Look, we’re not gonna be able to rebuild this capability in the next democratic admin, this is basically a generational problem to fix now. But, ruining the lives of the people who did this, and everybody who hung onto it to be close to power?

Revenge is very much something that we can do.

That series was fabulous

My policy vision: Prosecution. Jail. Revenge.

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The Catherine Project has Clausewitz on their fall seminar schedule and yes, my top choice (fyi these are free, TCP is a St. John’s College off shoot)

catherineproject.org

E.O. Wilson has a very similar point in his book (that I highly recommend)

Kremlin Kosplay

"The corporal lurks in almost every bosom, and each man tends to use authority when he has it, thus destroying his natural relationship with his fellows, a disastrous state of affairs for both sides." The Ionian Mission, O'Brian

Opinion | I Watched It Happen in Hungary. Now It’s Happening Here.

"the real danger of a strongman isn’t his tactics; it’s how others, especially those with power, justify their acquiescence"
from the former American ambassador to Budapest www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...

Gratzi, just got em both

First, hi @philklay.bsky.social 👋

Haven’t seen you since your Dallas book tour.

Second, (too all in thread) Matterhorn or Swords of Steel to start?

it’s not glonzo if it’s true

"Why the fuck is Glonzo on the other side of this bridge and my Marines aren't rolling across it?"

"We're 30 minutes from initiating the armor assault against Glonzo. Our problem has bee--"

"Not only no, Colonel, but fuck no. You're standing here with your foot on your dick--check that, my dick."

"They are also illustrative of the wider point that disciples of a thinker will often simply invent stories and anecdotes that illustrate the life of the master in whom they want to believe. Perhaps we should be suspicious of this desire for a master." The Book of Dead Philosophers, Critchley

The Glonzo Strategy Sometimes You Just Need to Win

I consulted Clausewitz, and he says that sometimes you just need to give the people Glonzo.

othermeans.io/p/the-glonzo...

There is no such thing as liberalism — or progressivism, etc. There is only conservatism. No other political philosophy actually exists; by the political analogue of Gresham’s Law, conservatism has driven every other idea out of circulation. There might be, and should be, anti-conservatism; but it does not yet exist. What would it be? In order to answer that question, it is necessary and sufficient to characterize conservatism. Fortunately, this can be done very concisely. Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time. For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual. As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence.

So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone. Then the appearance arises that the task is to map “liberalism”, or “progressivism”, or “socialism”, or whateverthefuckkindofstupidnoise-ism, onto the core proposition of anti-conservatism. No, it a’n’t. The task is to throw all those things on the exact same burn pile as the collected works of all the apologists for conservatism, and start fresh. The core proposition of anti-conservatism requires no supplementation and no exegesis. It is as sufficient as it is necessary. What you see is what you get: The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.

I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts.

Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment
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Narratively speaking, the tightest ending to this screenplay is probably the freed J6 protestors storming the White House to demand the release of the Epstein files.

Was gonna “sportsball….” But made it to the Hegel shoutout so will stick around

the autocrats understand they have common cause and they work across international borders to support each other

Stairs as a Service.

He has refused his Assent to Laws…

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world…

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury…

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences…

A Tyrant is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

A screenshot of a now-deleted post by Jamelle Bouie. Text says "I think you should tell readers if your source is a nazi" Image is the meme of the white guy in flannel and a leather jacket standing up with a folded document in his pocket, representing speaking an unpopular truth.

"A few minutes later, safe in the brightly-lit anticlimax of the central streets, the stairs and their denizens and the secret pandemic spell that reigned there were as bereft of substance as figments from a dream in the small hours, and as remote. It was always the same." A Time of Gifts, Fermor

@chgo-whitesox.bsky.social appreciation post: Steve Stone is a national treasure.

“The philosopher’s task consists in comprehending all of natural life through the more encompassing life of history. And indeed, is not the continued life of works of art far easier to recognize than the continual life of animal species?” -Illuminations, Walter Benjamin

Just signed up, thx for posting about this.

Bit rich complaining about New York being taken over by immigrants when there's a big fucking statue in the harbour that invites everyone to come live there.

“Conspiracies always escape from the hands of their leaders,” she answered, evasively.

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino

I sure do wish those Marines could have a conversation with those masked Border Patrol agents.

Mr mamdani du to believe beltalowda tenye da same rights asilik inyalowda?

Put Weird Al in charge of everything until we can figure out what the hell is going on. Thank you for your attention to this matter.