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Communism’s hallmark, a command economy, is a failed system. Centrally planning pencil production over five years is ludicrous—even with AI. But the command economy has one use: as a reference point, or thought experiment, for other economic systems. Assuming we had a one-party state ruling the nation as conceived as one factory, one farm, and one office, how would we run things? (more…)
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No matter what happens with AI, it’s going to be an economic catastrophe. If AI is just a giant bubble, obviously that bubble is going to burst, and it will bring down the whole economy. Indeed, the American economy is mostly stagnant. All the growth right now is in AI.
If AI actually works, however, a whole lot of people will lose their jobs, and that will be an economic catastrophe as well. Moreover, neither the Left nor the Right can fix this problem.
Let’s say that you have a hotdog stand. (more…)
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Jason Burke
The Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s
New York: Knopf, 2026
As dawn broke on January 1, 1969, Israeli troops occupied the Sinai Peninsula, having won that territory in a brilliant, low casualty, and super-fast war that contrasted with the quagmire America was facing in Vietnam. Meanwhile, the Cold War was on a downward trend—communism steadily advanced in Asia and Central America. In the Middle East, the governments of most of the Arab nations were secularist and had a ruling ideology which purported to promote the common good of those having an Arab ethnicity. (more…)
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“It records the sorry chronicle of Majority reverses on all the important battlegrounds—cultural, religious, political, economic, and diplomatic. Since the liberal-minority coalition has emerged victorious on all fronts, it is not an overstatement to describe the losers as the Dispossessed Majority.”
—Wilmot Robertson, The Dispossessed Majority
“We have no real democracy at the present time, because again and again the people have voted for decisive action, yet again and again their will has been thwarted by obstruction in the talking shop at Westminster. Democracy only begins when the will of the people is carried out.”
—Oswald Mosley (more…)
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“The directors, when they meet, hold private discussions. In the case of such a powerful body there is also a central body which lays down basic policy. The influence of that central body, to say the least, must be great in our economic life. Nobody knows, however, what they discuss there. In the course of his speeches, Mr. Oppenheimer, the leader, makes political statements; (more…)
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During a math class long ago, I saw a desktop computer up close for the very first time. Although it was a brief demo, since someone forgot to bring the monitor, the experience changed my life. At that moment, I was determined to master it. I learned how to program in BASIC, writing code long before I actually got to put my dirty mitts on a personal computer. (more…)
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So given what we learned in part 2 about capital accumulation, the role of human capital in that process, and the nature of genetics and intelligence, what is the best way for the West and East Asia to help not only themselves but the entire world in the long run? (more…)
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Nothing destroys a good idea so efficiently as success—not so much the success of the idea itself as much as the success of those, politicians mostly, who claim to be implementing it. This is why in Russia advocating privatization is more likely to get you punched in the face than listened to, (more…)
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In America, Jews and commercial interests have made it taboo for whites to express any solidarity with their race or ethnicity. In this vacuum, a weird sort of career-based tribalism has emerged. Foremost of these is solidarity among police officers. It’s not exactly an implicit white identity since minorities except for Asians are just about as likely to be cops. (more…)
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The following interview, which was first published on June 27, is being reprinted with the permission of the interviewer from the blog of the Turkish writer Eren Yesilyurt.
Alain de Benoist is a French writer and thinker, one of the leading figures of the European New Right movement. (more…)
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Už tak velice nízká porodnost v Jižní Koreji se v roce 2023 dále propadla na pouhých 0,72 dítěte na ženu, což je přibližně jen třetina hodnoty nutné pro zachování velikosti populace (2,1). Na webu BBC se dokonce objevil článek, jehož autorka si klade otázky, proč se tolik Korejek rozhodlo zůstat bezdětných. (more…)
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All liberal, socialist, and Marxist societies, regardless of their specific economic system, have one thing in common: They are all tied to the economy. (more…)
South Korean teens in Jongno, Seoul. (Photo courtesy of Flickr)
South Korean teens in Jongno, Seoul. (Photo courtesy of Flickr)
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South Korea’s birth rate per woman, which was already low, fell even lower in 2023 to 0.72, which is roughly a mere third of the country’s replacement level of 2.1. The BBC even published an article exploring why women in South Korea are choosing not to have children. (more…)