Observer & Review

I remember a campaign a decade ago called the “sad puppies”. Male authors, upset the Hugo Awards for sci fi writing were biased against any author who wrote “guy stuff” or was seen as conservative, advanced their own slate of nominees, as anyone can do. They swept to the point it was procedurally impossible to deny them the awards. The Hugos had a tantrum, refused to give awards that year at all, then changed the rules. For years after (dunno if to this day), no man ever won anything again. That’s the kind of institutional purges of men and male interests from literature that caused “men don’t read”.

A man has surrendered to police, investigating the desecration of one of Queensland's most sacred sites. The Cleveland cenotaph was destroyed by vandals, who were heard laughing. The breakthrough comes after two more attacks, the week of Remembrance Day. @mhammond7

“I’m a real self-educated kind of guy. I read voraciously. Every book I ever bought, I have. I can’t throw it away. Some of them are in warehouses. I’ve got a library that I keep the ones I really really like. I look around my library some nights and I do these terrible things to myself—I count up the books and think, how long I might have to live and think, ‘F**k, I can’t read two-thirds of these books.’ It overwhelms me with sadness.” –David Bowie

3) Anglo-Australians need to reinvest in building their elites. Those elites should be trained in: Latin, Ancient Greek, French & German with additional options of Italian, Spanish and Russian. That covers the basics for most broader SERIOUS academic study.

I might recommend Michael Oakeshott's Rationalism in Politics.

Literature should not be "left-wing" or "right-wing." It should ask big questions that neither side knows how to answer.

Thank goodness someone finally had the courage to blame all of our problems on young white men.

In similar vein Roger Scruton, also 2001:

Patrick J. Buchanan wrote this in 2001

Hilaire Belloc explains why you need to read old books: “There is no habit more dangerous to a man's active intellectual life than that of reading only modern books. The contemporary writer is usually not yet judged by time. He writes under the pressure of fashion and opinion. But the old books have survived. They have been tested. They come to us stamped with the approval of generations. To read them is to breathe a larger air.” Which old book are you immersed in right now?

There's something magical about spaces filled with books. Whether grand and enchanting or small and cozy, every bookish corner holds the promise of another adventure, another discovery, and a little escape from the ordinary.

We’re facing an ever-worsening literacy crisis. Millions of brains have been scrambled by conspiracy theories & short-form videos. Curiosity is dying. Our collective intelligence is declining for the first time in a century. The solution is to read. The solution is to read.

For those confused as to what’s happening in Poland right now… Imagine if Democrats won Congress, declared the Supreme Court didn't count anymore, ignored its rulings for 3 years, and then, a year before the next election, picked 8 new justices of their own, including a man their leader called his "right-hand man," and when the Republican president refused to swear them in, they swore themselves in and mailed him the paperwork, and when the Chief Justice said that wasn't legal and wouldn't seat them, they waited for a Friday night when the president was on a plane to Africa and had federal security officers who answer to a Democratic cabinet member walk 7 of them into the court through a back gate connected to the Democratic leader's own offices, where one of them announced she had "suspended" the Chief Justice, a move that even a law professor who openly can't stand him said had no legal basis, and then riot police blocked the Chief Justice from entering his own court, the court's website was taken over, the Attorney General moved that same night to strip his immunity so he could be prosecuted, the president had to turn his plane around mid-flight to come home, and the same people who spent years lecturing everyone about respecting the courts went online to say this was the rule of law, that it was painful, and that there was "no other way," which is roughly where Poland is tonight.

What is happening in Poland is a prime example of the right utterly unwilling to weild power The military should have been waiting at the airstip for the president to land A convoy of armed men should have rocked up and encircled the building while the police should have been disarmed and arrested. The president then should have entered and had the insurrectionists immediately arrested including Donald Tusk This is why the left keep doing what they are doing. Because the right has the power and refuses to use it, especially when it is justified.

En experimentos sociales históricos como los kibutz israelíes de comienzos del siglo XX, se intentaron eliminar por completo los roles de género. Al principio, hombres y mujeres realizaban las mismas tareas, y los niños se criaban de manera comunal. Con el tiempo, sin embargo, las mujeres se inclinaron hacia la crianza de los hijos y las tareas menos extenuantes, mientras que los hombres asumieron roles físicamente exigentes o de liderazgo. Las madres rechazaron el sistema de crianza comunal, se formalizaron los matrimonios y reaparecieron las unidades familiares privadas. Los antropólogos observaron que estos cambios no surgieron de la dominación masculina, sino de las preferencias de las propias mujeres.