“The formula seems simple now: short, polemical works, in the vernacular, geared toward popular readership, not insular academe.”

The Central Bureau of Surrealist Research, opened in Paris in 1924 to "gather all the information possible related to forms that might express the unconscious activity of the mind." The Center defined Surrealism not as aesthetic but research method and invited the public to bring

“The universe believes in encryption.” — Julian Assange

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BREAKING: James Watson, who helped discover the structure of DNA, has died at 97.

Current internecine conflicts on the Right define a conflict between three factions, not two. It is not “Jews and Christians” — it is Catholics, Protestants and Jews, fighting for the future of MAGA post-Trump.

Protestants have been losing ground in America for centuries. Jews are currently weakening through assimilation and intermarriage. Catholicism is ascendent.

Jews, Catholics and Protestants and not only factions, but structures of being. The Catholic Church is a unified vertical hierarchy. Protestantism is a decentralized network organized around individual scripture, and providential abandonment to the “invisible hands” of God’s

Protestants and Jews have been in de facto alliance for centuries. The nation state emancipates the Jews and dissolves traditional structures of religious authority. Jews become subject to secular legal authority, rather than rabbinical authority.

There are three factions in American politics — Protestants, Catholics and Jews. Each is divided internally. Two have important international elements. Protestantism is the most purely nationalist: Protestantism invents nationalism and America specifically.

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Catholics, Jews, Protestants…

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Gooning is framed as a social pathology in order to make us believe that the rest of the attention economy is distinct from it, when it is really the whole of contemporary culture which is a goon cave. It is no longer a question of a pathological relationship to reality

Arendt: “What prepares men for totalitarian domination in the non-totalitarian world is the fact that loneliness, once a borderline experience usually suffered in certain marginal social conditions like old age, has become an everyday experience of the evergrowing masses of our

NYC and America faces 2 very real possibilities with Mamdani 1) the Right organizes a serious cultural and political counter force, spurred by need to liberate NYC 2) Mamdani energy grows, the Right does not seize this opportunity, MAGA new right energy fades into irrelevance

Where are the verticals connecting the elites to the people? What is the vision for American cities? Where is the new cultural formula that America desperately needs?

Increasingly insane and obsessive fixation on Israel — as if Israel was America’s core problem — is a symptom of radical political and intellectual dysfunction. Where is the positive vision? Where is the invention of new forms of life?

The events of the past fortnight demonstrate the absolute failure of the American Right to build on its victory in 2024: a failure that will continue to deepen. The Right is imploding: it is top-heavy with visionless institutional leaders, increasingly tiresome influencers,

One common absurdity is the claim that Curtis Sliwa is somehow responsible for the election of Mamdani. The idea that Sliwa's votes would all move to Cuomo if he dropped out was never proven in any other poll.Cuomo was deeply flawed candidate in many Republicans would never vote