OK, here comes America Road Trip Update No. 3. America Road Trip Update No. 3 is going to be predominantly promotional. It’s also going to be a little sappy, probably, which I know is out of character for me, but I’m extremely grateful to all the kind readers who are organizing gatherings and dinners and… Read More The Kindness of Strangers
Here comes Road Trip Update No. 2. It’s a bit of a weird update, as you are about to discover. Before we get into it, I want to convey my heartfelt thanks to all the kind readers who have invited us into their homes, and are organizing gatherings of people to come talk with us,… Read More Epistle to the Wokians
[N.B. This is America Road Trip Project Update No. 1, originally published on Substack. I am publishing it here on the Consent Factory blog late, having just published Update No. 2.] So the America Road Trip Project is coming together quickly. This will be the first of a series of updates I plan to post… Read More Strangers in a Strange Homeland
Here we go. The slightly crazy idea I floated back on July 9 has evolved into an actual book project, which will take place on the road all across the USA in September and October 2025. It doesn’t have a title yet, so I’m just calling it the “America Road Trip Project.” The plan is,… Read More America Road Trip Project
There are 33,334 of you. Probably even more by the time you read this. I do not ask much of you. I do not ask often. But I need to ask something of you now. I need to ask you to buy my novel. But, first, I want to say a few things about capitalism.… Read More Dear Substack Subscribers
And so the global-capitalist empire’s destabilization and restructuring of the Middle East continues. Yes, I’m referring to Israel’s “preemptive attack” on the Islamic Republic of Iran, or “World War III,” or whatever the establishment media and social media influencers are trying to get you to call it at the moment. You’ll forgive me if I… Read More World War III and Other Simulacra
I miss the old-school neo-Nazis. You know, the skinheads with the swastika tattoos and the big Nazi flags on the walls of their living rooms. The Aryan Brotherhood-type neo-Nazis. You don’t get neo-Nazis like that anymore. These days, it’s all about the crypto-fascism. Are you not familiar with crypto-fascism? All right, let me bring you… Read More Crypto-Fascism, Inc.
Has America been made great again enough for you yet? Personally, I don’t know how much more greatness I can handle. I mean, you got the Salvadoran gulag thing, the crackdown on free speech thing, the threats to suspend constitutional rights because of the latest “state of emergency” (i.e., the “invasion” of America by squads… Read More The Godzilla Window
One of the most effective thought-terminating clichés is “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” It is particularly effective because it works on both people who are, let’s say, not extraordinarily intelligent, and on more intelligent people, people who you wouldn’t expect to fall for such simplistic tricks. It is especially effective in hyper-polarized… Read More The Enemy of My Enemy
I appear to be on a bit of an open-letter spree these days. This one is not one I wanted to write. It isn’t satirical, or particularly funny. And the timing really sucks. But I have this “need to be able to look myself in the face in the mirror in the morning” problem, which… Read More An Open Letter To Jay Bhattacharya, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and J.D. Vance
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