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2 weeks ago | 
palladiummag.com | Curtis Yarvin
This article was featured in PALLADIUM 17: Universal Man. To receive your copy of the latest print edition, subscribe now. âWar is the father of all things,â said the pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus. Even in a world in which war is out of fashion, Heraclitus remains right. Growing up in the late Cold War, I was taught to believe in the âUnited Nationsââthe future of humanity, as a world government.
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4 weeks ago | 
graymirror.substack.com | Curtis Yarvin
There are rumors that I may be speaking soon at Harvard. I have nothing to announce at present. (But how hard can it be to rent an armored car?)As a longstanding critic of that ancient institution, I want to critique the Trump administration’s letter to Harvard. I want to like the letter. I feel it is almost good. Almost does not necessarily cut it in this kind of a historical situation, however.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Alexander Larman |Byron’s Women |Ian Williams |Curtis Yarvin
Charlie Brooker’s cautionary technological tales have now been running for well over a decade, and they are almost in danger of seeming old-fashioned. When Black Mirror began in 2011, Instagram was only a few months old, the iPhone was a new novelty just coming into the mainstream, and Elon Musk was best known for being CEO of Tesla. Now, virtually everything in the world has changed, and Big Tech plays roles in our lives that the ever-cynical Brooker could barely have imagined.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Lee Cohen |Alexander Larman |Curtis Yarvin |Peter Pomerantsev
Prince Harry’s clandestine dash to Ukraine this week, trailing last year’s faux royal tours to Colombia and Nigeria, lays bare a brazen hypocrisy. He bangs on about the UK being too perilous for his family, waging legal crusades over security provisions, yet here he is, swanning into war zones and countries with travel warnings, trading on his fading royal luster to clutch at relevance – all while dodging the duties he willingly jettisoned.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Kate Andrews |Freddy Gray |Curtis Yarvin |Peter Pomerantsev
Two days ago, talk of a 90-day pause on Donald Trump’s “reciprocal tariffs” was branded “fake news” by the White House. This afternoon, the President has confirmed a 90-day pause on the higher tariff rates on all countries apart from China. “Based on the lack of respect that China has shown to the World’s Markets, I am hereby raising the Tariff charged to China by the United States of America to 125%, effective immediately,” the President shared.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Ian Williams |Curtis Yarvin |Aidan McLaughlin |Peter Pomerantsev
China hit back on Wednesday with an additional 50 percent tariff on US imports, matching the extra levy imposed overnight by Donald Trump on Chinese goods. That made the running totals 104 percent so far from Washington, vs 84 percent from Beijing, prompting one analyst to compare them to two racing cars driving straight at each other in a high stakes game of chicken.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Ed West |Daniel McCarthy |Curtis Yarvin |Aidan McLaughlin
Itry to avoid expressing strong opinions on foreign party politics, because I enjoy the luxury of not having to. From an outside perspective, American politics seems dominated by two quite extreme fringes, the only difference being that the mad things believed by Democrats tend to be aped by British elites, and therefore have an impact on our everyday lives here.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Curtis Yarvin
Washington, DCMy office this week has been the Starbucks on Capitol Hill. Any random subscriber to my Substack can get a half-hour with me if they book a slot. I do this a lot when I travel and oddly, given the rot of this rotting world, I rarely come away with the feeling that here were 30 precious minutes I’ll never see again. I often want to spend an hour or two. And no one yet has killed or even attacked me.
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1 month ago | 
spectator.com.au | Curtis Yarvin
Washington, DCMy office this week has been the Starbucks on Capitol Hill. Any random subscriber to my Substack can get a half-hour with me if they book a slot. I do this a lot when I travel and oddly, given the rot of this rotting world, I rarely come away with the feeling that here were 30 precious minutes I’ll never see again.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Curtis Yarvin |Aidan McLaughlin |Ryan Girdusky |Daniel McCarthy
The Democratic war machine What’s significant for the American left today is not what keeps communism going, but what gets it startedErdoğan’s position is starting to look shaky The death of the biggest Muslim democracy in the region should be ringing serious alarm bells across the free worldI’m hobbled by my own hypocrisy about cats George is a large gray kitten with disproportionately big ears and I didn’t plan for him or want himWhy I stick up for marriage I like being married.
