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I’m going in, this Substack's going on ice, and a book is coming
Jun 14, 2025
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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
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"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
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Love of a Nation
Our leadership classes’ lack of love for their own people is dissolving our societies
Mar 13, 2025
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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
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On Millennial Snot
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The China Convergence
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No, the Revolution Isn’t Over
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A Prophecy of Evil: Tolkien, Lewis, and Technocratic Nihilism
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Trump and the end of the Long Twentieth Century
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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
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Colonization, Replaceable Man, and Love of One’s Own
Remarks to ISI’s American Politics and Government Summit (November 2024)
Jan 11, 2025
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The Counter-Revolution Begins
7 principles for the Trump revolution if it wants to win bigly
Dec 12, 2024
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Machine Antihumanism and the Inversion of Family Law
An essay by Jeff Shafer
Nov 4, 2024
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Announcements – November 2024
A few miscellaneous announcements for readers
Nov 2, 2024
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The Post-Cold War Apotheosis of Liberal Managerialism
A response to Nathan Pinkoski
Oct 23, 2024
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On “Public-Private Partnership”
Some recent remarks debating a trendy model of doing things
Oct 16, 2024
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About the distinctively obnoxious way our elites talk down to us now
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