New(ish) Readers Start Here.

A short service announcement.

Over the last couple of months, I’ve been picking up readers and subscribers at an increasing rate (we’ve just reached 3500 subscribers.) That’s gratifying, but it can also be hard for people to find essays that interest them, because there are now 75 essays and some 300,000 words, which is a lot on a site that doesn’t have the capability for search or tagging. So as a public service, here are a few selected essays that have been especially popular, and which serve as an introduction to the rest, arranged by subject. Most are relatively recent, and contain links to earlier essays in the body of the text.

Essays Specifically on Ukraine.

Ukraine in NATO would be a disaster.

Things are falling apart.

Round two? There is no round two.

Essays on the Strategic Situation of the West.

The end of power projection

War is complicated

They say they want rearmament.

Essays on France.

A fistful of clockwork oranges.

Macron is safe for the moment

Understanding what’s happening in France.

Essays on the Politics and the Professional-Managerial Caste.

How about a victory for the Left occasionally?

The rise of extractive politics.

I don’t want this Sunak. Don’t you have a better model?

Essays on the problems of Liberalism

Will the West eat itself?

One way or another.

Into the waste land.

Essays on cultural issues.

In praise of the preterite.

And now for something completely different.

A philosophy for really terrible times.