THE ANATOMY OF THE CON: WHY MR. LEHMAN MATTERS
If you are a reader of Right Now Oregon, you might be looking at Mr. Hartley’s incredibly thorough, straight-down-the-middle reporting...
Daniel Crowe
A Mind Divided Against Itself: Reason and Faith in Islamic Thought Considered Through the Lens of Medieval Islamic Epistemology
The thesis of Samuel Gregg’s 2019 book Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization¹ is that Western Civilization is...
Category Errors in the Scorched Zone: Performative Outrage as an Antidote to Survival
My editors at Right Now Oregon recently forwarded me a Truth Social post by Mr. Trump attacking our Alte Rechte...
Worshiping the Pointy Stick: The Tribalism of Ignorance and the Ignorance of Tribalism
If you’re a writer (and you are exceedingly fortunate), you might write one thing in your life that captures...
On Assignment: The Sulla Precedent: A Dispatch from the Scorched Zone on ‘Route 66 Tourism’ and ‘Orange Man Bad’
I am blessed with more worldly and sophisticated friends than I deserve. And some (but by no means all)...
Beyond the Guilt Grift – A Report from the Scorched Zone on the Japanese-American Bromance
As he works feverishly to liberate X from the Scourge of the Bots, Mr. Musk recently deployed a capability on...
The Substack Scouts and the Actual Adversary: A Field Report for “On Assignment” from the Scorched Zone
Those of us who care about the maximization of Individual Autonomy in a manner not inconsistent with the Common...
The Fringes Have Merged: A Response to Helen Andrews’s Compact Essay “America Needs a Better Meritocracy”
There is a debate raging within conservativism between mimicry and merit, and the resolution of that debate will determine far...
The Dispensationalist Trap: A Response To “The Long Game and the Conservative Right”
In a recent viral essay, “Insurrection Barbie” alleges that a network of “Catholic Integralists” and “Russian ideologues” are engaged in...