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