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Nov 6, 2023

I am flying home from Colorado today where I have been attending the Genspect conference. Writing and editing audio will likely keep me quite busy this week but I intend to work on another original essay about UFO culture for this site. Thank you for subscribing. Here is another digest post of my work around the web.

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Hamas And The One-State Solution

Avoiding hot takes on hot wars, I have let a week pass without commenting on the horrific scenes from Israel. Analysts and reporters have largely focused on questions of how Hamas achieved surprise, the level of Iranian responsibility, and the level of Wagner involvement. Cold takes from a cold war kid: of course the Revolutionary Guards supplied and eq…

2 months ago · 20 likes · 1 comment · Matt Osborne

Democracy Dies In Dorkness: WaPo Roasted Over Trans Sorority 'Sister' Sob Story

FLASH SALE ENDS AT MIDNIGHT! Lock in our lowest-ever rate on annual subscriptions NOW! We have exclusive content on the way! Don’t get me wrong. I am not pleased with all or even most of Elon Musk’s decisions as owner of Twitter. But he does own Twitter. He bought it, so he gets to break it. The same goes for Jeff Bezos and the…

2 months ago · 38 likes · Matt Osborne

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The Battle of Avdiivka and the Dangers of Getting High on Your Own Telegram Supply

Defense can be decisive. At first, the widespread view of the Russian effort at Avdiivka, now in its sixth day, was that they had achieved complete surprise, and thus overturned many assumptions about th…

2 months ago · 6 likes · Matt Osborne

The American Civil Liberties Union Has a 'Drag Defense Fund' Starring RuPaul and MTV

In April, during the Season 15 finale of RuPaul’s Drag Race, winner Sasha Colby (not the man pictured above) called on viewers to support the ‘Drag Defense Fund,’ a new initiative of the American Civil Liberties Union. “A joint effort with MTV, Drag Race…

2 months ago · 26 likes · 2 comments · Matt Osborne

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John Fowke and the English Civil War: A Rant

Listen now (64 mins) | This is a Twitter/X space that I recorded shortly after finishing a draft of my thesis on John Fowke of London and the origins of the English Civil War. Next week I am presenting a short paper on the topic at a history conference…

2 months ago · Matt Osborne

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Gender Lysenkoism: Zachary Elliott on the Global Pandemic of Sex Binary Denial

Listen now (69 mins) | I recently had a great time talking with Zachary Elliott of the Paradox Institute after I reviewed his excellent book about the specious pseudoscience of the ‘sex spectrum.’ He responded to a subscriber’s critique and took several questions. Arty Morty made a cameo. Presented here exclusively for paying subscribers…

2 months ago · Matt Osborne

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'No Other Result Should Have Been Expected'

In the classic gambler’s fallacy, or the fallacy of the maturity of chances, the model gambler believes that a particular event — say, the roll of 2 on a pair of dice — happening more frequently today than yes…

2 months ago · Matt Osborne

High Heels and Hormones: The Woman is the Person Who Cooks in the Kitchen

“There are cookbooks that teach you how to cook and then there are cookbooks that teach you how to live,” writes Eva Reign at Bon Appetit. Reign, who has earned fame as a minor actress and an enthusiastic journalist of transgender lifestyles, is exactly the right person to review…

2 months ago · 27 likes · 9 comments · Matt Osborne

Checking In On The Downward Spiral

It’s time to catch up with some running themes before they get away from me. This is a busy week for me as I will be at a history conference talking about John Fowke of London. Subscribers can expect something long and interesting and original on Sunday or Monday. I have been working on it for a long minute. Expect something John Fowke-related here on T…

a month ago · 2 likes · Matt Osborne

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The Most Interesting Man In English Civil War London

FLASH SALE! Read this paywalled post and enjoy the lowest subscription price this website will ever offer! ABSTRACT: This is a summary of the life and career of London merchant adventurer and military entrepreneur John Fowke. It illuminates his role in the outbreak of the English Civil War, the parliamentary victory, and the birth of mass politics. Fowke and his partners shaped the nascent British gunpowder empire through the Restoration…

a month ago · 2 likes · Matt Osborne

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A Few Notes On The Anti-Natalism Of Our 21st Century Gnostic Death Cults

But in the future there will be no wives and no friends. Children will be taken from their mothers at birth, as one takes eggs from a hen. The sex instinct will be eradicated. Procreation will be an annual formality like the renewal of a ration card. We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now…

a month ago · 22 likes · 7 comments · Matt Osborne

Hansel and Gretel and the Hunger of the Witch

Listen now (84 mins) | This was a spooktacular evening! We talked about the eternal wisdom of the fairy tale. We also noted that neither Disney nor the transgender writers dare to appropriate Hansel and Gretel. Here is Edie Wyatt’s essay on the gender clinics as the witch’s house. You can compare the 1812 and 1857 versions of the Grimm classic…

a month ago · 6 likes · Matt Osborne, Donovan Cleckley, and Amy Sousa, MA Depth Psychology

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Hazardous Histories: Twelve Battleships That Blew Up From The Inside Out And Sank

Annual subscriptions are discounted 20 percent for through Sunday! EXTENDED UNTIL MIDNIGHT TONIGHT! All content older than 12 weeks is going behind a paywall from now on. Get early access to book reviews and exclusive access to paywalled military history content at…

a month ago · 3 likes · Matt Osborne

How To Rescue Your Child From The Trans Cult

We have raised our price! But we are also having a sale! Get access to our exclusive content and early access to content that unlocks. Parental authority is under attack. Sasha Ayad, Lisa Marchiano, and Stella O’Malley, the authors of When Kids Say They're Trans: A Guide for Parents…

a month ago · 33 likes · 1 comment · Matt Osborne

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How To Cross the Dnipro in Slow Motion

‘Readovka News,’ a Russian milblogger, was just extolling the virtues of “the time-tested D-30 howitzer, which turns the advancing Armed Forces of Ukraine into another open-air cemetery” yesterday. He did however acknowledge some drawbacks. “The main difficulty is the constant counter-battery fight, which does not allow us to relax for a minute,” he wri…

a month ago · 6 likes · Matt Osborne

'Why Is Everyone Talking About Hegel?': James Lindsay and the New Critics of Utopia

They will try to blame James Lindsay. Who, to be clear, deserves credit for first-rate scholarship and being the first to popularize the knowledge he had gained. But the truth about Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and his intellectual heirs has always been out there, just waiting for …

a month ago · 1 like · Matt Osborne

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The Barbie Roast

Listen now (127 mins) | We talked about the film Barbie several weeks ago but then I forgot to upload it. I am currently on my way to the Genspect conference, so no harm done. Here are two posts that I wrote about the film. We will have fresher content next week. In fact, we have interviewed gay liberation legend Fred Sargent, so you won’t want to miss it. …

a month ago · 2 likes · Matt Osborne and Donovan Cleckley

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