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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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“The leading nations of the world are now engaged in a new kind of arms race. Our hesitation, perceived or otherwise, to move forward with military applications of artificial intelligence will be punished. The ability to develop the tools required to deploy force against an opponent, combined with a credible threat to use such force, is often the foundation of any effective negotiation with an adversary. (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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Balaji Srinivasan
The Network State
Self-Published, 2022
M.L. Cavanaugh, professional military strategist, defines strategy as “…the purposeful orientation toward success in a complex, competitive conflict.” Regardless of the situation at hand, whether Clausewitz’s “politics by other means” or just plain politics, strategic actions ought to be intelligently and systematically designed to gain control of the contested environment. In this respect, the Right’s current strategic posture can only be described as wanting. (more…)
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George S. Takach
Cold War 2.0: Artificial Intelligence in the New Battle Between China, Russia, and America
New York: Pegasus Books, 2024
George S. Takach is a Canadian technologist who specializes in understanding the development and use of cutting edge products. His works in the field of technology law. Takach is also deeply concerned about the two most dangerous members of the BRICS coalition—China and Russia. (more…)
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Modern people—particularly the university-educated, raised in predictable urban environments in relative comfort—live inside a powerful illusion: the belief that societies can change quickly.
We are surrounded by examples that condition us to think this way. Within a few decades, countries have gone from wretched poverty and primitive existence to rapid economic growth, and from illiteracy to seeming technical sophistication. (more…)
You can buy Greg Johnson’s The Trial of Socrates here.
You can buy Greg Johnson’s The Trial of Socrates here.
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“Knowledge is not wisdom.”
—Frank Zappa
Plato’s Lovers is one of his shortest dialogues, but it deals with one of his weightiest topics: the nature of philosophy.
The setting is the school of Dionysus the grammarian. Socrates encounters two attractive young men from good families along with their two older male lovers. None of these characters are named.
The lovers are described as “rival” lovers, but ambiguously so. Was one of them also interested in the other’s lad? Or do they represent rival loves, i.e., rival ways of life? (more…)
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I consider that all materialists, including the vertical racists, are and must be hostile to us…. Furthermore, [they] have mainly nineteenth-century outlooks. I have small tolerance for these survival types, but I never disturb them in their mental graveyards. It is they who attacked me.”
—Francis Parker Yockey[1] (more…)
You can buy Jonathan Bowden’s Western Civilization Bites Back here.
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You can buy Jonathan Bowden’s Western Civilization Bites Back here.
Despite endless talk about the “decline of the West,” Western civilization remains the cultural, legal, and intellectual nucleus of the modern world. Its institutions, values, and aesthetic standards still define what progress and modernity mean. Though power has diffused economically—China manufactures, India grows, and the Persian Gulf invests—the blueprint of civilization remains unmistakably Western. (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…)
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Laurie Anderson
Big Science
Warner Brothers, 1982
In the Seventies, Laurie Anderson made a modest name for herself in the “performance art” scene. (more…)
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I want to invite you to take a look into a crystal ball and observe the future of the White Race with me. As glorious as the histories of the European peoples are, there is a danger in becoming too attached to the past. The average anon posting on social media about ancient Rome or World War 2 feels connected to the past and advocates a return to the glory of a prior era. (more…)