Nonfiction

Almost Half of Democrats Support Putting People in Camps

January 17, 2022 by Ian Kummer

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A new survey by Rasmussen Reports suggests a disturbing love affair between American voters and authoritarianism. Democrats openly support a dictatorship. Republican responses weren’t terribly impressive either and probably would have been worse if the authoritarianism was presented in a different context.

A Tale of Two Insurrections on January 6

January 7, 2022 by Ian Kummer

While Democrats in Washington cried crocodile tears about the Trumpist “insurrection” a year ago, a real insurrection took place in Kazakhstan.

The Matrix Resurrections and the Death of Democracy

December 27, 2021December 26, 2021 by Ian Kummer

The Matrix Resurrections is a boring, sloppy, incoherent mess. But it does offer some valuable cultural insights that we should pay attention to. Despite endlessly talking about “democratic norms” and holding democracy summits, Western liberals don’t like democracy. They actually hate democracy and associate it with weakness, and this attitude is very apparent in their movies.

Clash of Titans at the Paris 1937 Expo

December 30, 2021December 22, 2021 by Ian Kummer

This week I visited Worker and Kolkutz Woman (Рабо́чий и колхо́зница) in Moscow, a monument with an intriguing backstory from the years leading up to World War II.