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The People They Desire

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2024/09/19

A change that has happened in the culture of the West that has gone largely unnoticed is the concern for psychological states. A generation ago, what mattered in most cases was the material state of things. Governments cared about the … Continue reading →

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The Theater Of Politics

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2024/09/18

The great exploding pager psy-op Israel pulled on Hezbollah yesterday is a great example of how the focus of all politics has shifted from the practical world of doing things to the virtual world of saying things. Owning the information … Continue reading →

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The Drone Revolution

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2024/09/17

The war in the Ukraine grinds on, despite claims that the Ukraine army is collapsing at various areas of the front. The fact is large industrial age armies do not break and run like armies of the past. This was … Continue reading →

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Jesus Hates Immigration

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2024/09/16

Note: Behind the green door I have a post about the demographic collapse playing out in the workforce, a post about how the Tenet Media case looks like a political op and the Sunday podcast. Subscribe here or here. Would … Continue reading →

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Radio Derb September 13 2024

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2024/09/14

This Week’s Show Contents 01m44s Haiti comes to Ohio 10m22s Population doubles, employers leave 18m04s Towards the immigration singularity 24m39s The Trump-Harris debate 35m47s Signoff Direct Download, The iTunes, Podcast Addict, RSS Feed Full Show On Spreaker Full Show On … Continue reading →

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Transcendental Wokism

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2024/09/13

The term “woke” started turning up in mainstream discourse about a decade ago as part of the cultural revolution from the top. When this current phase started is debatable, but the term “woke” started circulating around social media in the … Continue reading →

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Narrative Doubt

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2024/09/12

An often-ignored lesson of the Roman Empire is that exhausted institutions can stagger on for a long time on inertia. As long as there is nothing ready or able to replace it, the thing can carry on like a shuffling … Continue reading →

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The War Of Politics

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2024/09/11

“War is a continuation of politics by other means” is a famous quote attributed to Carl von Clausewitz, a 19th century Prussian military theorist. This line is often used to end discussion about the causes of a war, rather than … Continue reading →

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The Last Debates

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2024/09/10

The first and possibly last presidential debate of this cycle is scheduled for tonight in Philadelphia between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. Given the result of the last Trump – Biden debate, this one should get a good audience. Despite … Continue reading →

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Faith & Reason

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2024/09/09

Note: Behind the green door I have a post about bringing back penal colonies and exile to deal with crime, a post about how the fight with Old Scratch continues among the people we call the left and the Sunday … Continue reading →

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Radio Derb September 06 2024

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2024/09/07

This Week’s Show Contents 02m11s Two types of isolationism? 09m21s (Some) Germans vote 17m41s Scrambling the poles of good and evil 27m51s Temporal isolationism 32m26s Much ADOS about nothing 37m37s The innumerate imagination 40m38s No Chi spy here! 41m55s The … Continue reading →

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Revisionism

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2024/09/06

Tucker Carlson recently hosted a man calling himself Darryl Cooper to discuss a range of things, including alternative narratives of the Second World War. Cooper also calls himself MartyrMade online and hosts the The MartyrMade Podcast. He specializes in historical … Continue reading →

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Numerology

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2024/09/05

If you pay attention to sports, one of the things you may have noticed over the last few decades is the rise of numerology. The people making money from sports entertainment and their fans do not call it numerology, but … Continue reading →

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Winners & Losers

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2024/09/04

In sports, when a team prepares for a game, they think about all of the ways they can defeat the other team within the rules of the game. The good teams will be as expansive as possible when it comes … Continue reading →

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The New Athens

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2024/09/03

Note: Behind the green door I have a post about our robot overlords and a post explaining how you could have won millions on sports betting over the long holiday weekend, but the was no Sunday podcast. Subscribe here or … Continue reading →

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Salus Populi Suprema Lex Esto

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2024/09/02

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Radio Derb August 30 2024

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2024/08/31

01 — Intro. And Radio Derb is on the air! That was Franz Joseph Haydn’s Derbyshire March No. 2 played on a dobro guitar, and this is your observantly genial host John Derbyshire with reflections and commentary on current events. The election campaigns … Continue reading →

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Our Collective Theater Of The Mind

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2024/08/30

A recurring plot line in modern life is the famous person being exposed for some sort of fraud about themselves or their work. For example, the notorious race hustler Robin DiAngelo was found to have ripped off black writers for … Continue reading →

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The Faith Of Our Betters

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2024/08/29

Western elites are in a competition with one another to see who can be the most creative in violating the old rules of the liberal order. Every week seems to bring a new outrage from a Western government. The reason … Continue reading →

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Starting A New Religion

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2024/08/28

There are three things true about the modern West and all three of them are connected to the issue of religion. One is the obvious fact that the religion of the West, Christianity, is in steep decline. The second is … Continue reading →

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