Gentlemen thank you. Most days I walk around feeling frustrated and isolated. Thank you for distilling the ideas that for me feel voiceless and incomplete. Thank you for saying it "out loud". I feel like I just took a deep and satisfying breath.
Knowing that others see it and feel it too is a tremendous relief. Without voices speaking the truth we begin to feel as though it’s us that have lost touch with reality.
We are numerous and far more competent, honorable, moral, and intelligent than those who maliciously rule over us. The problem is not our isolation, the problem is not our lack of capacity to create new things, or to boldly stand up to the evil being foisted upon us.
The most limiting factors that prevent Good from defeating Evil and restoring America are twofold:
1) We have very little will to physically destroy that which is Evil, because we dont want to look like bad guys are stuck in the “use your words” fallacy
2) Not enough of the potential counter-elite is Christian. Therefore they believe that “Classic Liberalism” is a real thing which can be restored or saved. No, Liberalism does not exist nor has it ever. The fate of revolutions is America or France. The fate of nations is Texas or Massachusetts, Jerusalem or Sodom. The fate of souls is Heaven or Hell.
So until people realize that “Creator” is the most important word in the Declaration of Independence, we cannot be saved. A return to Christ would instantly and radically save this civilization. Anything else is just half-assed pussy-footing and appeals to lofty and liminal, failed and farcical “enlightenment” ideas.
Ditto – so great to find a sliver of sympathetic intelligence here on Substack despite floating on a vast ocean of cognitive dissonance (personally speaking) out here in woke Seattle.
It's truly insane – imagine all the woke stereotypes and I encounter them daily. As a single millennial it's a sort of hell: I went on a date recently with a woman and she literally said she wouldn't go out with me unless I "swore allegiance to the [we believe] lawn sign." I thought she was joking, but no—dead serious.
I grew up in the PNW and like most people "love the nature!" but had to move back mid-pandemic for work and family reasons. I'm eagerly anticipating getting back to a Red State ASAP. I do fear I might get stuck here however HAHA! Until then, got my beans, bullets and Bible all stocked up.
Also, "The Obsolete Man" is such a great Twilight Zone episode; so prescient and relatable – very Ray Bradbury.
I sympathize with your plight. I’m also a single millennial; I have had similar experiences trying to date in the suburbs of a southern metropolis.
I feel like the woke white woman is the other side of the coin to the evangelical Christian. Both insist you adopt their religious beliefs and tow a party line. I am not an evangelical Christian nor am I woke, so I am basically completely shut out of my local dating market.
Totally relate. And at risk of pissing everyone off here, I find myself stuck in an infernal paradox in which: liberal woman often have (attractive) intellectual interests (i.e. art, music, maybe literature) but they are ideologically convicted! Then somewhat counterintuitively I've found that conservative women are usually the inverse: ideologically open-minded but don't have interesting-interests. Why I can't find a woman who is both ideologically-honest (i.e. open-minded) and intellectually-engaged, beats me. I know some great violinist gals, but they are hideously woke. I know some great Christian gals, but they refuse to engage in any discourse whatsoever. I can hang out with either, but neither is "marriage material".
As for the "liberal" (i.e. post-liberal leftist) women specifically, my recent and hilarious date anecdote of "pledge allegiance to the lawn sign" ultimatum (from an otherwise decent albeit-woke young lady) really brought the situation into crystal clear focus for me: woke-mores (i.e. social mores) hold women hostage as the new nonnegotiable rules of sociability – and no woman would mate without maintaining sociability (i.e. "takes a village to raise a child") as only a wild woman (certainly not a classy educated metropolitan woman!) would forgo the support of the proverbial village upfront, no matter how insane the village might now be. And so, consequently men are held hostage by said woke women.
All in all, whether by design or not, it's clear that wokeness has heterosexuality by the balls. All the sad "lose-lose" implications of this deserve an entire Substack post, and sounds like you get it already.
There are clearly "based" and interesting women – but I haven't found any IRL out here in the Seattle area; go figure. Oh, and one last hilarious anecdote: while on a previous date (with a different woman out here in the Seattle area, mid-pandemic) we found ourselves in a park and she starts espousing a land acknowledgment about us now standing on "stolen land". Can't make this up, right? We live in a decentralized insane asylum HAHAHA!
thanks for this, you have brought joy to a man on the wrong side of 50. while it's no fun getting old, i feel immense gratitude that i was able to do most of my dating in the last decades of the 20th century, where i think we mostly talked about bands and drugs and parties, rarely the ugly beast called "politics".
I don't know what generation you are in, but I'm wondering if you might consider women who might be a bit older (thinking Gen X, but that could be too much of a stretch if you are a Zoomer or younger Millennial).
It was my favorite (along with The Howling Man). I thought it felt fitting for the name of a Substack about the ways modern society is eroding our humanity and dignity. I feel like I can relate to Wordsworth more with each day that goes by.
Im a single Gen Z from suburbs of Portland. In the dating world I get along good with country girls and latinas. I would never waste time on the blue-hairs or the college girls, or the college dropout strippers. Young couples of high moral fiber will be the seeds from which morality and civility might re-proliferate our nation.
Until you find a good girl dont be thirsting for anybody who is either unwilling to learn and be led by you (since youre smarter than most people) or who actively undermines American civilization.
Our problems are spiritual at root. Rejecting God, our elites have "loosened this earth from its sun" and "wipe(d) away the whole horizon," as Nietzsche so presciently and eloquently put it nearly 150 years ago. A society whose leaders call into question the fundamental truth of biology (male and female) and declare the dismemberment of human life in the womb a human right is profoundly disordered.
Coincidentally, I came across this quote by TS Eliot this morning, which fits with NS Lyons' pessimistic analysis of our current situation: "I do not believe that the culture of Europe could survive the disappearance of the Christian Faith. And I am convinced that, not merely because I am a Christian myself, but as a student of social biology. If Christianity goes, the whole of our culture goes. Then you must start painfully again, and you cannot put on a new culture ready-made. You must wait for the grass to grow to feed the sheep to give the wool out of which your new coat will be made. You must pass through many centuries of barbarism..."
A friendly reminder: the notion of human rights and human dignity stems from Christianity. I have a grudging respect for atheists who openly (and rightly) admit that human life holds no special worth in their eyes. "A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy," in PETA's Ingrid Newkirk's mind.
It's gonna get real ugly, real soon, amigos. Stay close to God.
...eventually...but a lot of pain and misery is suffered by millions along the way. Russia suffered 70 years of murderous, torturing, evil bullies thanks to the idiocies of Marxism and Communism, and people in Western governments are pushing this evil today.
Great interview. It is tempting for me to believe everyone will just wake up and abandon the performative woke nonsense that manifests in the west. As someone who has always lived pretty far outside these captured institutions and who looks upon the nonsense as some grand virtue signal theater, it has been really valuable to read folks like Yuri and NS, who have lived and worked in the heart of this darkness. They have taught me that this shit is for real, these people believe, and our techno-managerial class ain't going nowhere any time soon.
Thanks comrade. We are reporting from deep inside the politburo. Hope it illuminates what we are up against with some laughter and memes sprinkled on top.
>>>Keeping [woke] ideas out of China while they undermine the West seems to be a core part of Xi’s strategy. I think they obviously see the self-destruction of the West as a huge opportunity.
God-shaped hole indeed - whatever form that God may take. Not a religious person, but the complete absence of any moral north pole, and hence any functioning moral compass across large swaths of the population is leading to destruction of society as we know it. And so it has done in the past in other societies. I had no recognition of this 3 years ago. If there is no objective right vs wrong, no objective good vs evil, no objective truth vs completely ludicrous BS, it truly is (evil) clown world. Great interview and look forward to reading more from NS Lyons.
I could not agree more with the commentary regarding dissent. We must be honest with ourselves that there is a PRICE for that if we take a stand NOW; a price far less than if we leave it to our children to take a stand tomorrow.
Silencing the opposition is a one way ratchet that tightens in the direction of increasingly repressive measures. Wokeness will not be bored into yawning because it is the imposition itself that is the base of all terror.
Power will never concede anything without a demand. So let's turn it around. I don't know who to credit this to but I think those of us here on Substack are like graffiti; like a brick in the face of authority.
Self-censorship is what the Woke Regime relies on to clear the field for their lies. Speak truth...and especially truth with a capital T (John 14:6). At the very least, we can refuse to acquiesce to the lies. To not speak out against these soul-destroying lies and evil is to speak out, according to Bonhoffer who paid the ultimate price for resisting evil. Maybe his fate will be ours. Good enough. More than human comfort is at stake here.
We either accept the fight or we forfeit the memory of our children.
This is why the first law of tyranny is to "legislate" language. They come for grammar because it is the easiest way to remove reference to truth.
For example will the children of tomorrow know what natural immunity and a vaccine are?
How many people even know these definitions were changed?
How much easier is it when our descendants don't recognize self censorship because we tacitly allowed it to de facto change meanings by assenting through failure to dissent?
Not to give the tyrants any ideas, but I think it's interesting that at least as of now, anatomy and physiology textbooks still have a section about the "reproductive system", per force acknowledging the reality of the main function of those organs, and the perversion of the alphabet crowd. Hoping they don't get away with changing it any time soon.
The question is do they still refer to the male and female reproductive systems? I know people who write in Biology for a large textbook company and they are working hard to remove references to sex or gender, making things more “neutral”. The Dept. Chair mentioned that as a Dept we should have a conversation with this author friend about these trends in “altering speech”. I looked straight at her and said, I teach actual biology, and I will not be “altering” my “speech”.
It has been horrifying to watch them change the language and attempt to change reality itself. Textbook demonstrations of the use of raw power and an attempt to demoralize enemies.
I don't think it's overdramatic to assert that the glory of Western Civilzation is at stake here.
You both are just so brilliant with your analysis, of what to me, is chaos on all fronts . I seem to be getting such a great education from your parts of the world . I was just reading today that Freeland will be running in our next election and of course rarely a mention of her being on the board of the WEF and the other activities that are demolishing what was formerly known as Canada . After reading what you considered the best post , I felt relaxed because of the scaffolding it provided for my thought processes - something that I haven't felt in a long time .
A new follow! I have no idea how I will ever finish any article myself. There are entirely too many writers and thinkers on this platform. Much, much better than I even aspire to be. My entire day looks like this: chore, substack, chore, substack, chore, x, substack. From morning to night every day..haha!
Nice interview. I would agree that “The China Convergence” is the best thing I have read on Substack. I recently read the book “Controlagarchs” by Seamus Bruner which connected some dots for me, like the fact that the Rockefeller foundation has been working in China since early 1900s
乱 is "ran" in Japanese. That's how I always read it. 乱れる is the verb "to be confused, tangled, all out of sorts." "Ran" was also the title of Kurosawa's King Lear-with-samurai movie. As a great fan of NS Lyons's work, I keep waiting for him to say something about how Japan fits into his "China Convergence" thesis. I have my own theory but that's for another day.
A fascinating article, learning about Chinese society and its long-range, over-the-horizon view. I'm old now, in my late 70s, but I worry about my school-age grandchildren's political and economic inheritance in the USA. Not hopeful, but I do pray a lot for good to overcome evil, God's will be done.
I think my favorite thing I have ever read from Lyons was his article in UnHerd titled “Why America Will Never Give Up on War.” Few have ever really understood host how The Blob functions and what makes them tick.
This was simply excellent as I have been a subscriber to "The Upheaval" for some time and love how Lyons writes with clarity about his subject matter. And "The China Convergence" is incredibly long as he acknowledges, but it is truly magnificent.
Gentlemen thank you. Most days I walk around feeling frustrated and isolated. Thank you for distilling the ideas that for me feel voiceless and incomplete. Thank you for saying it "out loud". I feel like I just took a deep and satisfying breath.
Knowing that others see it and feel it too is a tremendous relief. Without voices speaking the truth we begin to feel as though it’s us that have lost touch with reality.
We are numerous and far more competent, honorable, moral, and intelligent than those who maliciously rule over us. The problem is not our isolation, the problem is not our lack of capacity to create new things, or to boldly stand up to the evil being foisted upon us.
The most limiting factors that prevent Good from defeating Evil and restoring America are twofold:
1) We have very little will to physically destroy that which is Evil, because we dont want to look like bad guys are stuck in the “use your words” fallacy
2) Not enough of the potential counter-elite is Christian. Therefore they believe that “Classic Liberalism” is a real thing which can be restored or saved. No, Liberalism does not exist nor has it ever. The fate of revolutions is America or France. The fate of nations is Texas or Massachusetts, Jerusalem or Sodom. The fate of souls is Heaven or Hell.
So until people realize that “Creator” is the most important word in the Declaration of Independence, we cannot be saved. A return to Christ would instantly and radically save this civilization. Anything else is just half-assed pussy-footing and appeals to lofty and liminal, failed and farcical “enlightenment” ideas.
Amen and thank you for stating the Real Truth. Bless you!
How to get at least some of those young, wide-eyed, self-medicating and mutilating gender goblins to see it... That is the question.
Ditto – so great to find a sliver of sympathetic intelligence here on Substack despite floating on a vast ocean of cognitive dissonance (personally speaking) out here in woke Seattle.
Seattle? I can’t imagine. I hope you have something really worthwhile keeping you there.
It's truly insane – imagine all the woke stereotypes and I encounter them daily. As a single millennial it's a sort of hell: I went on a date recently with a woman and she literally said she wouldn't go out with me unless I "swore allegiance to the [we believe] lawn sign." I thought she was joking, but no—dead serious.
I grew up in the PNW and like most people "love the nature!" but had to move back mid-pandemic for work and family reasons. I'm eagerly anticipating getting back to a Red State ASAP. I do fear I might get stuck here however HAHA! Until then, got my beans, bullets and Bible all stocked up.
Also, "The Obsolete Man" is such a great Twilight Zone episode; so prescient and relatable – very Ray Bradbury.
I sympathize with your plight. I’m also a single millennial; I have had similar experiences trying to date in the suburbs of a southern metropolis.
I feel like the woke white woman is the other side of the coin to the evangelical Christian. Both insist you adopt their religious beliefs and tow a party line. I am not an evangelical Christian nor am I woke, so I am basically completely shut out of my local dating market.
Dating these days sounds brutal. Should I set up a non-demoralized matchmaking service?
There is a market for this.
I will be an early adopter, whether I like it or not!
Totally relate. And at risk of pissing everyone off here, I find myself stuck in an infernal paradox in which: liberal woman often have (attractive) intellectual interests (i.e. art, music, maybe literature) but they are ideologically convicted! Then somewhat counterintuitively I've found that conservative women are usually the inverse: ideologically open-minded but don't have interesting-interests. Why I can't find a woman who is both ideologically-honest (i.e. open-minded) and intellectually-engaged, beats me. I know some great violinist gals, but they are hideously woke. I know some great Christian gals, but they refuse to engage in any discourse whatsoever. I can hang out with either, but neither is "marriage material".
As for the "liberal" (i.e. post-liberal leftist) women specifically, my recent and hilarious date anecdote of "pledge allegiance to the lawn sign" ultimatum (from an otherwise decent albeit-woke young lady) really brought the situation into crystal clear focus for me: woke-mores (i.e. social mores) hold women hostage as the new nonnegotiable rules of sociability – and no woman would mate without maintaining sociability (i.e. "takes a village to raise a child") as only a wild woman (certainly not a classy educated metropolitan woman!) would forgo the support of the proverbial village upfront, no matter how insane the village might now be. And so, consequently men are held hostage by said woke women.
All in all, whether by design or not, it's clear that wokeness has heterosexuality by the balls. All the sad "lose-lose" implications of this deserve an entire Substack post, and sounds like you get it already.
There are clearly "based" and interesting women – but I haven't found any IRL out here in the Seattle area; go figure. Oh, and one last hilarious anecdote: while on a previous date (with a different woman out here in the Seattle area, mid-pandemic) we found ourselves in a park and she starts espousing a land acknowledgment about us now standing on "stolen land". Can't make this up, right? We live in a decentralized insane asylum HAHAHA!
thanks for this, you have brought joy to a man on the wrong side of 50. while it's no fun getting old, i feel immense gratitude that i was able to do most of my dating in the last decades of the 20th century, where i think we mostly talked about bands and drugs and parties, rarely the ugly beast called "politics".
I don't know what generation you are in, but I'm wondering if you might consider women who might be a bit older (thinking Gen X, but that could be too much of a stretch if you are a Zoomer or younger Millennial).
absolutely yes—Social Justice is the mirror image of the Moral Majority and Church Ladies are eternal, though gods and dogma change.
It was my favorite (along with The Howling Man). I thought it felt fitting for the name of a Substack about the ways modern society is eroding our humanity and dignity. I feel like I can relate to Wordsworth more with each day that goes by.
Im a single Gen Z from suburbs of Portland. In the dating world I get along good with country girls and latinas. I would never waste time on the blue-hairs or the college girls, or the college dropout strippers. Young couples of high moral fiber will be the seeds from which morality and civility might re-proliferate our nation.
Until you find a good girl dont be thirsting for anybody who is either unwilling to learn and be led by you (since youre smarter than most people) or who actively undermines American civilization.
Excellent interview.
Our problems are spiritual at root. Rejecting God, our elites have "loosened this earth from its sun" and "wipe(d) away the whole horizon," as Nietzsche so presciently and eloquently put it nearly 150 years ago. A society whose leaders call into question the fundamental truth of biology (male and female) and declare the dismemberment of human life in the womb a human right is profoundly disordered.
Coincidentally, I came across this quote by TS Eliot this morning, which fits with NS Lyons' pessimistic analysis of our current situation: "I do not believe that the culture of Europe could survive the disappearance of the Christian Faith. And I am convinced that, not merely because I am a Christian myself, but as a student of social biology. If Christianity goes, the whole of our culture goes. Then you must start painfully again, and you cannot put on a new culture ready-made. You must wait for the grass to grow to feed the sheep to give the wool out of which your new coat will be made. You must pass through many centuries of barbarism..."
A friendly reminder: the notion of human rights and human dignity stems from Christianity. I have a grudging respect for atheists who openly (and rightly) admit that human life holds no special worth in their eyes. "A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy," in PETA's Ingrid Newkirk's mind.
It's gonna get real ugly, real soon, amigos. Stay close to God.
Beauty and truth will always prevail over ugliness.
Yes, it will, but I suspect that the barbarians will run amok for some time (Years? Decades?) before they collapse and tumble into the void.
They stole a march on us and occupy the high ground, certain of their impregnability. Hubris always leads to downfall.
...eventually...but a lot of pain and misery is suffered by millions along the way. Russia suffered 70 years of murderous, torturing, evil bullies thanks to the idiocies of Marxism and Communism, and people in Western governments are pushing this evil today.
Great interview. It is tempting for me to believe everyone will just wake up and abandon the performative woke nonsense that manifests in the west. As someone who has always lived pretty far outside these captured institutions and who looks upon the nonsense as some grand virtue signal theater, it has been really valuable to read folks like Yuri and NS, who have lived and worked in the heart of this darkness. They have taught me that this shit is for real, these people believe, and our techno-managerial class ain't going nowhere any time soon.
Thanks comrade. We are reporting from deep inside the politburo. Hope it illuminates what we are up against with some laughter and memes sprinkled on top.
At least not until we force them out.
>>>Keeping [woke] ideas out of China while they undermine the West seems to be a core part of Xi’s strategy. I think they obviously see the self-destruction of the West as a huge opportunity.
Damn.
🔥🔥🔥 Interview
A divergence from the convergence. The west keeps poisoning itself while the east detoxifies.
God-shaped hole indeed - whatever form that God may take. Not a religious person, but the complete absence of any moral north pole, and hence any functioning moral compass across large swaths of the population is leading to destruction of society as we know it. And so it has done in the past in other societies. I had no recognition of this 3 years ago. If there is no objective right vs wrong, no objective good vs evil, no objective truth vs completely ludicrous BS, it truly is (evil) clown world. Great interview and look forward to reading more from NS Lyons.
Thanks for sharing Yuri!
I could not agree more with the commentary regarding dissent. We must be honest with ourselves that there is a PRICE for that if we take a stand NOW; a price far less than if we leave it to our children to take a stand tomorrow.
Silencing the opposition is a one way ratchet that tightens in the direction of increasingly repressive measures. Wokeness will not be bored into yawning because it is the imposition itself that is the base of all terror.
Power will never concede anything without a demand. So let's turn it around. I don't know who to credit this to but I think those of us here on Substack are like graffiti; like a brick in the face of authority.
What are the demands of our "graffiti"?!
Or are we just painting?
Self-censorship is what the Woke Regime relies on to clear the field for their lies. Speak truth...and especially truth with a capital T (John 14:6). At the very least, we can refuse to acquiesce to the lies. To not speak out against these soul-destroying lies and evil is to speak out, according to Bonhoffer who paid the ultimate price for resisting evil. Maybe his fate will be ours. Good enough. More than human comfort is at stake here.
You are right. The face of evil has shown itself.
We either accept the fight or we forfeit the memory of our children.
This is why the first law of tyranny is to "legislate" language. They come for grammar because it is the easiest way to remove reference to truth.
For example will the children of tomorrow know what natural immunity and a vaccine are?
How many people even know these definitions were changed?
How much easier is it when our descendants don't recognize self censorship because we tacitly allowed it to de facto change meanings by assenting through failure to dissent?
Not to give the tyrants any ideas, but I think it's interesting that at least as of now, anatomy and physiology textbooks still have a section about the "reproductive system", per force acknowledging the reality of the main function of those organs, and the perversion of the alphabet crowd. Hoping they don't get away with changing it any time soon.
The question is do they still refer to the male and female reproductive systems? I know people who write in Biology for a large textbook company and they are working hard to remove references to sex or gender, making things more “neutral”. The Dept. Chair mentioned that as a Dept we should have a conversation with this author friend about these trends in “altering speech”. I looked straight at her and said, I teach actual biology, and I will not be “altering” my “speech”.
This BS has got to stop.
I just looked at this book on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Costanzo-Physiology-Linda-S-PhD/dp/0323793339/
It is copyright 2021, and Chapter 10 is called "Reproductive Physiology".
You are right to be worried, as am I, but maybe there will finally be some real pushback (how many times have we said that?).
It has been horrifying to watch them change the language and attempt to change reality itself. Textbook demonstrations of the use of raw power and an attempt to demoralize enemies.
I don't think it's overdramatic to assert that the glory of Western Civilzation is at stake here.
Not at all.
On a different topic. Why is it you're the only person's comments on Substack that I have to go back to my comment to see that you responded?
Weird.
Hmm...
Maybe I'm scheduled to be on the first boxcar to the camp.
🎯remember 10 or so years ago when JBP stood up to the U of T language tyrants...
What a fabulous piece of writing - the best type of education I have received at this point in my very long life .
Thank you Linelle - that is high praise!
You both are just so brilliant with your analysis, of what to me, is chaos on all fronts . I seem to be getting such a great education from your parts of the world . I was just reading today that Freeland will be running in our next election and of course rarely a mention of her being on the board of the WEF and the other activities that are demolishing what was formerly known as Canada . After reading what you considered the best post , I felt relaxed because of the scaffolding it provided for my thought processes - something that I haven't felt in a long time .
wow, congrats on nabbing the big fish Yuri!
Lyons is the perfect anaylst for these times. his essay on Tolkien and C.S. Lewis is a must read for any fan of this blog as well...
That's the one that hooked me. Lewis's "That. Hideous Strength" sits under my bible.
A new follow! I have no idea how I will ever finish any article myself. There are entirely too many writers and thinkers on this platform. Much, much better than I even aspire to be. My entire day looks like this: chore, substack, chore, substack, chore, x, substack. From morning to night every day..haha!
Brandy, I would be surprised if you find this site intimidating. Everyone here is accommodative.
Thank you. I might take that with me into the new year. 😃
Nice interview. I would agree that “The China Convergence” is the best thing I have read on Substack. I recently read the book “Controlagarchs” by Seamus Bruner which connected some dots for me, like the fact that the Rockefeller foundation has been working in China since early 1900s
乱 is "ran" in Japanese. That's how I always read it. 乱れる is the verb "to be confused, tangled, all out of sorts." "Ran" was also the title of Kurosawa's King Lear-with-samurai movie. As a great fan of NS Lyons's work, I keep waiting for him to say something about how Japan fits into his "China Convergence" thesis. I have my own theory but that's for another day.
A fascinating article, learning about Chinese society and its long-range, over-the-horizon view. I'm old now, in my late 70s, but I worry about my school-age grandchildren's political and economic inheritance in the USA. Not hopeful, but I do pray a lot for good to overcome evil, God's will be done.
I think the China convergence should be published in book form. Thankyou for your work, I hope you have a joyful and restful Christmas.
I need to quit my job to keep up with all the excellent work you publish Yuri et al. Damnit! Hats off!
I think my favorite thing I have ever read from Lyons was his article in UnHerd titled “Why America Will Never Give Up on War.” Few have ever really understood host how The Blob functions and what makes them tick.
https://unherd.com/2023/01/why-america-will-never-give-up-on-war/
This was simply excellent as I have been a subscriber to "The Upheaval" for some time and love how Lyons writes with clarity about his subject matter. And "The China Convergence" is incredibly long as he acknowledges, but it is truly magnificent.