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Book Review: Michel Houellebecq - Submission
•�February 22, 2021
•�2,400 Words •�163 Comments
Michel Houellebecq - SUBMISSION (2015) Rating: 4/5 You can access all of my latest book, film, and video game reviews at this link, as well as an ordered, categorized list of all my book reviews and ratings here: Finally read Houellebecq's Submission a few weeks ago, filling in a major and hitherto embarrassing lacuna. He... Read More
Book Korenizatsiya in Ukraine & Belarus
•�August 25, 2020
•�800 Words •�67 Comments
The standard narrative is that the 1920s policy of korenizatsiya - the promotion of "national cultures" over the Russian one across the non-Russian republics of the USSR - was reversed in favor of Russification from the mid-1930s. However, at least so far as the book publications goes, this really seems to have been more of... Read More
Black Hundreds Return to Moscow!
"Listva" Bookshop Opens Up in Russian Capital
•�August 10, 2020
•�700 Words •�33 Comments
Black Hundreds CEO Dmitry Bastrakov giving the opening speech. On August 8, 2020 Moscow saw the opening of the bookshop Listva in Moscow. This is their first expansion outside the original Listva bookshop in Saint-Petersburg, where - incidentally - I had been invited to give a lecture on dysgenics last November. There will now be... Read More
Book Review: Richard Lynn - Race Differences in Psychopathic Personality
•�January 20, 2020
•�800 Words •�66 Comments
Richard Lynn - RACE DIFFERENCES IN PSYCHOPATHIC PERSONALITY (2019) Rating: 5/5 TLDR: Global survey of racial differences in psychopathic personality confirms the standard Rushtonian pattern of Negroids < Caucasoids < Mongoloids on the r/K life history scale. You can access all of my latest book, film, and video game reviews at this link, as well... Read More
Book Review: Arthur K. Kroeber - China's Economy
•�September 8, 2019
•�8,500 Words •�216 Comments
Arthur K. Kroeber - CHINA'S ECONOMY (2016) Rating: 4/5 TLDR: Comprehensive and very readable overview of Chinese economy from a China expert, with especially useful discussions on Chinese SOE's, financial system, and the validity of Chinese economic statistics (spoiler: They're fine). Learned some interesting new things from it, despite having already read a considerable amount... Read More
Book Density & IQ
•�March 13, 2019
•�200 Words •�20 Comments
Found this convenient summary table of the amount of books people had in their adolescence based on the PIAAC surveys. Sikora, Joanna, M. D. R. Evans, and Jonathan Kelley. 2019. “Scholarly Culture: How Books in Adolescence Enhance Adult Literacy, Numeracy and Technology Skills in 31 Societies.” Social Science Research 77 (January): 1–15. The Scandinavians are... Read More
Open Thread 70
•�March 12, 2019
•�1,000 Words •�256 Comments
Great to see Daniel Chieh check in, however briefly. RIP Guillaume Faye. I haven't read any of his books, but I really dig the aesthetics associated with his work. FWIW, I think Solar Imperialist has the best archeofuturism imagery on Twitter today. *** More notable posts since the last Open Thread in case you missed... Read More
Powerful Bookshelf
•�February 6, 2019
•�200 Words •�53 Comments
So I finally have all the books I own in one physical location. There's ~100 of them. My stock of physical books actually peaked in the mid-2000s, at ~500, before I left Britain for the US. The appearance of e-books and transportation costs-forced elimination of my more r-selected books has steadily whittled down that number,... Read More
Book Review: Best Books on WW1
•�November 10, 2018
•�600 Words •�294 Comments
While I have read quite a few books on WW1, only a couple really "stand out": Niall Ferguson (1998) - The Pity of War: Explaining World War I [download] does justice to its subtitle, boldly reinterpreting most of the standard narrative through vivid statistical argumentation. For instance, the claims that there was widespread enthusiasm for... Read More
Book Review: Joseph Tainter - the Collapse of Complex Societies
•�October 28, 2018
•�4,800 Words •�123 Comments
Joseph Tainter - The Collapse of Complex Societies (1998) Rating: 5/5 Notes: Can be downloaded here. Access my other reviews here: TLDR: Joseph Tainter argues that the root cause of civilizational collapse is because of over-investment into and declining marginal returns on complexity. Societies invest in complexity to solve their problems and typically need to... Read More
Remembering Slavyansk
•�October 6, 2018
•�800 Words •�205 Comments
Today I was at the presentation of Alexander Zhuchkovsky's new book 85 Days in Slavyansk [buy]. The author is a Novorossiya activist and humanitarian help coordinator who is based long-term in the DNR. Many of the big names in Russian nationalism were there: On the far left is Egor Kholmogorov (see our translations of his... Read More
GloboHomoBezos Purges Roosh V
•�September 11, 2018
•�700 Words •�64 Comments
Roosh V: Amazon Has Banned 9 Of My Books Without Explanation Is it just me, or is neoliberalism.txt really going on a rampage these past few days? (Just the other day, Sam Hyde's subreddit /r/milliondollarextreme was shut down; a few days before that, @jack finally purged Alex Jones from Twitter). Anyhow, I am aware that... Read More
Book Review: Vladimir Voinovich - Moscow 2042
•�July 29, 2018
•�1,300 Words •�13 Comments
Vladimir Voinovich (1986) - Moscow 2042 Rating: 2/5 TLDR: Good perspective on sovok-liberal Russophobia. Vladimir Voinovich died the other day. In the Anglosphere, this only seems to have been noticed by RFERL, where this Serb/Jewish literary dissident worked during his exile from the USSR in the 1980s. Like Solzhenitsyn, Voinovich opposed the Soviet regime -... Read More
Book Antireview: Karl Marx - Capital
•�May 1, 2018
•�300 Words •�77 Comments
Karl Marx - Capital. Rating: 2/10 I did earnestly try to read Capital on about three separate occasions in my early twenties, before I wised up and stopped wasting my time on a pointless historical relic. At a basic level, Marx is just a very poor writer, and I say this as someone who read... Read More
Book Review: Steven Pinker - Enlightenment Now
•�March 8, 2018
•�400 Words •�72 Comments
Steven Pinker - Enlightenment Now [buy; don't]. Rating: 1/10. My impression on getting through a third of Enlightenment Now is that it was essentially a summary of Better Angels, followed by running commentary on the graphs from Our World in Data and Gapminder. But I don't begrudge him for that, since I agree with him... Read More
Italian Book Readers
•�January 16, 2018
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Jumping Off the Amazon Ship
•�September 17, 2017
•�900 Words •�48 Comments
I have finally had it with Amazon. No, I am not talking of Bezos deleting 1 star reviews of Hillary Clinton's new book on how the Russians are to blame for her losing to Trump. Though that's also a factor. It is firmly part of the globalist empire and the day when they start censoring... Read More
My Top 5 Most Influential Books (2017)
•�June 20, 2017
•�900 Words •�16 Comments
I wasn't asked, but I'll answer it anyway. Like Emil Kirkegaard, I would also like to preface this by noting that the order in which I read any particular book is also very important in terms of its "influence" by me. For instance, Arthur Jensen's The g Factor and Steven Pinker's Blank Slate are both... Read More
DLotK Progress: the Chapters
•�April 19, 2013
•�200 Words •�10 Comments
Just to confirm that progress on DARK LORD OF THE KREMLIN is in full swing, with about 40% of the first draft done. I am aiming for publication around October. Here are the chapter titles to whet your appetites - as you can see, I spare no tired trope when writing about the Putin kleptocracy.... Read More
Books I Will be (Re-)Reading While Writing My Own
•�September 8, 2012
•�200 Words •�11 Comments
It's already a pretty big list, so I won't be taking nominations for more. I hope to write reviews of all of them as they're (re)read. The Return (Daniel Treisman) - the best Russian politics books out there. 5/5 Armageddon Averted (Stephen Kotkin) - TBR (to be read) Putin (Chris Hutchins, Alexander Korobko) - TBR,... Read More
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Anatoly Karlin
About Anatoly Karlin

I am a blogger, thinker, and businessman in the SF Bay Area. I’m originally from Russia, spent many years in Britain, and studied at U.C. Berkeley.

One of my tenets is that ideologies tend to suck. As such, I hesitate about attaching labels to myself. That said, if it’s really necessary, I suppose “liberal-conservative neoreactionary” would be close enough.

Though I consider myself part of the Orthodox Church, my philosophy and spiritual views are more influenced by digital physics, Gnosticism, and Russian cosmism than anything specifically Judeo-Christian.