The Shortcoming in the Self-Improvement Strategy
Ely Harman did an excellent video worth checking out, criticizing the self-improvement strategy for romantic success: How do you deal with a Pareto distribution where 80% of the women are…
MCS1: Against Antisemitism
On what will hopefully be the first of many Saturday morning caffeine streams, I spoke with Kyle Broussard about circumcision, antisemitism, and Eric Clopper's presentation on the subject of male…
Culture of Consent
In 1922, Walter Lippmann coined the idea of “manufactured consent” in his book Public Opinion. The book seems to accept the premise that the social contract was predicated upon consent; that…
Getting Back to Reading
YouTube has become the lazy-man's library. It is easy to sit and do some menial task (dishes, laundry, even a video game) while listening to some decent "educational" channel on…
The Great Experiment?
I thought it would be appropriate to think a little bit about America on her 242nd birthday. My last post highlighted some of the challenges we face in keeping this…
On the Coming Civil War
Dedicated to those of this community who, through the Rajneesh invasion and occupation of 1981-85, remained, resisted, and remembered. -- Plaque beneath the post office flagpole, Antelope, OR You'd think…
Identity and the Problem with Christianity
Originally published on Counter-Currents: Whenever we accept certain axioms as true, we bar ourselves from accepting certain conclusions which contradict the axioms. For example, if we accept the axioms that…
Is Arguing a Waste of Time?
"Time spent arguing is, oddly enough, almost never time wasted." — Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian I was told earlier today that "a debate for debate's sake is masturbation…
A Case-Study in Hatred
I don't think I've ever listened to a debate and come away with a stronger feeling of having just wasted time than after listening to the Munk Debate on Political…
Feminine Virtue
Some thoughts from yesterday: an acquaintance was asking what makes a woman feminine. The following was my initial response, in part derived from a mirroring of Jack Donovan's explanation of…
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