Manufacturing consent for private and public sector clients for over 250 years.
Dear Substack Subscribers
1 July 2025 @ 1:57 pm
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
World War III and Other Simulacra
18 June 2025 @ 11:46 am
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
Crypto-Fascism, Inc.
29 May 2025 @ 3:45 pm
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.
The Godzilla Window
22 May 2025 @ 12:42 pm
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
The Enemy of My Enemy
7 May 2025 @ 12:40 pm
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
An Open Letter To Jay Bhattacharya, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and J.D. Vance
12 April 2025 @ 5:46 pm
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
The War on Whatever
26 March 2025 @ 2:37 pm
The War on Whatever is not meant to be won. It is meant to be continuous, which it is. Like the never-ending war in Orwell’s 1984, it is waged by the empire against its own subjects, but not only to keep the structure of society intact, also, in our case, to transform society into a… Read More The War on Whatever
The Speech Police
13 March 2025 @ 1:39 pm
OK, this one is for all the professional “sensitivity editors” out there, and for the US Department of Homeland Security, and President Donald Trump, and the European Union censors, and all the other self-appointed Speech Police that have been goose-stepping around dictating what everyone can and can’t say and publish and think all the time… Read More The Speech Police
The Wars to Come
28 February 2025 @ 4:26 pm
OK, I’m going to do something I never do. I’m going to publish an excerpt from a work in progress, i.e., the novel I am working on currently, or that I have been trying to currently work on for years but have been repeatedly distracted from working on, for years, by (a) the rollout of… Read More The Wars to Come
This is Not a Test
15 February 2025 @ 4:58 pm
Do not adjust your telescreen. This is not a test. It’s a state of emergency! A full-blown national state of emergency! Yes, that’s right, once again, we need to dispense with the rule of law and take a series of emergency measures in order to save “democracy,” or “freedom,” or “to remedy the distress of… Read More This is Not a Test