Paul M. Jones | Politics 2026-05-08T09:12:58-05:00 What Is Communism? 2021-12-02T15:26:21-06:00 It means that a small group – let’s call them the nomenklatura — has absolute control over a much larger one, in every aspect of life, society, industry, and commerce. That control is enforced by: a secret police, a system of incentiv... Are You Being Criticized -- Or Cancelled? 2020-11-03T22:45:36-06:00 "How do we know if something is canceling vs. ordinary criticism?" I came out with a list of six things, kind of the warning signs of canceling. If you've got two or three of these, it's canceling and not criticism. First: Is the intent of the campai... The Proper Consequences for Speech 2020-11-03T11:28:13-06:00 (Adapted from my talk Your Project Needs a Code of Conduct, OR ELSE.) Leftists often say, regarding free speech, that "You might get freedom of speech, but you don't get freedom from consequences!" All right, then, let's go with that for a minute. Wh... Argo: Keep Your Content Cancel-Resistant 2020-10-27T08:17:26-05:00 I am proud to announce Argo, a flat-file static-site blog authoring and building system. It generates your site on your own computer, then syncs it to a remote host via Git or rsync. Download Argo here, and watch a 4-minute video introduction here. ... Reminder: The Nazis Were Socialists 2020-10-26T12:52:46-05:00 To understand the Nazis accurately, you have to read their own quotes and propaganda. The story told by the Nazis themselves depicts a very different party than what modern journalists would like us to believe. The Nazi (National Socialist German Wor... Against XKCD 1357 2020-10-15T08:18:55-05:00 Whenever I think about what did the most damage to internet culture over the past ten years, xkcd 1357 comes out on top. Not Twitter. Not Facebook. This simple comic. ... Freedom of speech isn't just a legal assurance that congress shall make no law ... How To Read Pravda 2020-10-14T14:08:10-05:00 Replace "Pravda" with any institutional media organ in the United States, and "the Party" with Leftists/Progressives/Democrats/Marxists/Socialists/Communists: The Front Page belongs to the Party. Everything you see on the front page is the Party'... Woke, Progressive, Left: It's All Marxism 2020-08-28T05:57:54-05:00 Anti-Marxist liberals have labored under numerous disadvantages in the recent struggles to maintain control of liberal organizations. One is that they are often not confident they can use the term “Marxist” in good faith to describe those s... No, Jesus Was Not A Socialist 2020-01-25T09:36:49-06:00 Christians are commanded in Scripture to love, to pray, to be kind, to serve, to forgive, to be truthful, to worship the one God, to learn and grow in both spirit and character. All of those things are very personal. They require no politicians, poli... Scribes Seek Status 2017-10-05T09:19:12-05:00 Nothing is so unsettling to a social order as the presence of a mass of scribes without suitable employment and an acknowledged status…The explosive component in the contemporary scene is not the clamor of the masses but the self-righteous claim...