There is not a lot of respect for the Queen in my neck of the woods. When she died, I mostly saw memes mocking her death or YouTube celebrities claiming credit for having killed her. So, when I saw that conservative thinker Jordan Peterson made a video discussing the institution…

A while ago, I was in line to buy some things at the grocery store, when I had to wait while some slovenly older gentleman with holes in his shirt ordered the poor cashier to do multiple trips to grab him the milk container he wanted from the other side…

“It had nothing to do with music, and everything to do with white bodily comportment” — In the act of utter egoism, I was looking over the traffic sources for my two-year-old The Melody of Hypnotize: Looking at Biggie’s Masterpiece From a Fresh Perspective article and was linked to the blog of Ethan Hein, whom I cited in the original article for his post on visualizing…

Government representatives have traditionally cheated, robbed, beaten, and exploited his family and village. He has a keen suspicion for all outsiders and generally considers all individuals from outside his province as foreigners or khawaga. In the face of all these events he is helpless and thus has invented a most…

After World War 2, the fate of China was placed in the hands of two opportunistic, maniacal, and brutal dictators vying for power. Mao Zedong would take over the mainland, where after a brief period of strong economic growth, tens of millions would die to political persecution and incompetence. Chiang…

Thomas Jefferson’s vision of American democracy was a land of small farmers, both economically and politically independent. Whereas manufacturing led to subservient employees bound to wages given to them by a growing class of industrial aristocrats, small farmers were “the chosen people of God”, devoting their lives to cultivating virtue…

I was reading up on recent news stories about Egypt as part of a forthcoming article on Abdel Nasser’s land reform, when I came across some articles about food prices and inflation. As the biggest importer of wheat in the world, the War in Ukraine has had a severe impact…

With Roe v Wade overturned in what will probably turn out to be one of the most consequential court cases of the century, I have found my usual media sources around the issue… unsatisfying. So, I decided to read the entire court opinion myself. Having read 216 pages of legal…