In the meantime, British schools are having another completely normal one:

One book used in classrooms claims black people built Stonehenge, whilst free resources produced by a subject organisation celebrate the genital mutilation of a slave as a form of ‘gender transition’. . . Written by Atinuke, the Nigerian-born British author, [a history textbook] says that “Britain was a black country for more than 7,000 years before white people came”. . . Research showed that key elements of British history have been dropped by schools as fewer than one in five teach the Battle of Agincourt and only 11 per cent include the Battles of Trafalgar and Waterloo.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/18/schoolchildren-taught-black-people-stonehenge-atinuke/

What do you think, friends? Is Britain done for or can it still come back from this?

Neoliberalism is feminine by nature. It rewards those who stand up to it and impose their will.

An iron-clad inner structure, a meticulous sense of discipline, a rigid carapace of duty, an unbreakable focus, and a constant process of self-regulation – these are the qualities that neoliberalism does everything to destroy. These are also the qualities that it rewards. The perfect neoliberal subject is emotionally dysregulated, weak-willed, driven by his whims, and convinced that “duty” and “obligation” are dirty words. Neoliberalism repays him for this obedience to its precepts with poverty, illness, and painful internal disorders.

Customs officers no longer even look at my passport when I enter Canada from the US and the US from Canada. They look into my eyes and know everything about my citizenship status and other details of my identity.

It’s convenient, for sure, but also creepy.

That’s why I like him:

You misspelled “trust funders” https://t.co/0y2YkecJFz

— Curtis Yarvin (@curtis_yarvin) May 18, 2025

The extent to which the far-left shift has been driven for decades by the children of those most favored by our society rarely gets discussed. The revolt of the generationally rich is what is destroying us. The boutique sexual fetishes of the wealthy are at war with the middle-class morality we are told us stupid and boring. The value of their trust funds increases if national borders are erased.

The Department of Education is such a joke.

#DYK that something as simple as a squishy ball can help students learn?

Matthew, a school psychologist from Nevada, talks about how sensory tools like stress balls can improve students' focus and mental health. #MentalHealthMonth pic.twitter.com/ozjS7uKL2d

— U.S. Department of Education (@usedgov) May 13, 2025

I was recently at a scholarly talk where a researcher analyzed the entirety of the existing studies on this subject. The conclusion was that fidget toys have a negative effect on focus, concentration and learning. There are many studies, and the overwhelming majority says that these sensory objects have a negative effect.

I happen to know this one little factoid because I chanced upon that talk. Imagine how much other poorly researched, dumb things these bureaucratic accounts publish.

BREAKING: A ship has just hit the Brooklyn Bridge.

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— Ian Jaeger (@IanJaeger29) May 18, 2025

A ship under a huge Mexican flag hit the Brooklyn Bridge.

I’m reading a lot about Mexico these days, trying to figure out why it’s such a mess. And yes, it’s a terrible mess. Lovely literature, though.

We can see the war on rootedness in everything. For example, in academia it’s considered a point of pride to be a first-generation college student but definitely not to be a fifth-generation one.

Why, though?

Because it’s harder to be the former? But why is hardship a point of pride? “But I tried hard” is a childish argument. Only very immature people think that effort, and not the result, should be rewarded. Why don’t we celebrate the amazing achievement of families that manage to send several generations to college? Why is it a great thing to go against the family tradition?

Renaud Camus says that a farmer’s son who goes to university sets himself apart from his entire family. If his education is minimally successful, he’ll feel forever like an outsider in his own family. Similarly, a professor’s child who doesn’t pursue a college degree is set apart from her family. Why do we instinctively like these choices more than the ones made in accordance with the family tradition?

Because we have been trained like Pavlovian dogs to wince at tradition and celebrate rootlessness.

I now get these ads in every website I visit:

I started getting them after discussing with a Quebec senior the remedies she was using for her knee pain. In Russian.

Hopefully, soon enough the technology that is spying on us will figure out that not everybody talking to the Quebec senior about her knees is herself a Quebec senior with painful knees.

I keep waiting and waiting for at least one of these people to ask:

How come we knew that Biden was senile, BLM was crap, lockdowns were a bad idea, and COVID vaccines didn’t prevent infection SO MUCH EARLIER than they did?

Why aren’t they wondering how come everything their news sources dismiss as a “far-right conspiracy theory” eventually turns out to be true?

Why aren’t they wondering how come we knew all this stuff months or even years before they did?

Why aren’t they even a little bit curious?

I had a perfect day today and of course that includes buying books. For some reason, most of my haul is books in translation:

Did any important news occur? Does anybody have anything interesting to share?