Author Archives: The Political Hat

     There will be no posting this coming week due to real life, though thankfully this time no funeral is involved. Until the week after, enjoy this kitten cam.

Posted on August 15, 2025 by The Political Hat | 1 Comment

Quick Takes – Lowering Consciousness: Punching Hippies; Spiritual Anti-War Covenant; Relationship Anarchy

Posted on August 14, 2025 by The Political Hat

     Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.      The focus this time: Flower power was a mistake.      First, a little mood setting:      Carrying … Continue reading →

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The Other Long March

Posted on August 12, 2025 by The Political Hat

     Maybe there is a reason why many on the modern Right want to “fight like the Left” to the point of embracing not just Leftist tactics, but Gramscian frameworks and Marxist analysis. As Logan Lancing considers, quoted below due to … Continue reading →

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News of the Week (August 10th, 2025

Posted on August 10, 2025 by The Political Hat

  News of the Week for August 10rd, 2025

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Firing Line Friday: A Look at the Hillside Stranglers

Posted on August 8, 2025 by The Political Hat

     In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.      Crime and violence are a perpetual concern, and forty years ago society was still realing from serical killers … Continue reading →

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Quick Takes – Queering Academia: Queer Marine Biology; Queer Archeology; Queer Dictionary

Posted on August 7, 2025 by The Political Hat

     Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.      The focus this time: Ain’t no straight truth here.      First, a little mood music:      Carrying … Continue reading →

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Not Quite GamerGate Redux

Posted on August 6, 2025 by The Political Hat

     It is a bemusing thing when R. Stacy McCain praises a feminist for a feminist political win.   Yet that is what happened over a story of video games, a TERF vs. transgender battle, and online doxxers.      There are substantively … Continue reading →

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Marxism, Western vs. Eastern

Posted on August 5, 2025 by The Political Hat

     Karl Marx was disproven back in the 19th Century. Attempts to correct all those errors while saving the sacrosanct conclusion quickly divided into a “Western” way and an “Eastern” way, as James Lindsay explains, which is quoted in full below … Continue reading →

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With Bureaucracy, Form Follows Function

Posted on August 4, 2025 by The Political Hat

“What a tangled web we create “When we first practice to regulate!”      There are few things in life more burdensome than red tape and bureaucracy. However, fixing this problem is easier said than done. It is a minimalist folly to … Continue reading →

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News of the Week (August 3rd, 2025)

Posted on August 3, 2025 by The Political Hat

  News of the Week for August 3rd, 2025

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