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Israel as 'Super-Sparta?'

The World After Gaza; Highest 2 Lowest; Playing G-Man; Vico on reflection and rhetoric

Reflections on Violence

Talking to Max Read about Epstein, the A.I. Bubble, and Tech's Soul Rot

The Worst of All Possible Worlds

Good Takes on Bad Discourse; Hindsight on 2020; The Age of Innocence

Reminder: In Conversation with Joe Wright for MUSSOLINI: SON OF THE CENTURY

The Schmittian Enemy

Confessions of a Disinformer

Adams; Balzac; Sallust; Amis; Goldmann

An Event with Joe Wright for MUSSOLINI: SON OF THE CENTURY

On Formlessness

The Cracker Barrel Hype(rreality)

The Polling Debate, cont'd; Opinions on Opinion; Indecorous Decorum; Boorstinism

When Trump's Brain Broke

Against Vulgar Positivism

Ancien’ Ways; Gods of New York; More on Polanski and Dreyfus; By the Stream

The Future that Never Was

An Officer and a Spy; Lichtenstein on Mike Davis; Danilo Kiš on Nationalism; Thiel and Girard

Against Polling

Heresies; Stray Dog; Rachel Getting Married

Eyeless in Gaza

Behemoth or Leviathan?

The Fatal Embrace

Second Thoughts on Epstein; More on Aristotle and "the Tyrannical Soul"

JVL + John Ganz

As the Smears Go Passing By

The Banality of Jeffrey Epstein

J.D. Vance's Anti-Declaration

Malaparte vs. de Beauvoir; Idi Amin and the Mamdanis' Antifascism

Talking Thiel and Zohran with Max Read

"Death to America"

Zones of Exception: The Supreme Court and the Dual State

What It Took To Win

Unpopular Front for Zohran

What's Left to Say?

"Very Strongly"

Briefly Noted

The Last True Fascist

Sam Tanenhaus's Buckley; Marcel Ophuls; More on MacIntyre; DOGE's price in blood

"Abundance? No thanks."

Ehud Olmert on Gaza; reading After Virtue after bureaucracy; A Postscript

Richard Beck is an Idiot

Interview with Steven Klein for Renewal: A Journal of Social Democracy

Does Trumpism Have A Future?

Black Mass

Live with Max Read

Max Read and John Ganz talk Slop and Tariffs

Time Off

Kautsky's Fable

Trump's Art of the Book; Rethinking Sam Francis; Class Dealignment?; Another Visit from the Bond Squad

Apocalypse Delayed?

Globalism? In this economy?

Le Pen goes down; "Beggar-thy-Neighbor;" the end of Exorbitant Privilege; Pro-Tariff industry; Wladimir S. Woytinsky (1885-1960)

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Free Trader

No Person Shall Be Deprived...

Political Romanticism; the Reciprocal Siege; "Constitutional Collapse;" Fear as a political factor; Returning to the Conformist

The Worst and the Dimmest

"Defactualization;" "Wise-Guy Arbitrage;" Melinda Cooper on the "anti-social state;" Understanding the Alien Enemies Act with Jack Goldsmith

Inflection Point with Dylan Riley and Brad DeLong

There Was Never Any "Fascism Debate"

Cynicism and Authenticity

The Abduction of Mahmoud Khalil

Enemies Day

The Juggler

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Talking to Political Scientist Henry Farrell with Max Read

Enough!

Reminders

Palantir's Peculiar Sales-Pitch

The Power of Myth

The education of a DOGE brownshirt; Class Struggle, Elite Theory, and "Socialisms of Fools"

Musk's Hyper-McCarthyism

The Last Days of Discourse

Gold and Brown

Let's Get Real

What Happened Here

Vibes Cartel

Groyperfication

More Adorno; Trump's Paleocon Foreign Policy; Christopher Hitchens on Ross Perot

Talking to Historian Quinn Slobodian with Max Read

Returning to Origins

Welcome to Vichy America

The Power of the Charlatans; Maurizio Serra on Malaparte; Bidenomics; Zoë Hu on Andrew Tate

Mob Rule

Reading Thiel's Op-Ed

The Frankfurters, again; Talking Jan 6th on TTSGB; Rogin on McCarthy and his Frenemies; Thiel's Esoterica

The Jerk Store Called...

It's Jean-Marie's World, We're Just Living In It

January 6th was Successful

Jimmy Carter, Neoliberal; Lind Agonistes; Heterodox Economists; The Order