Author Archives: Greg Swann

Only well-fathered families can thrive. Here’s how to build yours to last – forever.

Without fathers, there is no future.Photo by: fairuz othmanMen and women might be politically equal, but they are not functionally identical. This matters most where we are most different: Men cannot birth or suckle infants – and women cannot head … Continue reading

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5 reasons every grown-up couple should marry – with an ironclad marriage contract to make their new family last forever.

To be together is an accident of location. To be committed to each other and to the things you make together is a marriage.Photo by: Garry KnightThe inconquerable Janet Bloomfield (better known as JudgyBitch) has offered up five reasons no … Continue reading

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Using the DISC system – my way – to fix every social machine in your life.

I can show you everything you’re missing.Photo by: Joshua ZaderAs the ultimate triumph of my private anti-mutiny of the Driven over the Cautious, I can document the Science of Carney – how to predict with precision which way any particular … Continue reading

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If you love your mind and your values, don’t get drafted into the next Army of Cartmans.

Thane Eichenerauer, bless his every living breath, put me in mind of this exhortation from April 20, 2012, about the morality of mobs: As a matter of disclosure, I have not read An Army of Davids. The thesis is completely … Continue reading

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The Little Testudo Schoolhouse: How to rescue your children from tyranny.

The American high school, where brains, talent, creativity and drive perish.Photo by: Mississippi Department of Archives and HistoryMarxists have taken over education? You bet they have – starting over 100 years ago. In this Sunday’s Church of Splendor homily: How … Continue reading

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“We are easy prey” — Propositions Three and Seven by Richard Mitchell

Public education does its work superbly, almost perfectly. It works in fairly strict accordance with its own implicit theory of “education,” an elaborate ideology of which only some small details are generally known to the public. This is hardly surprising, … Continue reading

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The DISC of clowns: Understanding outsized Incandescents by their subdominant motivation.

“Dude. I’m not even Incandescent at all. My owner is. Underneath all this gear, I’m totally Sociable, I swear!”Photo by: PetfulSunday at Church I talked about deploying my notion of the subdominant motivation in my recasting of the DISC system … Continue reading

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The DISC of #Trump – why he is a thug and why he will grow evermore thuggish.

This is what a child’s face looks like when he realizes his father will not yield to his affected display of infinite pain. Within his home, Fred Trump was the Irreproachable. What did that make troublesome young Donald?I know how … Continue reading

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Jeffrey Tucker asks, “Why is this happening?” Liberty languishes because libertarians don’t reproduce.

Pictured at the right is a tweet I saw yesterday from Jeffrey Tucker, a big-shoe libertarian. Why, he wonders, is human liberty being Trumped by an obvious thug? He names six reasons, none of which are wrong, but he omits … Continue reading

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Aborting Liberty’s Future: You can’t have your kids and eat them, too.

The future belongs to the people who show up for it.Photo by: ann_jutatipAttn: @YaronBrook, #AynRand Inst: Who will change the culture? The people who don’t kill their children. This is me writing almost seven months ago: The longer the Ayn … Continue reading

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What’s wrong with #Trump? That’s easy. Trump is the kind of thug who exterminates people like me.

Trump talks and acts like a thug because he is a thug.The question was: “If Trump is such a thug, then what about Rubio and Cruz?” My response: I suspect Rubio is a repressed or closeted homosexual – like Obama. … Continue reading

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Anti-#abortion theater: Getting right everything @YaronBrook and the #AynRand Institute get wrong.

Nature is just. Accordingly, you can’t slaughter your child without slaughtering your self, too.Photo by: Fibonacci BlueAs I noted yesterday, Yaron Brook of the Ayn Rand Institute is today putting on his cowardly lion costume, publicly pretending to answer any … Continue reading

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I can ask the Ayn Rand Institute’s Yaron Brook anything? How many of my abortion questions can he evade?

Tune in Saturday for“As the Worm Squirms.”This is choice: ASK YARON ANYTHING! Ask Yaron and you shall receive. It’s true. This Saturday, February 20, Yaron Brook will devote the entire show to answering your questions. Join Yaron here, at 2:30 … Continue reading

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How do you look out for your own in the People’s Banana Republic of Amerikistan? Proficient rebellion.

We’re all in this together? Think again.Photo by: Sodanie CheaRule #7 of The Church of Splendor is: Look out for your own. Another way of saying the same thing is: What’s in it for me? Yet another: How will this … Continue reading

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How you came to be enslaved – and how you can free yourself.

You’ve made plans to go to a business conference. You made a mistake when you calendared the event, so you arrive at the hotel ballroom thinking you are twenty minutes early when, in fact, you are forty minutes late.Gulp.Photo by: … Continue reading

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