Rogue Learning: Iceberg Slim, Pimp
In my last “Rogue Learning” article, I conveyed the idea that you can learn just as much from a bad person as you can learn from a paragon of human […]
Literature
The Green Inferno of Napoleon Chagnon
It’s time for the second Manthropology video, since the first one seems to have gotten a pretty solid response…for the most part (relative to the meager audience I have, of course.) […]
Rogue Learning: Harry Flashman
A concept that I subtly interweave throughout this website is the idea that we are all “standing on the shoulders of giants”—in other words, that nobody is a perfect font of […]
We Were Already Living in Brave New World
In the last couple of weeks, it has been something of a big “human interest” story that people have been buying George Orwell’s 1984 en masse in a reaction to […]
The Cynicism of American Culture
Last week, I wrote an article discussing why the fabled “Great American Novel” will likely never come to pass. In said article, I posited that the main reason this is […]
There Will Never Be A Great American Novel
For a nation to truly be a nation and not just an economic zone of atomized individualists hustling for gold, it needs a shared culture; culture of course being any […]
New on ROK: How Effective Are Fitness Books?
Many people think that physical training and mental training are mutually exclusive. In fact, there is an enormous amount of fitness-related literature out there. And like most tomes, the majority […]
Masters of Doom by David Kushner
As my Youtube productions and a few of my prior articles have implied, I’m a fan of video games. My opinion on them hasn’t changed since my Shadow of the […]
The Art of the Deal by Donald Trump
Donald Trump has…been in the news a bit lately. While I had written a Trump-centric article before, and had of course paid attention to his presidential campaign, I wasn’t really familiar […]
The Coup by John Updike
In his life, John Updike was considered to be one of, if not the, premier American novelists of the 20th century-his Rabbit Angstrom books are still considered to be one […]