Episodes

Monday Apr 12, 2021
Monday Apr 12, 2021
Thoughts on the practical effects and social impact of small-scale agriculture, along with thoughts on large-scale agriculture and fat people. (The written version of this review can be found here.)

Monday Apr 05, 2021
Coup d’État: A Practical Handbook (Edward N. Luttwak)
Monday Apr 05, 2021
Monday Apr 05, 2021
From 2018, through the lens of a classic work of applied politics, thoughts on coups (which have not happened, nor did I predict them), and on social media's role in enforcing global rule of the Left (which I did predict, and which has most definitely happened). (The written version of this review was first published August 27, 2018. Written versions are available here.)

Tuesday Mar 30, 2021
I See Satan Fall Like Lightning (René Girard)
Tuesday Mar 30, 2021
Tuesday Mar 30, 2021
René Girard's exposition of the mechanisms of societal violence. Deeply insightful, and with potent lessons for the present moment. (The written version of this review can be found here.)

Saturday Mar 27, 2021
Saturday Mar 27, 2021
Phillip Bobbitt's interpretation of Machiavelli's world view and attempted synthesis of his works, along with the unlikely use of Machiavelli to claim virtue for the the modern neoliberal, consumerist state. (The written version of this review was first published August 23, 2018. Written versions are available here.)

Tuesday Mar 23, 2021
On the January 2021 Electoral Justice Protest
Tuesday Mar 23, 2021
Tuesday Mar 23, 2021
On one of the seminal events of modern history, the January 6, 2021 Electoral Justice Protest—and of the friend/enemy distinction, and of what flows from it. (The written version of this analysis can be found here.)

Wednesday Mar 17, 2021
The Orthodox Church: An Introduction to Eastern Christianity (Timothy Ware)
Wednesday Mar 17, 2021
Wednesday Mar 17, 2021
On a classic introductory work on Eastern Orthodoxy, with thoughts on Orthodoxy's relation to the West, especially the Crusades, and to the modern Turks. (The written version of this review was first published August 18, 2018. Written versions are available here.)

Saturday Mar 13, 2021
Saturday Mar 13, 2021
From 2018, but both my core predictions here, that history will return (even if it returned in 2020 as clown show), and that the deplatforming of conservatives from social media was just beginning, have been fully borne out. (The written version of this review was first published August 8, 2018. Written versions are available here.)

Wednesday Mar 10, 2021
The Recovery of Family Life: Exposing the Limits of Modern Ideologies (Scott Yenor)
Wednesday Mar 10, 2021
Wednesday Mar 10, 2021
An examination of the pernicious ideology of feminism, and of what can and should be done to combat it by future rulers. (The written version of this review can be found here.)

Wednesday Mar 03, 2021
Dark Emu (Bruce Pascoe)
Wednesday Mar 03, 2021
Wednesday Mar 03, 2021
Of Australia, Australian cultural politics, and the ludicrous racial-religious cult surrounding Australia's first inhabitants. (The written version of this review can be found here.)

Friday Feb 26, 2021
From Plato To NATO: The Idea of the West and Its Opponents (David Gress)
Friday Feb 26, 2021
Friday Feb 26, 2021
A hugely erudite work of historiography, in my thoughts about which I also explain my admiration for Hernán Cortes, man of glory and contradiction, and what is necessary for a restoration of Western achievement. (The written version of this review was first published August 7, 2018. Written versions are available here.)