The last few weeks have been and the next few will be the most chaotic of the year for me. I’ve been traveling recently (e.g., Mississippi and Colorado), and this week is the most important in the history of my day job at the Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism. Big things happening! Unfortunately, I’m not yet at liberty to discuss the good news from the Clemson Institute, but I can say it’s transformative. (The big reveal will come in parts over the course of the next few months.)

I’ve also been working with my team at Loco-Foco Press to get an excellent new book on economics published sometime—I hope—in the next few weeks; I’ve been working on a couple of new academic articles that have passed their deadlines; and I’ve been working on putting together a primary source “reader” on The Political Thought of the American Revolution.

Anyway, now that I’ve finished my recent series of essays on the core principles of a free society (e.g., property, contracts, commerce, and trust), I plan to write a series of essays on the role of altruism and self-interest in Western moral thought. I need a few weeks to do some reading and writing to get the series launched.

Bottom line: I need to take off a couple weeks at The Redneck Intellectual to focus on getting my house in order and finishing some major projects related to my day job. I hope you don’t mind me taking a short vacation.

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Over the course of the last month or so, I’ve been converting my long-form essays at The Redneck Intellectual into audio files (read by a nice sounding Englishman). My hope going forward is to have all my long-form essays converted into audio files, which will be available to paid subscribers.

To that end, I thought it would be fun to reprise the essays that first launched The Redneck Intellectual four years ago—my essays on the Bronze Age Pervert (BAP) and his followers.

If you’d asked me five years ago if I thought I’d ever write four essays (not 14 as BAP claims) on an internet troll pseudonymously named named Bronze Age Pervert, I would have told you that you were crazy! I wrote these essays as a public service announcement to conservatives, libertarians, classical liberals, Objectivists, and all decent men and women to alert them to the fact that they had lost a generation of young people (particularly young men) to an infantile huckster who spouted an equally infantile but dangerous philosophy.

Nor did I think these essays would be as popular and controversial as they seem to have been. Mr. Pervert has made me his Public Enemy No. 1 (he won’t stop talking about me on his podcast), and his followers have sent me hundreds of nasty-grams over the course of the last four years. BAP continues to slander me on his podcast by claiming that I have doxxed several of his followers, and he has even accused me of extortion. This bizarre claim is 100% demonstrably false, and he knows it.

In what follows, I’ve linked to both the original essays and to their audio files. Since I first published these essays in 2020 and early 2021, several thousand new subscribers have joined our merry crew here at The Redneck Intellectual. For new subscribers, these essays will seem like they’re brand new. For those of you who have already read them, you can now listen to them on the treadmill or on your drive to and from work.

Enjoy! See you again in a couple of weeks.

1. The Pajama-Boy Nietzscheans

2. Bronze Age Pervert and the Fascist New Frontier

3. German Nihilism, American-Style

4. The BAP Boys and America

Please remember that going forward, only paid subscribers will have access to the audio files of my long-form essays. I hope that’s a gentle enough way to encourage all of the free subscribers—particularly the long-time free subscribers—to sign up for the paid subscription. I hope you’ll view it as trading value for value.

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"Young men seem to be motivated, not so much by a specific issue, but by their resentment of the current culture. If true, the upcoming elections will express the 'Breitbart Doctrine,' named after the late conservative journalist Andrew Breitbart. This doctrine states 'politics is downstream from culture.' To change the politics of a society, you must change its culture because politics originates from culture which, in turn, originates from the values of individuals who constitute society. Simply stated, if a person’s values and culture are transformed, his politics transforms accordingly.
    "The culture surrounding young men is dramatically different from that of their fathers, and the change has not been kind. The Brookings Institute notes, 'Young men increasingly feel as though they have been experiencing discrimination.' For decades now, prominent voices of political correctness, which is now called social justice, have blamed men as a gender class for a long slate of social wrongs. And, for young men, the past few decades constitute all of their lives. This means they have heard about their collective guilt since birth, and it would be natural for them to feel resentful for being castigated as a class for social wrongs. Such young men are reportedly turning to Donald Trump as a symbol of more traditional and proud manhood. ... [!]"

   "Women need healthy and well-adjusted men to be life partners, loving family members, friends, good neighbours, co-workers, and the peaceful strangers you pass on the street. The last thing women need is to live beside a generation of resentful men who act on their resentment, especially if the feeling is justified."

~ Wendy McElroy from her post 'Ignore The New Power Demographic at Your Own Risk: Young Male Voters'