I am often asked how I achieved entrepreneurial success. That is, how I became, in the words of Edwin Arlington Robinson’s “Richard Cory,” “rich—yes, richer than a king.” (We can gloss over the ultimate fate of Cory in that poem, which will not be mine, even if sometimes I expect to also die with a| The Worthy House • Towards A Politics of Future Past -
Ernst Jünger, mechanistic tyranny, the conquest of fear, and true individual freedom| theupheaval.substack.com
Nietzsche’s continued presence and resonance in America suggests that he never forgot his Emersonian inheritance. Although Nietzsche’s self-creating individuals and free spirits take their bearings from man’s deepest spiritual yearnings and conflicts—rather than the shallow self-interest of anglophone classical liberalism—his characters are immediately and perpetually recognizable to American democrats, pragmatists, and entrepreneurs. Nietzsche’s followers in America, therefore, a...| American Affairs Journal
Christian nationalists are looking to recover the collective will of Christians and confidently assert their interests in public.| The American Mind
Finding joy despite being trapped in a bureaucratic dystopia| www.hottakes.space
The Borg present a great metaphor for warning against creeping authoritarian socialism on the far left| www.hottakes.space
Everything is getting blander: creative sectors like music and movies are a shell of themselves, entertainment championed and art mocked. But no one is forcing you to join the circus...| www.hottakes.space
How millions of Americans (and Westerners in general) have found themselves surrounded by an alien culture in what used to be their homeland.| aghostinthemachine.substack.com
