My novel: Pilate's Magician: A Novel of the Resurrection is out on Amazon. And yes, it's quite good. Substack: https://xitter.gq/t.co/pkoms5VTD6
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Michael Wade retweeted
As if we needed something else to convince us that the elites are FUBAR.
If one wanted to understand the ills plaguing classical music today, the firing of conductor Andris Nelsons from the Boston Symphony Orchestra earlier this year is a good place to start. The industry’s identity-obsessed administrators and its misguided struggle for “relevance” are both prominent in the BSO-Nelsons saga. The episode epitomizes the loss of core purpose not just in classical music but in the Western art tradition writ large.
My latest from @CityJournal: city-journal.org/article/cla…
Michael Wade retweeted
Nimrod The Hunter by Edward Elgar. Beautifully played.
Gets me every time.
Lest we forget.
Michael Wade retweeted
“The resolution says Iron Dome, bomb shelters and early-warning sirens is disproportionate. It urges Israel to share its defense systems with Gaza.”
1945: World urges US to share the atomic bomb with Germany and Japan.
The UN has become a clearinghouse house for every lunatic eliminationist idea aimed at one single country. It serves literally no other purpose than graft at scale. How else do you consciously ignore that Hamas built hundreds of miles of tunnels that could have been used as bomb shelters instead of hiding places for Hamas?
🚨 UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY PASSES RESOLUTION ON ISRAEL'S "DISPROPORTIONATE DEFENSE"
By a vote of 143 to 9, the General Assembly has called on Israel to address its "unfair defense advantage," pointing to the gap between Palestinian and Israeli death tolls.
The resolution says Iron Dome, bomb shelters and early-warning sirens is disproportionate. It urges Israel to share its defense systems with Gaza.
Ambassador Lukas Fenn said: "Peace requires fair balance. When one side loses 75,000 and the other only 1,200, we need to ask why. Protecting Israeli civilians while leaving Palestinians exposed raises serious questions about proportionality."
Michael Wade retweeted
The thing that was so disturbing about that woman reading her disgusting poem about Charlie Kirk was her smug certainty that she was that she would be applauded by her peers for it. Same with Dave Chappelle: This was a punch line in front of tens of thousands of people. These aren't isolated incidents. We have a culture on the Left that believes political opponents should be killed and when they are, it's funny.
Michael Wade retweeted
Self-publishing is pretty much the only option.
About 70% of publishing professionals are women.
Because agents and editors tend to select books they personally relate to, an increasing number of male authors are being sidelined in the publishing industry, resulting in an overwhelming number of female protagonists on our shelves—and a dearth of male ones.
No wonder young men are no longer reading.
Michael Wade retweeted
Daniel Cox at AEI’s Survey Center on American Life has an interesting research finding that two-thirds of young Democratic women believe that the problems facing women today are largely caused by men, observes @aaron_renn
The manosphere is widely critiqued for blaming men’s problems on women. Undoubtedly there are things to critique here. But there’s very little pushback against the likewise broad or even broader phenomenon of women blaming their problems on men.
Michael Wade retweeted
Today is the 109th anniversary of one of the worst disasters to strike human civilisation. Lenin's Bolshevik putsch in Petrograd, which overthrew Russia's first democracy and began 70 years of murder, theft and persecution. Imperial Germany arranged this event and paid for it.
Michael Wade retweeted
A few years ago, jarred by a tragedy, I set out on a road trip across America with no schedule and no idea when I'd return. In Arizona, early in the trip, I met a Hopi man who'd lost his wife in a terrible accident and been wandering ever since. He wished me well but warned me not to travel for too long. I asked him what "too long" was.
"When you stop feeling homesick, you've been away too long," he said. "Make sure to turn back while you're still homesick."
This book is the true story of that two-month journey and the surprising things I learned along the way, some of them difficult, some profoundly hopeful. It will be published in June but you can preorder it now, and I hope you will. It helps a book catch on.
I wrote it for you, about us.
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Michael Wade retweeted
🇲🇫 🇬🇧 6 novembre 1958, le Général de Gaulle remet à Churchill la croix de la Libération : « Je tiens à ce que Sir Winston Churchill sache ceci : la cérémonie d’aujourd’hui signifie que la France sait ce qu’elle lui doit. »
De retour au pouvoir en mai 1958, de Gaulle décide à titre exceptionnel, et en témoignage de l’estime qu’il lui porte, de rouvrir l’Ordre de Libération pour Winston Churchill.
Le décret, signé le 18 juin 1958, est un hommage : « Comme Premier Ministre de Grande-Bretagne, au moment du pire danger couru par l’Europe, a inspiré et dirigé la résistance de son pays et contribué, par-là, d’une manière décisive à sauver la liberté du monde. […] »
Le 6 novembre, à l'hôtel Matignon, après avoir prononcé les paroles rituelles : « Nous vous reconnaissons comme notre compagnon pour la libération de la France, dans l’honneur et par la victoire », de Gaulle décore Churchill.
À l’issue de la cérémonie, le Général Ingold, chancelier de l’ordre de la Libération, remit aussi à Churchill une croix de Lorraine en cristal.
Michael Wade retweeted
On the 16th June 1941, after almost a whole year of Britain and her imperial family fighting alone as the only major power;
Winston Churchill broadcasted to the world,
“And now the old lion with her lion cubs at her side stands alone against hunters who are armed with deadly weapons and impelled by desperate and destructive rage.
Is the tragedy to repeat itself once more? All no! This is not the end of the tale. The stars in their courses proclaim the deliverance of mankind. Not so easily shall the onward progress of the peoples be barred. Not so easily shall the lights of freedom die. But time is short.
Every month that passes adds to the length and to the perils of the journey that will have to be made. United we stand. Divided we fall. Divided, the dark age returns. United, we can save and guide the world!”
Michael Wade retweeted
About 70% of publishing professionals are women.
Because agents and editors tend to select books they personally relate to, an increasing number of male authors are being sidelined in the publishing industry, resulting in an overwhelming number of female protagonists on our shelves—and a dearth of male ones.
No wonder young men are no longer reading.
Michael Wade retweeted
Is there a widely known phrase/slogan/philosophy more at odds with human nature than “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need”?
Michael Wade retweeted
Woke 2.0 is going to be hell. If you haven't yet read "Live Not By Lies," now's the time to do so. I had hoped this 2020 bestseller had become outdated with Trump's 2024 victory. Guess not.
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Michael Wade retweeted
Why are all the people who were warning of fascism suddenly bragging about the coming show trials, reeducation camps, and nationalization?
Michael Wade retweeted
The most amazing, heart-breaking, dramatic start to any documentary series ever. TV at its finest.
Michael Wade retweeted
Apparently, being cited by someone on the ‘hard right’ is now enough to make you guilty by association.
That is the Guardian’s case against me. It has published an article about my opposition to the Church of England’s £100 million slavery reparations scheme, smearing me through supposed links with Restore Britain and associating our campaign with wealthy financiers.
Yet its evidence of my ‘hard right’ connections amounts to a Restore Britain paper citing my work. As for Paul Marshall, he has never funded our campaign.
What about my arguments against reparations? What opposing reasons and evidence did the Guardian offer? None whatsoever.
Read my response to the Guardian at The Biggar Picture: nigelbiggar.co.uk/p/my-answe…
Michael Wade retweeted
I am speechless. Thomas Aquinas College just dropped a study on the rigor of the new SAT.
It compares the 1980/87 test with 2026. The findings should terrify every parent and teacher...
Vocabulary has collapsed.
Old SAT: 70.6% of questions tested vocab.
New SAT: 15%.
The old test forced students to know a wide range of words through analogies, antonyms, and sentence completions. The new test abandoned that. Most vocab questions now just ask students to fill in one blank from context.
Reading passages also got radically shorter (average ~97 words vs 300–340).
The new test uses short expository passages and hands you the necessary background knowledge inside the text. The older tests leaned much more heavily on argumentative and persuasive writing, assumed far more historical, scientific, and cultural knowledge, and penalized students who lacked it.
This is a redefinition of what "college readiness" means.
If you believe that kids should develop rigorous vocabulary, be capable of sustained reading, and possess background knowledge, I have bad news for you. The SAT no longer measures these.
If you want a future where children can actually read difficult texts and construct complex arguments, the SAT must be replaced now.
This cannot go on.
We were concerned that the SAT has become a less reliable measure of student preparedness for a rigorous college curriculum.
So, we commissioned a study from Johns Hopkins University. What does this study tell us about the state of higher education?
The results are shocking. thaq.co/4iLThZ0
Michael Wade retweeted
Yesterday I was talking with an economist. A genuinely sharp guy.
We ended up agreeing on a conclusion that isn't comfortable: Europe and the West are down to two scenarios.
Scenario one: communism gets defeated within the next 5 years. We finally do what has to be done on immigration and on the economy. It will be hard, really hard. But better a horrible ending than horror without end.
Scenario two: communism wins. And right behind it, most likely, Islamic tyranny. Not in 50 years. Soon after.
There is no in-between. No "it'll sort itself out," no lukewarm third way where everyone keeps their little comfort zone.
What fascinates me is that the vast majority of people don't see this at all. They're living through this period as if it were just another political cycle.
But there's good news. The people who've been sounding the alarm for 20 years were right. They were called crazy, doomers, prophets of decline. And every month, reality proves them a little more right.
The faster people realize this, the further ahead we get.
Waking up is already half the battle.
