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Jim Goad has produced a short video to accompany his latest essay, “Black People of Walmart,” about black people in Chicago being deprived of their inalienable right to shop at — or steal from — Walmart. See below. (more…)
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The Stories
But the stories! What of the stories themselves? Rather than going over the inevitable Death in Venice, the minor “Louisey,”[1] or the pseudo-story (“A Day in the Life of Hanno Buddenbrook,” which is actually an arrangement of self-contained chapters from Buddenbrooks that Searls has perhaps cobbled together in hopes of enticing the sulky reader into tackling the Big Book), I want to take a look at the remaining two stories, one of which contains some surprisingly relevant bits about The Way We Live Now, and the other gives us a kind of con-man’s guide to Positive Thinking. (more…)
Aristophanes
Aristophanes
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Strepsiades Flunks Out
It hasn’t gone well. First Socrates bursts out of the Thinkery swearing an oath: “By Respiration, by Chaos, by the Air.” The usual places of gods in his oath are occupied by three natural forces. Socrates then rants about a particularly bad student who is “rustic . . . resourceless . . . dull . . . and forgetful.” Then he calls this student to come out. And out comes Strepsiades.
Socrates then quizzes Strepsiades on what he has learned. (more…)
Thomas Mann: breakthrough Black [sic] author?
Thomas Mann: breakthrough Black [sic] author?
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Thomas Mann: New Selected Stories
Translated and with an introduction by Damion Searls
New York: Liveright, 2023
“It is really curious that a life of playing games and dreaming can — if only you go on with it long enough — lead to your being treated like royalty.” — Thomas Mann, author of Felix Krull, Confidence Man
“What a royal gift the imagination is, and what pleasure it affords us!” — Felix Krull, confidence man (more…)
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In the summer of 2009, a website called “People of Walmart” debuted and, like a fever blister sprouting under the hot August sun, it enjoyed a few moments of Internet virality. Its stock in trade was to feature reader-submitted photos of lumpy, fat, trashy, tacky, stupid, déclassé, weird — and almost entirely white — Americans trudging through those giant hollow warehouses of depressing consumerism that are target-marketed toward consumers of meager means. (more…)
A sixteenth-century engraving of Strepsiades, his son, and Socrates in Clouds.
A sixteenth-century engraving of Strepsiades, his son, and Socrates in Clouds.
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“The Thinkery, a likeness of death, teaching Whirligig and Bamboozle, ‘back to nature’ without families, without the old paternal gods, and without nomoi (not paying back money owed and using unusual forms of words) . . .” — Thomas Prufer (more…)
You can buy Greg Johnson’s New Right vs. Old Right here
You can buy Greg Johnson’s New Right vs. Old Right here
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English original here, French version here
Introducción aquí
Quizás es mejor empezar diciendo lo que no es Nueva Derecha vs. Vieja Derecha. Greg Johnson no asalta a sus lectores con estadísticas que demuestran el rol Judío en la decadencia e inminente hundimiento Blanco en Estados Unidos y otros lugares. Él no se explaya sobre la corrupción de los medios y del mundo académico, y el cómo llegaron a ser así. Él no se explaya sobre los datos en las diferencias raciales en Cociente Intelectual y en la criminalidad para explicar el comportamiento de los no Blancos en Estados Unidos. (more…)
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A blogger associated with the antifa bragged at the beginning of this week that arrests were imminent against demonstrators who had participated in the August 11, 2017 tiki torch march in Charlottesville, Virginia. Three people have been arrested so far, but this may be only the beginning. (more…)
Epictetus, in an eighteenth-century English artist’s imagining.
Epictetus, in an eighteenth-century English artist’s imagining.
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Socrates was not in prison since he was there of his own free will. — Epictetus
I’m free.
And freedom tastes of reality.
— The Who
We should talk about slavery. Goodness knows, it’s not a subject we hear talked about much these days. That’s my dose of irony, now for some history. If you were at school or college today in the West, you would know that no slavery existed until a man called Jim Crow had his people — probably the Ku Klux Klan, or Donald Trump’s ancestors — sail to Africa, cast black people into chains, and then bring them back to America to pick cotton and be lynched. (more…)
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Lovecraftovy hororové příběhy jsou dnes brány nejen jako literární klasika, ale také se postupem času staly vlivným kultem okultismu. Mýtus Cthulhu, Prastaří a Nevyslovitelná jména jsou evokováni, uctíváni a respektováni různými esoterickými proudy a u některých tvoří dokonce pomyslné jádro jejich magického učení. Tato esej má za cíl zkoumat nejvýznamnější řády, jednotlivce a doktríny, co se v minulosti zaobírali či se pořád ještě zaobírají Mýtem Cthulhu. (more…)
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Ethiopian Lelisa Desisa Benti was the fastest runner in the 2013 Boston Marathon. The fastest woman was a Kenyan who finished 16 minutes behind him. Nobody, however, remembers the victors in Beantown’s 2013 race. (more…)
The author at the Bay of Pigs.
