The Libertarian Experiment

The Libertarian Experiment

,,, Has been run, and as everyone who has kids warned for years, making a false idol of freedom has been a disaster.The Z Man looks at the data:There are fewer people in the court system for possession charges now, but no reasonable person doubted that claim. If we stopped…
Trekonomics

Trekonomics

Robert P. Murphy points out that, not only does the post-scarcity economy portrayed in Star Trek not make sense, it's not really even post-scarcity. In reply to Brad DeLong, an economist on the Trekonomics panel at the New York City Comic Con, Murphy writes: In reality, DeLong is wrong to think…

Virtues of the Awakened Saxon

Kipling's famous--some might say infamous--poem "The Wrath of the Awakened Saxon" has gained a great deal of traction in dissident circles. I maintain that a major reason why this poem has resonated with the current generations of young men on the right is that it highlights the masculine virtues they…

Art Lasts

Hang out around science fiction authors long enough, and you get the sense that they're all crazy. John Scalzi claims that Donald Trump and the weather conspired to give him writer's block. Patrick Rothfuss and George R. R. Martin have cited similarly temperamental reasons for not finishing their popular series.…
Society Is Not a Social Construct

Society Is Not a Social Construct

Regular readers of this blog know I've devoted a significant number of posts to exposing the faults inherent in Liberalism. That's not merely to say the political shorthand employed by the Generals to mock the Globetrotters. It refers to the broad category of Liberal political philosophy of which Conservatism itself…
Rights and Responsibilities

Rights and Responsibilities

Liberalism is America's state religion. Most Americans might practice Christianity at home, but our elites certainly don't, and they've taken pains to make sure Christians' beliefs have a negligible impact on public policy. You can threaten the president with impunity, but refusing to celebrate sodomy is grounds for losing your…
The Fap Cult

The Fap Cult

Regular readers will be familiar with the Pop Cult and the Death Cult. The Libertarian hysterics in response to rising Christian nationalist calls for a porn ban suggest we need a third entry in our unholy trifecta. For those who've just joined us recently, I and others have made the…
The Politics of Post-Modernism

The Politics of Post-Modernism

The Z Man presents a brilliant post connecting the dots between the Enlightenment, post-modernism, and the Left's march toward nihilist chaos. Post-modernism is the 20th century academic movement popular in philosophy, the grievance studies and the humanities. It denies the existence of a universal, stable reality, insisting everything is arbitrary…
Did It Get Stupider in Here?

Did It Get Stupider in Here?

The asylum inmates have been restless lately. It's like there's something in the water making people spout nonsense. Each passing day brings new revelations proving that Alex Jones was right after all. A major cause of the degradation of public discourse is the decades-old phenomenon of schools not only failing…
WrongWinning

WrongWinning

Despite decades of evidence to the contrary, some Conservatives and Libertarians still refuse to learn that they cannot defeat the Left by accepting the enemy's philosophical premises while scolding their own side for being too effective. In short, they'd rather police their erstwhile allies for wrongwinning than actually win. Freedom…