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That Word Called ‘Order’

With Googling so ubiquitous today, it’s tempting to find shallow, slogan-level knowledge of every new thing before diving into it for the first time. This is especially true for uncanny politics–‘did...

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The Radioactivity Of Atomic Individualism

We are told we now live in the Information Age, which to the educated ear is merely a sly name for an Entropic Age. We also live in the Atomic Age, a strange appellation that never quite fit, yet...

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Techno-Commercialism And Markets In Morality

Neoreaction grows out of soil prepared by perhaps the most powerful combinations of power-based and want-based organization so far, capitalist markets, in which monies stand for both powers and desires...

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A Remedy For Ressentiment

Our time is beset by resignation on one hundred fronts. Politically, the far-left is resigned to class struggle and oppression; though they fight, they rarely anticipate any final victory. The moderate...

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Possibilities Of Intransigence

I recently had the pleasure of diving deep into the thought and life of Albert O. Hirschman, an anti-communist anti-libertarian, wary of economism and scientism and steeped in old books, yet...

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You Say America Is Not A Communist Country

One of Mencius Moldbug’s more famous and infamous slogans is the audacious “America is a communist country.” As rhetoric and provocation it has much to recommend it. It is hard not to look at the...

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Activism Versus Territorialism

One of the most obvious ways men and women differ must be our affinities for destruction. No matter how hard progressive parents try to stop them, little boys find a way to play with swords and guns....

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Where Did It All Go Wrong?

The new right-wing reactionaries differentiate themselves from conservatives in part by their time horizon. They don’t long to preserve just yesterday, last year, or last half-century. They long to...

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Mr. Gnobody: Exit Through Illegibility

A central tragedy of the Homeric tradition sprouts from the bitter contention between Ajax and Odysseus over the armor of Achilles. Rageful Achilles was a consummate symbol of brave, thymotic...

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Tyler Cowen’s Unexpected Neoreactionary Manifesto

Tyler Cowen is not outwardly neoreactionary. His sympathy to neoreaction has been strictly limited the few times he has written about it; in fact, he prefers to ignore it in favor of a broader...

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