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I’m going in, this Substack's going on ice, and a book is coming
Jun 14, 2025 • N.S. Lyons
NYT Essay, My Name
I have an opinion essay out in the New York Times today, in which I try to gently explain to the Times’ liberal readers what the managerial regime is…
Jun 6, 2025 • N.S. Lyons
"Managerial Bureaucracy’s Threat to Democracy and Humanity"
Transcript of remarks delivered to the 2025 Civitas Canada Conference, Ottawa, May 3, 2025
May 8, 2025 • N.S. Lyons
Love of a Nation
Our leadership classes’ lack of love for their own people is dissolving our societies
Mar 13, 2025 • N.S. Lyons
Vance’s Real Message to Europe: Give Up the Information War and GTFO
America’s struggle with the deep state is a transnational conflict in which Britain and Europe have fought as willing proxies. This will no longer be…
Mar 4, 2025 • N.S. Lyons
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Reality Honks Back
Feb 16, 2022 • N.S. Lyons
American Strong Gods
Feb 13, 2025 • N.S. Lyons
On Millennial Snot
Oct 9, 2024 • Dudley Newright
The China Convergence
Aug 3, 2023 • N.S. Lyons
No, the Revolution Isn’t Over
Jan 18, 2022 • N.S. Lyons
A Prophecy of Evil: Tolkien, Lewis, and Technocratic Nihilism
Nov 15, 2022 • N.S. Lyons
American Strong Gods
Trump and the end of the Long Twentieth Century
Feb 13, 2025 • N.S. Lyons
Taiwan: Trump’s Most Dangerous Global Challenge
It’s still before dawn when hundreds of Chinese missiles begin to rain down on Taiwan, striking airfields, radar arrays, anti-aircraft batteries, and…
Jan 20, 2025 • N.S. Lyons
Colonization, Replaceable Man, and Love of One’s Own
Remarks to ISI’s American Politics and Government Summit (November 2024)
Jan 11, 2025 • N.S. Lyons
The Counter-Revolution Begins
7 principles for the Trump revolution if it wants to win bigly
Dec 12, 2024 • N.S. Lyons
Machine Antihumanism and the Inversion of Family Law
An essay by Jeff Shafer
Nov 4, 2024 • N.S. Lyons
Announcements – November 2024
A few miscellaneous announcements for readers
Nov 2, 2024 • N.S. Lyons
The Post-Cold War Apotheosis of Liberal Managerialism
A response to Nathan Pinkoski
Oct 23, 2024 • N.S. Lyons
On “Public-Private Partnership”
Some recent remarks debating a trendy model of doing things
Oct 16, 2024 • N.S. Lyons
On Millennial Snot
About the distinctively obnoxious way our elites talk down to us now
Oct 9, 2024 • Dudley Newright
The Upheaval
The Upheaval
Exploring the shared upheavals of our era, including technological and cultural change, the ideological revolution consuming the West, the rise of China, and the crisis of liberalism.

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