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Mamdani, Bi Tradwives, & DC Life

The Week in Review: December 8, 2025

Dec 12 • Stephen G. Adubato

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The Borrowed Venezuelan Kettle

MAGA’s foreign policy fugue state

Dec 5 • Geoff Shullenberger

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November 2025

No One Knows What ‘the West’ Is

The significance of an ideological split on the far right

Nov 21 • Geoff Shullenberger

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The Death of the Conservative Prestige Economy

The establishment needs right-wing influencers more than they need it

Nov 14 • Geoff Shullenberger

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Welcome to Mamdani's NYC

The Week in Review: November 3, 2025

Nov 7 • Stephen G. Adubato

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October 2025

Out of Africa

Is history repeating itself for the Mamdani family?

Oct 31 • Geoff Shullenberger

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The Automation of Antihumanism

On Leif Weatherby’s ‘Language Machines’

Oct 24 • Geoff Shullenberger

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The Crisis of Liberalism (Part 7): Nick Land’s Paleoliberal Accelerationism

Geoff Shullenberger and Ashley Frawley discuss the career and thought of the philosopher Nick Land, accelerationist, neoreactionary, and advocate of…

Oct 21 • Geoff Shullenberger and Ashley Frawley

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Gay Frogs, Cosmic Horror, and the Eclipse of Antihumanism

'Man' may have a future, but fashionable academic antihumanism doesn't

Oct 17 • Geoff Shullenberger

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Protecting the Peace

The Week in Review: September 22, 2025

Oct 10 • Stephen G. Adubato

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The Limits of Free Speech Libertinism

The meaning of the GOP's "porn exception" on free speech

Oct 3 • Geoff Shullenberger

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September 2025

Getting out of the Machine

The Week in Review: September 22, 2025

Sep 26 • Stephen G. Adubato

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