Missive #532 Published 15 July 2025
The Winning of the West was originally published in six volumes, with the first four volumes published by G.P. Putnam's Sons from 1889 to 1896. These are the first two volumes.
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Missive #531 Published 13 July 2025
Continuing The Federalist Papers.
Federalist No.51
The Structure of the Government Must Furnish the Proper Checks and Balances Between the Different Departments
Author: Alexander Hamilton or James Madison
To the People of the State of New York:
Missive #530 Published 12 July 2025
Written directly in english, You Will Not Replace Us ! is an attempt at summing up in a short book, for the english-speaking and international public, such works as Le Grand Remplacement (The Great Replacement), Le Petit Remplacement (The Little Replacement), Du sens (On Meaning), La Seconde Carrière d’Adolf Hitler (Adolf Hitler’s Second Career), etc. It is an introduction to the reflection of Renaud Camus, the French writer and dissident who has popularized such concepts as great replacement, nocence or davocracy.
Missive #529 Published 11 July 2025
95. Nasruddin and the Donkey-Boy
Nasruddin bought a donkey and was leading it home. On the way, a thief stole the donkey and left his young son in the harness.
When he got home, Nasruddin was surprised to see his donkey had turned into a boy.
“For my bad behavior, my mother cursed me to become a donkey,” the boy said. “But I repented, and now I’m human again.”
“Make sure you don’t misbehave in future!” Nasruddin said, sending the boy home.
The next day Nasruddin saw the same donkey at the market. “You bad boy!” said Nasruddin. “Didn’t I tell you to behave yourself?”
Missive #528 Published 9 July 2025
Bent's Fort was a landmark of the American frontier, a huge private fort on the upper Arkansas River in present southeastern Colorado. Established by the adventurers Charles and William Bent, it stood until 1849 as the center of the Indian trade of the central plains. David Lavender's chronicle of these men and their part in the opening of the West has been conceded a place beside the works of Parkman and Prescott.
Missive #527 Published 7 July 2025
The world is in the grips of mass formation—a dangerous, collective type of hypnosis—as we bear witness to loneliness, free-floating anxiety, and fear giving way to censorship, loss of privacy, and surrendered freedoms. It is all spurred by a singular, focused crisis narrative that forbids dissident views and relies on destructive groupthink.
In The Psychology of Totalitarianism, world-renowned Professor of Clinical Psychology Mattias Desmet deconstructs the societal conditions that allow this collective psychosis to take hold. By looking at our current situation and identifying the phenomenon of “mass formation”—a type of collective hypnosis—he clearly illustrates how close we are to surrendering to totalitarian regimes.
Missive #526 Published 6 July 2025
Continuing The Anti-Federalist Papers
Centinel XI
The Hobgoblins of Anarchy and Dissentions Among the States
by Samuel Bryan
To the Freemen of Pennsylvania
Missive #525 Published 4 July 2025
94. Nasruddin and the Hooligan
One of the local hooligans threw a rock at Nasruddin’s donkey. Nasruddin saw what the boy had done but, instead of yelling at him, he laughed.“You’re a very good shot!” Nasruddin exclaimed. “I’m impressed. But my donkey is not a worthy target for someone of your talent. You deserve a better target!”
Nasruddin then noticed the mayor riding by on his horse.
“Like the mayor, for example,” Nasruddin said, pointing.
The boy threw a rock at the horse’s rump, and when the horse reared, the mayor tumbled to the ground.
“Arrest that boy!” the mayor shouted.
Nasruddin just smiled.
Missive #524 Published 3 July 2025
Emmy-award winning gadfly Mike Rowe presents a ridiculously entertaining, seriously fascinating collection of his favorite episodes from America’s #1 short-form podcast, The Way I Heard It, along with a host of memories, ruminations, illustrations, and insights. It’s a delightful collection of mysteries. A mosaic. A memoir. A charming, surprising must-read.
Mike Rowe’s The Way I Heard It collects thirty-five fascinating stories “for the curious mind with a short attention span.” Five-minute mysteries about people you know, filled with facts that you didn’t.
Missive #522 Published 2 July 2025
Where others saw only sage, a salt lake, and a great desert, the Mormons saw their "lovely Deseret," a land of lilacs, honeycombs, poplars, and fruit trees. Unwelcome in Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois, they migrated to the dry lands between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada to establish Mormon country, a wasteland made green.
Like the land the Mormons settled, their habits stood in stark contrast to the frenzied recklessness of the American West. Opposed to the often prodigal individualism of the West, Mormons lived in closely knit – some say ironclad – communities. The story of Mormon country is one of self-sacrifice and labor spent in the search for an ideal in the most forbidding territory of the American West.