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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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In Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, palantirs are basically crystal balls, allowing people to see things at a distance. They are also like video phones. Two people with palantirs can communicate at a distance.
In Peter Jackson’s The Fellowship of the Ring, Gandalf chides Saruman for using a palantir to collect information on Sauron, because the other seeing stones are not accounted for. So when you look into a palantir, someone might be looking back at you, someone evil. (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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Shyam Sankar & Madeline Hart
Mobilize: How to Reboot the American Industrial Base & Stop World War III
New York: Bombardier Books, 2026
Sometime between the January 6, 2021 Capitol Hill protest and the point in 2021 where Biden’s cognitive decline was obvious to all but American liberals, America lost her ability to deter, and hard knocks have followed. The best way to prevent a war going forward is to be so militarily strong that no one dares to carry out an attack in the first place. (more…)
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Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska
The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West
New York: Crown Currency, 2025
Appeals to virtue and character, having been excluded for the most part from the civic and political realms, have migrated, or rather, been co-opted and appropriated, by the corporate. In 2013, Ram Trucks produced a television commercial featuring a speech titled “So God Made a Farmer” from 1978 by Paul Harvey, a radio broadcaster born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. (more…)
Alex Karp
Alex Karp
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Greg Johnson held an impromptu Ask Me Anything on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio with special guests Gaddius Maximus and Pox Populi where they discussed current things, and it is now available for download and online listening.
Topics discussed include:
00:01:26 On Alex Karp and Palantir
00:35:51 On the bad side of technology
00:39:32 On TikTok (more…)