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  • Past Years Essays (2006-2025)
  • Don Lemon is Arrested for Storming a Church, and Progressives Squeal “Fascism!” What’s Behind the Madness?
  • Ballots, Mobs, and Migrants
  • “Assault Me, Motherfucker!” Suicidal Altruism and the Politics of Suicide Contagion
  • Revealing the Great and Powerful Oz. Alex Pretti is Toto Pulling Back the Curtain
  • Deadly Force and Objective Reasonableness
  • The Politics of Disaster Capitalism
  • Message to the Rank-and-File Progressive
  • “The Whole System is Guilty!”
  • Why “Left” and “Right” Are Useless Political Labels—and Probably Always Were
  • Between Corporate Hegemony and Popular Sovereignty: Donald Trump and the Bulwark of Populism
  • Manufacturing Their Own Christs: The Violence of Progressive Christianity
  • On Delusions, Illusions, and Collective Irrationality
  • A Man of Action Must Act to Be Such a Man
  • Standing King’s Dream on Its Head: The Nightmare Antithesis of the American Way
  • The Phenomenon of Progressive Brain-Locking and Its Role in the Madness of Crowds
  • Send in the Troops
  • Stop, Look, and Ed: Learing to Live with Authority
  • A Good and Useful Man Passes and the Woke Scolds Get to Work
  • Do Actions Have Consequences? Double Standards on Liberty and Separation
  • Loretta and Richard: The Renée Good Shooting and Correct Attribution of Blame
  • Poet Mother v. ICE Barbie: The Art of Emotional Manipulation
  • Wokedom and the Problem of Lethal Altruism
  • “Hey, Ma. The Zombies are Marching Again”
  • Why the Israel-Gaza War Is Not Seen Like World War II—and What That Reveals About the Present Situation
  • The Manufactured Perception of Moral High Ground
  • The New World Order as Given
  • The New Orwellian Slogans

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