Enjoying the view from Limbo
Mark Levin, former rational human and Reaganite, has used his X account to promote a post claiming that “Nick Shirley says he has proof” that Marjorie Taylor Greene was “bribed” to turn against Donald Trump. I don’t know who Nick Shirley is, and I don’t know why Marjorie Taylor Greene really turned against Trump. But I do know that Mark Levin, who used...
The fatal flaw of all democratic arrangements: The only person who ought to be granted power over other people is one who is temperamentally averse to possessing practical power over others, who sees none of the personal material advantages of power as desirable in the least, and who has pressing concerns and abiding enthusiasms which would make the commitments and duties of political...
It is common sophistry among the performance artists formerly known as the alt-right, along with their millions of useful idiots, to ask with a rhetorical flourish and a pretense of perplexity why — “I mean really, exactly why?” — The United States should be supporting leftist-progressive Europe and the NATO alliance against Putin’s “Christian, anti-woke Russia.” The answer, simplified for the useful idiots...
Every age’s defining desires and corresponding fears are revealed by the gods it worships. For example, an age that worships money and technology — or, if you will, Business and Applied Science, this age’s iterations of Zeus and Hera — reveals its defining desires as material comfort and practical ease (i.e., the absence of desire), its defining sources of fear as personal insecurity...
Thomas Massie is a libertarian and a former leading member of the Republican Party’s “House Freedom Caucus” — a name which can only be used in scare quotes, since almost all of its members in Congress, past and present, have proven themselves to be utter frauds who would, and indeed did, sell their country’s last shred of freedom in a heartbeat to protect...
Recently, a student who got started on the philosophic path a little later than is ideal, and who, in spite of her endless enthusiasm and inquisitiveness, is still occasionally beset — as indeed we all are at times — with belittling self-doubts in the face of the vastness of all there is to know, and the undeniably daunting wisdom of the men who...
Social existence is being surrounded by a hundred relentless and incorrigible replicas of everything you have ever disliked and tried to correct in yourself. Social existence is tolerating what you told yourself you would never tolerate, accepting standards you swore you would never lower yourself to accepting, and pretending you are satisfied with conditions you despise. Social existence is living and working alongside...
Death by Education / Ideas and Reflections / What is Progressivism?
by Daren Jonescu · Published May 2, 2026 · Last modified May 7, 2026
“Artificial Intelligence” is the purest of lies, with each of the words of which the phrase is comprised denoting a falsehood as complete as is the phrase taken as a whole. For what it euphemizes as artifice is merely theft; and what it aggrandizes as a form of intelligence is simply an extremely efficient consensus-generating algorithm, one made possible only, and entirely, by...
Political thought which begins from the premise that the primary purpose of government is to restrict freedom for the good of society has chosen to reduce adults to children, hence effectively equating the universal good with safety and comfort, and thus setting the stage for an inevitable rebellion in the name of liberty. Political thought which begins from the premise that the purpose...
Scientific method.– Not judging a book by its cover should not entail denying the existence of covers. Covers are the given. They are experience. To ignore them, let alone to deny them outright, is to confuse sophisticated illusions with depth. Diminishing returns.– If you want to depress yourself, reflect first on the number of people who start out in youth full of energy...
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