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Christopher Chantrill

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Repairing the World with Disruption

We Americans have three political tendencies. First, there is “struggle.” Just before the election Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said: If Donald...

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Dear Liberals: Learn from the Enemy

As you liberals shelter nervously in your mental health spaces I have a suggestion to help pass the time: Learn from the Enemy. The Nazis, to be...

12.11.2024 10

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A Brief History of Political Garbage

Last week the world-renowned political scholar Joseph Biden reminded us of the danger to democracy down the ages from political garbage. Said he,...

05.11.2024 10

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Literally Hitler: What’s Their Problem?

Although experts agree that the current Literally Hitler frenzy is about getting progressives to the polls, our Democratic friends have been playing...

30.10.2024 10

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Leadership Seminar on Trump and Harris

When we talk about “leadership” what do we mean? The answer is obvious. The leader is the hero who leads his band of brothers into the fight of...

23.10.2024 6

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Dear Ruling Class: Learn about the Science of Reform

Our Canadian friends are concerned about their universal government monopoly health-care system. Most Canadians think reform is needed. However, ...

15.10.2024 9

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Floods at the End of a Dynasty

This morning I noticed a link at Instapundit linking the Appalachian floods and the Mandate of Heaven. Of course! Experts agree that Yellow River...

08.10.2024 10

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Our Liberal Friends Can Tell That Something is Wrong

All the right people are responding to the “vibe” of the Harris campaign. But I tend to look for a different “vibe”: what is the subliminal...

30.09.2024 10

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It’s So Hard for the Ruling Class These Days

There’s a piece at The Free Press about how Wikipedia maintains its lefty slant. In addition to its lefty editors, there’s a Wikimedia: Reliable...

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From Cats and Geese to Kissinger’s ‘World Order’

I’m all confused. Is it true that Kamala Harris’s earrings at the debate were clip-on earbuds? Probably not, but it would be fun if they were....

16.09.2024 20

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Public Intellectuals Unite to Shame Darryl Cooper

By now everybody knows that Tucker blew up the internet with his shocking interview of podcaster Darryl Cooper. Cooper did two Bad Things: he...

10.09.2024 6

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After ‘Mechanistic’ Mass Formation

Matthias Desmet is the Dutch psychologist that got into trouble pushing against the Narrative on COVID. La Wik: Desmet became known for his negative...

03.09.2024 10

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Which is Worse: Conspiracy Theory or Hive Mind?

It’s good to know that the daughter of two academics, one a Tamil Brahmin and the other a Marixt economist, is just Middle-Class Kamala. But now...

27.08.2024 20

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Who is Gaslighting Whom?

I have a question. Does Vice-President Harris’s proposed policy of a “ban on grocery store price gouging” constitute “gaslighting” as...

19.08.2024 10

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Analysis: Shadows and Appearances and Lions and Foxes

The two most notable philosophical notions in the western canon are Plato’s Cave and Kant’s Appearances. In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave we...

12.08.2024 20

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Why Do Democrats Wreck the Economy?

Remember the Sixties? Our Democratic friends gave us guns and butter: a war in Vietnam to stop a domino falling in the Cold War and LBJ’s Great...

06.08.2024 30

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Timeout from the Wall-to-wall Celebration of Kamala Harris

While our Democratic friends congratulate each other every hour on the hour about the wonders of presidential candidate Kamala Harris we might as well...

30.07.2024 8

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Who’s in Charge: Pelosi, Obama, or the Clintons?

Frankly, as the ladies say, I am “exhausted” after a week of assassination attempts, Secret Service blame dodging, and Donald Trump infuriating...

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America After Butler, PA

One thing that our liberal friends know is that they are the good guys. Because Change. Because Justice. Because fighting white racism. Because...

16.07.2024 30

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How Should the Populists Govern?

Let’s jump the gun on far-white populist nationalism and ask the big question. How should the rising populists, from Hungary to the U.S. to Britain...

09.07.2024 30

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Biden, the Democrats, and God: at the End of the Dynasty

Suppose the Biden meltdown in last week’s presidential debate was a message from God, telling our Democratic friends that their progressive movement...

02.07.2024 10

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The March of Dimes Syndrome and Beyond

I used to think that Eric Hoffer had the last word on the natural cycle of political mass movements. And I first wrote about it in 2010. Pat...

24.06.2024 20

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Pushing Back Against Lefty Pejoratives and Race Cards

Last week was the “far right” week of weeks in Europe, what with the far-right neo-fascist populist white nationalists in Europe voting in...

17.06.2024 10

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Liberals are Not So Smart. Part XVI

I’m sitting here thinking about our liberal friends, and wondering: are they smart, or not so smart? They must be smart-ish, else they would not...

11.06.2024 30

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‘Getting Trrump’ Doesn’t Solve Anything

The New York Times reports Hillary Clinton saying that if Trump wins the 2024 election “we may never see another actual election.” Nancy Pelosi...

04.06.2024 50

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On Memorial Day, Remember Those Who Died for Nothing

Monday May 27, 2024 is Memorial Day, when we remember the soldiers that gave their lives in America’s wars. But it is well to remember that, despite...

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The Wokey World of Politics, Enemy, and Power

Isn’t it special how Harvard has been negotiating with the peaceful protestors camping in Harvard Yard and has agreed to look into a Center for...

21.05.2024 30

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Nancy Pelosi Wows ‘Em at the Oxford Union

On April 25, 2024 the Oxford Union held a debate on the motion that "This House Believes Populism is a Threat to Democracy." And who better to...

13.05.2024 40

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Thoughts on the Protest Industrial Complex

Who can forget the wise words of President Eisenhower: In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted...

07.05.2024 10

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Is the Glass Half Full or Half Empty?

If you are Deroy Murdoch you see Speaker Mike Johnson as a “squish” for caving on the Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan foreign aid bill. Johnson has...

30.04.2024 20

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Can ‘Get Trump’ Beat Failing Bidenomics?

Let us suppose that the best and brightest setting up the Biden regime in 2021 all confidently knew that by the spring of 2024 everything would be...

23.04.2024 40

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Learning from COVID with Tucker and Naomi

My big takeaway during the late COVID unpleasantness was how everyone got with the program, right now, from lockdowns to masks to vaxxes. Especially...

16.04.2024 60

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The Challenge of Explaining Trump and Biden to an Argentinian

An Argentine friend in Canada challenged me about the absurdity of Trump vs. Biden. Really, he said. Can’t you Americans come up with anyone better?...

08.04.2024 7

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The Melting of the Liberal Icecaps

We are all, of course, deeply worried about the melting arctic icecaps, because of the devastating effect of a gas that amounts to a crucial 0.041...

01.04.2024 30

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The Commoner World After Conservatism 3.0

What on Earth is going on? We have GOP congressmen quitting early. Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) resigned last week , and Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) resigned...

25.03.2024 10

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A Course in Biden Budgetology

After President Biden’s award-winning SOTU speech on March 7, 2024, it was time, on Monday 11, 2024, for the President’s FY2025 Budget, which is...

18.03.2024 20

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The Real State of the Union

Most of the time, a president’s State of the Union speech is avuncular. I wouldn’t say paternal because, as we know, paternalism is next to...

11.03.2024 30

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No, Substack is Not a Haven for Misinformation

Back on February 6, 2024 I told a tale at AT about how we were living in the Third Age of Communication, staring with: The Age of Parchment: Writers...

05.03.2024 7

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The Day They Turned the Spies on Us

Mike Benz, a former State Department official, argues that over the decades since World War II the U.S. has developed a huge intelligence system to...

26.02.2024 40

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Today’s Politics of Weakness

It was some years ago that my grandson eagerly showed me a video of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opining on the leadership of the European Union....

20.02.2024 20

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Wars and Putin, Lies and Biden

In a three-part piece arguing against the various U.S. populist and isolationist movements of the past century, starting with the movement to stay out...

12.02.2024 20

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The Curious Case of Disinformation

Since the American Godzilla came down the escalator in 2015 our liberal friends have been obsessed with disinformation coming from the Far Right. Did...

06.02.2024 10

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Fearless Forecasting at the OMB

As you know, I am the sole proprietor of the most comprehensive and mandatory website on government spending in the United States. Even though Google...

30.01.2024 30

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Stay in Your Lane, Everyone

Joel Kotkin reports from Davos that things are not well with Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum. Says he: The growing irrelevance of what Adrian...

23.01.2024 9

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Whither the Economy, this Election Year?

I think that we would all really, really, like to know what will happen to the economy over the next year. Will the economy drop into a recession as a...

16.01.2024 30

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Administrative Bureaucracy: Lessons from China

We MAGA Americans hate that we have lived under the yoke of an administrative state for over 100 years. We long to smash the administrative state to...

08.01.2024 7

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How to Understand the Woke Colonization Project

One of the ways in which our liberal friends advertise their virtue is their support of the global "decolonization" movement. And their students have...

01.01.2024 40

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The AI Axe Will Fall First on Bureaucrats and Journalists

I was reading a piece about EA -- Effective Altruism -- its intellectual godfather the utilitarian philosopher Peter Singer, and how billionaires...

26.12.2023 40

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What Kissinger Thought About Leadership

A couple of weeks ago I did a Kissinger piece on China and realism in foreign policy. But now, despite our present plagiarism pickle, I have just...

19.12.2023 9

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The Ladies Auxiliary of the Knights of Marcuse

I really felt sorry for the three diverse presidents of the Ivy League, when jumped-up congress-critter Elise Stefanik (R-NY) humiliated them before...

11.12.2023 20

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