Thor “Gracchus” Gunnels
@syennesis.bsky.social
“Words are loaded pistols.” - Sartre
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Morning in America, Evening in Hell
Why "To Live and Die in L.A." and "The Bonfire of the Vanities" Saw Through Reaganism
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August 25, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Where I channel Hannah Arendt.
Welcome Home, Empire
Our Democracy in Military Fatigues
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August 16, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Where I channel Hannah Arendt.
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“Despite what you might hear coming out of the Manhattan Institute these days, no liberal worthy of the name advocates the death penalty for having insufficient commitment to trans rights or the public funding of science.” www.liberalcurrents.com/pluralism-pa...
Pluralism, Partisanship, and Patriotism
There is no conflict between liberal institutions and liberal partisan politics.
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August 15, 2025 at 2:35 AM
“Despite what you might hear coming out of the Manhattan Institute these days, no liberal worthy of the name advocates the death penalty for having insufficient commitment to trans rights or the public funding of science.” www.liberalcurrents.com/pluralism-pa...
Subtitle should also say “and Why Libertarians Never Took It Up”
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A Lisbeth Salander Hot Take
Stieg Larsson's Criticism Of The Welfare State
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August 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Subtitle should also say “and Why Libertarians Never Took It Up”
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The Loot Train Battle - From Feudal to Futile
Or Why Forming a Shield Wall Against a Dragon is Peak Westerosi Strategic Thinking
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August 7, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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When DHS Uses a White Lady in a Nightgown to Rewrite History
Or How A Multiracial Army Actually Won the Battle of New Orleans While The Kentucky Militiamen Ran Like Hell
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August 3, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Dude, the Market Will Regulate Murder
How Some Libertarians Convinced Themselves the Blood-Soaked Wild West Was a Peaceful Utopia
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July 30, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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David Hume: Classical Liberalism's Most Awkward Ancestor
Or why Hume would have wanted Mises to "show me the money"
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July 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Born to Run - But Drive More Carefully
A Short Meditation on Music, Mortality, and the Friends We Lose Young
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July 19, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Excited to publish @syennesis.bsky.social at @liberalcurrents.com. He review Quinn Slobodian's Hayek's Bastards. Enjoy this view from Mont Pèlerin!
The Bastards of Mont Pèlerin
Hayek's Bastards should serve as a reminder to the defenders of Hayek and neoliberalism generally to be vigilant in differentiating themselves from the far right figures and groups that have attempted...
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July 16, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Excited to publish @syennesis.bsky.social at @liberalcurrents.com. He review Quinn Slobodian's Hayek's Bastards. Enjoy this view from Mont Pèlerin!
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Continental Reckoning: A Review of Elliott West's Challenge to Western Mythology
It Wasn't Just Cowboys
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July 15, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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No Gods, No Masters, No Friends
When Ayn Rand and Milton Friedman Become Your Therapist
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July 7, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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The Master's Invisible Hand
Or the Myth of Market-Driven Emancipation
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June 29, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Bomb, Bomb Iran
Why Bombing Iran Is Folly and the U.S. Never Learns
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June 22, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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Liberty on the Track
Or How Running Went Woke
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June 16, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Good Vibrations
With the recent passing of Brian Wilson I thought I would share my thoughts about “Good Vibrations” in a few short paragraphs.
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June 16, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Hayek the Pseudoscientist
Or How Hayek’s Tale of the Savanna is Nonsense
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June 10, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Ayn Rand’s Self-Made Supermen And Campbell’s Monomyth
Or Atlas Shrugged So Hard It Broke the Hero’s Journey
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May 28, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Ayn Rand and the Civil Rights Movement
Or why she thought the 1964 Civil Rights Act was a Orwellian nightmare in the making
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May 18, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Is Israel a "Genocidal State?"
Or why am I trying to piss everyone off?
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May 13, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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May 6, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Liberalism and Religious Skepticism
The relationship between religious skepticism and liberalism’s skepticism of religious institutions is both complex and historically rich.
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Modern Patriarchal Fantasies and the “Neolithic World War”
“War was always here.
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This is Bill Lunch’s last lecture at OSU. I was a student of his. You can’t really understand our current predicament without seeing it through the lens of the Civil Rights movement, etc. and its efforts to break down certain hierarchies. media.oregonstate.edu/media/t/0_u8...
Bill Lunch, Last Lecture
The last official lecture at OSU for (now Emeritus) Professor of Political Science Bill Lunch is, Why Oregon is Blue, Mississippi is Red, and the U.S. is Purple (and Polarized), or How I Learned to St...
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February 9, 2025 at 4:40 PM
This is Bill Lunch’s last lecture at OSU. I was a student of his. You can’t really understand our current predicament without seeing it through the lens of the Civil Rights movement, etc. and its efforts to break down certain hierarchies. media.oregonstate.edu/media/t/0_u8...
Much of Tesla’s growth has been based on Nordic nations adopting EVs.
February 4, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Much of Tesla’s growth has been based on Nordic nations adopting EVs.