Tag Archives: Dissident Elite

Michelle Wu, Mayor of Boston, believes “every human-being has the legal right to come to the United States”: Michelle Wu as a biographical-ideological study of the U.S. elite in the 2020s


A woman by the name of “Michelle Wu” is, for some reason, the mayor of the City of Boston. Michelle Wu’s ideas on what America “is” and what America is “for” are worth some analysis and commentary, which is what … Continue reading

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George Gilder’s essay “Sexual Suicide” (1973), a landmark attack on feminism and warning for the future, revisited and reappraised at its 50-year mark


In July 1973, an explosive anti-feminist, anti-sexual-revolution essay titled “Sexual Suicide” appeared on the scene. Viewed from fifty years later, “Sexual Suicide” is incisive and prescient in all kinds of ways. “Sexual Suicide” first appeared fifty years ago this week … Continue reading

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The USA’s “Guiding Maxim on Immigration”: analysis of and commentary on a discussion between Nicolas Eberstadt, John Cochrane, H. R. McMaster, and Niall Ferguson


(2500 words) A Hoover Institution talk of March 13th, 2023 (link), about demographic decline, contains an exchange about immigration to the USA that is such a good encapsulation of Regime ideology (and mantras) that it is worth reproducing here in … Continue reading

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The Cinephobe, on immunity from the Corona-Panic of 2020


The following 800-word essay, by The Cinephobe of Canada, engages with the question of “immunity” from the Corona-Panic in 2020. It is, at core, a personal essay on why one man feels he himself was “immune.” It is not necessarily … Continue reading

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“Son of Florida, grandson of industrial Ohio, great-grandson of Italy”: The ancestry of Ron DeSantis


(10,500 words) (Jump to summary of points or table of contents.) (Jump directly to main “Ancestry of Ron DeSantis” section.) (Jump to comments.) _________________ What follows here is a long-form approach to Ron DeSantis, via a close look at his … Continue reading

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Reflections on the 2010s: Political (The decade the cordon-sanitaire was finally breached)


[Originally posted, Dec. 30, 2019, to commemorate the close of the decade; significantly expanded, Jan. 5, 2020] As I write, the decade of the 2010s will be fully in the books within a matter of hours. No better time to … Continue reading

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