De ClarkeThe Ethno-State: blessing or curse?[Note: while I was struggling for days on end with this article, editing and dithering, I noticed that someone else has been thinking along…17 min read·Dec 18, 2023--2--2
De ClarkeYet Another Not A Drag Queen… some musings on moral panics, projection, and patriarchy.13 min read·Nov 20, 2023--1--1
De ClarkeThe Bronze Age BacklashThe New Far Right International — perhaps we might call it the International Fascist Tendency? — is making headlines worldwide. While…17 min read·Nov 18, 2023--2--2
De ClarkeUnstable Diffusion: stochastic terrorism and turbulent priestsWell, by now everyone’s heard about it and everyone’s talking about it. In Lewiston, Maine (Maine!) an angry white man — with an online…7 min read·Oct 28, 2023--5--5
De ClarkeIn Praise of My Native TongueEnglish is a lot like a rambling old mansion that has been added on to ad hoc, over generations upon generations… so that every possible…4 min read·Oct 25, 2023--1--1
De ClarkeScreening Sociopaths (another modest proposal)Ingredients of this essay include Fallon’s The Psychopath Inside (a very interesting book, by the way, which I highly recommend) — and…9 min read·Oct 23, 2023--2--2
De ClarkeA Headline From Our Timeline? or, How Weird Can Things Get?Young Dirtifarians at Tampa Rally — Midjourney, prompt by author13 min read·Sep 2, 2023--1--1
De ClarkeThe Politics of YeastIn the last couple of years the US Far Right seems to be suffering from a full-blown gender panic attack. Their outrage at any deviation…9 min read·Mar 20, 2023----
De ClarkeThe Woke ScareElon is not the only right-leaning member of the online chatterati experiencing a frisson of existential fear as he contemplates…6 min read·Jan 22, 2023--2--2
De ClarkePopper’s Paradox and our Present PredicamentKarl Popper is famous for a number of publications and ideas, but the one that has lodged most firmly in my head over the years is what is…6 min read·Nov 7, 2022--2--2