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Anonymous on The Dumbest KidJanuary 23, 2026
That was, truly, a remarkable about-face. I'm still curious about how, exactly, that happened, and who engineered it. These days…
Clarissa on The Dumbest KidJanuary 23, 2026
This anti-police stand of "I prefer to pay for my own protection" used to exist in the far reaches of…
Anonymous on Definitions of Conservatism: Lincoln AllisonJanuary 23, 2026
Part of that picture is certainly the tension between the VonMises/Rothbard/Hazlitt/Hayek "absolute economic freedom" school of thought, which also tends…
Clarissa on The Dumbest KidJanuary 23, 2026
I'm not even that old but I clearly remember how "on the left" meant "for the working class." Remember Michael…
Anonymous on The Unconservative DispositionJanuary 23, 2026
Oh! It's "learn to code" for the academic class! -ethyl
v07 on The Dumbest KidJanuary 23, 2026
---I wasn’t trying to make a political statement. This is simply a funny story to me. But you put it…
Anonymous on The Dumbest KidJanuary 23, 2026
Family friend worked for years as a parole officer. Did a midlife career change to become a teacher-- teaching teenagers…
Anonymous on The Dumbest KidJanuary 23, 2026
Because they are cops. The current left is radically, consistently, anti-enforcement-of-laws, particularly enforcement that makes life better for normal working…
Anonymous on The Dumbest KidJanuary 23, 2026
One thing the left does seem to share generally, in the US, in spite of not being a completely homogeneous…
Clarissa on The Dumbest KidJanuary 23, 2026
It would be great if these people explained their different reasons. Everybody seems to say that, of course, they are…
Clarissa on The Dumbest KidJanuary 23, 2026
I also don't see why it's supposed to be a particularly repellent job. The duties of the job go against…
Clarissa on The Dumbest KidJanuary 23, 2026
I wasn't trying to make a political statement. This is simply a funny story to me. Some people are late…
Clarissa on Definitions of Conservatism: Lincoln AllisonJanuary 23, 2026
True. I can't think of anything I could say that would be more shocking to my colleagues than that I'm…
Clarissa on The Dumbest KidJanuary 23, 2026
A hatred of law enforcement is also evidence of a weak father complex. Good dad means a good, positive attitude…
Clarissa on Finns and the World OrderJanuary 23, 2026
I yesterday saw a clip of Nancy Pelosi gushing about how her 6-year-old grandson said he doesn't want to be…
Clarissa on Definitions of Conservatism: Lincoln AllisonJanuary 23, 2026
I've added Marion Montgomery to the reading list. Thank you! As conservatives, we don't have a repository of our cultural…
Clarissa on Definitions of Conservatism: Lincoln AllisonJanuary 23, 2026
That's exactly it. We are stuck between different flavors of neoliberalism, unable to step out of its magic circle. This…
Anonymous on The Unconservative DispositionJanuary 23, 2026
it seems like such a waste of energy and I don’t understand what they get out of it. It is…
v07 on The Dumbest KidJanuary 23, 2026
I do not know, ethyl. It is indeed possible that I have limited ability to properly put myself into the…
Anonymous on The Dumbest KidJanuary 23, 2026
I know several people who have seriously contemplated taking that job: because they are ex-military, they are patriots, and it…
Anonymous on The Dumbest KidJanuary 23, 2026
Exhibit A in "How the Democrats lost the working class" -ethyl
Stringer Bell on The Dumbest KidJanuary 23, 2026
But it is not about class I think there's a class element in there. Leftists love public sector unions and…
v07 on The Dumbest KidJanuary 23, 2026
---The dumbest kid in my class in the USSR, who was so dumb we literally thought he was retarded, became…
Demotrash on Definitions of Conservatism: Lincoln AllisonJanuary 23, 2026
"In intellectual circles, it’s only a bit worse to be a self-avowed pedophile than a conservative." Depending on which era,…
Avi on The Dumbest KidJanuary 23, 2026
How I wish you could give us his name! [I know you can't.] That X post drips with social contempt…
Bryan on Definitions of Conservatism: Lincoln AllisonJanuary 22, 2026
Incidentally, since you are reading conservative thinkers intensively, you might be interested in the literary critic Marion Montgomery if you…
Avi on Finns and the World OrderJanuary 22, 2026
The average Finn is generally speaking a textbook example of suicidal empathy in action. Like most of the Nordics.
Bryan on Definitions of Conservatism: Lincoln AllisonJanuary 22, 2026
Prof. Clarissa, I’m really enjoying this series on conservative thinkers! I can perhaps offer a hypothesis about the question concerning why…
Clarissa on Oakeshott and Being Forever YoungJanuary 22, 2026
Please do. This is very interesting. After Burke, we'll do Russell Kirk whom I love with a passion.
Anonymous on Oakeshott and Being Forever YoungJanuary 22, 2026
Re: Edmund Burke A central figure in conservative thought, without a doubt. I was surprised back in the 1970s to…

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