Vivek Defends Capitalism and Civility in Hostile Breakfast Club ‘Interview’

In an “interview” with The Breakfast Club, presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy answered intense hostility with calm eloquence and gain a lot of followers in the process. In the video, Ramaswamy fielded personal attacks about his character in the guise of questions from a guest host Tezlyn Figaro. She said that Ramaswamy wasn’t a good candidate […]

What I Got Right In My Dystopian Novel About 2023

In 2010, I released the dystopian novel—Gods of Ruin—set in the near future and though it may seem easy to do, predicting the future—even within 12 years—is a difficult task. For instance, I didn’t predict a widespread pandemic that would usher in a New World totalitarian state. I was still in the frame of the […]

Whacktus: Picnic at the Apocalypse

New Whacktus just dropped! Spotify: Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/picnic-at-the-apocalypse/1617481395 Rumble/YouTube:

Are You a Pawn?

In chess, the pawn can only advance. Pawns can’t backtrack or change course. It’s a perfect analogy for the modern political system. Are you a pawn?

Critique of ‘Woke Racism’ by John McWhorter

I enjoyed Professor John McWhorter’s lectures on the history of language and was very interested to read what he had to write about the modern social justice burlesque known as anti-racism. He gets some things wrong considering he’s coming from a secular liberal background but the thesis as a whole is right on and it […]

Jonathan Haidt on a Divided Nation

In this fascinating discussion, Jonathan Haidt explores and increasingly divided nation and what we can do to overcome the division. There’s even an unintentional reference to the theory of concurrence from Everyone Agrees:

What Does it Mean to be Free? Review of The Free State of Jones

Netwon Knight decided at one point during the South’s secession from the United States, that he didn’t want to fight their war. Mississippi had seceded primarily over the issue of slavery and Knight didn’t own any slaves. He saw the conflict as poor people fighting for wealthy people and after losing his nephew, decided he’d […]