Areo magazine has published another essay of mine, Bravado in the Absence of Order, which examines why African-American urban communities have such high rates of homicide and other violence. The essay uses medieval history, and contemporary societies other than the US, to illuminate social patterns that are less clear if one just looks at the US in isolation.
My novel, The Earth Below, will soon be published (probably by the end of the month).
It’s a Young Adult dystopian novel for older teens, following the adventures of Marri and her friend Felix as they try to survive in their oppressive underground community.
I’ve put up an extract from Chapter 1 on my personal website at the bottom of the page. I’ll do another post when the book is released.
I have an essay in Areo Magazine arguing that piety display is often a more accurate term than virtue signalling for what people are typically referring to. The piece then examines the dynamics of, and the reasons for, political correctness.
This is based on a comment I made here.
Coming from a country (Australia) with a much higher proportional immigration flow than the US, I find US debates over migration odd.
This year is the 200th Anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx (1818-1883).
Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay have produced a Manifesto Against the Enemies of Modernity. There is much to agree with in it but at least one part is thoroughly misconceived, which is the attack on libertarianism.
The blogger Zman provides a very useful summary of the dissident right:
If you were trying to reduce the main points of the Dissident Right with a few bullet points, it would be:
This is based on a comment I made here.
With the expansion in cable television, and the even more recent rise of online television, we live in a golden age of television. The range of TV series, including high quality TV series, available is unprecedented.
Marvel v DC
In his discussion with anthropologist Philip Carl Salzman, evolutionary psychologist and YouTuber Gad Saad offers (at 8.48) the following: