How Did the Taliban Win?Listen now (72 min) | Even among smart dissident types, the default explanation for the Taliban’s victory in Afghanistan is basically just “grit” and “sticktuitiveness” and “giving 110%” (plus maybe “asabiyyah”, which is a $10 dissident word for “teamwork”). But if that was the…
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Elon Musk bought Twitter for 44 billion dollars. A giant publicly-traded cybernetic egregore has been saddled and bridled by one human being — and now…
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The Frontier Was Always Closed (To You)Listen now (69 min) | Some thoughts about Albion’s Seed for the Fourth of July, and why this incredibly fractious group of (by modern standards…
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I have been asked to provide a take on the “Mormon MomTok” “soft swinger” scandal, in my official capacity as Brand Ambassador. So I looked it up…
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The Lord JesusListen now (59 min) | I’ve been chewing on five or six different essays for the last several months, and they’ve never come out quite right, and I’ve…
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Grace spent a few weeks in the hospital. It wasn’t bad; she’d never had opioids before. More than that, she was finished. Ever since she was a child, as…
Continuing from my submission to Passage Prize, Amira. Read part 1 here: Part 2: As she rounded a corner two blocks away, Grace spotted the crowd…
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