Peter Thiel gave $13.5 million to a group supporting J.D. Vance. Thiel donated to J.D. Vance’s Senate race and turned him into a Catholic. Vance once worked at Thiel’s Mithril Capital. Rod Dreher attended Vance’s baptism into the Catholic Church in 2019.
“We are in a late republican period,” J.D. Vance said in an interview.
James Pogue: This sounds like a New Right trope where the US is Rome awaiting our Caesar.
Vance: “If we’re going to push back against it, we’re going to have to get pretty wild, and pretty far out there, and go in directions that a lot of conservatives right now are uncomfortable with.”
Yale Law grad J.D. Vance’s speech at the first NatCon was entitled “The Universities Are the Enemy.”
Thiel, Vance, Masters are all friends with Curtis Yarvin. Vance openly cites Yarvin as a political influence. Yarvin is a slavery apologist who said he's "not exactly allergic to" white nationalism.
Vance said he wants to compel wives to stay with abusive husbands "for the kids."
Since college, I’ve had one professional aspiration: To spend the majority of my productive time reading and writing about shit I care about. I’m fucking doing it!!! It’s taken me 15 years. I’ve taken a lot of risks and sacrificed a lot. But I’m here. I’m so grateful.
We didn’t always have food or the light bill paid growing up. This wasn’t handed to me. I don’t have kids and likely never will. It’s required me to get naked on the internet, haha. I wish it could have been handed to me. We live in a rich enough country, damn it. But I’m here.
I regret absolutely nothing. This isn’t the conclusion. In a real way I feel I’ll look back and say this is when my life truly began. I have so so many people to thank for helping me, supporting me, and most of all maybe believing in me.
1/3 of high-school educated men aren’t in the labor force. Biggest drop in labor force participation is men btw 25 and 34. Men are getting physically weaker and women getting stronker. Men and women now have roughly equal grip strength.
We got women into STEM. Need to get men into healthcare, education, administration, literacy (HEAL) jobs.
“Essentially all of the income gains that middle-class American families have experienced since 1970 are due to the rise in women’s earnings.” -Council of Economic Advisors
To understand how psychedelics can have a negative impact on individuals, it’s useful to examine a recent review of the literature from Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, and Case Western Reserve University. liberalcurrents.com/psychedelics-a…
It points to numerous examples of people who have retained or even increased their illiberal, authoritarian, anti-egalitarian worldviews after exploring altered states of consciousness through psychedelics.
Authoritarianism and illiberalism from both the left and right acutely threaten liberal, democratic norms and are responsible for some of the worst politicians and policies to arise in recent decades.
“Pace and Devenot point to Jordan Peterson as an example of someone who didn’t come out of their psilocybin use any less right-leaning.”
Jordan Peterson’s public intellectualism started withrage-quitting academia over a demonstrably false claim that he’d be jailed for misgendering students. It now consists of periodically rage-quitting Twitter in between complaining about Sports Illustrated models being too fat.
"American girls are 14 percentage points more likely than boys to be 'school ready' at age 5, controlling for parental characteristics. That’s a bigger gap than the one between rich and poor children, or Black and white children."
"The gap is mostly driven by social and emotional factors, or what social scientists label “noncognitive skills,” rather than academic ones."
"Among men with only a high-school education, one in three is out of the labor force. For those who have a job, typical earnings are $881 a week, down from $1,017 in 1979."
“Men at the top of the pyramid have access to near on-demand sexual partners, but that’s a disincentive to forging a long-term relationship.” This is sex-negative hand-wringing. Men at the top are more likely to marry than men at the bottom. cathyreisenwitz.substack.com/p/not-all-men-…
This analysis ignores that college is mostly a signaling and sorting mechanism. More credentialism isn’t going to solve the problem that women are gaining status while men are losing it. The changes needed are, unfortunately, way more robust than more college degrees for men.