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Sorel’s Pistol

Aug 29, 2025 • 1 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X

Until 2001, book bestseller lists had nothing to do with what books were actually selling well.

Bestseller lists were handpicked by liberal ideologues until the launch of BookScan, a database that revealed conservative books sold more than what the NYT featured on its lists.

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Oct 10, 2025

So much for the genealogical link between Puritanism and permissiveness:

"Calvin...condemned indiscriminate alms-giving...and urged that the ecclesiastical authorities should regularly visit every family to ascertain whether its members were idle, or drunken, or otherwise undesirable."

"[T]he greatest of evils is idleness, that the poor are the victims, not of circumstances, but of their own ‘idle, irregular and wicked courses’, that the truest charity is not to enervate them by relief, but so to reform their characters that relief may be unnecessary."

Svend Ranulf cites V.F. Calverton, a radical left writer writing in the 1920s that socialism in America was hostile to Protestant middle-class values and was entirely led by members of the areligious upper bourgeoisie. Elsewhere, he adds it was really European ideas in opposition to indigenous American values:

Ranulf's thesis is that permissiveness is a key feature of the upper-bourgeoisie's psychology while the "disinterested desire" to inflict punishment for lawbreaking, a rare phenomenon he only finds in Ancient Athens, the High Middle Ages and the Protestant countries, is generally only present among the lower middle classes or petite bourgeoisie.

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