Author: Francisco Albanese

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Warning: this review may contain spoilers.

Human fascination with extraterrestrial life has never been merely a scientific curiosity. It belongs, rather, to that deeper region where metaphysics, fear, hope, and civilizational fatigue begin to overlap. The alien is not only an imagined inhabitant of distant stars; it is a mirror placed before mankind, forcing us to contemplate the possibility that our history, our religions, our wars, and our self-importance may be provincial episodes within a far vaster order.

Popular culture has absorbed this fascination with unusual intensity because it allows the cosmic question to enter ordinary life. (more…)

By NicolásPalacios.ph – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=170090569

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Raging wildfires have blazed nearly 12,000 hectares of planted and native forests in the Argentine Patagonia. These fires started in the province of Chubut, but the causes have not yet been established. There is a lot of hypothesis, and there are indications that one of the biggest fires was deliberately set (Associated Press, 2026). Part of the population has its own theories as to why the fires may be intentional. (more…)

Source: Wikimedia Commons

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Author’s note: I strongly recommend reading the article “Communist Entropy in the Chilean Miracle.” [1]

Chile’s presidential campaign period concluded a few days ago with the election of José Antonio Kast Rist, a candidate running for the presidency for the third time. Several aspects of this outcome are worth noting. [2][3]

As has often been the case, a large portion of Chile’s political elite is Euro-descended, and this election was not an exception. (more…)

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Stefano Vaj
Biopolitics: A Transhumanist Paradigm
La Carmelina Edizioni, 2014

Biopolitica. Il nuovo paradigma, originally written in Italian and first published in its “final” form in 2005 (Società Editrice Barbarossa), later circulated online through the biopolitica.it platform and has been continuously revised and expanded over the years (including an appendix drawn from Guillaume Faye’s La colonisation de l’Europe). (more…)

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For intellectual interest, I usually read practically everything related to the Fourth Political Theory, multipolarism, Eurasianism, and/or Aleksandr Dugin, and the recently created platform Multipolar Press is no exception. (more…)

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I am not sure whether the term Substackification had already been coined, but for this case I will borrow it from Peter Bradley’s article. (more…)

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The Free Country: A Tale of The Children’s Crusade (DC/Vertigo, 1993–1994 (original date)) is a dark and haunting crossover event published under DC’s Vertigo imprint. Structured as a seven-issue limited series, it is framed by two bookend volumes written by Neil Gaiman and Alisa Kwitney, and features a central narrative that unfolds through five interconnected Annuals drawn from existing Vertigo titles of the time. These middle chapters were penned by the series’ regular writers: Dick Foreman, Jamie Delano, Nancy Collins, Rachel Pollack, and John Ney Rieber. (more…)

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Except for a few individuals with a “bad guy” complex (the same people who derive some sort of pleasure from being labeled intolerant, xenophobic, and homophobic), generally speaking, no one in Western societies likes to be accused of being discriminatory. Discrimination is regarded as something negative, and no one wants to be accused of something negative. (more…)

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Eric Voegelin

Anyone who wishes to live in a relatively tranquil society knows that polarization—that is, the times of das Politische—is anything but reassuring. This is not difficult to understand: during moments of polarization, every situation, act, subject, or object, no matter how insignificant it might appear in more “normal” times, becomes unbearably politicizable and politicized, as though the tangible and intangible alike were ontologically impregnated by the political. (more…)

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Because I am not particularly familiar with American non-alt conservatism—nor with the minor figures and initiatives associated with the GOP—I was mostly unaware of Charlie Kirk as a political personality. And yet, his outrageous and untimely death at Utah Valley University compels commentary, not only because it was a death provoked by the battle of ideas, but also because of the disturbing chain of consequences it has unleashed. (more…)

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My relationship with the band Iron Maiden has been one of love and hate over the years (“The thin line between love and hate”?). My first conscious encounter with the band’s music (their name was already familiar to me because someone had taken the liberty of spray-painting “Iron Maiden” across the street from my school in the early ’90s) was through the album Virtual XI (yes, with Blaze Bayley on vocals), which to this day is one of my favorites. (more…)

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Sebastian Junger
Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
Simon & Schuster, 2016

Since its first edition in 2016, this book had been on my list of books to read. Eight years later, I finally read it this weekend, coinciding with a conversation with friends about the drama of war and how it brings out both the best and worst in human behavior. In Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging, Sebastian Junger once again showcases his prose, marked by clarity and precision—the same qualities evident in War and Fire. (more…)

Discobolus, a Roman copy of the Greek original from the fifth century BC. Image courtesy of Wikipedia Commons.

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From a liberal perspective, there exists a logical (and also emotional) resistance to the use of concepts, terminologies, and ideas that are foreign to modernity, since for liberalism, being born detached from the latter, such foreign concepts, terminologies, and ideas would a priori be anti-modern and therefore anti-liberal.

A significant problem that has arisen for liberalism, as well as for the more conservative Right detached from modernity, is that the Left(s) have shifted the political battleground, relocating to new terrains and implementing new rules of engagement, where individuals and social groups are addressed and bombarded on different planes than were imaginable a few decades ago. (more…)