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The Rise of the Right-Wing Progressives (N.S. Lyons)
Marc Andreessen wrote a Techno-optimist Manifesto, and the tech media commies, who have no capability of critiquing something that they can’t put in the “right wing fascist” bucket, immediately called it right wing, and fascist. But it ain’t. N.S. Lyons provides clarity, introducing the “Right Wing Progressive,” a creature that wants to leverage state capacity to pursue progress at all costs.

The True Nature of the Culture War — @_kruptos

Kruptos explores why the culture war actually matters. The sex and gender stuff is not a sideshow, it’s the main event.

Stop being mean to slutty women — @WaltRight1492

Walt Bismarck offers some sympathy for the roasties, who, he argues, serve a critical purpose. Meet the traditionalist degenerate, a man who wants to give elite freaks a safe space to do Level 99 psychic BDSM while corralling normies safely in a padded vanilla playpen, where they can’t hurt each other. Low status men should also stop slutshaming, because you gotta be a Top G if you want a perfect trad waifu.

Self-immolation and oversocialisation — @duncanreyburn

On the effects of Ted Kaczynski’s concept of oversocialization in the age of the suicide selfie, the best response to the lefty activist who self-immolated for Gaza.

A Partial Explanation of Zoomer Girl Derangement — Zinnia

Zinnia explores the various ways young women cope with alienation from their own bodies due to hypersexualization in a digital age. Nothing we haven’t heard before, but what makes her essay unique is that it comes from a woman young enough to have grown up inside a machine seemingly designed to make her hate herself. She examines this fraught topic with honesty, without succumbing to the temptation to blame men or women for the current state of things.

America's Super-Elite Disconnect — @simpatico771

Simplicius writes of elites, piggybacking from a big Rasmussen study. We’ve always had elites, but today’s overlords are more alienated from normal people than ever. Who are these freaks, and what motivates them?

Factions of the Rightosphere — John Arcto

Arcto finished his grand project of taxonomizing the various strains of right wing thought and the factions they animate, with two posts on the absolute last kids picked for the pickup baseball game — misfit groups he calls the Racialist Right, along with the Manosphere and Conspiracism. But definitely check out the whole series.

Face Off: @realchrisrufo vs. Curtis Yarvin — Curtis Yarvin and Christopher F. Rufo for @im_1776

Yarv spent 2023 criticizing Rufo for being a tryhard carelord who thinks that incrementally reforming our sacred democracy could save us from destruction. Rufo’s activism, Yarvin argues, is useless in the long term because it’s tilting at problems that are actually just symptoms of the bigger problem (democracy). Rufo on the other hand, is like “Hey man, at least I’m not just sitting on my ass theorycelling!”

The rich should leave their wealth to their children, not to charity — @JohannKurtz

Johann wrote about why you should let your kids have all your money when you die. This piece generated interest enough to spawn an entire ongoing series from Johann about thinking dynastically.

Nectar of the Gods — @KeenanPeachy for @spring_pierian

We feel a little guilty including this one, not because it isn’t a fantastic short story, but because we’ve had such a difficult time staying on top of fiction this year, so it feels unfair to list just one. Regardless, the best dissident short story we read this year was this one about big things: life, death, memory, and regret. A must-read for would-be cat ladies; a “MAID in Manhattan” for our age.

The Great Canadian Darkness — @FortissaxTypes

A stream-of-consciousness rant on the everyday indignities and horrors of living in a hollowed out Special Economic Zone rather than a country.

Towards an understanding with Ned Flanders — Scott Locklin for @mansworldmag_

Scott Locklin had some harsh words for the henpecked husbandjaks of the right. A portrait of the modern longhoused Ned Flanders, who’s just going with the flow because he doesn’t want to confront the ol’ battleaxe.

Cthulu gazes Right — @DisgracedProp for DARK FUTURA

A lesson in how propaganda actually works, in an essay about the unseen string-pullers that move pop culture attempting to appeal to flyover whites.

Reliable Sources: How Wikipedia Admin David Gerard Launders His Grudges Into the Public Record — @tracewoodgrains

Maintaining a free, neutral encyclopedia that anyone can update is a tricky proposition. Its value ultimately rests on the reliability of its sources. But determining “reliability” is ultimately a political decision, which left an opening for one politically enthusiastic editor. TracingWoodgrains tells an epic tale of a man who convinced himself he was doing the right thing, and poured many thousands of hours into this delusion.

On Cancellation and the Use of Power — @TheWorthyHouse

Haywood was one of the earliest and loudest voices who advocated swift cancellation of Home Depot Meemaw, a working-class woman who casually called for Trump’s assassination. In this essay, he lays out his case for giving the libs a taste of their own medicine.

The Death of the Gentleman and the Birth of Bureaucratic Tyranny — @Will_Tanner_1 for @TAmTrib

Where have all the gentlemen gone? Replaced by bean-counters. The post-WASP ruling class has been the best example of a world devoid of gentlemen. The American Tribune describes men with wealth and land, tied to the local community, as the stewards of pre-deep state America, and the War Between the States cast as a regime change to uproot the historic American elite.

The Medieval Peasant was Smarter Than You — @meghaverma_art

Fascinating essay explaining how education has changed since the medieval era. Despite the rumors, men could be educated, disciplined, and happy despite not being part of the gentry. The 13th-century’s young men were given safety nets and purpose, while modern youth wander aimlessly, coddled into adulthood.

It's embarrassing to be a stay-at-home mom — @JohannKurtz

You’ve heard a million excuses for the fertility crisis by now, but Johann Kurtz’s explanation cuts to the bone. It’s simply not cool to be a homemaker, and women want to be cool more than they want to moms.

The Unmade Monster — Mark Bisone

Why are people orc-ifying themselves? Mark Bisone examines the body-mod scene, and the urge to twist oneself into a hideous abomination.

The Mudsill Theory Revisted — @ExLibrisCelaeno

Librarian of Celaeno tells harrowing tales of real-world Gollums, people who’ve buried themselves under so many layers of delusion, addiction and resentment that they become something less than human. These wretched creatures are products of our welfare/therapeutic state, which, best intentions notwithstanding, gives them the freedom to slowly destroy themselves.

The Island of Eternal Life — @samfromvenis for Mars Review of Books

A fascinating catch-up with the crypto-adjacent ancap startup city bros. Every few years Rolling Stone or Vanity Fair goes to a seastead to make fun of the kooky lolberts and you can never get a good idea of what’s actually happening because these reporters are such spiteful creeps. Finally, here’s a measured, insightful look from Sam Venis at Mars Review of Books, at one of these projects and its challenges.

Lily Phillips and the Spreadsheet Egregore — @moveincircles

Harrington doesn’t think Lily “I’m having second thoughts about banging 100 guys in one afternoon” Phillips is an innocent victim, but feeling compelled to destroy her soul for the pleasure of the mob makes her a victim nonetheless.

In the shadow of the state — Lorenzo Warby

This fascinating essay from Lorenzo Warby explores how society is downstream from the structure of the state, and why China went communist and the West didn’t.

The Whims of Mars — @martianwyrdlord

Like a journey to Mars, John Carter’s meditation on Martian colonization is quite long, but worth the trip. He describes the type of absolute chads who will be required to man missions to Mars, who’s progeny will be forged by an unforgiving environment into something superhuman. A fascinating meditation on the frontier spirit.

Beyond “tradwife” — @helen_of_roy

Helen Roy’s two-part series critiquing tradwife ideology, or at least a low-IQ version of it, deflates a few popular myths floating around our sphere.

The Cauldron of Reality — The Saxon Cross

We overlooked this one when it came out because it starts off with a lot of Joseph Campbell 101, but stick with it. Saxon asks the question: What if all those myths really happened, like, for real? Are our myths “seared into our psyches” because our ancestors saw them with their own eyes?

The Age Of Abandonment — @freyaindiaa

Zoomer whisperer Freya India is tired of selfish and immature parents, permissive but not protective, who are simultaneously helicoptering their kids while allowing them to stumble into the meat grinder.

Heartland Betrayed — @radicalbenjamin for @im_1776

This piece on Springfield, OH, alongside @njhochman’s “Forgotten Town” piece covering Charleroi, PA, stood tall as examples of right-wing reporters actually going to a place to write about it, and talking to real people impacted by the policies we excoriate from our stinky gamer chairs. Would like to see more of this in 2025.

Machine Antihumanism and the Inversion of Family Law — Jeff Shafer for The Upheaval

Jeff Shafer shares horrifying predictions about the future of childbirth, after the Machine reroutes our legal system to support babymaking that’s global, transactional, and transcending natural biological imperatives.

Aeneas in Washington — @L0m3z

Passage Press’s Jonathan Keeperman has been an NRP fixture since Day 1, and now he has a new blog, in which he announced he’s in love with Trump, our age’s one and only(?) real American hero.

Race in America and the Dork Right — @bronzeagemantis

BAP also debuted a new blog with a gauntlet-throwing post warning against alliances with the model minority nerd strivers that he dubs the “IQ-right.” The Elite Human Capital crowd are pushing very unpopular ideas in an effort to recreate Singapore so unruly demographics can be kept under control, but could they have an unspoken motivation?

Helen Andrews and the Conservative Future — Richard Greenhorn for @NewAtlantisSun

A measured critique of Helen Andrews’ Boomers and her editorial legacy at the American Conservative, the magazine she edited, until a few weeks ago. Good commentary on the future of righty media.

The Demographic Drag-and-Drop — Love Thy Neighborhood for the @OldGloryClub

Love thy Neighborhood contributed to the Old Glory Club a blazingly righteous diatribe against technocrats who look at America like its Sim City.

FanDuel Americans — @ScottMGreer

Apolitical normies just want you to stop hassling them about pronouns so they can retvrn to getting baked and watching the game. This piece homes in on an archetype we’ve all been thinking about, and now we’ve got a term to describe it.

The Girlboss: A Misunderstood Phenomenon — @MrAlanSchmidt

Rookie of the Year Alan Schmidt’s banger streak reached a peak with this piece that had us sympathizing with with girlbosses, high-functioning women who once held high-status roles that required their intelligence. Such pro-social roles that have tragically evaporated, leaving them with no alternative to the middle-management-cat-lady ladder.

@MrAlanSchmidt OK, now we're getting to the cream of the crop. But before we get into the Top 5 Based Reads of the Year, please take a moment to indulge a humble self-shill.

I wrote "On Millennial Snot" this year, which made a modest splash. Find it at The Upheaval on SS.

And now: The Top 5 Based Reads of the Year

The eye at the end of time — @martianwyrdlord

Longformer par excellence John Carter sketches out a progressive deity that demands the perpetual immolation of the past. One of the most ambitious essays from one of our best.

Bukele’s war for peace — @GraduatedBen for @im_1776

Braddock wrote an essential piece about the strange and miraculous things happening in El Salvador, a country that has, against all odds, broken the power of its deeply entrenched, American-made criminal gangs. So good that Bukele himself RT’d.

The Dissident Right and its Discontents — @GreeneMan6

Greene contributed as good a general purpose introduction to dissident thought as any of them in this essay. Explains how the various factions upholding liberalism on both the Left and Right fail to answer fundamental questions presented by modernity.

Project 2035: Building a Trump Movement to Last — @MysteryGrove

A great essay about the need for serious, methodical right-wing networking and mobilizing of comrades beyond the ego-driven social media frog bucket in order to secure long-term victory.

Actually Existing Postliberalism — @NPinkoski for First Things

You may have heard this term wielded as a slur against edgy rightists by “liberals” who’ve completely abandoned liberalism. The real thing, however, is when managerial elites collude using NGOs and “state-society partnerships” to run the world, with little democracy required.

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