The Collected Writings of Mencius Moldbug

2010-03-05T16:01:00.000-08:00

I read a bit of Mencius Moldbug, and I got hooked. The only problem: the blogger interface sucks for reading articles in sequential order. I took the liberty of creating a more easy to use index of Moldbug's blog here.

If you want a summary of Mencius' thinking before diving in, you can find it in "Condensed Moldbuggery" at Corrupt.

A short note to those new to Mencius' work: This man is prolific. If you are lost and wondering where to start, a good place would be the multi-part series I have segregated below: Dawkins, Vampire, Open Letter, Patchwork and Gentle Introduction. These pieces contain the core of Mencius' political ideas.

For those searching, it's not "the mystery of the grey government", it's "the mystery of the gray government"

For those curious about Mencius' appearance, there is an image of him here and a video of him here.

Update: I'm starting to (slowly) write summaries for these blog posts - they are linked to by the letter s. See "castes of the united states" for an example. If you have suggestions or improvements, please comment.

Dawkins
How Dawkins got pwned (part 1) Date: Sep 26, 2007 | Dawkins
How Dawkins got pwned (part 2) Date: Oct 04, 2007 | McKenna Rothbard Gamble Rushdoony Hitchens Dalrymple Price Burke Cox Packer Lukas Ellis Lipow Pinker Wood
Interstitial comments on Dawkins Date: Oct 10, 2007 | Long[pdf] SDS
How Dawkins got pwned (part 3) Date: Oct 11, 2007 | Hoffer Friedman Williams Hart Adams Bosher
How Dawkins got pwned (part 4) Date: Oct 18, 2007 | Zweig SDS Himmler Grenier Scott Stoppard Zinn Burke Maine Lecky Lippmann Masters Nock Flynn de Jouvenel Kuehnelt-Leddihn Burnham Stephen
How Dawkins got pwned (part 5) Date: Oct 25, 2007 | Gray Bellamy
Professor Dawkins, Dr. Watson, and the Flying Spaghetti Monster Date: Oct 30, 2007 | Ellis McKenna Lipow
How Dawkins got pwned (part 6) Date: Nov 01, 2007
How Dawkins got pwned (part 7) Date: Nov 08, 2007 | de Jouvenel Beloff McKenna Quigley Gibbon Burke Wells

Ron Paul
An open letter to Ron Paul supporters (part 1) Date: Jan 10, 2008 | Adams Lynn Crossman Plum Book Evans Carlyle
How to actually defeat the US government Date: Jan 17, 2008 | Lipow
How to defeat the US government: summary Date: Jan 20, 2008

Open Letter
An open letter to open-minded progressives (part 1) Date: Apr 17, 2008 | Wolfe Baker
Open letter pt. 2: more historical anomalies Date: Apr 24, 2008 | Frankfurt Depalma Seward Leff Nitti Dr. F Lord Grey
OL3: the Jacobite history of the world Date: May 01, 2008 Macaulay
OL4: Dr. Johnson's hypothesis Date: May 08, 2008 | Popper
OL5: the shortest way to world peace Date: May 15, 2008 | Sidney Fisher Macaulay Burke Fisher Adams Semmes Tumulty Unknown Tennyson Davis
OL6: the lost theory of government Date: May 22, 2008 | Bellovin Lippmann Twain
OL7: the ugly truth about government Date: May 29, 2008 | Machiavelli Lippmann Chomsky Ellis Beveridge Beveridge Beveridge Beveridge Steevens Riis Venkatesh Steffens Steffens Adams Nock Schlesinger Aristotle Stowe Genovese
OL8: a reset is not a revolution Date: Jun 05, 2008 | Mills Utley Hayden Sharlet Foner Budiansky Franklin Nordhoff Chamberlain Burgess Paul Pobedonostsev Steevens Hibbert Crossman
OL9: how to uninstall a cathedral Date: Jun 12, 2008 | Hayes
OLX: a simple sovereign bankruptcy procedure Date: Jun 19, 2008 | Soviet Life Jay
OLXI: the truth about left and right Date: Jun 26, 2008 | Carlyle Adams Genovese Rothbard Zizek Zizek
OLXII: what is to be done? Date: Jul 02, 2008 | Salomon Horace Pobedonostsev Carlyle
OLXIII: tactics and structures of any prospective restoration Date: Jul 10, 2008 | Surowiecki
OLXIV: rules for reactionaries Date: Jul 17, 2008 | Webster Chesterton Page Baker Miller Tennyson Tennyson Pobedonostsev Various Lieber Carlyle

Vampire of the World
America: vampire of the world (part 1) Date: Aug 28, 2008 | Hudson[pdf] Poe Reventlow Herron War Department Buchanan Vincent Roosevelt Hitler Washington Grotius Vattel Fergusson McCarthy New York Times Baker
America: vampire of the world (part 2) Date: Sep 11, 2008 | Grotius Carlyle Aruri Greenlaw Croly Millis George Vattel Kedourie

Patchwork
Patchwork: a positive vision (part 1) Date: Nov 13, 2008 | Croly Filmer
Patchwork 2: profit strategies for our new corporate overlords Date: Nov 20, 2008 | Madison Carlyle
Patchwork 3: what we have and what's so bad about it Date: Nov 27, 2008 | Pope Wolf Defoe
Patchwork 4: a reactionary theory of world peace Date: Dec 03, 2008 | Kant Soussan Bacevich Washington

Gentle Introduction
A gentle introduction to Unqualified Reservations (part 1) Date: Jan 08, 2009 | Schivelbusch Mosca Mosca Staloff Lippmann McKenna Schutz
A gentle introduction to Unqualified Reservations (part 2) Date: Jan 15, 2009 | Hutchinson Oliver Stedman Stedman Lecky Fisher Bailyn
A gentle introduction to Unqualified Reservations (part 3) Date: Jan 22, 2009 | Akasofu[pdf] Hazlitt[pdf] Easterbrook Adams Pinker Hume Vankatesh Cochran
A gentle introduction to Unqualified Reservations (part 4) Date: Jan 29, 2009 Liebowitz[pdf] Kent Carlyle
A gentle introduction to Unqualified Reservations (part 5) Date: Feb 12, 2009 | De Quincy Madison Hurrell Froude Pobedonostsev Warburg Lasky
A gentle introduction to Unqualified Reservations (part 6) Date: Feb 19, 2009 | Mackay Mackay Mackay Matthews Adams Page Adams
A gentle introduction to Unqualified Reservations (part 7) Date: Mar 05, 2009 | Maitland Lincoln Richardson Jefferson Potter Davis Lincoln Lunt Hartz Fitzhugh Vanauken Bickell Adams Phillips Genovese Adams Beveridge Masters Clarke Hume Herbert Scrugham Semmes Dabney
A gentle introduction to Unqualified Reservations (part 8) Date: Apr 02, 2009 | Flynn[pdf] Tansill Tarkington Roberts Yeats-Brown Carlyle Bernhardi Wells Trueblood Vattel Polson Davis Gunther Herron Muir Fay Nock Neilson Kent Hoover Victor Mahl Hobbes
A gentle introduction to Unqualified Reservations (part 9a) Date: Sep 03, 2009 | Trueblood Dabney Hedin Santoro Sarfatti Yeats-Brown Spitzy Michels Tyndall Hitler Carlyle Madison Machiavelli Hobbes Filmer Tucker de Jouvenel Burnham Aitken Semmes Froude Luttwak
A gentle introduction to Unqualified Reservations (part 9b) Date: Oct 11, 2009 | Locke Filmer Poe Luttwak Wilde Watkins Herbert
A gentle introduction to Unqualified Reservations (part 9d) Date: Nov 19, 2009 | Lecky Orwell De Lôme Roberts Maine Central Committee CPSU Belloc Boethius Carlyle

From Mises to Carlyle: my sick journey to the dark side of the force Date: Feb 04, 2010 | Doyle Carlyle Carlyle Carlyle von Mises von Mises Rothbard Hoppe Webb Schapiro

Administrativitia
Is anyone else getting a Blogger error Date: May 13, 2007
My new comments policy Date: Apr 27, 2007
Terminology and an open floor Date: Apr 29, 2007
UR will return on Jun 20 Date: Jun 12, 2007
Administrivia Date: Jul 18, 2007
Austria felix Date: Oct 30, 2007
Short administrative note Date: Dec 07, 2007
UR's endorsements for 2008 Date: Feb 04, 2008
UR's comment policy Date: Feb 05, 2008
UR will return on Apr 17 Date: Mar 06, 2008 | Hart[pdf] Lipow Ellis McKenna Burleigh Schivelbusch Schivelbusch Nordhoff Baker Lind Crossman Flynn Utely Reck-Malleczewen Klemperer de Jouvenel Kuehnelt-Leddihn Burnham Lecky Lecky Rothbard Mises Tucker Burke Rothbard Lecky Beveridge Beveridge Masters Wood Sidis du Berrier
UR returns Date: Apr 16, 2008
Odds and ends Date: Sep 24, 2008
UR will return on Nov 6 Date: Sep 26, 2008
UR will return on Jan 8 Date: Dec 09, 2008
UR succumbs to virology Date: Jun 25, 2009 | Seeley Hearnshaw Hobhouse
UR is on vacation Date: Aug 13, 2009 | Carlyle Carlyle
A rare public appearance Date: Aug 28, 2009
UR postponed due to BTD Date: Oct 08, 2009
UR will ship no wine before its time Date: Oct 29, 2009 | Cromer Austin
UR will return on January 7, 2010 Date: Dec 23, 2009
Public appearance Date: Jan 10, 2010 | Adams Stoddard
The Mencius Moldbug Babysitting Fund Date: Jan 20, 2010 | Schotter
MMBF: 2-day results Date: Jan 22, 2010
MMBF: 2 days left to give Date: Jan 26, 2010
MMBF: the kittens are saved! Date: Jan 28, 2010
UR postponed due to BTD Date: Feb 24, 2010

American Castes
Castes of the United States Date: May 06, 2007 | s
The BDH-OV conflict Date: May 07, 2007
The Utley rule and the BDH alliance Date: May 08, 2007
Roth, castes, chimps and Rangordnung Date: May 10, 2007
Why conservatives never quite catch the boat Date: Jun 21, 2007 | Royster

Assorted
He who refuses does not repent Date: May 02, 2007 | Barnstone Savidis
The Antisingularity Date: May 11, 2007 | Gibbon
Our planet is infested with pseudo-atheists Date: May 16, 2007
Limited government as antipropertarian idealism Date: May 23, 2007 | Lippmann Kuehnelt-Leddihn
The unlikely appeal of nonidealism Date: May 23, 2007
The Democrats: party of lies Date: May 29, 2007 | Lippmann Gamble Rothbard Rothbard[pdf]
The reconciliation of government with liberty Date: May 31, 2007 | Burgess
Hillary fires back Date: Jun 01, 2007 | Croly
The generalist's stone: a stable mind Date: Jun 02, 2007
Separation of information and security Date: Jun 09, 2007 | Rothbard[pdf]
Why I am not an anti-Semite Date: Jun 23, 2007
Carlyle rages against the coming of the light Date: Jun 30, 2007 | Carlyle Carlyle Carlyle Kingsley
UR-ICF #1: Carlyle, Montagu, Nock Date: Jul 09, 2007
Miscellaneous answers to unanswered comments Date: Jul 21, 2007 | Gelernter
A reservationist epistemology Date: Aug 28, 2007 | Beveridge Masters Flynn
A general theory of corruption Date: Sep 05, 2007
The real meaning of diversity Date: Sep 09, 2007 Book: Kuhn
Overcome like a fiend by the urge to link Date: Sep 22, 2007
Some quick meta-comments Date: Oct 16, 2007
Five problems with Google Android Date: Nov 19, 2007
Why I am not a white nationalist Date: Nov 22, 2007 | Weisman Bosher
The Jewish question and other links Date: Nov 28, 2007
How I stopped believing in democracy Date: Jan 31, 2008 | Clement McFadden Kennan Hill Tucker Dennett
How to read and enjoy bogus history Date: Feb 07, 2008 | Adams Adams Adams Adams Depew Lecky Reynolds
How to occupy and govern a foreign country Date: Sep 04, 2008 | Luttwak Froude Froude Froude Cromer Cromer Trinquier Kedourie
Wolfram Alpha and hubristic user interfaces Date: Jul 08, 2009
Shooting the alligator and other conversations Date: Dec 17, 2009 | Scherer Fisher Caplan
Maxwell's equations of software Date: Jan 07, 1009
The future of search Date: Mar 11, 2010 | Fisher

Crypto/Ultra Calvinism/Universalism
Why do atheists believe in religion? Date: Apr 25, 2007
Jaroslav HaÅ¡ek and the kernel-monitor meme Date: Apr 28, 2007 | Hasek
The ultracalvinist hypothesis: in perspective Date: Jun 24, 2007
Cryptocalvinism, slightly tweaked Date: Jun 26, 2007 | Zweig Zweig Gamble
The Rawlsian god: cryptocalvinism in action Date: Jun 28, 2007 | Proctor Auden
A short history of ultracalvinism Date: Jun 12, 2007 | Gamble Masters Schivelbusch Rothbard Hammarskjold Lipow Ellis
Some objections to ultracalvinism Date: Jun 22, 2007
Universalism: postwar progressivism as a Christian sect Date: Jul 17, 2007 Bellamy Hawthorne
Universalism and original sin (guest post by Michael S.) Date: Jul 31, 2007
The mystery of pacifism Date: Jul 01, 2007 | Junger Friedrich

Democracy
The case against democracy: ten red pills Date: Apr 24, 2007
Popularchy: rule of the People Date: May 21, 2007
Democracy as an adaptive fiction Date: Jul 25, 2007 | Burnham Lippmann Mackay
Against political freedom Date: Aug 16, 2007 | Frederick
Rotary management: the next big thing Date: Aug 19, 2007
A landscape of bewildering contradictions Date: Aug 20, 2007 | Rothbard

Economics
A straightforward explanation of the present financial crisis (part 1) Date: Jan 03, 2008 | Rothbard Mises
How to actually restore the gold standard (or not) Date: Jan 24, 2008 | Menger
Return to Castle Goldenstein: the gold market in a nutshell Date: Feb 28, 2008 | Rothbard[pdf] Law Menger Mises McGuire Bancroft Cavafy
De gustibus non computandum: or, economics needs a divorce Date: Aug 21, 2008 | Hazlitt[pdf] Mankiw[pdf] Leijonhufvud[pdf] Rothbard
A clean-slate accounting of the dollar (part 1) Date: Sep 18, 2008
Maturity transformation considered harmful: an unauthorized biography of the bank crisis Date: Sep 25, 2008 | Rothbard[pdf] Bagehot Mises
A regime-change signal: maturity crisis in gold? Date: Oct 10, 2008
The Misesian explanation of the bank crisis Date: Oct 14, 2008 | Bagehot Mises
A quick explanation of "fractional-reserve banking" Date: Nov 11, 2008
Puffs of smoke from the gold volcano Date: Feb 13, 2009
The Geithner plan, slightly demystified Date: Mar 26, 2009
America: zombie nation Date: Apr 09, 2009 | Keynes
Statistical analysis moons the bull Date: Sep 01, 2007 Bookstaber Ayres Orrell
Who the heck is Benn Steil? Date: Nov 15, 2007
UR's crash course in sound economics Date: Aug 06, 2009 | Menger Hume
Gold and the central banks: the game theory Date: Dec 03, 2009 | Soros Raguet
Expiring liquidity facilities: bad plan, Stan Date: Dec 17, 2009 | Federal Reserve
On sovereign financial reconciliation Date: Jan 28, 2010 | Assorted Carlyle Fitzhugh
Maturity transformation: cat, bag, out Date: Feb 09, 2010

Ethics/Religion
What if there's no such thing as chaotic good? Date: May 01, 2007 | Rawls Ellis
Two kinds of repeaters Date: May 05, 2007
Idealism is not great Date: May 14, 2007 | Rawls
Understanding racial idealism Date: May 20, 2007
Five ways to classify belief systems Date: May 28, 2007

History
From Luigi Barzini's The Europeans Date: Apr 30, 2009 | Barzini Barzini
The country that used to exist Date: Aug 03, 2007 | Tacitus Grundy RIO Cheetah Smith
I wonder if Jonah Goldberg talks about this Date: Jul 06, 2007 | Wolfe Horowitz Bass Lagnado Cromer
Conrad reviews Africa Addio Date: Jul 27, 2007
Be infinitely devoted to your beloved owners Date: Aug 13, 2007 | Burleigh Speer Junger Degrelle Navrozov Bukovskii Klemperer Klemperer Klemperer Klemperer
Evidence in current history Date: Jun 11, 2009 | Sotomayor Jacobs[pdf] Carlyle
Why Carlyle Matters Date: Jul 16, 2009 | Whitman Froude Tocqueville Putnam Shakespere Alexander Duke Dodsley Carlyle Carlyle Dalrymple Victoria Schlesinger Eddington Carlyle Carlyle Rothbard Aristotle Schlesinger Froude Froude Kaplan
Carlyle in the 20th century: fascism and socialism Date: Jul 23, 2009 | Leff Mahl Fuller Carlyle Carlyle Carlyle Carlyle Whitman McKenna Croly Bellamy Trueblood Morgan

Obama
Did Barack Obama go to Columbia? Date: Oct 31, 2008
Another interpretation of Obama at Columbia Date: Oct 31, 2008 | Stead
President Obama, with a little perspective Date: Nov 06, 2008 Alinsky Ayers Emanuel
Barack Obama, for the last time Date: Nov 12, 2008

Poetry
Plague of Dead Sharks, by Alan Dugan Date: Apr 26, 2007
Bad Poem of the Week: "Vanitas Mundi" by Robin Ekiss Date: May 08, 2007
L.E. Sissman: poet of the century Date: May 27, 2007
Attack of the jazz racists Date: Jun 01, 2007
Liquid Date: Jun 07, 2007
Moderation Date: Jun 20, 2007
Cement Date: Jun 25, 2007
The Pigeon Date: Jul 14, 2007
Ten lines for Dorothy Parker Date: Jul 30, 2007
Bunting: Chomei at Toyama Date: Oct 10, 2007
Tryfon Tolides: an almost pure empty poetry Date: Nov 29, 2007
Poem for the new year Date: Dec 31, 2007
Sibyl Carlyle Moldbug, 3/18/08 Date: Mar 19, 2008
Gasoline Date: Jun 29, 2008
Grant's Tomb Date: Jul 24, 2008
Standards Date: Jul 31, 2008
The Novelist Date: Aug 07, 2008
Ian Smith: 1919-2007 Date: Nov 20, 2007
Watch the wide sea Date: May 12, 2007
This richly colored medium square Date: May 09, 2007
MÃ©xico Date: Oct 26, 2008
Nosedive Date: Dec 12, 2008
Halogen Date: Feb 04, 2009
Lycidas' Bull Date: Feb 25, 2009
From 'Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen' (Yeats) Date: Mar 09, 2009
'Pearl Harbor' (Jeffers) Date: Mar 11, 2009
The Raven Date: Mar 18, 2009
Kendo Date: Apr 16, 2009
Quadrumana Date: Apr 23, 2009
Res Gestae Date: May 14, 2009
A Short Note on Demons Date: May 28, 2009
Poem Date: Jul 30, 2009 | Carlyle
Kennedy Date: Aug 27, 2009
Young America Date: Sep 17, 2009
Alien Acid Beast Date: Nov 05, 2009
Horseshoe Pit in Golden Gate Park Date: Feb 18, 2010

Politics: Comtemporary
James Burnham's Dante: Politics as Wish Date: Aug 06, 2007 | Burnham Alighieri
The iron polygon: power in the United States Date: May 12, 2007 | Sidis
The mystery of the gray government Date: Jun 06, 2007
Why there's no such thing as "liberal media bias" Date: Jun 07, 2007 | Lippmann Cockburn
Friction in theory and practice Date: Jun 19, 2007 | Schmitt
Samantha Power rules the world Date: Jul 28, 2007
The secret of anti-Americanism Date: Aug 08, 2007 | Harrison Stormer Bellamy Carlyle
Mediocracy: definition, etiology and treatment Date: Sep 08, 2007 | Tassano Hitchens
Is journalism official? Date: Sep 19, 2007 | Moyar Lippmann Weber
Comments on "Is journalism official?" Date: Sep 22, 2007
Matthew Yglesias: anatomy of an intellectual crackhead Date: Dec 06, 2007 | Dalrymple Clausewitz
An explanation of democratic centrism Date: Dec 27, 2007 | Hitchens Harris Lippmann Madison
A theory of the ruling underclass Date: Feb 14, 2008 | Venkatesh
Sarah Palin: the proletarian candidate Date: Aug 31, 2008
Judge Sotomayor: a reactionary exegesis Date: Jun 04, 2009 | Carlyle Froude Lecky Milosz Sotomayor Croly Lippmann Rae
The crimes of James von Brunn and Marcus Epstein Date: Jun 18, 2009 | Carlyle
Robert Lowell on the Obama prize Date: Oct 09, 2009 | Lowell
South Africa: a message to Jenny Date: Oct 20, 2009 | Dabney Renn
South Africa: the solution Date: Oct 21, 2009
Climategate: history's message Date: Dec 13, 2009 | Mead Eschenbach Dietrich JCS 1067[pdf] Lash Shakespere Frank Swift Adams Montefiore Stead Oliver Webb Webb Futerra[pdf] Evans Taylor Chang Maylam Duke Austin Lippmann Plato Carlyle Maine
Uncorrected Evidence 39 Date: Feb 28, 2010 | Institute of Physics Adams Carlyle

Politics: News
Translating Asif Ali Zardari Date: Dec 10, 2008 | Carlyle Carlyle
Questions for Arnold Kling, Megan McArdle, Will Wilkinson, and all other Beltway libertarians Date: Jan 16, 2008
Preston Brooks, the Palestine lobby, and the Nolan chart Date: May 08, 2009 | Thompson Milosz Semmes Sumner Vattel Oren Froude Kent
Musharraf's rebellion, or: how to read a newspaper Date: Nov 08, 2007
Pakistani emigres on the Musharraf question Date: Nov 10, 2007
Benazir Bhutto: mob hit in Pakistan Date: Dec 27, 2007 | Trinquier
The Honduran rebellion - or, State's invisible world displayed Date: Sep 10, 2009 | Kirkpatrick Vattel Stead Hendrick Waugh
Hunting for whites after the cancellation of the release of money Date: Nov 18, 2009

Politics: Theory
A formalist manifesto Date: Apr 23, 2007 | Jouvenel Kuehnelt-Leddihn[pdf] Leoni Burnham Nock[pdf]
The magic of symmetric sovereignty Date: May 19, 2007
Good government as good customer service Date: May 25, 2007
Democraphobia goes (slightly) viral Date: May 07, 2009 | Stuart Hobbes Brecht Marx Carlyle Moitessier Semmes Slocum Raban Raban
Futarchy considered retarded Date: May 21, 2009 | Feynman Pirrong Carlyle Carlyle Dalrymple
Professor Hanson responds Date: May 23, 2009
The Fnargland Grand Challenge Date: May 24, 2007
Why, when, and how to abolish the United States Date: Jul 03, 2007
The state is not a stable eleemosynary institution Date: Aug 30, 2007
Method and apparatus for safe and effective regime change Date: Sep 12, 2007
Further conversation on regime change Date: Sep 16, 2007 | Luttwak
UR's advice for President Musharraf Date: Nov 09, 2007
Nuclear neocolonialism: a formalist design for nuclear law Date: Nov 12, 2007
Why I am not a libertarian Date: Dec 13, 2007 | Rothbard Bailyn Oliver Rothbard
Neocameralism and the escalator of massarchy Date: Dec 20, 2007
Democracy as a historical phenomenon Date: Feb 21, 2008 | Peterson Keeley Madison Asimov Adams
Secession, liberty, and dictatorship Date: Jul 02, 2009 | Adams Howe Lunt Semmes Depew Adams Jefferson Rothbard Kent Carlyle Lowell Machiavelli
From Cromer to Romer and back again: colonialism for the 21st century Date: Aug 20, 2009 | Seeley Freeman Time Time Cromer Cromer Cromer Waugh Waugh
UR: banned in San Francisco Date: Sep 21, 2009 | Twain Carlyle
Ends and odds Date: Oct 01, 2009 | Fukuzawa
The Dire Problem and the Virtual Option Date: Nov 12, 2009 | Marivale Cram Maimondes Bourget
The Hanson-Moldbug debate Date: Jan 18, 2010 | Carlyle Feynman Picture Audio Video
PIPE shorting and Professor Hanson's head Date: Feb 11, 2010 | Video
One-sided conversation with a headless professor Date: Feb 21, 2010
Divine-right monarchy for the modern secular intellectual Date: Mar 18, 2010 | **
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Short
Improper political influence over government decision-making Date: Apr 26, 2007
"The evidence of such sheer dishonesty in science was hard to accept." Date: May 17, 2007
Consider the true cost of living with Wiccaphobia Date: May 10, 2007
The essential idea of leftism Date: Apr 27, 2007
Journalistic independence Date: Apr 29, 2007
What's ominous is that this dreary world comes after years of meticulous planning Date: May 07, 2007 | Niven Raico
Secularists for secularism! Date: May 13, 2007
The Laphroaig is unawarded Date: May 15, 2007
Principles and platitudes Date: Jun 04, 2007
A brief terminology adjustment Date: Aug 29, 2007 | Newquist
The genius of the New Deal design Date: May 02, 2007
Political sanity in one easy step Date: May 13, 2007 | Klemperer
UR's plan to fix Iraq Date: May 16, 2007
Half Sigma goes large Date: Nov 10, 2007
A typical moderate-liberal-constitutional-monarchist thought Date: Jul 07, 2007 | Hegel Popper
"Life is better without politics." Date: Aug 18, 2007
Not Ron Paul! Date: Jan 10, 2008
Émile Faguet on legal realism Date: Jun 19, 2009 | Faguet

Truth Systems
Uberfact: the ultimate social verifier Date: Aug 22, 2007
Revipedia: how to defeat the US government, reprise Date: Jan 19, 2008
Resartus: a social revision engine Date: Aug 14, 2008 | Muggeridge
Duelnode: another free startup idea Date: Oct 08, 2007

University
My Navrozov moments Date: Jul 11, 2007 | Navrozov
What's wrong with CS research Date: Aug 01, 2007 | Pierce Pierce
Since some people seem to still think I'm exaggerating this stuff Date: Sep 17, 2007
Climategate and other correspondence Date: Nov 26, 2009 | Lasky Lattimore Spitzy Barmine Klemperer Cavafy Hayek[pdf] Saint-Andre Carlyle Carlyle

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Castes of the United States

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There are five castes, social groups with their own internal status system, in the US: Brahmin, Dalit, Helot, Optimate and Vaisya.

Status by caste:
Brahmin: Intellectual achievement and civic responsibility, concerned with social justice and civil liberties.
Optimate: Birth, breeding and personal character; money is necessary but not sufficient. Almost extinct.
Dalit: Men: Power, wealth and sexual success. Women: Attractiveness and popularity.
Helot: Men: Hard work, money and power. Women: Attractiveness, motherhood and association with high status men.
Vaisya: Men: Productive employment, successful family life and church or formal social group participation. Women: Attractiveness, motherhood and social participation.

Update

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Current to Nov 19

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Current through the 21st of September.

Life of Carlyle

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Current through 8 July 2009

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Categorized more articles, added all articles through 01 Jun 2009.