The next Provocations (#4) will be released next week. It’s an excellent, tight argument from Carson Holloway for revisiting NYT v Sullivan and libel and defamation law. The cover artwork, I think, is one of the best I’ve done. Stay tuned in the next few days for more info.
The Provocations series looks good together already, and will soon be sold together as a limited edition set. For now, you can buy them individually for $9 each at the links above.
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I used to get angry when hearing 9/11 conspiracy theories, but now I understand them.
As this country grows more contemptuous of its people—and the people correctly see their own country as the gravest threat to their lives and liberty—it’s not that hard to imagine your enemy doing every horrible thing you can imagine.
For example, libs—even “subject matter experts” who should know better—think this way of Putin, Trump, and of us. It’s a common enough analytical trap, but it’s a trap nonetheless.
What are these “norms”—and which ones are more important than Equal Justice (which the Left has completely abandoned)?
The people who speak about these relatively insignificant “norms” are usually those who are afraid to confront the collapse of the civilizational ones.
There is no Leftist or prominent liberal institution or individual that doesn’t condemn the concept of Equal Justice.
The Left’s project has been a coordinated assault on this concept. And without it, it’s all pointless.
The reason why the “norms” people don’t get as freaked out about the disappearance of Equal Justice is, it’s far too big of a problem to solve. By accepting what a big deal it is—and understanding how it’s been thoroughly repudiated—it’s impossible to believe we’re not doomed.
This is an amazing 3LP box set that seems to fall through the cracks. Half an LP side each for rare live Maria Bethania, Caetano Veloso, Gal Costa, Gilberto Gil, Jorge Ben, Chico Buarque, Elis Regina, Vinicius De Moraes, Nara Leao, Jair Rodrigues, Baden Powell, and MBP4.
I’d buy a box of rare live early 70s recordings from each of them, so the worst part is the sampler nature of the set. But it’s great listening.
Shit, I guess I can’t edit for the MPB typo yet, huh
COMING SOON. Just finished the artwork for Joel Kotkin's new @ClaremontInst book in the Provocations series, "The Looming Extinction of the Working Class."
Trump was always a lagging indicator, a reaction to voters’ exasperation over the radicalism of the Left and the refusal of the GOP to deal with key issues. No politician is perfect—and he didn’t deal with the insane left with as much ruthlessness as it required.
Also: I stopped caring about “election denial” in 2017-2020, when everyone wasn’t just allowed to do it, but was cost of entry into mainstream spaces.
There is only 1 thing I will not bend on—if there are rules for us, there must be rules for them.
They manufactured a lie about “Russian interference in the election,” caused insane investigations and got 1/2 the country to believe their president is literally an enemy foreign agent.
This is far worse for the social cohesion required for “democracy” than anything on J6.
If someone gave me the keys to an arts and culture magazine, I’d launch a campaign to get people to reject shitty new superhero movies and awful new pop music by learning how to discover great old things. Learn how to break the shackles of new corporate product.
Going down your own cultural rabbit-holes is one of the most rewarding experiences, but for most people, it’s a learned skill. People would be healthier—more interesting—if they indulged in their cultural curiosity this way.
There’s a YouTube channel—a guy in Germany talking about new audiophile vinyl jazz reissues. Yes, it’s old music, but the guy is cucked when it comes to corporate product: he buys everything when released, and allows his listening to be dictated by what the companies put out.