminization

Off the Reservation with Tucker & Co.

What to do about "The Lost Generation"

You Think the Far Right Has Problems?

Understanding the Rage of Our Lefty Friends

Lefties and Muslims Combine Politics with Religion

Extending the Distinctions

Who Knows How to Solve a Problem?

A Lesson on Politics

Language, Common Knowledge, Steven Pinker

The Death of Gehry

Dugin's Fourth Political Theory

About as Far as They Can Go

Dialing Politics Down

Predicting the Political Future

Pushing Back Against the Revolution

Why Do Kids Go to School?

The Changing of the Narratives

All Human Societies Burn the Heretics

After a Lifetime of Reading, I'm Thankful

What Exactly Is "Liberal Democracy?"

Equality

It's Time for "A Great Reform"

What If: Liberals Hadn't Wrecked the 20th Century?

Which Bubble is More Bubbly?

Women and Economics

Is "Conservatism" Done?

Fleshing Out Schmitt's Distinctions

Designing Trump's Ballroom

Confusion Reigns

The Homeownership Crisis

Misunderstanding the Groyper Problem

After the Shutdown

Understanding Affordability

Our Woman Problem

The Day After

How Is It Possible?

Whatabout Tucker Carlson?

Does "Arctic Frost" Make Watergate a Nothingburger?

Populist Nationalism; Populist Socialism

Govt. and Gangs, Ham & Eggs, Bait & Switch

The Five Technological Revolutions

Never Seen Anything Like It

The Culture of Revolution, Baby

Of Course: Ending Liberal Hegemony Ain't Easy

Who Are the Real Extremists?

No Kings Protesters

Can Feminization Endure?

Woking at the Burke Museum

Bernie's Rant on CNN

OK. Now I Get Sanctuary Cities

Are We Americans Tenants or Owners?

Our Rulers' Loot Industrial Complex

Experiencing the World as a Story

The Tech March Through the Institutions

Is Civil War in the Future?

Guilt Tripping About Nazi Jurist Carl Schmitt

Blue Cities on ICE

How Educated are the Educated?

Did the President Just Trump the Race Card?

During the Current Shutdown Unpleasantness

The Question of the US Empire

The Question of Women and Politics

How Each Side Judges Political Violence

End of an Age Musings

The Climate Scam

Palestine, Migrants, Hotels

Celebrating an Ordinary Life

Shocked, Shocked about Censorship

The Kids are Not All Right

Now the World Has Changed

How to Recruit an Army

Dear Liberals: You are the Fascists

Why Teachers were Applauding Kirk's Death

Pity a Poor Liberal

Politics Through the Schmittian Lens

Analyzing the Charlotte Killing

Freedom Isn't a Mechanical System

Delingpole on World Wars

The Complexity Argument for Small Government

What's With the Drug Cartel Countries?

Federal Court Insurrection!

Let's Have a Federal "Prices Day" Holiday

The End of Courtesy

Suppose Transgender is the Bridge Too Far

Walter Bagehot Just Called on Multi Primary Residences

The Problem with the Migrant Industrial Complex

Unaffordable Merz

How Powerful is Power?

Logic and Reason and Good and Evil

Thoughts about Humans and Heresy

After the Managerial State

Thoughts on Ukraine

Trump and Putin Went into a Bar

The World After Democracy

The Propaganda is Everything

Yes, Let Mamdani Win

The Front Line of Education Meltdown

The Saudis Show Their Cards

Milei & Trump and the Renewal of Human Society

Knowledge Begins with a Problem

National Temper Tantrum, V 2.0

Understanding "Hate"

Yes, But What Do We Do Now?

Trump the Sacrificial Hero

Oh Yeah. That Dastardly Patriarchy!

The NGO Scam

Who Will Be the Dems' New Enemy?

Politics and Morality

Right Side of History

Why Congress Can't Cut Spending

What Happens When the Universe Changes

I Propose We Pardon Barack Obama

When Populism Was Leftist

No Strategy is Forever

All Government is Grift

Well Yeah. Big Government Has Made Things Worse for Gen Z

Analyzing AI with Carl Schmitt & Co.

The Fed According to the NYT

The Globalist Rules of War

Milei Ain't No "Miracle Worker"

Politics Demands Violence

The Equality Scam

A Big Beautiful Fourth of July

Let's Talk IC Conspiracy Theories

Stop Complaining Say the Experts

What is the Difference Between Revolution and LARPing?

Do They Know What They Are Doing?

Experts are Idiots, Experts Agree

Applying Sun Tzu to Mamdani

Mamdani Wins!

Trump's Mideast Ceasefire

Wickedness vs. Righteousness; Freedom vs. Responsibility

How Government Corruption Works

It's Juneteenth. Let's Talk Slavery

Two Types of Conservatism, writes Kissinger

End of an Era or Big Blowup

Education and Journalism and AI

Activism is Indivisible

Kissinger on Peace

Do Our Liberal Friends Have Their Stuff Together?

Dear Media: What is a Riot?

Pinker's Apology for Harvard

In Our Age Everyone is Afraid of Evil

Why Aren't Women Having Children?

Credentialism and the Administrative State

Big Beautiful Bill an "Abomination"

From Democracy to Genocide

Yes, Whatabout Social Security and Medicare?

The Trump-Johnson Spending Strategy

From Argentina to California to Trump

Flight 93 and All That

Educated Class Admits It Doesn't Have a Clue

Remember Reagan's "Tear Down This Wall"?

Another Day, Another Lefty Assassination

How to Keep Russia Onside

The Moral World is Face to Face

AI Will Demolish Education

Trump Equals Fascism Equals Tyranny

The Dissolution of the Universities

Trump's Saudi Speech

Trump's Changing Everything!

AI is Same Old Same Old

Reform or Revolution?

Soros' Grand Plan

Regime Flunkeys Don't Get the "Far Right"

Beyond Preference Falsification

Morality is a Girl Thing

Applying Martin Gurri to Book and AI Learning

Martin Gurri on Trump

Education Reform

Male vs. Female: Dionysian vs. Apollonian

Getting Back to Energy Sanity

Not Allowed to Doubt

It's Only Illegal When the Other Guys Do It

Stirrings in the Swamp

Dear Harvard Friends: Are You Sure?

Mencken on Nietzsche

Universities Go Down with the Regime

In Between Objective Truth and Political Correctness

The Ordeal of Change

Here's How to Take Over the World

RFK Sr's Lawfare Against Reagan in the Sixties

What Did Ike Know?

Nobody Ever Understands What is Happening

Trump Blows Up the World

Politics is Violence

Whither Democrats?

Scott Bessent on Tucker

Tariff Day Zero

Trump's Tariff Guy

No, It's Not About Brahmin Left or "Abundance"

David Betz on Civil War

"Abundance:" The Latest Liberal Thing

Why Does the Educated Class Vote Democrat?

What is "Our Culture"?

Relax! We've Got This

Censorship is a Red Flag

Can Trump Beat the Lefty Judges?

Listening to the Middle Class Ladies

The Dem Judges May Be Taking the Whole System Down

All In It Together

Realism and Russia and China

Two Months In on Trump 2.0

The False Distinction Between Hard and Soft Knowledge

MAGA: The Bigger Problem

Only Trump Can End US Empire

Putting Off the Day

The Horror! Cry the Great and the Good

Politics: When Does the Worm Turn?

It's a Revolutionary Moment

What is Really Going On?

Age of Stupidity: Update

Trump 2.0 and Nobody in the Streets?

Reading Between the Lines, Pt. 2

Reading Between the Lines, Pt. 1

Nazi Salute? I Don't Really Care, Margaret

Ukraine? I Don't Really Care, Margaret

Another "Plan" from the Planners

The Road to the Future

Progressive Thinks Government Needs More Power

What Planet is CBS On?

Divining the Future

Michael Barone Mourns

Trump-DOGE-Johnson Coming into Focus

They Just Don't Get It

Marc Andreessen with Ross Douthat

People Believe What Everyone Else Believes

Doing an Ike on Fentanyl

The Ruling Class Second Tier

Anti-Trump Protests vs. J6

USAID Issue Goes Nuclear

Who Will Be the New Ruling Class

What's With the "Yes or No" Theatrics?

They Still Don't Get It

DeepSeek and AI and China

A Political Formula for MAGA

Appreciating Marc Andreessen

Nazi Salute vs. Raised Fist

AI Means "Planning" on Steroids

The Ideas I Got From "Pretty Extreme" Curtis Yarvin

Liberals and the Nazi Slur

Suppose DOGE's Job is to Neuter the IC

Don't Be Too Hard on Zuck

Political Formula Refresher

The Current Political Formula is Failing

Community Membership Means Obligation

Our Rulers Really Aren't into the Boring Stuff

Wildfires: Fiddling While Rome Burns

Wildfires: Women Expect Protection

A Sexist Looks at "Preference Falsification"

Can Europe Stand on its Feet?

Towards a New Narrative

What's Really Wrong with the Democrats

The Problem is Not Just Special Interests

Fauci the Perfect Bureaucrat

Remember: Politicians Know Nothing