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Freedom House: Human Rights Abuse Against Satirists
•�January 17, 2018
•�400 Words •�29 Comments
Freedom in the World 2018 is out now: "Democracy in Crisis." This makes the deep state neocon goons who run that outfit very sad. My prediction from 2017: Last minute misgivings aside, this has indeed happened. While FH still thinks Civil Rights in the US are at 1/7 (where 1 is best and 7 is... Read More
Karlin Freedom Index 2012
•�January 24, 2012
•�1,000 Words •�26 Comments
This is the Karlin Freedom Index for 2012, a political classification system I formulated more than a year ago in response to systemic bias on the part of traditional "freedom indices" such as Freedom House and The Economist Democracy Index (hint: they give massive bonus points for neoliberalism and pro-Western foreign policy orientations). The explanation:... Read More
Is the US Still A Liberal Democracy?
•�January 23, 2012
•�800 Words •�23 Comments
In the years since 9/11, the US has built a mosaic of national security powers that undermine its claim to be the "land of the free." According to this useful summary by Jonathan Turley, these include: Assassination of its own citizens; warrantless searches; use of secret evidence and secret courts; the rise of an unaccountable... Read More
National Comparisons: Freedom and Security
•�April 5, 2011
•�6,500 Words •�15 Comments
In the first part of my series comparing Russia, Britain and the US, I am going to look at their levels of social freedoms. While political scientists go on about to what extent a country has "democracy" or "rule of law", this ignores that these arcane concepts have practically zero relevance to the everyday lives... Read More
Measuring Democracy I: Introducing the Karlin Freedom Index (KFI)
•�August 29, 2010
•�1,000 Words •�26 Comments
I've been meaning to make an in-depth study of the 3 major "freedom indices" - Polity IV (the most objective one), the Economist Democracy Index (fairly arbitrary) & Freedom in the World (a purely ideological project) - for more than 2 years now, but have yet to come round to it. Though it remains on... Read More
Philosophical Musings #2
•�January 28, 2010
•�800 Words
4. Freedom from fear, the only real freedom. Political scientists try to rank countries based on their levels of "freedom", frequently arbitrarily defined and applied (Freedom House, Economist Democracy Index, Polity IV, etc). Yet despite the inconsistencies and difficulties with quantifying something as abstract and intangible as freedom across cultural and civilization borders, for all... Read More
America's Liberty Cycles
•�September 2, 2009
•�2,100 Words •�6 Comments
This is my first follow-up post to The Belief Matrix, in which I attempted to advance a universal model for civilizational responses to subsistence crises (The Malthusian Loop) and the Western challenge (The Sisyphean Loop). The first country I'll apply this too is the US, because doing so will allow me to make several important... 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.