# culture war (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 12 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover culture war. Page: Feed: --- ## [Parasocial degeneracy and the online death threat](https://sambadger.substack.com/p/parasocial-degeneracy-and-the-online) _2026-08-20 · Sam Badger · Sam’s Substack_ How the worst tendencies of online culture and social alienation engender the most pathetic forms of bad behavior ## [A Critique of MYTHOPOEIA: Tolkien Rewrites the Creed and Calls It Myth](https://blueprintexplorations.substack.com/p/a-critique-of-mythopoeia-tolkien) _2026-08-17 · WILL TELL · WILL TELL_ Facts or Dreams: Saint Tolkien and the Argument from Wanting It to Be True ## [Far Out](https://weeklysift.com/2026/08/17/far-out/) _2026-08-17 · weeklysift · The Weekly Sift_ There’s a maddening tendency among elected officials and the political press to equate “far left” and “far right” candidates as occupying equally extreme, dangerous ends of the political spectrum, though those in the former camp mostly want universal healthcare and affordable housing while the latter is more likely to endorse the forced deportation of non-white \[…\] ## [Some revolutions are too big to see](https://weeklysift.com/2026/08/17/some-revolutions-are-too-big-to-see/) _2026-08-17 · weeklysift · The Weekly Sift_ If you want to understand the 21st century, take a wide-angle view of the 20th. During the 1800s, the technological underpinnings of the 20th century economy gradually arose and got implemented on a large scale. The steamboat and then the railroad revolutionized transportation. The telegraph, telephone, and mass-market newspapers revolutionized communication, creating new possibilities for \[…\] ## [The Monday Morning Teaser](https://weeklysift.com/2026/08/17/the-monday-morning-teaser-658/) _2026-08-17 · weeklysift · The Weekly Sift_ Usually I take the news one week at a time, but today’s featured post takes a step back to examine a much wider time span: I’m looking at the technological developments that led to the first Gilded Age in the late 19th century, and trying to draw a parallel to the current internet/social-media/AI technologies that \[…\] ## [No, We Should NOT Submit To Governing Authorities](https://kevinyoung.substack.com/p/no-we-should-not-submit-to-governing) _2026-08-15 · Kevin Young · 【Culture ✚ Faith】_ Christians have chosen the “Rule of Law” over their Ruler, Jesus. ## [The Bible on Usury and Power Concentration](https://blueprintexplorations.substack.com/p/the-bible-on-usury-and-power-concentration) _2026-08-15 · WILL TELL · WILL TELL_ The Bible on Usury and Power Concentration ## [The Commissar Is Just a Kulak Who Doesn’t Farm: At Least the Kulak Grew Something.](https://blueprintexplorations.substack.com/p/the-commissar-is-just-a-kulak-who) _2026-08-14 · WILL TELL · WILL TELL_ Communism did not abolish exploitation; it gave the exploiter an office, a title, and immunity from failure ## [The People are Not One - Book Review](https://sambadger.substack.com/p/the-people-are-not-one-book-review) _2026-08-14 · Sam Badger · Sam’s Substack_ Tutt and Varn offer a useful and critical intervention in our current political situation ## [My Ten Most Grotesque and Cinematic Moments from the Acts of the Apostles](https://blueprintexplorations.substack.com/p/my-ten-most-grotesque-and-cinematic) _2026-08-14 · WILL TELL · WILL TELL_ My Ten Most Grotesque and Cinematic Moments from the Acts of the Apostles ## [From any door to your door (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Std11QZNg0Wp) _2026-08-14 · **Sponsored**_ Book rides, errands, deliveries, groceries and home help in one app ## [Seven Sacred Truths of Progress](https://blueprintexplorations.substack.com/p/seven-sacred-truths-of-progress) _2026-08-13 · WILL TELL · WILL TELL_ Each Believed by a Different Woman ## ["Class war?" That sounds a lot better than Race War or Culture War. But you are not serious. ( progressives )](https://blueprintexplorations.substack.com/p/class-war-that-sounds-a-lot-better) _2026-08-13 · WILL TELL · WILL TELL_ “Class war?” That sounds a lot better than Race War or Culture War. ## [Tolkien Theory Time: Could I be descended from Tolkien's fictional "Farmer Giles of Ham?" ( My personal Narcissistic, very minor, Fictional Tolkien connection )](https://blueprintexplorations.substack.com/p/tolkien-theory-time-could-i-be-descended) _2026-08-12 · WILL TELL · WILL TELL_ Unfortunately, No. ## [A realist theory of decadence among the elite](https://sambadger.substack.com/p/a-realist-theory-of-decadence-among) _2026-08-12 · Sam Badger · Sam’s Substack_ Decadence has too long been the conceptual domain of rightwing culture warriors. We need a serious theory of elite decadence ## [Heirs of Khazaria: Turkey?](https://blueprintexplorations.substack.com/p/heirs-of-khazaria-turkey) _2026-08-12 · WILL TELL · WILL TELL_ I’ve put forward a version of a theory, that while Jews did not collect any substantial Khazar genes in the main, the Jews passing through southern Russian, likely did collect a lot of “West Asian” or European genes from the slaves of the Khazars: European women. ## ["Look at the Princess": Farscape’s Accidental Reactionary Politics](https://blueprintexplorations.substack.com/p/look-at-the-princess-farscapes-accidental) _2026-08-11 · WILL TELL · WILL TELL_ How a space-opera romance makes the case for Heredity, Sovereignty, Institutional memory, and the Honor of Peoplehood and Law. ## [Interested Parties](https://weeklysift.com/2026/08/10/interested-parties/) _2026-08-10 · weeklysift · The Weekly Sift_ Tyranny is the handmaiden of the moneyed interests. – Robert Reich “The real meaning of Abdul El-Sayed’s victory in Michigan“ This week’s featured post is “Why the freak-out over El-Sayed?“ Ongoing stories This week’s developments This week everybody was talking about the economy Wednesday, Donald Trump told a crowd in Las Vegas that this is \[…\] ## [Why the freak-out over El-Sayed?](https://weeklysift.com/2026/08/10/why-the-freak-out-over-el-sayed/) _2026-08-10 · weeklysift · The Weekly Sift_ Don’t react to labels, paraphrases, or guilt by association. Listen to what he says. It wasn’t the blow-out the polls had predicted, but progressive candidate Abdul El-Sayed defeated the Democratic establishment’s candidate Haley Stevens in the Michigan Senate primary. El-Sayed will face Republican Congressman Mike Rogers in the fall election. Not being a Michigan voter, \[…\] ## [The Monday Morning Teaser](https://weeklysift.com/2026/08/10/the-monday-morning-teaser-657/) _2026-08-10 · weeklysift · The Weekly Sift_ This week I’ve gotten fascinated by the winner of Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, Abdul El-Sayed. I hadn’t paid attention to him until last week, when the Sift came out the day before the election. I heard the “he’s unelectable because of X, Y, and Z” arguments and looked around for something solid to hang them \[…\] ## [Old Phuul – Hardcopies](https://phuulishfellow.wordpress.com/2026/08/10/old-phuul-hardcopies/) _2026-08-10 · strda221 · A Phuulish Fellow_ In December 2016, my first physical box of Wise Phuuls turned up on my doorstep as a de facto Christmas present: https://phuulishfellow.wordpress.com/2016/12/25/wise-phuul-hardcopies-squee/ Not quite as special-day-convenient with Old Phuul in August 2026, but I can report that the physical box arrived today. I have been cheerfully signing copies for friends. ## [Retro Grid Dungeon Crawler (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/rQsP4zvcMVPH) _2026-08-10 · **Sponsored**_ Retro grid movement with first-person combat, loot and skill-tree progression. ## [The 4 Tiny Jewish minorities of 33 A.D.](https://blueprintexplorations.substack.com/p/the-4-tiny-jewish-minorities-of-33) _2026-08-09 · WILL TELL · WILL TELL_ I am making a huge guestimate here, so this is just a projection. ## [A Western "NazBol" Confession](https://blueprintexplorations.substack.com/p/a-western-nazbol-confession) _2026-08-08 · WILL TELL · WILL TELL_ Why Current Ideological Labels are Misaligned ## [The "White Ojibwe" is not a Legal Contradiction](https://blueprintexplorations.substack.com/p/the-white-ojibwe-is-not-a-legal-contradiction) _2026-08-08 · WILL TELL · WILL TELL_ Indian status was never a racial purity test. What its strange exceptions reveal about citizenship, inheritance, and the right of peoples to remain politically distinct. ## [The Bastard/Predator Language: Of English and Culture War](https://phuulishfellow.wordpress.com/2026/08/08/the-bastard-predator-language-of-english-and-culture-war/) _2026-08-07 · strda221 · A Phuulish Fellow_ I have said this before, but I truly hate Culture War nonsense. At best, is tantamount to two (or more) dogs urinating to mark their territory, a hollow language of performative symbolism. At worst, it is all of that, plus a giant distraction from meaningful issues, and a means of allowing the very people responsible \[ \] ## [Centrist Democrat's feckless war with the DSA](https://sambadger.substack.com/p/centrist-democrats-feckless-war-with) _2026-08-07 · Sam Badger · Sam’s Substack_ The DSA has its flaws, but the centrist Democrat offensive against them is doomed by its own lack of self-awareness ## [No, Christian, We Are NOT To Bless Israel](https://kevinyoung.substack.com/p/no-christian-we-are-not-to-bless) _2026-08-07 · Kevin Young · 【Culture ✚ Faith】_ Why "bless Israel or be cursed" is the best-selling lie in American Christianity ## [3 Non-Equalist Non-Theological "Paternal" Arguments against Abortion](https://blueprintexplorations.substack.com/p/3-non-equalist-non-theological-paternal) _2026-08-05 · WILL TELL · WILL TELL_ Arthur stands before a Political Community ## [4 "Equalist" non-Theological, non-Patriarchal Arguments on "Abortion"](https://blueprintexplorations.substack.com/p/4-more-equalist-non-theological-non) _2026-08-05 · WILL TELL · WILL TELL_ Why should Zeus be allowed to live? ## [Snow Returns to Dunedin: August 2026 Edition](https://phuulishfellow.wordpress.com/2026/08/04/snow-returns-to-dunedin-august-2026-edition/) _2026-08-04 · strda221 · A Phuulish Fellow_ Climate change has done a number on winter in Dunedin. Gone are the days when snowfalls were a regular occurrence even frosts are substantially less nasty than they used to be. In fact, the last time Dunedin had a proper snowfall was Spring 2022: https://phuulishfellow.wordpress.com/2022/10/06/dunedin-spring-snowglobe-2022-edition/ Well, today, at least, Dunedin had a proper winter s \[ \] ## [3 Non-Religious Arguments Against Abortion](https://blueprintexplorations.substack.com/p/three-non-religious-arguments-against) _2026-08-04 · WILL TELL · WILL TELL_ Three Non-Religious Arguments Against Abortion ## [Recipe PDFs Ready Fast (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/klBfffNCcXvY) _2026-08-04 · **Sponsored**_ Turn online or personal recipes into clean, printable PDFs in seconds. ## [Alienation - more than just a feelin'](https://sambadger.substack.com/p/alienation-more-than-just-a-feelin) _2026-08-03 · Sam Badger · Sam’s Substack_ Some think alienation is merely the subjective experience of capitalist exploitation, yet the reality is alienation exists whether one feels it or not ## [Going Long](https://weeklysift.com/2026/08/03/going-long/) _2026-08-03 · weeklysift · The Weekly Sift_ So, how did we get here? Not because one party discovered a winning campaign slogan, a charismatic leader, or because of one presidential election. We arrived here because one political movement developed a deep understanding of how power operates within the American constitutional system. – John F. Terzano, “The Long Game“ This week’s featured post \[…\] ## [Power is more than just votes](https://weeklysift.com/2026/08/03/power-is-more-than-just-votes/) _2026-08-03 · weeklysift · The Weekly Sift_ Good short- and medium-term political news has emboldened some writers to remind us of the longer-term bad news. The good news is that polls for the fall elections keep looking better. The unpopular and unpromising Iran War, Trump’s tariffs, the continuing inflation that the war and the tariffs make worse, ICE’s repeated acts of unjustified \[…\] ## [The Monday Morning Teaser](https://weeklysift.com/2026/08/03/the-monday-morning-teaser-656/) _2026-08-03 · weeklysift · The Weekly Sift_ Polls for the fall election are looking good. Trump is unpopular and Democrats have a sizeable lead in the generic congressional ballot. At the moment, they’re even winning Senate races in states where they shouldn’t, like Texas. It’s now easy to imagine a Democratic House majority next year, and maybe even a Senate majority too. \[…\] ## [Special Message from the Office of Approved Opinions Regarding the Ceuta Incident](https://www.konstantinkisin.com/p/special-message-from-the-office-of) _2026-08-03 · Konstantin Kisin · Konstantin Kisin_ Don't believe your lying eyes. ## [The Original 10 Roman Months](https://blueprintexplorations.substack.com/p/the-original-10-roman-months) _2026-08-02 · WILL TELL · WILL TELL_ Before January and February: Rome’s Original Ten Months ## [Old Phuul – RELEASED](https://phuulishfellow.wordpress.com/2026/08/01/old-phuul-released/) _2026-08-01 · strda221 · A Phuulish Fellow_ The afternoon of Saturday, 1st August, 2026. The most-awaited moment in my writing career to date: after years of toil and frustration (and editing, toil, and frustration), Old Phuul is now loose upon the world, available in e-book and paperback. I hope you enjoy the madness that is Rhea. If you don t, please at least \[ \] ## [2026 Reading Material: July (+ Writing Update)](https://phuulishfellow.wordpress.com/2026/07/31/2026-reading-material-july-writing-update/) _2026-07-31 · strda221 · A Phuulish Fellow_ Completed reads for July: July actually started off a good reading month, until I discovered that it was actually a writing month A new and eccentric writing project has begun this month: I have started on an epic poem, The Lay of Notich Serpent-Tongue. It is written in traditional blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter), and \[ \] ## [The Vandals Had More Class: Sacrificing Books to the AI Demon](https://phuulishfellow.wordpress.com/2026/07/31/the-vandals-had-more-class-sacrificing-books-to-the-ai-demon/) _2026-07-30 · strda221 · A Phuulish Fellow_ The BBC has long been criticised for the short-sighted destruction of its archival programming in the 1960s and 1970s. And with justification. Britain s cultural heritage suffers from a Black Hole as a result, and dedicated people are still picking through the ruins, in hope of finding a lost treasure. But at least the BBC s decision \[ \] ## [The Original "Highlander" script from 1981](https://blueprintexplorations.substack.com/p/the-original-highlander-script-from) _2026-07-30 · WILL TELL · WILL TELL_ Darker Immortals with less of a Prize ## [The Striver: The Social Types of Popularity](https://blueprintexplorations.substack.com/p/the-striver-the-social-types-of-popularity) _2026-07-29 · WILL TELL · WILL TELL_ The Unknown Ordinary Man, The Celebrity, and The Striver ## [School, Prison, or The Army: 3 Life Paths](https://blueprintexplorations.substack.com/p/school-prison-or-the-army-3-life) _2026-07-29 · WILL TELL · WILL TELL_ The Three Basic Life Paths: School, Prison or the Army ## [The Social Constructionists Are Right: The 5 true "Social Races." ( Just not in the way they think )](https://blueprintexplorations.substack.com/p/the-social-constructionists-are-right) _2026-07-28 · WILL TELL · WILL TELL_ Progressives are "right" accidentally, but not in the way they think ## [How anti-culture war politics becomes culture war politics](https://sambadger.substack.com/p/how-anti-culture-war-politics-becomes) _2026-07-27 · Sam Badger · Sam’s Substack_ The painful culture wars continue to plague our politics, distracting people from the real issues of housing unaffordability, rampant health care inflation, forever wars, imperialism, ecological crises, and an economy worryingly dependent on building countless data centers. ## [In the Quiet](https://valerieflynn.com/in-the-quiet/) _2026-07-27 · Valerie Flynn · Valerie Flynn_ It’s funny how silence can be a cool, refreshing glass of a water or an oppressive force of nature. ## [Left of what?](https://weeklysift.com/2026/07/27/left-of-what/) _2026-07-27 · weeklysift · The Weekly Sift_ People \[are\] calling us the “far left” and we are literally just out here talking about funding public schools and keeping hospitals open and paving roads. – Jess Piper There is no featured post this week. Ongoing stories This week’s developments This week everybody was talking about the war with no end in sight We’ve \[…\] ## [The Monday Morning Teaser](https://weeklysift.com/2026/07/27/the-monday-morning-teaser-655/) _2026-07-27 · weeklysift · The Weekly Sift_ There’s no featured post this week. But the weekly summary will have a lot to cover: the on-again-off-again war, the wildfires in Europe, the latest pretext for Trump’s tariffs, anticipating the Musk crash, the state of the Senate midterms, and several other things, concluding with a big battery in Finland that is just rocks inside \[…\] ## [Only the Good Die Young: Farewell Nicky Thomas (1987-2026)](https://phuulishfellow.wordpress.com/2026/07/27/only-the-good-die-young-farewell-nicky-thomas-1987-2026/) _2026-07-27 · strda221 · A Phuulish Fellow_ Grief is a natural state of mankind. Sometimes, Gloom straps you down, and feeds you spoon-fulls from Denethor s cup of bitterness. But sometimes? Grief strikes you like lightning from a clear sky, and leaves you wondering if you have stumbled into a bad dream, where you find yourself pinching yourself to see if this horrible \[ \] ## [Khamûl the Easterling: Another Licensing for Rings of Power](https://phuulishfellow.wordpress.com/2026/07/24/khamul-the-easterling-another-licensing-for-rings-of-power/) _2026-07-23 · strda221 · A Phuulish Fellow_ When last we heard from Rings of Power, it was the licensing of the name Pallando, only found in Unfinished Tales. Well, as per an Empire Magazine article, it looks like we are getting another agreement with the Tolkien Estate, with the usage of the name Khamûl the (Black) Easterling: https://www.empireonline.com/tv/news/rings-of-power-season-3-ringwraiths-nazgnagol/ Khamûl a name \[ \] ## [Silly season and Argentina](https://sambadger.substack.com/p/silly-season-and-argentina) _2026-07-22 · Sam Badger · Sam’s Substack_ Argentina's national team made themselves the heel of the world cup, but lets avoid simplistic narratives about its complex history