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As the Trump administration continues its full and unapologetic assault on the First Amendment the usual suspects are forced to admit through gritted teeth that maybe Trump and his people aren’t the free speech absolutists they pinky-promised that they were. This has triggered so many Substack essays as the
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Of all the slogans that were thrown about during the 2024 US election I think the one that frightened the Republicans the most was Kamala Harris’ threat that “we’re not going back.” What the right wants more than anything is to go back. That’s what it is, at
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I’ve developed a sense of unease whenever I see a young white man with a shaved head. I know that’s not fair. Some guys look great bald. I have friends who do it. It’s not an unusual style. It’s not a square moustache or a sonnenrad
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Month nine (year 30? 50? 100?) of the Trump presidency, and already a number of books are coming out about how woke is over now thanks to the good work Trump has done to stamp it out, and given the timeline of publishing, any book that’s coming out now
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This isn’t the piece I had planned to run today, but sometimes something, uh, comes up. I’m on vacation and so I’d prepared some shorter than usual pieces and some reruns. This is a rerun, but not one I had prepared. It needs a new introduction, which
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The Eastern origins of anonymous Western online culture
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On 13th of September, British white nationalist Tommy Robinson is planning a rally in London. He’s not calling it a white nationalist rally, of course, he’s calling it a “free speech festival.” He also says they’re going to topple the government. He says it’s going to
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Through the bullet hell of bad news that has been the past couple of months, something that chilled my blood while flying deftly under the radar for most people was a couple of weeks ago when Glenn Greenwald came out in support of Nick Fuentes. I don’t have a
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Recently I went into hospital for a routine endoscopy, allegedly. I’ve had it done before, so this time I knew what to expect, but the first time was before I’d ever heard of “twilight anaesthesia.” For those who are as unfamiliar with hospital knockout drugs as I was,
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As government embraced the internet as a tool for messaging to its citizens it was only a matter of time before it was infected by a particular kind of cultural rot. Governments and politicians, just like brands, hire savvy young professional influencers to run their social media profiles, and with
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One of the biggest problems with trying to build a career in something creative in a capitalist world is that the tools and platforms you need to use to achieve your goals are all adversarial to those goals. When some service or company insists that their success depends on your
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Last week I saw journalist Matt Taibbi launch himself face-first into the most embarrassingly incorrect and state-sycophantic take I’ve ever seen from him, and it inspired me to pick up a book that had been sitting in a pile next to me for a while now. It was on