The other day a friend contacted me, looking for an article that explained why centralization is bad. At first I was sure there had to be many, but I came up dry. Hence today's article. The odd thing about centralization is that people expect its bad aspects…

You’re in a bad situation; you’re depressed, frightened, and need a solution. I’ll do my best to give you one. But first, please believe me that I know what it’s like to be in desperate circumstances. I’m offering you advice, earned the hard way. What you…

As I was writing A Lodging of Wayfaring Men, I felt an overwhelming need to put everything I had into the book. (That’s the way you feel when you're very serious about such things and you're not sure you'll ever write another book like it.) So, I included…

A small roll of pages showed up in my mailbox last week, printed on an odd size and type of paper. They appeared to have been ripped from a history book entitled 2000–2150 AD: The Emergence of Modernity. I’m repeating the text here verbatim, sans the header…

Originally published in September, 2024. The ruling cliques of the West have run off the rails, and we all know it. Who among us would volunteer for the outrages spewed at us over the past several years? We the productive have been thrown into a deep contradiction:…

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As I noted last week, a small roll of pages recently showed up at my door. They appeared to have been ripped from a history book entitled 2000–2150 AD: The Emergence of Modernity. I am completing my transcription of them today, verbatim. Make of it what you…

Anyone teaching young men to seek responsibility and meaning has a place near my heart, especially when he or she delivers their message in a humane way. And Professor Peterson has certainly done that, at great personal cost. Nonetheless, I’m hearing from…

It has now been some time since the the Covid compulsions, and  we very much need to recover from them. And to do that we must first face the fact that everyone got the disease regardless. It’s no exaggeration to say that the Covid vaccine was an epic fail.…

Ten years ago the #cypherpunks were almost entirely forgotten. But now – and quite shockingly to those of us who were involved – cypherpunks are cool again. More than that, the discoveries of the cypherpunks are starting to change the world in a serious way.

This is not an easy subject, but a necessary one. Please accept my apologies for being unable to present it more comfortably. And I’ll be brief. We in the West, and Americans in particular, have fallen into a very serious trap: a trap we’ve known so long…

I do not oppose science. In fact I advocate for it. But it’s also clear to me that science has been turned into a social weapon. More than that, it has been turned into an idol, and today I’m going to explain (briefly) how that happened. But before I do,…

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Most people fail to appreciate the fresh opportunity that each day brings them. Their programming requires them to snort derisively at concepts like the one above. After all, the systems of this world are built upon the assumption that mankind is weak, stupid…

Everyone who has children, or even nieces and nephews, understands that you have to warn a child before punishing him or her. If not, you teach the child a rash of bad lessons, like these: • Punishment can rain down upon you at any time, with no warning.…

(This piece was originally published in 2017.)  In 1977 I began taking road trips up and down Interstate 80. I had taken a few road trips prior, but 1977 was the first time I drove cross-country as an adult and for work… the first time I was looking on the…