Monthly Archives: January 2014

Marxism’s greatest triumph is convincing you that is it not ubiquitous.

Secrecy and a lazy, self-willed ignorance are their weapons. Transparency and blinding illumination are ours. graftedno1 / Foter / CC BY-ND There are three types of Marxists in the world: 1. People who don’t know they’re regurgitating Marxist dogma, as … Continue reading

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The libertarian stand on gay marriage? Get rid of the marriage laws – and keep your eye on the ball.

If you aren’t evangelizing egoism, you’re either spinning your wheels, at best, or you are pathetically snarking with the other losers at the web-equivalent of the 7-Eleven parking lot.As a hat tip to my friend Judah Hoover, I will start … Continue reading

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The Runaway Minivan: Families fail when fathers won’t lead.

Why is your family failing? In the overwhelming number of normal marriages, the process will have begun when dad stopped actively driving the relationship. All sorts of other ugly stuff will happen along the way, but all of this is … Continue reading

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If you want or your ailing Grandma dead, kill her yourself.

If you want Terri Schiavo – or your ailing Grandma – dead, then kill her yourself. But call things by their right names. The act is murder. The actor is a murderer. And the victim is not ever a volunteer.h.koppdelaney … Continue reading

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Reds.

I can think of almost nothing in the lives of ordinary Americans, nothing that is ‘organized’ or ‘official’, that is not thoroughly steeped in Marxism.˙Cаvin 〄 / Foter.com / CC BY [I wrote this essay in 2002, and, of course, … Continue reading

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The Church of Splendor: Mastering something difficult is egoism in action.

Me and my girl Cherry Bomb making our first movie of the New Year: In the video, I am reflecting on my end-of-year essay on mastering something difficult this year: If you apply yourself to doing what you have always … Continue reading

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Commentary: “Science has become an international bully.”

Anti-humanism as the ruling paradigm of science: Subjectivity is your private experience of the world: your sensations; your mental life and inner landscape; your experiences of sweet and bitter, blue and gold, soft and hard; your beliefs, plans, pains, hopes, … Continue reading

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“No sane person builds a widget factory in the middle of a battlefield.”

Kevin Williamson at NR: There is some debate on the right about whether President Obama is a fundamentally well-intentioned incompetent or a more Machiavellian figure so power-hungry that he is willing to kneecap key sectors of the U.S. economy in … Continue reading

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Sultan Knish: “The Left is Too Smart to Fail”

A long read, but worth it: Finally, manufactured intelligence is self-involved. It mistakes feeling for thinking. It deals not with how things are or even how we would like them to be, but how we feel about the way things … Continue reading

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Bitch-slapped by the invisible hand: “Those who don’t make money never become philanthropists.”

Demi-billionaire Robert W. Wilson to billionaire Bill Gates: When I talk to young people who seem destined for great success, I tell them to forget about charities and giving. Concentrate on your family and getting rich—which I found very hard … Continue reading

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