The Joy of Curmudgeonry

Drizzle-witch, why do you drive your load of mist across my land? For remedy I will sacrifice to you my cow, my wife, and my Christianity. [...

“The human potential for evil and the propensity to abuse power are the bases for one of the strongest arguments against government” [1] — ...

“A book is a mirror: if an ape looks in, no apostle can look back out.” [1] “If a book and a head collide and make a hollow sound, is that a...

Ever since the French Revolution, men have been taught to wear their passions like cockades — as visible political statements. Yet naturally...

I am not sure what Britishness means, but, from what I hear, it has something to do with celebrating diversity , embracing and empowering co...

“I tip-toed my way through the ranks of men gathered for induction into the Volkssturm and installed myself meekly at the rear. My gaze swep...

“But here I must beg leave to advance a conjecture, which seems probable, but which posterity alone can fully judge of. I am apt to think, t...

Mr Mencius Moldbug recently asked me to translate Prince Metternich’s political testament into English. This I have done, and the result i...

“The fact that Sir Simon Jenkins hates the great Russian novelist [Dostoevsky] is also a major reason for thinking that he [the great Russia...

The green-eyed epigone has long known to the boon of his encouragement an easy way to imitate the reputed example of his masters: he darkens...

It is no disadvantage for those who thrill at enmity also to profess a universal brotherhood. There are many men who do not profess any such...

Neither the rabid ideologue in a description nor the capuchin monkey in a mirror believes it catches a glimpse of itself. Whilst the monkey ...

One very important component of an ideology’s defence-mechanism is the claim that all thinking stems from an ideology of some sort, and thus...

Injustice is always keenly felt, especially when feigned.

The easiest and most common way of setting oneself apart from commonality is to set oneself apart from commonsense.

One can always find some points of agreement with one’s enemies. I, for instance, agree with liberals in believing that liberalism is really...