The Guerilla and the Bullfighter: When Hemingway Met Castro

How a chance meeting between a tortured writer and a ruthless revolutionary foreshadowed a seismic shift in the global masculine ideal.

Nov 13 • 

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Some Stuff I Think You Might Like: October 2025

All the best articles, interviews, and podcasts I've stumbled across on Substack last month.

Nov 2 • 

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October 2025

The Terror Manual: Antifa, in Their Own Words

“The dictatorship, defying the hated enemy, unleashes the hatred of the masses against him and vents its own hatred, and in so doing sustains itself.” …

Oct 29 • 

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VIDEO ESSAY: On White Altruism and the Origins of Our Suicidal Empathy

"Decadence is when a civilization has lost the will to be itself." - Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Colombian writer and philosopher (1913-1994)

Oct 20 • 

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Aesthetics of Torture: The Man Who Turned Art into a War Crime

“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.” Pablo Picasso, was a Spanish painter…

Oct 14 • 

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Some Stuff I Think You Might Like: September 2025

“War is the only means by which the most vital truths of humanity are revealed and preserved.” - Juan Donoso Cortés, Spanish counter-revolutionary…

Oct 2 • 

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September 2025

The Sage of Chelsea: The Extraordinary Prescience of Thomas Carlyle

“England must contrive to manage its living interests, and quit its dead ones and their methods, or else depart from its place in this world.” - Thomas…

Sep 10 • 

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Some Stuff I Think You Might Like: August 2025

“Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it.” -Nicolás…

Sep 4 • 

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VIDEO ESSAY: COVID and Collective Amnesia

"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach." - Aldous Huxley…

Sep 1 • 

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August 2025

On White Altruism and the Origins of Our Suicidal Empathy

“Whoever becomes a lamb will find a wolf to eat him.” - Vilfredo Pareto, Italian engineer, economist, sociologist, and elite theorist (1848–1923)

Aug 25 • 

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“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.” - Voltaire, French writer, philosopher, and satirist…

Aug 4 • 

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Some Stuff I Think You Might Like: July 2025

“The state calls its chains law, and its dungeons justice.” - François de La Rochefoucauld, French author and moralist (1613–1680)

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