So I’ve been away for the last few weeks, first visiting family for the first time in a long time, and now at a conference put on by The Claremont Institute. I’ll be back to full speed (on both the Substack and Unraveling w/Jocko) in couple of days, but in the meantime I had a fun interaction yesterday.

Here is the third episode of Martyr Made Unscripted, which is really part 2 of the previous conversation about the radical transformation wrought by technological change.

As NATO meets to discuss the tension on the Russian border to Ukraine, and the papers fill with denunciations of Putin’s aggression, I still find it useful to return to the framework I developed in Crashed for analyzing the intersection of geopolitics and economics and the rise of Russia as a challenger.

Great links, images and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze.

I will be reading my own verse as well as assorted 20th-century material.

"Once I’m actually the sinister Svengali behind one of these people, y’all will know."

When “The Anarchist's Design Book” was released in 2016, I knew there would be hate mail.

Publisher’s note: Every Saturday we treat you to Earlywood, a free excerpt from one of the thousands of pieces I’ve written since 1996.

Sveiki atvykę į pirmajį audio mini serialą mano Substack kanale.

Europos absoliutizmo epocha su Valdu Rakučiu.

Professor Julie Moore was fired from Taylor University in what has become a pattern at far-right Christian schools.

A Black teenager I never knew profoundly shaped my understanding of race and myself.

Words by Rosa Kumar

Race riots are unfolding on the streets of England. This is not the first time the country’s ethnic minorities have had a target on their backs.

Do you?

That thing is Sh!t Went Down Volume II

Martin Scorsese embraces the death of cinema—and thrives

Back in the saddle

On this day in 1945, Dorothy Parker had writer's block

On the cusp of superstardom, Charlie Chaplin writes home

The former "Celebrity Apprentice" talent handler on what he saw behind the scenes.

A brief Q&A. Yes, Trump will try and cheat to win the election. No, he will not succeed.

Will there ever be a Secrets of Great British Castles season 3? How much of a boss was William Marshal? What is my favourite beer? And other pressing questions...

A special July & August bumper edition - ask now and I’ll answer your questions in an extended video post

One day in early August in the fourth century AD, something strange happened in Rome. Those who were outside braving the heat, walking on the Esquiline Hill would have glanced at the sky to notice a curious cloud formation - very different certainly from the compact cloud cover typical of snowfall - and would have been astonished to see snowflakes drifting down to earth – in the heat of summer! Some may have fled to escape this manifestation of divine wrath while others may have tentatively stretched out a hand to catch them and see them evaporate like real snowflakes. Someone noted and recorded the event.

The oldest tradition of kings claiming divine ancestry dates back to the Sumerian King List, where the First Dynasty of Uruk is said to have descended from the sun god, Utu.

"I used to write long-winded descriptions...in a kind of cipher shorthand which I am now unable to read even with a magnifying glass…"

from writers' notebooks

自由嘅靈魂，你奈我唔何

係咪應該沽咁啲手頭上嘅貨？

The machine tool industry is heavily concentrated geographically.

The advent of computers and the transformation of technological knowledge

I disappeared one month ago in an all too similar fashion as Anne Heche. I am here to share my journey into hell with only a limited amount of my friends and supporters.

WARNING. Graphic content.

A study of the Deep State's immolation of a Catholic president in masonic sacred space

The psyche torn in half by mutually exclusive beliefs is ripe for every type of mesmerism

Cionci Article

The Anatomy of a Cabal

Tudor London as you've never seen it before (unless you read Part 1).

A hero robbed, and a great British compromise.

Across much of the world, men and women think alike.

Choice of college major is a major driver of the gender pay gap.

Musk has a plot to transform America that’s more reminiscent of the supervillainry of a Marvel or DC film than a business plan. Last night this plan took a big step forward—and now America is at risk.

An ongoing meme-archive series at Retro that supplies readers with pithy, effective, and engaging memes to use on special occasions.

Please take time to read the outstanding take on the Kamloops “missing children buried in unmarked graves” issue — posted below with no paywall —by the researcher wh…

Another excavation at a Canadian residential school has failed to find evidence of human remains

Chapter #Five of Cabin Confidential and a bonus chapter: The Randall Knife

An Ode to The Rooster

The government's proposed law change to keep agriculture out of the Emissions Trading Scheme has passed its first reading.

For week ending August 11th 2024