Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Chronicling events in the egalist utopia

Towards the next civilization

Elite class ritual performance, cultural and political decline, military culture, and the dismal state of American journalism.

City Journal is the nation’s premier urban-policy magazine. Produced by the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc.

Politics through the lens of ideology and institutional theory

The Library of Celaeno is a cosmic repository of wisdom located deep in the Taurus Constellation.

The Frederick R. Smith blog is the ramblings of an uncommon man in a post-modern world. As a master of few topics, your author desires to give readers a sense of the thoughts of a senior citizen who lived most of his life before the new normal.

A map for helping you and those around you to be a zenith during chaotic times.

Perspectives from Earth's older, better-looking sister world

Why did some societies become rich while others remained poor? Three free essays a week on economic history, technological progress, institutions, industrialization, and the causes rising living standards.

Independent Viewpoints in the Broad Center

I study patterns, interpret what they mean, and show people where they stand inside them. I expose hidden structures so they’re easier to navigate. Not here to influence. Here to interrupt.

Not big or clever.

Exploring the shared upheavals of our era, including technological and cultural change, the ideological revolution consuming the West, the rise of China, and the crisis of liberalism.

Lorenzo has worked in the Australian Public Service and the non-profit sector. He now puts on medieval and ancient days for schools.

Fiction, literature, book reviews, politics, travel writing, sobriety, culture, ideology. No teams.

Social science. Philosophy. Culture.

News analysis and commentary from a conservative perspective. Absolutely top-hole bathroom reading.

A publication about motherhood, family life, and the search for rootedness under modern conditions. I write about children, domesticity, social norms, female experience, technology, culture, and the peculiar instability of cosmopolitan life.