Topics - Contents

List of Topics

1. 1584 Project

2. Activism Culture

3. Allyism

4. Aristotle

5. Clear Pill

6. Communism

7. Double Revolution

8. Downstream-ism

9. Four Laws

10. German Turn

11. Vision of the Good Life

12. Gray Mirror

13. Great Reaction

14. Great Rebellion

15. Culture of Innocence

16. Knowledge

17. Left's Conceits

18. Left's Crimes

19. Left's Errors

20. Liberal Oppression

21. Little Darlings

22. Emerging Majority

23. Maps of Meaning

24. Deidre McCloskey

25. Charles Murray

26. Nietzsche

27. Panic of 2008

28. Pejorative Politics

29. Perfect Plan

30. Jordan B. Peterson

31. Piketty's Capital

32. Polanyi's Great Transformation

33. Prophecy

34. Women in the Public Square

35. Pure Theory of Politics

36. Human Rubble

37. Ruling Class

38. School of Hate

39. Georg Simmel

40. Slavery

41. Three Layers

42. Three Peoples

43. Three Peoples Religion

44. Tribalism

45. Two Cultures

1584 Project -- Contents

1584 was the real "real" foundation of America, NHJ

1. My "1584 Project"
   America began when the first ship of "waste population" hit the shores


2. Oh No! I've been banned by Google
   Because of the Dreaded N-word

Activism Culture - Table of Contents

A Critical Theory of Leftist Activism Culture

0. Activism Culture in Brief

1. Let's Epatez the Liberaloisie!


2. Liberalism is Revolution Theme Park


3. How Does the Next President Beat the Liberal Activism Culture?
   Proposing exactly what Trump has done.


4. If Every Young Liberal Longs to be an Activist, What About Conservatives?
   If there were conservative activism, what would it look like?


5. Self-Deceit at the Heart of the Liberal World View


6. Sorry Liberals. Protest is for People Outside the System
   Good little college girls and gentry liberals need not apply


7. The Left's Conceit About "Resistance"
   One you have removed the laws that implement injustice, the job for politics is done.


8. The Democrats are Chained to Their Activist Base
   And that is not very good for the Democrats


9. No Liberals, It is not 1848, or 1963. There is No Call for Riots
   Usually, Revolution Baby is not the answer


10. Hello Berkeley, It is Time to Check Your Privilege
    Anyone at Berkeley is already more privileged than people on the outside


11. The Left Always Preys on People Outside the System
    Because only people outside the system are not already represented


12. It is AstroTurf All the Way Down
    The activism culture is fake


13. Joint Address Activism: The First Time as Tragedy...
    Wearing white dresses to a presidential speech


14. The Folly of the Activism Culture
    It assumes that all political issues should be advanced by peaceful protest


15. The Cultural Problem at the Heart of Ashland
    Diversity and inclusion have nothing to do with Shakespeare


16. Is It the Sixties Again?
    Think of it as a religious Creative Awakening. Again


17. There is a Reason Why the Left is Always Attacking Middle Class Values
    It is that middle-class responsibles don't need government to supervise them


18. What Fools These Liberals Be
    They want a hierarchical society like back in feudal times


19. Militarism vs. Activism: Ruling Class Culture Then and Now
    Used to be that rulers were militarists; now they are activists


20. The Two Heads of the Forces of Lefty Reaction
    We are talking about neo-tribalism and neo-feudalism


21. The Two Reactions: How Do We Deal With Them?
    We already did, with nation states and corporations


22. Real Critical Theory: How About a Critique of Leftism?
    Little darlings always end up in the garbage can of history.


23. The Plague of Fake Politics
    When rich kids advocate for poor kids, watch out.


24. When a Lefty Comes to Visit
    Really, we don't need lefty activism, because our society cares


25. Is This Peak Activism?
    
    
26. "Studies:" The Munitions of the Activists
    Lefties need their "studies" to fuel their rage.


27. So-called Protest is Really War
    Because the left is all about power


28. Peterson and Jung and Nietzsche, Oh My!
    Can the three peoples make sense of modern psychology?


29. Whither the Culture War Now?
    We must demand that the lefties respect us responsibles.


30. My Critique of the Left. Again
    A history of activism since 1848


31. The Wages of Politics
    What is the point of politics with a middle class not that interested in power


32. Blame Activism Culture for "Red Hen" Expulsion
    Because activism is a religion


33. The Fault, dear Liberals, is in Your Religion
    We don't need no stinkin' religion of "activism"


34. The Downside of Activism -- for Its Advocates
    It means you melt down when a conservative gets to appoint Supreme Court justices


35. Live by the Supreme Court, Die by the Supreme Court
    The problem with using the Supreme Court for legislation


36. Activism Culture Leads to "Spartacus Illusion"
    If you are a well-born activist it helps to think that you are really the underdog.


37. The Fault Dear Liberals Is Not in Your Stars
    But that you believe in politics


38. Rich Kid Protesters are Not the Cry of the Oppressed
    
    
39. Great Reaction: Activism is Neo-Knight-Errantry
    What else do you call riding around in search of helpless victims to save?


40. Great Reaction: Reparations is Neo-Vengeance
    Turning back the clock from law to the lex-talionis


41. The Elite's Religion: We are Holier Than Thou Because We Care About the Victims
    But does the elite understand this?


42. Understanding Tlaib: The Culture of Innocence
    It's needed for a truly oppressed minority. But the Muslims in Detroit?


43. More Tlaib: How to Tell a Genuine Movement for Justice
    It isn't supported by the ruling class, you Squaddies


44. Our Ruling Class Does Have a Religion, And How
    It believes in equality, education, climate change, by the creative/educated


45. Suppose Lefty Activists are Just Faking It, Like Actors
    Activism is a form of acting. Like the ancient Greeks


46. Why the Enthusiastic Trump Rally Crowds?
    Because they think he is fighting for them


47. Think of Activists as "Activistes"
    Because like an "artiste" an activist is a public performer


48. Pelosi's "Far Left" Bill. The Bigger Problem
    Lefties legislating their lefty morality


49. The Sacrificial Hero Ancient and Modern
    How do we "save" the Gentry hero from egoism?


50. The Emperor's New Clothes and Race
    Some day some kid is going to ask Mommy why liberals lie about race


51. Riots and Mayhem: Be of Good Cheer
    It's a liberal "failure of prophecy, and Nietzsche, Brinton, and Ken Wilber have written


52. Remember, "Activists" Aren't Revolutionaries
    But regime thugs doing what they have been carefully taught
    
    
53. "Movements" are So Over
    
    
54. When the White Woke Mob Comes to the Home of a Black Woman Police Chief
    
    
55. Activism and a Meaningful LIfe
    
    
56. Message to Lefties: The Age of Politics is Over
    
    
57. Hey Liberals and Lefties: The Age of Politics is Over
    
    
58. The Terminal Bossiness of the Educated Gentry
    
    
59. Imagine! The BLM/AntiFa Riots Were The Fault of Infiltrating White Nationalists!
    
    
60. The Mostly Peaceful Hellscape
    
    
61. The Three Peoples and Revolution
    
    
62. Why a Sorority Sister Got Arrested at a Riot
    
    
63. Why the Age of Revolution is Over
    
    
64. "We Get to Play-act on Your Dime"
    
    
65. Why the Good Guys Always Lose: It's Not Their Fault
    
    
66. Good Luck, Joe. You'll Need It
    
    
67. Where is the New Miguel Cervantes When You Need Him
    
    
68. Yarvin: Trump Never Had a Chance; Plus He's Incompetent

Allyism -- Table of Contents

The Culture of the Ally, that helps Oppressed Peoples, or not.

0. Ally-ism in Brief

1. No, Harvard Students. You are the Oppressors
   
   
2. Liberal Fascism: "The Worse the Better"
   Life is fun for allies of oppressed peoples. But others might not agree.
   
   
3. Activism and a Meaningful Life
   A lot of people get their meaning of life from left-wing activism
   
   
4. The Question of George Washington and His Slaves
   But he freed them in his will.
   
   
5. The Moment Before Wile E. Coyote Falls to Earth
   Our progressive friends have no idea what they have stirred up
   
   
6. What Does Soros Want?
   Thing is, for an assimilated Jew born in 1930, nationalism is the enemy
   
   
7. Whatabout the Greek Australian That Says "Australia Belongs to Europe"?
   Aussie immigrants may not be assimilated now, but whatabout in 50 years?
   
   
8. Dems are for the Allies; GOPs are for the Commoners
   
   
9. The Crisis of White Liberal Hegemony
   There isn't enough loot for Gentry and for Victims
   
   
10. The Three Peoples and Revolution
    Creatives think that Revolution could be rather cool
    
    
11. Why a Sorority Sister Got Arrested at a Riot
    She thinks she is an "ally" of "oppressed peoples"
    
    
12. Politics Can't Change Anything, Unless...
    You can never beat the "Cathedral" except when there's a religious revolution
    
    
13. My "1584 Project"
    What if our real founding was when the first ship of "waste population" arrived on our shores?
    
    
14. Race, Identity, and Innocence
    Never doubt how much politics is about innocence
    
    
15. The Tell: Cheating When You Start to Lose
    It is telling that the Woke Left is Starting to Cheat
    
    
16. Lefty Ally-ism, and What Real Allies Look Like
    Real allies help other people to grow
    
    
17. Is the Trump Phenomenon a New "Awakening?"
    
    
18. Reaching Towards an Un-Ally-ism
    
    
19. Cheating is a Sign You Are Losing
    
    
20. Getting to Acceptance
    
    
21. Why the Good Guys Always Lose: It's Not Their Fault
    
    
22. Getting a Word In Against Liberal Cultural Hegemony
    
    
23. Good Luck, Joe. You'll Need It
    
    
24. The Decline and Fall of the Progressive Empire
    
    
25. Dueling Three Layers: Allyism vs. Americanism
    
    
26. But Tear Gas and But Hate
    
    
27. Allyism, Republicans and Democrats
    
    
28. When a Protest is "Mostly Peaceful" Then Maybe Crowd Control is Needed
    
    
29. The Small Minority Gig and the Ruling Class
    
    
30. The Ten Woke Ideas from FiveThirtyEight
    
    
31. The Importance of "Victims with Attitude"
    
    
32. How Meaning of Life, Religion, Culture and Politics Connect
    
    
33. Politics Equals Us vs. Them Equals Hate
    
    
34. The End of Over/Under Politics
    
    
35. Tribalism: China will Divide, because Politics is Division
    

Aristotle - Contents

Aristotle

1. Let's Keep Things The Way They Are

2. Aristotle's Waffle on the Function Argument

3. Happiness: Is Virtue Sufficient

4. How Many Divisions Has the Soul?

5. What About That Mean?

6. Are Incontinent Fools Wise?

7. How to Judge Actions

8. Aristotle Fiddles the Mean on Courage

9. If Virtue is Voluntary, So is Vice

10. Friendliness is Not Just For Friends

11. Is Aristotle Too Egoist?

12. Goodwill and Friendship

13. Does a Happy Man Need Friends?

14. Aristotle and Justice

Brief Takes - Table of Contents

Brief Takes on Major Topics

1. Activism Culture in Brief
   A critical theory of leftist Activism Culture


2. Critical Theory in Brief
   Critical Theory starts with Kant
   
   
3. Downstream-ism in Brief
   Politics is downstream of culture is downstream of religion is downstream of...


4. Dutch Finance in Brief
   How the Dutch invented central banking
   
   
5. German Turn in Brief
   How the Germans invented everything, from Kant to Jung
   
   
6. Good Life in Brief
   How to live as a Sacrificial Hero


7. Great Reaction in Brief
   The left experienced as a Great Reaction, a lurch back from the modern to the primitive


8. Little Darlings in Brief
   The sad fate of the Little Darlings of the Ruling Class


9. Perfect Plan in Brief
   Help the migrants to the city; tolerate the commoners
   
   
10. The Ruling Class in Brief
    Mosca's The Ruling Class and more
    
    
11. Three Layers in Brief
    Three Layer Theories, including my own Three Peoples theory


12. Three Peoples Theory in Brief
    The Three Peoples, a reductive theory of modern humanity


13. Three Peoples Religion in Brief
    What gods do the Three Peoples believe in?
    
    
14. Wrong Turn in Brief
    The left's errors, crimes, and conceits

The Clear Pill - Table of Contents

An Analysis of Curtis Yarvin's Three Layer Theory

1. Curtis Yarvin's Clear Pill: The Uses of the "Political Formula"
It could produce a "third story" to upend the Gentry

2. Curtis Yarvin's Clear Pill: How to Keep the Woke Gentry Onside
Take away the power; then the Gentry will behave

3. Applying Yarvin's Gentry Commoners Clients to Charles Murray's "Coming Apart"
And other three class theories of society

4. My Three Peoples vs. Yarvin's Three Layers
My Creatives, Responsibles, Subordinates vs. his Gentry, Commoners, and Clients

5. "Why Liberalism Works" for the Gentry
But not necessarily for Commoners and Clients

6. Could Chile's Collapse Happen Here?
It could, except we Commoners have Donald Trump in our lane

7. It's Past Time for Merely Defending the Market System. Etc.
Why not go on the attack

8. Why Is Everyone Going Crazy?
Because the progressive project is splitting at the seams

9. What Path Should We Follow?
It depends on what kind of person you are

10. A Reminder that Politicians Only Know Politics
Pelosi and Schumer don't know any better

11. Mrs. Poyser and the Plague of Karens
Nagging and complaining work in the home but not in the public square

12. How Do You Counter the Gentry's "Anthems"
Short of a revolution?

13. Elon Musk Schools the Karens
It's a gender -- and a class -- thing

Communism - Table of Contents

Communism: An Analysis

Table of Contents:

1. Communism Week: Europe in the 1840s
   Of course educated youth thought the world was going to hell
   
   
2. Communism Week: Marx's Economic Errors
   Capitalism does not lead to "immiseration" and production for profit is not oppressive
   
   
3. Communism Week: Marx's War on the Bourgeoisie
   Marx thought the bourgeoisie wanted power. But it didn't
   
   
4. Communism Week: The Problem with Political Power
   We would like to soften the terror of the marketplace. But political power is not the way
   
   
5. Communism Week: The Real Revolution of the Modern Age
   Scientists have provided tools for us to deal with the terrors of the universe and the market
   
   
6. Communism Week: My Perfect Plan
   Teach migrants the ways of the city, and teach creatives tolerance towards the bourgeoisie
   
   
7. Real Critical Theory: How About a Critique of Leftism
   You mean my Three Peoples theory, my critique of activism, my Little Darlings notion, etc.?
   
   
8. Whither the Culture War Now?
   We must teach the creatives to be tolerant, and bravely walk the line between Order and Chaos

Critical Theory -- Table of Contents

A Critique of Critical Theory

1. Critical Theory: Not Just a Punching Bag
   
   
2. Time for Conservative Critical Theory
   
   
3. Critiquing Obama from the Enlightened Left
   
   
4. Government Professor Attacks Austrian Economics
   
   
5. "How Can You Tell a Racist?"
   
   
6. It's Not Time for Reading Books, It's Time for Action
   
   
7. The Story So Far, from Juergen Habermas
   
   
8. Adorno: Cultural Marxism Isn't All Bad
   
   
9. Obama's Phone-and-Pen Politics is a Weakness, not a Strength
   
   
10. How to Turn Left Through Modernism and Postmodernism
    
    
11. Frankfurters for Breakfast
    
    
12. Frankfurt School Analysis, Part Two
    
    
13. Yes, Liberals, Critical Theory Applies to Your Ideas Too
    
    
14. What's All This About Treason?
    
    
15. Real Critical Theory: How About a Critique of Leftism
    
    
16. Anti-Barker: Don't Know Much About Philosophee
    
    
17. No, Critical Theorists, Creativity is Not The Only Thing
    
    
18. The German Turn: How Germans Invented the Modern World
    
    
19. My "1584 Project"
    
    
20. Let's Kritik Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality
    
    
21. White Privilege vs. Little Darlings
    
    
22. How About a Critique of Critique?
    
    
23. Towards a Critique of Meaning
    
    
24. Against Kimball: Science Advances by Breaking the Rules
    

Double Revolution - Table of Contents

The Double Revolution: in Physics and the Economy

1. Communism Week: The Real Revolution of the Modern Age
   Two revolutions, in physics and the economy
   
   
2. The Counterrevolutions of the Modern Age
   Communism-socialism and environmentalism for a start
   
   
3. The Two Heads of the Forces of Lefty Reaction
   "Activism" and neo-feudalism, for a start
   
   
4. The Two Heads of Reaction: How Do We Deal With Them
   Against neo-tribalism of identity politics the nation state; against neo-feudalism the corporation
   
   
5. The Great Reaction Also Includes Neo-Sacrifice
   Neo-sacrifice is what totalitarianism is all about

Doughnut Economics -- Contents

Analysis and Commentary on Kate Raworth's Doughnut Economics

Analysis

1. Doughnunt Economics: For Well-born Activists
   
   
2. Doughnut Economics: Forget GDP; See the Big Picture
   
   
3. Doughnut Economics: Human Nurture and System Complexity
   
   
4. Doughnut Economics: Redistribute, Regenerate
   
   
5. Doughnut Economics: Growth Agnostic
   
   

Commentary

1. Doughnut Economics: Springtime for Activists
   

Downstream-ism -- Contents

Politics is downstream of culture is downstream of religion is downstream of...

0. Downstream-ism in Brief

1. Politics is Downstream from Culture is Downstream from Religion
From Breitbart to Wright to Chantrill

2. Reality Hits the 19th Century White Ethnics

And so they are becoming Republicans

3. A Conservative Supreme Court is Not the Answer to Our Prayer

Because the elite culture is still pro-abortion and pro-gay marriage

4. Ruminations on "Politics is Downstream from Culture"

And the search for a new religion for creatives

5. Pelosi's Far Left Bill: The Bigger Problem

You are legislating morality, lefties!

6. Three Layers, Three Peoples, Three Religions

Three Layers is a political theory; Three Peoples a cultural theory...

7. What is the Meaning of Life?

For creative people, of course.

8. Gorsuch Decision Means Back to the Drawing Board

Don't expect a conservative Supreme Court to go against elite culture and morality

9. The Different Kinds of Hero

What kinds of people start new religions, new cultures, new politics? I don't know

10. Is the Trump Phenomenon a New "Awakening?"

What does a Great Awakening of the Commoners lead to?

11. Presidential Debates as Oral Exams in Regime Orthodoxy

Thou shalt not venture outside the Overton window

Dutch Finance -- Contents

How The Dutch Taught Us about Government Finance

0. Dutch Finance in Brief

1. Liberals Tiptoe Around "Reckless Endangerment"
   
   
2. Fixing the Economy
   
   
3. Fixing Our Broken Finance
   
   
4. Let's Have a Class War
   
   
5. The Fed Gooses: Dutch Finance or French Finance?
   
   
6. Will Wall Street Own Romney?
   
   
7. Capitalism's Century Five
   
   
8. "You and Your Family"
   
   
9. The Beautiful Dream of American Exceptionalism
   
   
10. Do We Have What It Takes?
    
    
11. Let Liberal Billionaires Help With Debt Ceiling
    
    
12. Millennials: Business is More Than Domination
    
    
13. The Ordinary Middle Class on the "Golden Princess"
    
    
14. Mend the Fed? Be Careful What You Wish For
    
    
15. Yes, Let's Think About the First Principles of Capitalism, Rana Foroohar
    
    
16. Mob vs. Snob: Let's See If I Understand This
    
    
17. Missing the Point on Economics and Government
    
    
18. All Politics is Reactionary
    
    
19. Yeah, Let's Talk About Reparations, Concentration Camps, etc.
    
    
20. The Two Kinds of Slavery
    

Education -- Contents

Against Government Education

1. Charter School Tipping Point?
   
   
2. Did the Profs Cry Uncle?
   
   
3. Free Education for Africa?
   
   
4. What's It Really Like in the Academy?
   
   
5. Government Guts Gifted Kids
   
   
6. Children of Nature in the Midst of Civilization
   
   
7. Get Your Education Myths Here
   
   
8. After the Left University, What Then?
   
   
9. The Global Education Mess
   
   
10. Phonics Wins in Britain
    
    
11. Who Needs Literacy
    
    
12. The Kids: Professors Worry About Right-Wing Students
    
    
13. Lefty Professors Don't Get It
    
    
14. Do Not Expect School Choice, Ever, From Left
    
    
15. Charter Schools Thrive in Minneapolis: World Doesn't Come To End
    
    
16. You Can't Do That, Say Educrats
    
    
17. Teachers' Unions Say the Darndest Things
    
    
18. School Choice: What are They Afraid Of?
    
    
19. Now It's College Graduates That Can't Write
    
    
20. John Stossel and the Teachers, contd.
    
    
21. Blacks Voting for School Choice With Their Feet
    
    
22. Gender Gap in High School
    
    
23. Education is Failing in Britain, Too
    
    
24. Little Rich Kids Now Have Tutors
    
    
25. Sneaking School Choice into New Orleans
    
    
26. Education Myths
    
    
27. New York Times Says Boys Underperforming in College!
    
    
28. Feminists Against Choice
    
    
29. How Important is a College Education?
    
    
30. Government Fails to Educate NJ Kids
    
    
31. SecEd Launches Vouchers, Bureaucrats Run Interference
    
    
32. Don't Look For Education Reform From Within
    
    
33. The Two Nations in Education
    
    
34. Two Limeys Fight Over Home Schooling
    
    
35. School Choice a Winner in Alberta
    
    
36. More Than "School Choice" Needed
    
    
37. The Long Tail in Education
    
    
38. Education Choice is Working
    
    
39. Honor Friedman With Choice in Education and Health Care
    
    
40. The Education Solution is Privatization
    
    
41. Skills Commission Wants to Centralize Education
    
    
42. Poor Kids Do Better In Selective Schools
    
    
43. Let's Not Blame Conservatives On Education
    
    
44. Do You Believe in Education Myths?
    
    
45. A Small Step towards Education Reform
    
    
46. What Should We Do About Education?
    
    
47. New Hope for School Choice
    
    
48. School Choice in Sweden: Who Knew?
    
    
49. Parents Flock to Supplementary Schools
    
    
50. How About An Apology For "Fraudulent Education?"
    
    
51. School Choice--On the Front Lines
    
    
52. The Social Work Bullies at Missouri State
    
    
53. Let's Abolish Adolescence
    
    
54. Private Education in the Slums
    
    
55. The Heart of the Education Problem
    
    
56. Let's Throw Good Money After Bad
    
    
57. Who Needs School Anyway?
    
    
58. What Do These Professors Want?
    
    
59. Can Government Deliver on Education?
    
    
60. "The Way to Stop Discrimination"
    
    
61. Mean-spirited Universities Sit on Cash
    
    
62. Education Fatties Won't Diet
    
    
63. Dem Dodges on School Choice
    
    
64. Your School Kid is "Invisible"
    
    
65. Education: What to Do?
    
    
66. Fighting for Kids in Utah
    
    
67. Politics and the Classroom
    
    
68. Coercion in the Liberal University
    
    
69. You've Got to be Kidding, Girls
    
    
70. Inventing the New Conservatism: Education
    
    
71. No Child Left Behind. End It or Mend It?
    
    
72. Throw Money at Higher Ed?
    
    
73. "Sexism" in Science
    
    
74. CA Homeschooling Decision an Opportunity
    
    
75. Education vs. Family
    
    
76. What Price Education?
    
    
77. Message to BillG: Try Freedom in Education
    
    
78. The Mess in the Academe
    
    
79. Who Cares About Inner City Schools?
    
    
80. What Ails Education?
    
    
81. Private Schools for the Poor
    
    
82. Private Schools for the Poor, Part II
    
    
83. The War on the Poor
    
    
84. Beyond School Choice
    
    
85. Gender Imbalance in Education
    
    
86. The Wages of Centralism
    
    
87. Educrats Chase Teenaged Sailor Round World
    
    
88. Are Student Loans Really Debt Slavery?
    
    
89. Critical Mass on Unschooling?
    
    
90. Government and the STEM Crisis
    
    
91. Military Socialist? Of Course It Is
    
    
92. Student Loans: Poster Child for Government Failure
    
    
93. Liberals Really are the Best People, Says NYT
    
    
94. Ben Carson, American Exceptionalism and the Huddled Masses
    
    
95. Did Anyone Ask the Poor What Education They Wanted for their Kids?
    
    
96. Despite Univ Chicago Move, College PC Will Get Worse
    
    
97. Education: What Do Mothers Want?
    
    
98. Hello Berkeley, It is Time to Check Your Privilege
    
    
99. Why are "College Educated" Whites So Liberal?
    
    
100. Universities Have Not "Drifted from their Historic Mission"
     
     
101. Supposing I Got to Set The Syllabus for AP History
     
     
102. Yes, What Is Education For?
     
     
103. Oppressions of Liberal Cultural/Political Hegemony, Pt.2
     
     
104. Education: Burn It Down
     
     
105. What If Everything We Know About Education is Wrong?
     
     
106. Why Do Millenials Like AOC Believe in Big Government?
     
     
107. Today's K-thru-grad-school Sucks. But What Do We Do About It?
     
     
108. Shakespeare and Austen: Things They Never Told Me
     
     
109. Suppose Education is All a Scam?
     
     
110. Little Girls Believe What They Are Carefully Taught
     
     
111. We Won't Fix the Federal Budget Until We Commoners Demand It
     
     
112. The Kids Are Not All Right?
     
     
113. Yes, What Should We Do About Public Education?
     

Mircea Eliade -- Contents

Mircea Eliade and the Primitive

1. Understanding Initiation from the Ancients
   
   
2. We Have Nationalism Because Humans are Tribal
   
   
3. Suffering, Religion, History, and the Three Peoples
   
   
4. Human Sense and Sensibility Never Change
   
   
5. The Three Realities of the Three Peoples
   
   
6. The Question of Suffering
   
   
7. Three Religions for Three Peoples
   
   
8. Dennis Prager Itemizes My Great Reaction
   
   
9. But Tear Gas and But Hate
   
   
10. Moths Attracted to the Flame of Power
    
    
11. "Progressive Fatalism?" How to Miss the Point
    
    
12. Murray Facing Reality: The Setup

Four Laws - Table of Contents

Four Laws: The Limits of Government in the Economy

The Laws

1. Four Laws: Socialism Cannot Compute Prices
   Thus the producers don't know what to produce
   
   
2. Four Laws: The Man in Washington Cannot Outperform Consumers and Producers
   Because there isn't enough bandwidth
   
   
3. Four Laws: Regulatory Capture
   The regulators get captured by the people they regulate
   
   
4. Four Laws: Government Cannot Reform
   You can't take peoples' checks away from them
   

Commentary

1. Can Government Correct a Mistake?
   
   
2. Clueless Liberal in the Academy
   
   
3. The Administrative State Doesn't Work. Because Hayek
   
   
4. Obama's Phone-and-Pen Politics is a Weakness, not a Strength
   
   
5. Four Golden Rules of National Economics
   
   
6. Four Golden Rules of National Economics
   
   
7. Controlocracy: Xi's Big Mistake
   Control wants to impede feedback
   
   
8. Don't Panic: I Say Bring Bernie On
   Let's face the socialist menace head on
   
   
9. Elon Musk Schools the Karens
   It's a gender -- and a class -- thing
   
   
10. Deep Sixing the Socialist Idiots
    
    
11. Who Said: "Never Trust Experts"
    
    
12. When All the Gubmint Programs Fail At Once
    
    
13. The End of the Commoner Rebellion
    
    
14. Progressivism is Like a Shark
    
    
15. Good Luck, Joe. You'll Need It
    
    
16. Another Four Law. But What to Call It?
    
    
17. War Correspondent Reports from Culture War Front
    
    

The German Turn -- Table of Contents

How the Germans invented everything, from Kant to Jung.

0. The German Turn in Brief

0.1 The German Turn: How Germans Invented the Modern World, Take 1
Everything from relativity to modern psychology

0.2 The German Turn: How Germans Invented the Modern World, Take 2

1. Germans of Character
   
   
2. Conservatism Using 20th Century Ideas
   
   
3. Understanding the Intimidation of Justice Roberts
   
   
4. My Cunning Plan
   
   
5. A Gaffe, A Palpable Gaffe!
   
   
6. Estonia, Spain and the Welfare State
   
   
7. The 1.5 Percent Solution
   
   
8. The Missing Liberal Canon
   
   
9. The Left is Not Dead
   
   
10. Capitalism: Which Type is Best?
    
    
11. Liberals Racing Over the Cliff
    
    
12. "Internal Colonization"
    
    
13. Capitalism is Not a System
    
    
14. The Guardian Does Frankfurt School
    
    
15. Where's the Love?
    
    
16. Seeing the World as System and Lifeworld
    
    
17. Don't Give Me That "Collective Action" Rubbish
    
    
18. Critiquing Obama from the Enlightened Left
    
    
19. Founding Principles for a New Age
    
    
20. David Hume: In Media Res
    
    
21. The Story So Far, from Juergen Habermas
    
    
22. Adorno: Cultural Marxism Isn't All Bad
    
    
23. The Death of God and the Meaning of Life
    
    
24. I Think I Finally Get Hegel
    
    
25. Frankfurt School Analysis, Part Two
    
    
26. Max Weber and the End of the German Miracle
    
    
27. Silly Scientists Don't Know From Science
    
    
28. Yes, Liberals, Critical Theory Applies to Your Ideas Too
    
    
29. The Left's Syllabus of Errors: Postmodernism
    
    
30. No, It Is Not All the Fault of Romanticism
    
    
31. Humans Demand Good vs. Evil
    
    
32. Myth and Religion in an Age of Science
    
    
33. The Big Issue: Reason vs. Emotion
    
    
34. Peterson and Jung and Nietzsche, Oh My!
    
    
35. Reality Hits the 19th Century White Ethnics
    
    
36. Science is a Social Activity, Pt. 742
    
    
37. Values not Facts Make the World Go Round
    
    
38. No, Critical Theorists, Creativity is Not The Only Thing
    
    
39. Yes, There is Objective Truth, But We Don't Know It
    
    
40. Why I Think Jordan Peterson is Important
    
    
41. Free Spirit vs. Fettered Spirit
    
    
42. Yes, It is Really About the Elite's New Religion
    
    
43. When Was Peak US?
    
    
44. Our Ruling Class Does Too Have a Religion. And How.
    
    
45. My Journey from Common Sense to Common Sense
    
    
46. Conservatism: What Comes Next
    
    
47. Nietzsche in 900 Words -- If You Can Take It
    
    
48. Nietzsche on Knowledge and Reality
    
    
49. The Question of Whether The Deep State is Clever or Stupid
    
    
50. "Why Liberalism Works" for the Gentry
    
    
51. Roger Scruton RIP
    
    
52. Three Peoples: What Happens When It All Goes Wrong?
    
    
53. The Intersection of "Groundhog Day" with Nietzsche and Religion
    
    
54. Controlocracy: Xi's Big Mistake
    
    
55. What Would It Take To Wean Kids Off Socialism, Bernie?
    
    
56. Habermas's Lifeworld and My Three Peoples
    
    
57. Reign of Terror Means the Revolution is Failing
    
    
58. German Turn -- Script
    
    
59. All the World's a Social Construct
    
    
60. Suppose "Politics is Division" is a Good Thing
    
    
61. Science, Climate Change, Politics, Prophecy and Reason
    
    
62. This "Fact Checking" Thing and @jack's Beard
    
    
63. Now Penguins are Getting Triggered
    
    
64. Let's Kritik Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality
    
    
65. German History in Three Chapters
    
    
66. The Day After: "Groundhog Day"
    
    
67. Against Kimball: Science Advances by Breaking the Rules
    
    
68. The Evil Spirits Will Always Be With Us
    
    
69. The Left: Just What Is Their Problem?
    
    
70. "Wittgenstein's Vienna:" When a Ruling Class is Losing It
    

Rene Girard -- Contents

Rene Girard and the Scapegoat

1. Dead Cat Bounce?
   
   
2. ObamaCare on Life Support
   
   
3. We Need a Good Scapegoat
   
   
4. Obama's Scapegoat of the Week
   
   
5. The Wages of Hubris
   
   
6. A Grand Strategy for the War Against Islamism
   
   
7. Why I Say "Politics is Division"
   
   
8. The Bright Side of Obama's "Strategic Patience"
   
   
9. I Want a "Live-and-let-Live" President
   
   
10. The Real Challenge for 2017
    
    
11. The Left's Catalog of Errors
    
    
12. The Great Reaction Also Includes Neo-sacrifice
    
    
13. Great Reaction: The Story So Far
    
    
14. Great Reaction: Slavery and Scapegoating
    
    
15. Lefties: Getting the Hero's Journey Upside Down
    
    
16. Reich: Three Consciousnesses is Not Enough
    
    
17. Dying of Despair: What Should We Do About Cultural Decline?
    
    
18. Obamagate: Putting the Racist Bugbear to Rest
    
    
19. Understanding the Power of "Fascism"
    
    
20. Dennis Prager Itemizes My Great Reaction
    
    
21. Just Who Are Those Horrible Systemic Racist White Supremacists?
    
    
22. Derek Chauvin, Human Sacrifice
    

Government is Protection -- Contents

Government is Protection Against Enemies

1. 9/12 Plus 10

2. Millennials: Government Turns Everything into a War

3. Government's Job is To Protect

4. The Liberal Syllabus of Errors

5. My Bill of Realities

6. The Fundamental Reality of Our Times, Four Ways

7. "Make it like it was"

8. Election 2016: Is It All Over Bar Shouting?

9. President Obama's Divisiveness: What Does He Mean?

10. When Will Democrats Realize That Obama is Killing Them?

11. Trump Night: What You Are Not Allowed to Say

12. It is not "Good Government" Reforms that Wrecked the System

13. Used to be that Men were Fighters and Women were Lovers

14. How to Help an In-denial Liberal

15. Liberals Screw the Pooch on Navy SEAL

16. Maybe the Jihadis Will Help Us Kill Two Birds With One Stone

17. Trump's Paris Climate: Sound and Fury

18. How About Those Millennials!

19. No, Political Power Does Not Effect Beneficial Change

20. If Not Progress, Then What?

21. And Now the Aussies

22. What Do You Think Parades are For, Lefties?

23. Was Trump's "Go Back" Tweet a Blunder?

24. "You Idiot:" Of Course We Were, Are

25. The New York Times' Problem

26. The Left Led the Workers into a Wilderness

27. Cleaning Up Afer Hurricane Lefty

28. Ten Things the Educated Gentry Got Wrong

29. Liberalism Properly Understood

30. History Lesson for Our Nance on "Stormtroopers"

31. The Future of Government: New and Exciting Enemies!

A Vision of the Good Life Better than the Left - Table of Contents

A Manifesto About the Meaning of Life

0. Good Life in Brief

1. What is the Meaning of Life?
   It is the question in the mind of every human
   
   
2. The German Turn
   The Germans invented everything
   
   
3. The Question of Suffering
   The question of meaning revolves around the differing analyses of suffering
   
   
4. Three Religions for Three Peoples
   Your religion depends on your understanding of suffering
   
   
5. The Hero's Journey in Each of Us
   Modern educated people are called on a creative life journey
   
   
6. The Meaning of Life: Making it Up
   We humans really don't know anything

Commentary

1. The Dilemma of the Well-born Human
   
   
2. Global Problem #1: Birthing a Religion for the Educated
   
   
3. Searching for a New Religion: Leftism, Feminism, Wokeness, Etc.
   
   
4. Conservatism: What Comes Next
   
   
5. Deep Sixing the Socialist Idiots
   
   
6. What is the Current Moral Revolution All About?
   It's the end of the rule of our current betters
   
   
7. Gorsuch Decision Means Back to the Drawing Board
   First you find a new meaning of life. Then you fix the Supreme Court
   
   
8. The Different Kinds of Hero
   Extending the hero concept to culture and politics
   
   
9. What is the Good Life Better Than the Left -- for Women?
   How to be good/kind/thoughtful without becoming Lady Bountiful
   
   
10. What Does the Modern Sacrificial Hero Look Like?
    Maybe like John Buchan's hero in Sick Heart River
    
    
11. What I Believe
    
    
12. The Mostly Peaceful Hellscape
    
    
13. Taleb on the Sacrificial Hero. But Whatabout Women?
    
    
14. Good Luck, Joe. You'll Need It
    
    
15. But Tear Gas and But Hate