How to Define "Wokeness"
Edward Feser (at Edward Feser blog)
Political Philosophy
Shatter Zones and Jellyfish Tribes
A fellow-Generation X'er channels my thoughts almost precisely. The first third of this must-read essay recounts the problem.
The last two-thirds offers a possible response ("shatter zones" and "jellyfish tribes") to the black hole State that sucks in everything near it. Kingsnorth's
The Primitive Marauder is the Modern State, Evolved
Check out last week's episode of Econtalk:
Omer Moav on the Emergence of the State - EconlibSince at least Adam Smith, the common wisdom has been that the transition from hunter-gathering to farming allowed the creation of the State. Farming, so went the theory, led to agricultural surplus,
We Need More COVID Outrage
The COVID debacle doesn't rankle enough: not enough people seem ashamed or apologetic; not enough people seem to appreciate the enormity of what our politicians did. I, no exaggeration, find it greatly disturbing for an obvious reason: they'll do it again and too many of us
Theorists vs. Practitioners
Jeffrey Tucker at The Brownstone Institute
This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Directionalists vs. Destinationists
Michael Munger at American Institute for Economic Research
William Cobbett: Radical
Plough publishes pretty pieces. This piece about the 19th-century radical William Cobbett is the latest. It discusses the centralization of agriculture that took place in England in the early 1800s and Cobbett's resistance (which made him one of GKC's heroes; he wrote a biography about him)
Conservatives and the Culture
Claes Ryn, from Catholic University. A collection of his essays have just been published.
The collection appears largely to recount the problem that conservatives have long been aware of: they abandoned the cultural field to the enemy.
Shortly after World War II (others might date it back to 1900; others,
Reign of the Administrators
By Theodore Dalrymple at City Journal
Tired of Being Chumps
What happens when the people who have been the backbone of America realize the system is rigged against them and stop supporting it?