IM7: The Culture Stone is now available to order. Part analysis of contemporary culture, part graphic novel, part horror story, and part comedy, IM7 is more than an issue: it is EIC Mark Granza's debut novel and a vision for the Golden Age of Culture. Secure your copy today 👇

MUST-READ: "Outside the office, you learn the difference between mistakes that translate into revised reports and mistakes that translate into coffins." — @realErikDPrince & Dave Ramaswamy on the creation of Fiat Experts:

Thanks to @daveramaswamy and to @im_1776 The Federal bloat and the incompetence it nurtures must be cauterized. If we don't shrink the Federal government down to size we will lose this Republic. We do not want to go the way of Weimar Germany. https://t.co/niHrPvsDTh

Two years ago, I wrote an article about how Rex Whistler should be regarded as one of Britains greatest artists of the past century. Unfortunately, his work is maligned as “racist”, and hidden away from the public. Worth a revisit: https://t.co/ucuWIfZV9d @im_1776

New required reading from @realErikDPrince

IM7: The Culture Stone is now available to order. Part analysis of contemporary culture, part graphic novel, part horror story, and part comedy, IM7 is more than an issue: it is EIC Mark Granza's debut novel and a vision for the Golden Age of Culture. Secure your copy today 👇

I found myself thinking a lot about the future of young men recently. I was inspired to discover just how passionately Charlie Kirk dedicated his life to give them direction, so I wrote a list of 20 rules for healthy masculinity, inspired by his legacy 🧵

"America was built by hand, fought for beliefs, and created from direct experience. The soldiers, farmers, craftsmen, and explorers who built it understood that value comes from creating tangible goods and services, not from writing reports about them."

Good, long article that links withdrawal from the gold standard to the explosion of what the authors call "fiat experts" - people with degrees but little or no hands-on experience in the domains they "manage." It provides many examples of how that hasn't worked well. Tidbit:

"Farmers, carpenters, plumbers, and soldiers operate in field space where physics, mathematics, biology, and bullets provide immediate feedback on the quality of decisions. Fiat experts, like fiat currency, derive their value from government decree rather than demonstrated

"It is time to close the laptop and leave the office. It is time to look away from the screen and enter the field where reality lives, consequences matter, and results count. It is time to build again with our hands, heads, and hearts to make things that work, businesses that

This article from @realErikDPrince perfectly captures what I've been writing about regarding character this year—only at the political level, not the cultural. When ideas aren't backed by experience, they're just abstractions. Politics, like Culture, needs to return to the field.

https://t.co/YyGhwWPONZ

Read the full essay 👇

"I (Erik Prince) have spent three decades in field space across four continents: Afghanistan during the Taliban insurgency, Iraq during the civil war, Somalia, South Africa, and other environments. In all of these places, theoretical expertise meant nothing. There is no peer

"The Federal Reserve itself represents peak fiat expertise. Today, 23,000 employees set the price of money for 342 million Americans, manipulating interest rates that determine whether families can afford homes, whether businesses can expand, and whether retirees can live on

"The professional class bloat extends directly to the 'ideas industry'. Liberal and conservative think tanks multiplied dramatically over the decades. In 1970, D.C. hosted two dozen policy institutes. By 2020, over 400 organizations will compete to influence policy, funding a

"But just as printing money devalues currency, printing credentials devalues expertise. The influx of fiat funding and the pursuit of fiat expertise have driven up costs, inflated credentials, and shifted the universities’ focus from teaching students and producing foundational

"Farmers, carpenters, plumbers, and soldiers operate in field space where physics, mathematics, biology, and bullets provide immediate feedback on the quality of decisions. Fiat experts, like fiat currency, derive their value from government decree rather than demonstrated

MUST-READ: "Outside the office, you learn the difference between mistakes that translate into revised reports and mistakes that translate into coffins." — @realErikDPrince & Dave Ramaswamy on the creation of Fiat Experts:

As a recovering Fallen Catholic, the work in The Culture Stone, by @markgranza reads like a chance at redemption. As an artist he is visceral, sharp, and here at his best.