Subscriber Commentary & Review Thread (#13)

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Hello everyone, it’s great to be back with you in the New Year! I am as full of cheer and optimism as ever in 2023, including in a contribution to the latest issue of the fine Australian journal Quadrant:

So check that out if you’re down under or just want to peruse a great collection of antipodean political and cultural delights. Also a heads up that UnHerd published a short version of my last essay on the military-industrial complex, here. They had to drop some of the layers of the argument to compress it, but if you want to share that one with somebody who for some reason still refuses to subscribe to The Upheaval, you could send them this version. 

Meanwhile, I know at least a few of you are indeed trapped in Oz because Substack has just released snapshots of basic geographical user data for writers, and I think it’s pretty cool:

Practically a Commonwealth

So greetings and gratitude to all of you around the world, with special greetings to my one subscriber in Cameroon! Something seems to be wrong with the internet in Latvia, however.

With that housekeeping out of the way, we can turn to the main attraction: snarky commentary and review of interesting stuff on the internet.