The Post-Partisan Emporium

How Andrew Tate smashed the patriarchy What happens when you stop honouring men for self-restraint Mary Harrington I  wrote  earlier this week at UnHerd about the direct line between the erosion of sociocultural guard-rails at the hands of liberal philosophy, and the antisocial posturing of masculinist ‘influencer’ Andrew Tate, recently arrested in Romania in connection with a people-trafficking investigation. In that essay I teased out the paradox of treating Tate’s moral failure as a falling-away from liberalism, when the values he cites to justify his behaviour are really John Stuart Mill’s hyper-individualism without the harm principle. But I found Tate still on my mind having written this, for another unexamined paradox he embodies: the fact that he’s a product not of too much patriarchy, but not enough of it. To explain, I probably need to clarify what I mean by ‘patriarchy’. For this phenomenon is so regularly and casually referenced by magazine feminism today that host...

Don't worry... It's just the normal course of the Degeneration process. One rule that I have always lived by is that crazy people should be avoided.  But what good is that rule now that our entire society has started to go completely nuts?  Everywhere you look, the fabric of our society is being completely shredded.  The thin veneer of civilization that we all used to be able to take for granted is rapidly disappearing, and violence often erupts for seemingly no reason at all.  You simply cannot have a “civilization” without civilized people, and the truth is that we are becoming less civilized with each passing year.  Sadly, this is particularly true for our young people.  Most of them have been brought through our completely amoral system of public education, and most of them have had their minds severely warped by thousands upon thousands of hours of mental garbage that masquerades as entertainment.  As a result, many of them behave like lunatics, a...

Many observers expected that in the wake of America and NATO's somewhat frantic and ugly (to put it mildly) pullout from Afghanistan and Kabul airport in August 2021, it was  only a matter of time before China would move in , securing significant resource and infrastructure deals. All along there have even been persistent rumors China was  eyeing takeover  of the large former US base at Bagram.  On Friday  a major deal for oil extraction inked between a Chinese company and the Taliban government  has been revealed, centered in northern Afghanistan's Amu Darya basin. Acting minister of mines and petroleum Shahabuddin Dilawar (L sitting); China's ambassador to Afghanistan Wang Yu (R). AFP/Getty Images CNN  details that  "The agreement with China’s Xinjiang Central Asia Petroleum and Gas Co is the first major international energy extraction deal the Taliban has signed since taking control of Afghanistan in 2021." It underscores that the Taliban ...

Something is OFF! Speaking of religion! Religions... Trillions... Nothing like another JEWRAP to  w rap up!

German energy monitoring site Agora-Energiewende looks at the year 2022 and it winds up only as it possibly could. The return to coal shows up quite clearly in the numbers, the  FAZ reports . The  increased use of coal-fired power plants as a gas substitute has thwarted Germany’s climate goals in 2022 , according to a study. Although overall energy consumption fell by almost five percent, mainly due to high prices, the use of coal and oil cancelled out the greenhouse gas savings, according to an evaluation published Wednesday by think tank Agora Energiewende. Also the transportation and construction sectors could not reach its targets in the past year again. Thus Germany, based on provisional figures, produced 761 million tons of greenhouse gas almost exactly as much as 2021. The self-imposed upper limit for 2022 was missed by about five million tons.” Thematically, an article from  Die Welt  (paywall) fits in: Insulation chaos and nuclear phase-out end the dream of ...

In early 2020, when American liberals  wailed in unison  that the First Amendment’s guarantee of the right of free assembly was a prescription for national suicide – and  not one significant American civil rights organization  protested – I should have known where we were headed. Still, almost 3three years later, I am dumbfounded by how rapidly a nation that once boasted of its attachment to “liberty” has succumbed to the priorities of totalitarianism.  Thought policing on social media , once a dystopian fantasy, is now taken for granted. So is the  massive electronic surveillance system  that was hawked to Americans (and others around the world) as a “health” measure, but which actually gives Big Brother a convenient way to monitor people’s whereabouts and which has already been turned against political dissidents in Israel, India and elsewhere. Health care workers – once the  heroes of the fear propaganda  that rationalized  illegal ma...