Episodes
The life of a nearly-forgotten genius. And of our future in Space, and Elon Musk's role in both that and the breaking of the Regime.
The written version of this review can be found here (https://theworthyhouse.com/2023/11/30/dr-space-the-life-of-wernher-von-braun-bob-ward/)
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Published 11/30/23
From 2017, thoughts about Manifest Destiny and what real-world space colonization would look like.
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Published 11/17/23
An insightful and prophetic, yet very flawed, book.
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Published 11/05/23
Thoughts on the similarity, and dissimilarity, of managerial regimes in today's America and today's China, through the prism of the excellent N. S. Lyons.
The written version of this review, first published in The American Conservative, can be found here or here.
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Published 10/14/23
Of the Anglo-Saxons, who not long ago ruled the world. They are now brought low, but we can learn from what, once upon a time, made them great.
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Published 10/10/23
Wherein I offer a complete exposition and synthesis of the key principle "No Enemies on the Right." I answer all objections and discuss practical application.
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Published 10/02/23
On marriage—for men, and also published this week in Raw Egg Nationalist's Man's World. A special episode, done jointly with my wife.
The written version of this review can be found here. https://theworthyhouse.com/2023/09/26/on-marriage/
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Published 09/26/23
From 2017, before China pulled far ahead of the self-crippling United States, my thoughts on earlier competition between China and the West.
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Published 09/21/23
Peachy Keenan's happy warrior broadside against feminism, and all its works and empty promises.
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Published 09/13/23
Throw-Back Thursday: Of architectural modernism, and why it is terrible, and of why Foundationalism demands a culture of high architecture. James Stevens Curl's Making Dystopia. [This article was first published August 27, 2019.]
The written version of this review can be found here (https://theworthyhouse.com/2019/08/27/making-dystopia-the-strange-rise-and-survival-of-architectural-barbarism-james-stevens-curl/)
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Published 09/07/23
Why manual work for boys and men is essential; how to accomplish this in the modern world; and of the essential differences between masculine and feminine.
The written version of this review can be found here. https://theworthyhouse.com/2023/08/30/on-manual-work-for-men-2/
This article was published last year in the journal Man's World. This popular journal is edited by the pseudonymous Raw Egg Nationalist (who can be found here on Twitter). A flipbook version can be found here. It is...
Published 08/30/23
Today no politics; rather a meditation on prayer and worship, through the lens of the natural world.
The written version of this review can be found here (https://theworthyhouse.com/2023/08/16/the-sunlilies-eastern-orthodoxy-as-a-radical-counterculture-graham-pardun/)
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Published 08/16/23
A fascinating history of events a hundred years ago, which echo today in the Russo-Ukraine War.
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Published 07/31/23
A crucial work for a crucial time—Christopher Rufo's "America’s Cultural Revolution," which traces the rise total dominance of the Left. Knowledge is power, and this book offers it to both the (aborning) elites and to the masses. This is the audio narration version of my review published in the journal IM-1776," published in the journal IM-1776.
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Published 07/20/23
A prescient work by a man whose work has never lost relevance. Of technology, and alienation, and the choices we face.
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Published 07/10/23
The capstone work by Patrick Deneen, postliberal prophet. But it is, sadly, disappointing.
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Published 06/22/23
Yet another work by the peerless Carl Schmitt, as usual with direct application to our situation today.
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Published 06/01/23
From 2017, written before we were defeated in Afghanistan, my then-current thoughts on Afghanistan, through the lens of a dubiously-reliable war memoir.
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Published 05/10/23
Thoughts on Space Rome, and also an expansion of my analysis of our own conquest of Space.
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Published 05/04/23
How narrative control enables the Regime to rule us, and what can be done about it.
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Published 04/28/23
My thoughts on a very important new book, a jeremiad against the destruction wrought by so-called feminism. This is the audio narration version of my review of the Mary Harrington's "Feminism Against Progress," published in the journal IM-1776.
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Published 04/21/23
Not so much of Rhodesia, but about future possibilities of violence, and of the potential rise of armed patronage networks as a societal organizing device.
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Published 03/30/23
For Lent, a turn from politics toward the history and theology of ten men who formed Christianity.
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Published 03/23/23
Among other things, how to execute a conspiracy to overthrow a regime, from five hundred years ago. (This article was first published December 10, 2017.)
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Published 03/13/23
A detailed political history of the events surrounding the end of the Roman Republic.
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Published 03/02/23