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.

Hi everyone. Here is the audio version of the 11th installment of The Peculiar Institution, our ongoing series on the history of slavery and the leadup to the US Civil War.

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. This framework consists of three basic propositions.

Great links, images and reading from Chartbook newsletter.

I will be reading my own verse as well as assorted 20th-century material. (I apologize for paywalling this earlier—that was a scurvy trick. Poetry is for the people!) This is a private event. Please do not share or publicize. Email qulturewar@proton.me

"As a masochist, I can’t wait to see what the Democrats have in store for me."

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

Learn about the influential Black evangelist

Words by Rosa Kumar

Was the famine an inevitable natural disaster or a man-made genocide, and how do we begin to honour the three million who perished in silence?

New Year, New Strategy

More travel, more stress

When “The Anarchist's Design Book” was released in 2016, I knew there would be hate mail. I get a pile of it whenever I write a book, pen a magazine article or film a video. I accept this; it comes with the territory. And after 33 years of writing, the barbs are mostly ticks off a possum’s back.

During junior high school in Arkansas, I was required by law or tradition to take two years of square-dancing lessons as part of our physical education curriculum. We were assigned a partner to dance with for the entire school year. The first year, my partner was pregnant. This was not entirely unusual.

Martin Scorsese embraces the death of cinema—and thrives

America decides

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

Weeks after Amelia Earhart's disappearance, a young fan sends some words of support

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

Coke Can Clarence, Strip Search Sammy, and the four other Leonard Leo justices are doing their level best to end American democracy.

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...

You asked, and (for the most part) I answered...

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.

Ancient Shield Maiden, National Symbol, and ‘Fat Lady’ of the Opera

"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…"

"In the wild purple of the glow'ring sun..."

自由嘅靈魂，你奈我唔何

權力的三個層次；從最低的武力壓迫到最高的道德判斷。憲法精神是甚麼？甚麼才是民主與專制的分別？

The machine tool industry is heavily concentrated geographically. A handful of countries located in Western Europe and East Asia account for almost all the global exports, Germany and Japan being the world’s two undisputed leaders. Considering that the machine tool industry provides the production base for all the other manufacturing industries, including the military, the vast quantitative and qualitative regional disparities in machine tool production have far-reaching strategic consequences.

Tu-160M, the "White Swan" is the largest, the heaviest and the fastest bomber in the world. Originally a Soviet design, the White Swan you see today has limited continuity with the USSR. It was created in the late 2010s, as a combined project of Putin's Russia and the Siemens Digital Factory.

I disappeared one month ago in an all too similar fashion as Anne Heche. I am here to share my journey into hell with only a limited amount of my friends and supporters.

BREAKING: They were secret for 16 years. Now a judge has released the Epstein grand jury records Kirby Sommers is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. BY JULIE K. BROWN, JULY 01, 2024 2:22 PM

A study of the Deep State's immolation of a Catholic president in masonic sacred space

Countering a Manufactured Consensus about the alleged Victor

Cionci Article

The Moor and his Bride

Tudor London as you've never seen it before (unless you read Part 1).

I have a new book out, which weaves together London fiction from different eras.

Across much of the world, men and women think alike. However, in countries that are economically developed and culturally liberal, young men and women are polarising. As chronicled by John Burn-Murdoch, young women are increasingly likely to identify as ‘progressives’ and vote for leftists, while young men remain more

Zara, a 25-year-old finance student in London, is struggling with dating apps. As a third-generation British Pakistani Muslim, she seeks a husband who is religious (prays five times a day, abstains from pork and alcohol), but also listens to Beyonce. After returning from work, she wants to watch Brooklyn 99. This is proving difficult. Father Rashid denies such men even exist. Zara has already done a few video calls (with her mother as chaperone), but found the men a bit too conservative.

Musk has a plot to transform America that’s more reminiscent of the supervillainry of a Marvel or DC film than a business plan. Last night this plan took a big step forward—and now America is at risk.

An ongoing meme-archive series at Retro that supplies readers with pithy, effective, and engaging memes to use on special occasions.

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…

Happy Canada Day to one and all!REAL Indigenous Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. In the satirical-cum-cynical piece on the other side of the paywall, Brian Giesbrecht nicely argues why September 30, Reconciliation Day, “

A definition, tested

The Unveiling of The Darr Mine Memorial Project and a new Ruins Podcast Episode

An Obituary

It felt strange to sit on Manfred Goldberg’s sofa in North London in the summer of 2022, eating biscuits and listening to his family make small talk as they whizzed in and out of the cosy lounge in turn to fetch more plates and napkins.