Strange Spirit

Discernment of Strange Spirits

A question pertaining to our previous tale of high strangeness comes from a user on X: Wouldn’t it be more likely, per the Church, that the “ghost” is a demon masquerading as the spirit of the officer? My answer:   Another user then chimed in to add this chilling personal…
December 26, 20234 Comments
Better Art

To Save the West, Make Better Art

By now anyone who's not trapped in an epistemic closure bubble is aware of two facts: The West is caught in a death spiral toward a new Dark Age Voting harder won't pull us out of it. Yet despite the severity of the crisis, nothing is being done about it…
November 21, 202310 Comments
AgainstTheMountainsOfMadness

Against the Mountains of Madness

Announcing a new collaboration between Superversive pioneer Jason Rennie and science fiction grand master John C. Wright! Your hosts John C. Wright and Jason Rennie seek to scale the Mountains of Madness, what has become of our modern culture, and what can be done to fix it. We use the…
February 27, 20232 Comments
KTH Weed Hair

Freedom Destroyed Liberty

Say you decide to go out for a burger. You hop in the car and hit the road, where at least three other drivers are drifting between lanes at ten miles under the limit, backing up traffic for blocks. You stop at a red light and soon feel like you're…
December 14, 202210 Comments
burning church

The Point of Liberalism

While a majority of Americans practice Christianity at home, our rulers submit to a heretical secular religion. And they've taken pains to make sure Christians' beliefs have zero impact on public life. You can safely call for an innocent child to spend the rest of his life behind bars, but…
November 2, 20226 Comments
Secular Religion

Heretical Secular Religion

While a majority of Americans practice Christianity at home, our rulers submit to a heretical secular religion. And they've taken pains to make sure Christians' beliefs have zero impact on public life. You can safely call for an innocent child to spend the rest of his life behind bars, but…
November 11, 20212 Comments
Optimate Yankees

The Optimate Response

The fatal flaw of Liberalism--aside from its failure to secure long-term material prosperity, never mind maintain the West's social cohesion--is that it's based on the false notion that freedom is an absolute good to be pursued for its own sake. What gives the game away is that any appeal to…
October 6, 202110 Comments
Death Cult Sacrament

Death Cult Sacraments

The paradox of tolerance was a favorite canard of the Left back when they were still pretending to be moral relativists. You still hear it sometimes from Gen Xers who didn't get the updated Woke Cult rubrics. According to philosopher Karl Popper, the paradox goes that a total commitment to…
September 23, 202132 Comments
The Washington Generals

The Washington Generals

Frequent readers of this blog know I've dedicated a number of posts to exposing the faults inherent in Liberalism. I don't mean "liberal" as in the rhetorical shorthand invoked by the Washington Generals to mock the Harlem Globetrotters. It refers to the broad category of Liberal political philosophy of which Conservatism…
April 13, 20216 Comments
Backsliding

Backsliding

Any honest man who's found his way into dissident politics will admit that seeing the Left-Right paradigm he grew up with unmasked as kabuki theater was one of the hardest red pills to swallow. With the exception of the Zoomers, every living generation of Americans was conditioned to support the…
March 24, 202111 Comments