It is the assumption that, since I’m now conservative, I should be devoted to Reagan and Bush that gets to me. I despise those fuckers. People keep bringing them up to me like it’s 2002. I wasn’t for them then, and I’m not for them now. I’m for the nation-state.

Political realignment happens all the time. In the 1990s, every left-wing party of every developed country embraced neoliberalism. Throughout the 2000s and 2010s, the Left went far into neoliberal direction, economically and in every other way. As a result, part of the Right pivoted and started walking away from neoliberalism. Part, not whole. I’m the Right that wants to leave neoliberalism. We are still finding our way to our freshly non-neoliberal position. We fumble and make mistakes. But at least we are trying. Everybody else is still free-marketeering and choicing their way into the neoliberal future of lonely godlike selves with detachable body parts and endless freedom to discard every attachment.

The economy doesn’t decide everything but it does decide a lot. Neoliberal economic principles (deregulation, mass migration, weakening of the nation-state, globalization) will inevitably bring into existence the neoliberal selfhood. People adopt the shape of capital and become rootless, movable, unattached and valuing freedom and choice above everything else. A neoliberal who expresses conservative cultural beliefs always brings about the destruction of conservative culture. There is no conservative culture, no family, no community, no permanence or stability in the neoliberal economy.

Reagan is the perfect example of this neoliberal sleight of hand. He said culturally conservative things and turned California mega liberal for generations to come because he was a neoliberal open-border fanatic.

AI has caused a miracle and cured climate change:

Bill Gates thinks climate change is still a serious problem, but says it's time to focus on fighting poverty and preventing disease.https://t.co/dBxfiP22Qv

— ABC News (@ABC) October 28, 2025

AI needs an enormous amount of energy, which motivated our eager overlords to drop their concerns about climate change. The shamelessness of these people knows no limits.

In the current debate about SNAP (food stamps), my position is as follows:

1. The program should absolutely exist.
2. It should not cover anything remotely resembling junk food.
3. It should not cover anybody who was not born in the US.

This is reasonable and would make the program more sustainable.

Today I had to explain to my child about men who pretend to be women because we came across one in Olive Garden.

Sorry but “my father’s cousin” absolutely qualifies as “aunt” in brown people speak. Hardly a “distant cousin” either.

My kids absolutely refer to & think of my cousins as their aunts and uncles, and it would seem odd for them to refer to them as “my father’s cousin”. https://t.co/tFCPYWrFPp

— christoph (@Halalcoholism) October 28, 2025

I’m very annoyed by the expression “brown people.” It clearly means people from the subcontinent. There’s no “brown people speak” that includes Bolivians and Guatemalans, is there?

I can just imagine referring to my Latin American students as “brown people.”

No, I can’t. They’d think I have developed sudden dementia. I’d never live it down.

Why can’t Indians and Pakistanis call themselves Indians and Pakistanis? The quoted post will become instantly understandable as a result.

In winter of 1944, Franco’s diplomat in Hungary Ángel Sanz Briz saved thousands of Hungarian Jews from being murdered by Nazis. He was recognized for his heroic actions by Yad Vashem decades ago but talking about his feats has been difficult in Spain. Sanz Briz was acting on orders from the Franco regime, and that messes with people’s understanding of the dictatorship as unadulterated evil. Journalist Arcadi Espada, who is very liberal, found that his research into this story always led people to ask, “but isn’t it true that Franco hated Jews?”

“Would you prefer that he loved Jews but let them die?” Espada would answer.

This is the difference between saying and doing that plagues our existence these days. What matters more, things that people say or what they do? Do the reasons behind their actions matter? Of course, Franco decided to save the Hungarian Jews because it was clear that Germany was losing the war and Franco wanted to make nice with the Allies. He did achieve that goal, and the Allies allows him to stay in power long after Hitler was gone. Does that matter, a little or a lot? Or do the thousands of lives that Franco’s diplomat saved in conditions of great risk to himself matter more?

Since nobody in Spain was interested in telling Sanz Briz’s story, some Italian dude who was marginally present in a few of the rescue operations took all the credit and made a whole career out of pretending to have been far more important to the story than he actually was. Espada unravels all this in his fascinating research. He’s a liberal who is tired of leftist excesses and wants to do serious, old-fashioned journalism. I never read anything by him before but he’s a gifted author with a unique voice, and this book was extraordinary in how free Espada feels to speak without taking recourse in any leftist pieties.

I watched Tucker Carlson’s interview of Nick Fuentes. Tucker turned Nick out like a little jail bitch. Pardon the crudeness but there’s no other way to describe it. There’s nothing that can beat years of experience. In nature, the young wolf kills the old one and assumes the leadership of the pack. But in human reality, in the many endeavors where physical strength is unimportant, the old wolf always dominates.

In academia, we’ve been poisoned by false democratization. We pretend that there’s no difference between a graduate student and a Full Professor. We put utterly inexperienced people on executive boards because we don’t know how to say aloud that they are incompetent. I had to fight my association because they almost appointed a recent PhD with one insignificant publication to run a monographic volume of the journal. People who never got published are holding workshops on how to get your book published.

Other than the dynamic of an older, more experienced man turning the younger one into a subservient heap, there’s nothing much else to the interview. We’ve heard all of this before.

Did you, folks, see the rabid Putinoid who won the election on Ireland?

Lord have mercy on our souls.

The first country in the world to legalize abortion was USSR. It made abortion legal in 1920. Curiously, it only legalized birth control in 1923.

Until its very end, Soviet Union offered abortion as the easiest, most accessible form of birth control.