So I’ve been away for the last few weeks, first visiting family for the first time in a long time, and now at a conference put on by The Claremont Institute. I’ll be back to full speed (on both the Substack and Unraveling w/Jocko) in couple of days, but in the meantime I had a fun interaction yesterday.

This is the audio version of The Peculiar Institution, pt.

As NATO meets to discuss the tension on the Russian border to Ukraine, and the papers fill with denunciations of Putin’s aggression, I still find it useful to return to the framework I developed in Crashed for analyzing the intersection of geopolitics and economics and the rise of Russia as a challenger.

Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze

I will be reading my own verse as well as assorted 20th-century material.

"If you are not starving in the gutter right now, thank a Republican lawyer."

On April 18, I went to my regularly scheduled doctor’s appointment and got some unexpected news.

Publisher’s note: Good morning.

Professor Julie Moore was fired from Taylor University in what has become a pattern at far-right Christian schools.

December's live online gathering happens at 8 pm ET

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Įvadinė serija. Nedidelis laiškas žemiau.

And how to break the endless cycle

Decoding Da Vinci

Words by Rosa Kumar

“I don't know what most white people in this country feel. But I can only conclude what they feel based from state of their institutions." - James Baldwin

Welcome to the Good Timeline

“Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back.”

An Introduction to Applied History

At home, Yale Law School and DEI committees are out. Abroad, strength and escalation are in.

Do you?

I had a dream

On this day in 1945, Dorothy Parker had writer's block

How to decline an honour

Will there ever be a Secrets of Great British Castles season 3? How much of a boss was William Marshal? What is my favourite beer? And other pressing questions...

Paris's famous landmark is reopening five years after it was torn apart by fire - a mark of a great cathedral is how it recovers from disaster

The former "Celebrity Apprentice" talent handler on what he saw behind the scenes.

Word match, word find, and other amusing games

"I used to write long-winded descriptions...in a kind of cipher shorthand which I am now unable to read even with a magnifying glass…"

"You can’t think how exciting, soothing, ennobling and satisfying it is."--Virginia Woolf

and China succeeded

In my texts, I have made a few references to the Islamic Philosophy of History.

One day in early August in the fourth century AD, something strange happened in Rome. Those who were outside braving the heat, walking on the Esquiline Hill would have glanced at the sky to notice a curious cloud formation - very different certainly from the compact cloud cover typical of snowfall - and would have been astonished to see snowflakes drifting down to earth – in the heat of summer! Some may have fled to escape this manifestation of divine wrath while others may have tentatively stretched out a hand to catch them and see them evaporate like real snowflakes. Someone noted and recorded the event.

Greetings the Unleashed!

The fact that Iran’s missiles failed to kill large numbers of Israelis is irrelevant to us...Israel not only has the right to defend itself but the duty. Defending Jews is inherent in our raison d'être.

Along with historic opportunities, the Syrian situation poses grave threats

Canst thou overthrow Janus, the operant governing deity of America?

A Conspiracy of Preferential Treatment

The web of pedophiles, psychotropic drugs and murders surrounding The Beatles...

How a glacier shaped a railway station.

St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe?

Across much of the world, men and women think alike.

“Barbie” dominated cinemas worldwide, as Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie crafted a vision of women who rule, celebrate each other, and emerge victorious. Actually, it has a 15th century predecessor. Medieval France’s Christine de Pizan penned her own vision of cultural rebellion - championing female heroes, lampooning misogyny! But why didn’t she spark a revolution? Why did we have to wait another 600 years for feminism? Studying this feminist pioneer, we see that culture is a battleground - in terms of how we perceive each other. Secular-scientific transformations were necessary before the F-word would truly ignite.

Cionci Article

Abraham Lincoln and William Shakespeare

Is Germany allowed to talk about lost territory?

'Tis the season of the book list, and I just couldn’t resist making one for ZEITGEIST.

Please take time to read the outstanding take on the Kamloops “missing children buried in unmarked graves” issue — posted below with no paywall —by the researcher wh…

In the piece on the other side of the paywall, Michelle Stirling offers an outstanding piece of well-reasoned writing combined with abundant factual evidence disputing the grounds for “the ongoing burning and vandalism of more than 100 Catholic and other Christian churches” across Canada since May 27, 2021, the day the B.C.