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In The Mailbox: 05.20.2026

Posted on | May 21, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

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Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

The romance of Elon and Mars-chan

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: NY Post Can’t Call a Felon a Felon, also How Should a Woman Defend Herself?
Doug Ross: Time-Surfing Manhattan Island
EBL: Gallrein beats Massie in Kentucky House race, “Forever In Blue Jeans”, Baked Calamari,  and Can Democrat James Talarico win in Texas?
Twitchy: “You Are Not Alone”, Roseanne Says This Dan Bongino Post Added 15 Years To Her Life, and Ratchet Crockett’s Party Dumped Her For A White Boy, But She Whines About GOP “White Supremacy”
Louder With Crowder: Stacey Abrams is back, admitting Democrats are WEAK while claiming without evidence where they’re “strongest”, Trump granted this former drug dealer clemency; here’s how he’s turning his life around as a result, Woke city council shuts down gunshot detection software, a week after an active shooter, because…, Ms. Rachel calls on her “adult” fans to color and make paper dolls to take a stand against ICE, and A 7th grader’s teacher BANNED her from reading her “offensive” pro-life poem, and the brave student is speaking out
Vox Popoli: An Explanation for Declining Fertility, Arsenal Takes the Title, They Were Better Back Then, Excising the Corporate Cancer, and Based Books 2026
Upstream Reviews: Seize What’s Held Dear
Cedar Sanderson: In Search of Eldorado
Postcards From Barsoom: When The Experimenter Fails The Marshmallow Test

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: Dem Senate Candidate Graham Plattner Viciously Mocked US Soldier Who Was Shot Four Times in Clash with Taliban, Trump Rages Against Senate GOP for Allowing Obama-Appointed Senate Parliamentarian to ‘Stay in Power and Brutalize Us’, Report: Teachers Union Boss Used $1.4 Million In Union Resources to Write ‘Manifesto’ Book, Obamacare Enrollment Expected to Drop by Nearly Five Million as Costs Surge, and Trump-Backed Ed Gallrein Defeats Rep. Thomas Massie in Kentucky GOP Primary
BattleSwarm: Rape Dogs? No. Spy Dolphins? Maybe
Behind The Black: Frost on Mars, Vast unveils new high powered satellite bus to support the expected boom in satellite construction, Sri Lanka’s government to formulate a space policy, SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites, and Psyche completes its Mars fly-by
Cafe Hayek: Vernon Smith on Protectionism, Unsung Economist Heroes, and More Beating of a Wildly Galloping Balance-of-Payments Horse
CDR Salamander: Are we on the cusp of a maritime renaissance in time to beat Red China?
Chicago Boyz: You can’t know what you won’t know, Pruning and growing, Steve Hayward, Postmodernism, & Language,
Don Surber: Democrats are blowing it
First Street Journal: Amy McGrath Henderson goes 0-for-3!
Flopping Aces: Trump’s Shadow Doctrine
Gates Of Vienna: Children of the Black Sun
The Geller Report: Texas Democrat Maureen Galindo Pledges to Imprison ‘American Zionists’ at Internment Camps, President Trump Endorses Ken Paxton Over RINO Cornyn in Texas Senate Race, Georgia’s Election Rigger Brad Raffensperger LOSES BADLY in Primary Race, 21 Trump Endorsed Candidates WON Tuesday’s Primaries, and Massie Says He Had to FInd Primary Winner ‘in Tel Aviv’ to Concede Race
Hollywood In Toto: Goodbye, Stephen Colbert: Bringing ‘Very Fine People’ Hoax Back, Mandalorian and Grogu Sinks ‘Star Wars’ to Kiddie-Level Lows, ‘Censored’ Artists Can’t Stop Slamming Trump, Goodbye, Stephen Colbert: The End of ‘Cheap Fakes’ Lie, and A-list Director to Tackle U.S. Rescue of Downed Pilots in Iran
Legal Insurrection: NAACP Demanding College Sports Boycotts Over Changes to Congressional Maps, Former DOJ Attorney on Jack Smith Mar-a-Lago Team Charged With Stealing Sealed Report, Hundreds of Strangers in Massachusetts Attend Funeral for WWII Veteran With No Relatives, Former Cuban Dictator Raúl Castro Indicted for 1996 Attack on Brothers to the Rescue Aircraft, and Hakeem Jeffries Urges Democrats to ‘Break’ MAGA’s Spirit
Nebraska Energy Observer: Buff the Magic Airplane
Outkick: Thunder Hold Off Wembayanma As SGA Puts HIs Stamp On Game 2, Geaux Tigahs Again, Former Cy Young winner Trevor Bauer survives nasty car wreck while chasing MLB comeback, Caitlin Clark scratched from Fever lineup at last minute, and Show Tiffany Stratton some respect – a boob job doesn’t mean she’s made of plastic
Power Line: After last night, America’s Worst Senate Candidate, A Shameful NAACP Boycott, and Bad Ideas Never Die
Shark Tank: Florida Lawmakers Claim Victory As DOJ Indicts Raul Castro
The Political Hat: Quick Takes – Pushing Euthanasia
Victory Girls: The Dictator Democrats Warned Us About Looks More Like Maureen Galindo
Watts Up With That: Infrastructure Week – The Real Story Is Underground, About That “Super El Niño”, ASEAN Nations Return to Fossil Fuels, Back Away From Net Zero Plans, and America’s Energy Comeback is Leaving Green Fantasies Behind
The Federalist: Why Thomas Massie Lost, The Media Can’t See The Populist Vote Clearly To Save Their Lives, National Sovereignty Is At Stake In Imminent Supreme Court Ruling, RINO Crash Out Over Trump’s Paxton Endorsement Shows How Much The GOP Hates Its Voters, and Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey Increasingly Looks Like An Epic Disaster
Mark Steyn: Britain on the Brink (Part Deux), Live Around the Planet, and Live Around the Planet (Literally)

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In The Mailbox: 05.19.26

Posted on | May 20, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

a note to the Maine DSA

OVER THE TRANSOM
Doug Ross: The Day Hiroshima Was Erased (1945), also, A Day in the Trenches at the Somme (1916)
357 Magnum: Licenses Delayed = Rights Denied, also Australians Are Trying to Take Back Self-Defense
EBL: Devil’s Food Cake, Soft Shelled Clams, Tarpon at the Dock, Maldives Disaster: Italian tourists bodies found, and Bari My Heart at 57th Street?
Twitchy: MAGA Vs. Massie, Rep. Ro Khanna Flirts With Antisemitism, Welcoming Cambridge Residents Testify Against “Racist” Gunshot Detection Service
Louder With Crowder: Senator Warnock Calls For Packing SCOTUS If The Left Gets Power, Shock Report Proves Over Half Of Homeless In LA Are From Outside City, MSNBC Host Is Shocked, And Somewhat Offended, That Speaker Mike Johnson Puts God Before Her Government, Woman To Plead Guilty For Registering Homeless People To Vote In California, and Kevin O’Leary triggers zoomers because he thinks their spending $28 a day on lunch is stupid
Vox Popoli: The Memory Police, The Gatekeeper’s Confession, THE COURT OF CARLOS IV, Smells Like a False Flag, and The Turning Point
Cedar Sanderson: Cookie Crumb Motivations, also, The Groundskeeper – Fen Dead (Chapter 3)
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Sir Charles Napier
Ammo.com: How Loud is a Gunshot?
Postcards From Barsoom: The Sons of the Knife

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: Trump Endorses Ken Paxton in Texas GOP Senate Primary, Tragedy in San Diego Must Not Become a Tool for Islamization, Chicago White Sox Drop ‘Country Music Night,’ Keep ‘Pride’ and ‘Homies’ Events in Lineup, Trump Creates $1.776 Billion Fund for Victims of Government Weaponization After IRS Settlement, and Trump Announces Expansion of TrumpRx With 600 New Generic Drugs
Animal Magnetism: Animal Magnetism LIVE Ep. 88 – Double Feature
BattleSwarm: Ken Paxton To 130 “Cities”: No Tax Increases For You, Random Shooter Loose In Austin, Texas Criminal Court Of Appeals Place 3 Runoff, Abbott Seeks New Crime Fighting Tools, and Breaking: Trump Endorses Paxton Over Cornyn
Behind The Black: Several major American satellite companies release a joint guide on “orbital safety”, New fuel startup unveils rocket and jet fuels that it says are as much as 32% more efficient, Scientists say Europa’s theorized plumes of water vapor might simply be statistical noise, Astrolab’s Flip lunar rover will carry 4 NASA payloads, and France’s space agency CNES gives ESA 5-year extension at French Guiana spaceport
Cafe Hayek: Even in China, Economic Reality Isn’t Optional, They Don’t Deserve the Benefit of the Doubt, Trade and National Security, Protectionist Articles of Faith, and Deleting a Letter
CDR Salamander: If Iran Wants To Rule Rubble, Should We Let Them? also, Alas poor DDG(X)! I knew him, Shipmate..
Chicago Boyz: A Failure at 25?, Mideast Alternate History, Once You’re Gone, You Can Come Back, Skin in the Game, and Deconstructing Everything
Da Tech Guy: Five “A Week Without Work” Thoughts Under the Fedora
Dana Loesch: Shooting At San Diego Islamic Center, The Problem With Massie, Kirk Trial Latest – Defense Loses Bid To Ban Cameras, and Massie Defeated,
Don Surber: The Donroe Doctrine reaps rewards, also, Billionaires made America great
First Street Journal: Our good friends on the left are ‘alarmed’ at the notion of a religious revival, also, Every bird, every reptile, and every mammal can tell the difference between males and females of their own species
Flopping Aces: “Democrat” – The New Protected Race
Gates Of Vienna: Knife and Vehicle Jihad in Modena, “This Wicked and Shocking Act”, Cry, the Beloved White Tears, Update on Salim El Koudri, and Who is Salim El Koudri?
The Geller Report: Catastrophic NYC Mayor Mamdani’s Press Corp Cheer, Celebrate CEO Assassination, Trump Creates $1.8 Billion Fund to Fight Weaponization In Exchange For Dropping His 10 Billion Lawsuit Against the IRS, Gov. Hairgel Says Democrats Will Circumvent Election Results, Terror Attack in Italy, and Unite The Kingdom Rally Shatters Records, Millions March
Hollywood In Toto: My Dinner with Andre Made Conversation Cinematic, Cate Blanchett Mourns MeToo’s End, Ignores Hollywood’s Role, Anne Hathaway’s Pop Star Pose Powers Polarizing Mother Mary, Bill Maher Did What No Late Night Comic Dared, and Wizard of the Kremlin – Year’s Biggest Disappointment So Far?
Legal Insurrection: New Wildfire Scorches 700 Acres Near Simi Valley as L.A. Mayoral Race Heats Up, Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie Loses Primary to Trump-Backed Challenger, Michigan Gubernatorial Candidate Questioned Over Work For Southern Poverty Law Center, Civil Liberty Group Sues Illinois Over License Required to Buy Guns, Ammunition, and MSNOW Host Katy Tur Displays Stunning Ignorance on the God Given Rights of Americans
Nebraska Energy Observer: UK v Mississauga, From the Spectator, Unite the Kingdom II, and Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is No Vice
Outkick: Jason Kidd Fired Months After Signing Lucrative Deal As Masai Ujiri Demands New Direction For Mavericks, Andy Richter To Serve As “Commander In Beef’ For Second Annual “Wienie 500”,  Brewers Manager Pat Murphy Continues Insufferable Underdog Act, NFL owners approve 10 international games for 2027, and Annie Agar claps back at Ozempic accusations
Power Line: From Saint Paul to San Diego, All he is saying, ICE officer charged, The word from Aimee Bock, and Failure In Iran?
Shark Tank: Pinellas County Officials Endorse Byron Donalds For Governor
Shot In The Dark: Self-Help
STUMP: Congressional Morbidity – Two Representatives Are Missing
The Political Hat: Digital Leviathan: Canada Edition, Guidance Transparency Comes To Oklahoma, and Uncle Sam Going Big Brother On A.I.
This Ain’t Hell: Final LCS Commissioned. At Last, Samurai Squatter Solution, Skidmarks in the Sky, 250 year old Revolutionary War sketch just found hanging on a wall, and Money Monday
Transterrestrial Musings: “Starship Is Going Nowhere”
Victory Girls: Beating Back the Trans Industrial Complex One Detransition Clinic At a Time, Los Angeles’ Leftist Leaders Are Petty and Dangerous, AFT President Randi Weingarten Used Union Dues To Write Her Manifesto, and Media Says Rededicate 250 Is Icky Racist White Christian Nationalism
Watts Up With That: The United Arab Emirates Is Playing Its Own Game, ‘Climate Hushing’ – Pragmatism Demoting Exaggeration (McKibben fools himself), Oil Moves Our Machines, But Electricity Is the Cornerstone Of Our Quality Of Life, Wrong, Daily Mail, and Intellectual Yet Idiot: Ed Miliband and the Economic Illiteracy Driving Britain’s Energy Crisis
The Federalist: Here’s Why Your Hospital Bills Are So Big — And Why Congress Doesn’t Care, Vance Says U.S. Aims To Fend Off ‘Nuclear Arms Race’ ‘Domino’ Effect In Iran Negotiations, ‘Emergency In The Church’: Catholic Leaders Decry Vatican Report That Pushes Homosexuality, 23 State AGs Probe Federal Judicial Center’s Distribution Of ‘Biased’ Climate Guide To Judges,  and By Democrats’ Standards, Virginia Redistricting Lawyers Should Lose Their Jobs, Licenses, And Life Savings
Mark Steyn: Reflections on Trump Derangement Syndrome, The Canine Sinatra, Dumbfounded: Carole Lombard in My Man Godfrey, Transitioning to Truth, and Who’s Afraid of the Weeping Willow?

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In The Mailbox: 05.18.26

Posted on | May 19, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Tweet of the day
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Doug Ross: A Day Aboard The Enola Gay (1945), 
EBL: Bluefish, The Odyssey Firestorm Gets Worse, “Molasses To Rum”, MAGA Julia Letlow defeats RINO Bill Cassidy, and Is This Thing On?
Twitchy: Anderson Cooper’s Tearful Farewell Blown Apart By One Image, TMZ Gets Roasted After Cooking Up another Story About Spencer Pratt, and View To A Shill
Louder With Crowder: Dude thought he could get away with abusing a seal because he was rich, but the DOJ had different plans, Bald Democrat lunatic clams The GOP, like, is totally bringing back slavery or something, Digital billboard cruises around LA to troll Karen Bass, Elderly Maxine Waters can’t say if being 100 years old is too old to be a member of Congress, and Self-driving cars take over a neighborhood as residents fear for the safety of their pets and kids
Vox Popoli: Who’s Locking Out Who? All Indicators, The Stupidity of Greed, The Speed of Human Mutation, and Science is Garbage
Upstream Reviews: Of All The Gin Joints in the Universe (2/4), also, Vertical Run
Cedar Sanderson: Reviews & Maturity, also, What’s Blooming?
Mazelit Airaksinen: Are American Jews an Oppressed People?
Born Lucky: Barrett Brown, Martyr In Exile

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: Midrats Mid-May Free for All, 

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Rule 5 Monday: Everything Stops For Tea

Posted on | May 18, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Apologies for the late, late posting. Things were weird and difficult this weekend.
I feel remiss for not mentioning this earlier – but if you blog, and post the occasional Rule 5, feel free to contribute your link!
The more, the merrier!
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Hires Root Beer, Donnie’s Angels, “Viva Las Vegas”, MAGA Vance/Rubio 2028, Israel Independence, Robin Hood, Jamestown Ferry, Sydney Sweeney – She’s Not Retarded, and “Mama Said”

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Leaping into the Weekend with Taylor Carpenter, Fish Pic Friday – Yukai.sk, Tattoo Thursday, The Wednesday Wetness, Tuesday Tanlines, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Palm Sunday, and Maryland has Crabs

BACON TIME: Rule 5 – Yes, I Will Have A Beer

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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What’s the Over/Under on How Soon Barrett Brown Gets Arrested Again?

Posted on | May 18, 2026 | No Comments

Barrett Brown, interviewed on NBC News, 2011

Given all the trouble in the world right now, my hunch is that Barrett Brown is somewhere near the bottom of the list of federal law enforcement priorities. It’s been nearly five years since I last devoted a post to him here (“Oh, Dear God: Barrett Brown Again!” July 13, 2021), after he’d gotten himself arrested in England. However, last year, I mentioned Barrett in discussing the Nazi-adjacent YouTube “historian” Ian Carroll, in the context of the dangers of amateurism.

Longtime readers know the whole history, dating back to Ye Olde Blogspot Days, of Barrett Brown’s tiresome obsession with me — an intermittent obsession, I hasten to add. He’ll go for months or years without bothering me, then erupt in a frenzy of accusations. That’s what happened last week, and when I investigated, I discovered that Barrett has recently started a Substack. It’s been about a month since I posted anything on my own Substack, so I thought, how convenient:

It’s a gloriously sunny day here in the foothills of Appalachia, so why am I wasting it this way, typing out an update about somebody you probably never heard of? It’s not as if there aren’t enough newsworthy events I could be writing about — a Louisiana senator lost his seat in the Republican primary Saturday, the first time a sitting senator has lost a primary in more than a decade. But there are other journalists getting paid to do reporting and commentary on serious news like that, and rather than jump onto the dogpile, instead I’ll give you the latest on Barrett Brown.
We go back, Barrett and I. One afternoon in October 2009, he emailed me to call my attention to something unflattering he’d written about me. At the time, Brown was the communications director of the Godless Americans Political Action Committee (a/k/a Enlighten the Vote), while I was gearing up for a road trip to cover the Doug Hoffman campaign in upstate New York . . .
Well, the 2010 midterm campaign came and went, and then in February 2011, someone sent me an email informing me that Barrett Brown had “evidently become a public-relations agent for the hacker group ‘Anonymous,’ which launched cyberattacks against critics of WikiLeaks” . . .

You can read the rest of that 3,000-word opus, in which I mention the possibility of contacting my friends at the Department of Justice to inquire whether it’s true (as someone told me a few years ago) that Barrett skipped out to England as a way of evading his court-ordered restitution payments. There is alleged to be a sealed indictment waiting for Barrett if the feds ever get their hands on him again.

Currently, of course, with Keir Starmer’s Labour government in the UK, it’s unlikely that British authorities would cooperate with U.S. officials seeking extradition and, as I say, despite his (alleged) status as an international fugitive, Barrett Brown is probably very low on the priority list at the DOJ. Could that change? Well, our boy craves attention, so maybe he’ll do some crazy stunt that makes Kash Patel take notice.

Also, meanwhile, Barrett Brown keeps poking Neal Rauhauser. If ever two people deserved each other as enemies, it’s Neal and Barrett.



 

Category: Barrett Brown

FMJRA 2.0: Marking Time

Posted on | May 18, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

No baseball stuff this week, just a poke at Nolan’s inane, politically-correct version of the Odyssey.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

Trump Derangement Syndrome Reaches Terminal Stage as Democrats Seethe
EBL
357 Magnum

FMJRA 2.0: Waiting for the Winter Meetings
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

It’s a Long Way to Hope
EBL
357 Magnum

 

Rule 5 Sunday: Chocolate
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

Do You Hate Communism Enough?
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 05.11.26
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 05.12.26
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

This Should Not Need to Be Said
EBL
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach

In The Mailbox: 05.15.26 (Afternoon Edition)
EBL
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach

In The Mailbox: 05.15.26 (Evening Edition)
EBL
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach

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‘There Is No Truth … Only Power’

Posted on | May 17, 2026 | No Comments

French degenerate Michel Foucault

Before he died of AIDS, Michel Foucault was a French philosopher and also sodomized boys in Tunisia. These facts are not unrelated.

Any argument must stand or fall on its own merits. As every educated person knows, attempting to refute an argument by attacking the personality of its proponent is a logical fallacy known as ad hominem. Nonetheless, it has been my observation that advocates of unusual arguments — ideas that seem destructive or counter-factual — generally have something in their biography which helps explain their motives.

Communism is the classic example of this phenomenon. Even if a naïve idealist had been persuaded in the early 20th century that Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, et al., had found the secret of liberating mankind from oppression and poverty, the idealism that won him over to Communism as a theory could not have survived the reality of Communism in practice under Stalin. Indeed, the cynical swindle of the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop pact had the effect of causing a great falling-away among Communists in America, who suddenly realized that all the anti-fascist “Popular Front” rhetoric of the 1930s had been a monstrous lie. What are we to make, then, of those who continued to support and defend Communism after 1939? In every case, the biographical factors must be considered.

Eric Hoffer’s 1951 book The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements addresses this issue, classifying the types of personalities that are attracted to such movements. And I have summarized this insight simply: Bad causes attract bad people.

We know for a fact that Communism leads to mass murder, killing as many as 100 million people in the 20th century, and therefore must question the motives of its defenders. Hence, we can disregard the accusation of committing an ad hominem fallacy in so doing.

Something similar can be said for the philosophers of “postmodernism.” Michel Foucault was an influential French intellectual and also a homosexual pedophile, and this is not a coincidence, you see.

French libertarian Brivael Le Pogam writes:

I want to offer my apologies, on behalf of the French, for giving birth to French Theory (which in turn gave birth to the worst of all ideological monstrosities: wokism).
We gave the world Descartes, Pascal, Tocqueville. And then, in the intellectual ruins of post-1968, we gave Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze. Three brilliant men who forged, in the elegance of our language, the ideological weapon that today paralyzes the West.
We must understand what they did. Foucault taught that truth does not exist, that there are only power relations disguised as knowledge. That science, reason, justice, the medical institution, the school, the prison, sexuality — everything is merely a staging of domination. Derrida taught that texts have no stable meaning, that every signifier slips away, that every reading is a betrayal, that the author is dead and the reader reigns supreme. Deleuze taught that we should prefer the rhizome to the tree, the nomad to the sedentary, desire to the law, becoming to being, difference to identity.
Taken individually, these are debatable theses. Combined, exported, and popularized, they form a system. And that system is a poison.
For here’s what happened. These texts, unreadable in France, crossed the Atlantic. The departments of Yale, Berkeley, and Columbia absorbed them in the 1980s. They found there a soil that did not exist among us: American Puritanism, its racial guilt, its obsession with identity. French Theory married this substratum, and the child of that union is called wokism.
Judith Butler reads Foucault and invents performative gender. Edward Said reads Foucault and invents academic postcolonialism. Kimberlé Crenshaw inherits the framework and invents intersectionality. At every step, the matrix is French: there is no truth, there is only power, so every hierarchy is suspect, every institution is oppressive, every norm is violence, every identity is constructed and thus negotiable, every majority is guilty.
That’s how three Parisian philosophers, who probably never imagined their practical consequences, provided the operating software to an entire generation of activists, university bureaucrats, HR managers, journalists, and legislators. That’s how we ended up with a civilization that no longer knows how to say whether a woman is a woman, whether its own history is worth defending, whether merit exists, whether truth can be distinguished from opinion.
It’s shit for one simple reason, and it must be stated calmly. A civilization stands on three pillars: the belief that there exists a truth accessible to reason, the belief that there exists a good distinct from evil, the belief that there exists a heritage to be transmitted. French Theory set out to dynamite all three. Not out of malice. Out of intellectual play, fascination with suspicion, hatred of the bourgeoisie that had nurtured them. But the result is there. An entire generation learned to deconstruct and never learned to build. An entire generation knows how to suspect and no longer knows how to admire. An entire generation sees power everywhere and beauty nowhere.
I apologize because we French bear a particular responsibility. It’s our language, our universities, our publishers, our prestige that gave this nihilism its chic packaging. Without the legitimacy of the Sorbonne and Vincennes, these ideas would never have crossed the ocean. We exported doubt the way others export weapons.
What is being built now, in Silicon Valley, in AI labs, in startups, in workshops, in all the places where people still make things instead of deconstructing them—that is the response. A civilization is rebuilt by builders, not by commentators. By those who believe that truth exists and is worth devoting oneself to. By those who embrace a hierarchy of the beautiful, the true, the good, and are not ashamed to transmit it.
So, forgive us. And back to work.

Well said! More from Le Pogam via Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers!



 

Category: France, Intellectuals

In The Mailbox: 05.15.26 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | May 16, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: A Conversation About Firearms, also News Flash – EV Range Drops Cold Weather
Doug Ross: Fauci’s WMD
EBL: Shucking Scallops, Donnie’s Angels, and “Viva Las Vegas”
Twitchy: Rep. Angie Nixon Arrested After Storming DeSantis Office, U.S. Delegation Dumps Every Single Gift, Badge, & Burner Phone Before Leaving Beijing, and NYC’s Islamist Mayor Honors When Arabs Tried & Failed To Finish Hitler’s Work
Louder With Crowder: Ken Paxton forces Texas Children’s Hospital to pay back the $10 Million they billed Medicare for child sex change operations, Drag Queen Demands Access To Youth After Officials Ban Pride Month At Libraries, Spencer Pratt drops new banger LEGO-themed ad to say “Karen Bass is Awful”, Kamala Reveals The Left’s Plan For America, and It’s No Joke, and Spencer Pratt drops the PERFECT response to his socialist opponent’s attempt to ban you from BBQing in your backyard 
Vox Popoli: The Real Reason, Owen on Tucker, The Strategic Cost of War, Mr. Tubcuddle’s Last Ride, and The Irrelevance of Acclaim
According To Hoyt: Kingship By Consent, The Blind Leading The Blinkered, The Great Water Conspiracy, Knowledge of the Ancients, and You Impostor!
Stoic Observations: The End of Western Thinking, also, Ending WAF Paranoia

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: Texas Children’s Hospital Compelled to Create Nation’s First Detransition Clinic in Landmark Settlement with AG Paxton, Justice Department Alleges Yale Medical School Discriminated Based on Race, CIA Director Meets With Senior Cuban Regime Officials in Havana, DHS Pushes Forward With Large-Scale Immigration Detention Hubs, and How to Persuade Iran to End War…and Give Up Its Nuclear Program
BattleSwarm: Followup: Flashy Car Daycare Commie Fraudster Indicted, LinkSwarm For May 15, and Who Is Behind Pro-Cornyn “Association of Texas Conservatives”?
Behind The Black: SpaceX launches cargo Dragon to ISS, The barren hills west of Jezero Crater, Intuitive Machines buys British ground station company, Northrop Grumman completes successful test of new nozzle for its solid-fueled boosters, and Virgin Galactic releases ’26 first quarter financials; stock at new low under $3
Cafe Hayek: A Small Step Toward Saving More Lives of People In Need of Kidney Transplants, The Hollow Ring of “Hollowed Out”, An Old and Tired Movie, and Competition Soars
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Good news about Tina Peters, History Friday – Mr. Mulholland’s Big Oops!  and Paxton Shines
Don Surber: Trump conquers Red China
First Street Journal: Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen, Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen (2), and Propaganda from the credentialed media will not change reality
Flopping Aces: Is it time for the base to go nuclear on the GOP Senate?
Gates Of Vienna: Jihadis In Our Midst: It’s a New Ballgame — More Americans Refusing to Go the Way of Europe, R.I.P. Takuan Seiyo and Max Denken, Jihad Attack on the Louvre Thwarted, Catastrophic Failure, and Service Restored
The Geller Report: Muslims Outside Of A London Mosque Threatening to Behead Jews, Bernie Sanders and Occasional Cortex Propose Legislation To Kill AI Data Centers Construction, “SHOCKING LEVELS OF FRAUD”, Iran Strikes, Sinks Indian Vessel Near Oman, Seizes Tanker, and Speaker Mike Johnson Warns of ‘Mini Mamdanis’ Taking The Country ‘Far, Far Left’
Hollywood In Toto: When Late-Night Rivals Fought Like Cats and Dogs, This Five for Fighting Musical Duet Will Melt Your Heart, The Free Speech Fight That Kimmel, Legacy Media Ignore, Goodbye, Stephen Colbert: Let Them Eat Cake, and Mandalorian and Grogu Faces Even More Box Office Woes?
Legal Insurrection: Venezuela Presses Guyana Land Dispute at U.N. as U.S. Secures Nuclear Material, Cornell President Cleared of Wrongdoing In Parking Lot Incident, Texas Military Vet Leaves Penn State Law School Over Mandatory Anti-Racism Course, US Supreme Court Unanimously Rejects Stay Of Virginia Supreme Court Redistricting Ruling, and Newsom Reveals Democrats’ ‘Break the Glass’ Plan to Stop GOP Sweep in Governor Race
Nebraska Energy Observer: The American Way of War Part 2, Hmmmm, and Anglosphere DNA
Outkick: Caitlin Clark honored for massive career milestone before Fever fall to Mystics, Nationals unveil latest exciting/horrifying snack, Golden Knights’ Mitch Marner doing the funniest thing with postseason explosion, Horse dies at finish line in first race during tragic start to Preakness weekend, and Jena Sims covers her butt with a ribbon – NFL saves us from Tony Romo – Is Star Wars dead?
Power Line: What Happened In China, The Supremes decline, Our Violent Democrats, Pope Leo doesn’t make a statement, and A Political Revolution?
Racket News: Note From Editor – Translator Needed
Shark Tank: DeSantis Expands School Guardian Program to State Colleges & Universities
Shot In The Dark: Avenging…What?
The Political Hat: The Non-Jewish Roots Of Marxism, Quick Takes – Nature Can Do Anything: Co-Author A Paper; Get Married; Be A Politician’s Constituent, and Firing Line Friday: Resolved: That We Should Move towards Privatization, Including the Schools-Part II
This Ain’t Hell: Caution…may just p*** you off, Royal Navy to Provide Force Package to SoH, Right to Repair, and Valor Friday
Transterrestrial Musings: The New Democrat Party, Hamas’s Failure, SpaceX’s Louisiana Purchase, Blue Origin’s Finances, and The New Anti-Semitism
Victory Girls: Minnesota: Different Day, More Fraud, Occasional Cortex Is Not Kamala Harris — And Republicans Should Notice, and Kamala Harris Lost The Election. Now She Wants To Redesign The Country
Watts Up With That: Climate Pseudoscience Debunked: Livestock Methane Fears are Baseless, The Electricity Myth: Data Centers Aren’t the Villain, Ed Miliband vows permanent shutdown of the North Sea, Disaster? NYT Op-Ed on Demoting the Climate Pitch, and Wildebeest, Buffalo, and Cattle, Oh My!
The Federalist: Nebraska’s Homeschool Crackdown Is Harming Kids And Infringing On Parental Rights, Paxton Scores A $10 Million Victory In The Fight Against The ‘Trans Kids’ Industrial Complex, Here Are The Plug-And-Play Templates Your State Needs To Pass Secure Election Laws, There’s Nothing MAGA About 500,000 Student Visas For The CCP, and Worst Prosecutor In America Struggles To Explain Why Democrats Keep Protecting Illegal Alien Murderers
Mark Steyn: Live Around the Planet – The Twain Meet, The Frog Slog, and A Society Entirely Without “Division”

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