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October 2026
September 2026
Bouvard on Vance's Unacknowledged Carlson Influence
“The Vanceguard feels like it routed some enemies today and is whooping it up and high-fiving each other. It all seems to. be about those 10 Indian kids at the football game. Not a word about Vance's…”
Ritual, Juridical, Disciplinary
“For a while I have been working with the sequence of scenic articulation of ritual, juridical and disciplinary, and I think at this point it’s worth revisiting the tripartite division and see what…”
Bouvard on Immigration Enforcement Through Legal Strategy
“Before too long a leaner anti-immigration faction will show that you even get the demographic results you want not through mockery and generating outrage at 10 Indian students at a game but through…”
Bouvard on Sovereignty Superseding Identity Politics
“Sovereignty will always supersede "identity" ("identity" is ultimately a memory or fantasy of sovereignty) and if one identity is imposed upon sovereignty sovereign institutions will still have to…”
Bouvard on Vance's Antisemitic Circle and GOP Complicity
“I have no idea whether JD Vance will be the next president but I know that if he is we will have a president who is close friends with and, it seems, takes regular counsel from, someone who not only…”
Bouvard on Political Radioactivity and Unexplained Conversions
“Tucker Carlson emits a specific form of political radioactivity that causes damage and breakdown to political organs; also, no one in established political organizations wants to get close enough to…”
Bouvard on Tucker Carlson's Power Network
“There are lots of people who are laughing at Tucker Carlson now, but who took a long time to see what he was up to and offered sage advice to those who did to get on board it's the new media, man.…”
Bouvard on Vance, Carlson, and Groyper Politics
“Tucker Carlson is helping transfer the "America First" brand to the jihadi-leftist alliance and JD Vance is helping him do that. He obviously weakened his endorsement of Mike Rogers out of fealty to…”
Bouvard on Right-Wing Gangsterism and Antisemitism
“The part of the right wing that evolved out of the alt-right and infested the Republican Party has one fundamental principle: snitches get stitches. Gangsterism worked for the left, so why not for…”
The Expectant Scene and the Parahost
“I’ve used the term “expectant scene” a couple of times and will now spend a bit more time on it, within a broader context. The term itself is meant to compress and replace “stack of scenes,” which…”
August 2026
Bouvard on Trumpism Beyond Reagan Fusionism
“It may be that Trump just blew "fusionism" or "Reaganism" away without there being any real scrutiny of it, so all the assumptions about markets and limited government now need to be addressed…”
Bouvard on Bilateral Trade Agreements and Market Creation
“One simple way of looking at the question of tariffs is to remember that the US entered many multilateral trade agreements including many countries, presumably in the name of free trade. But why…”
Rehearsal and Metascene
“The only argument I ever made within GA that received some attention and rebuttal was my critique of Eric Gans’s concept of the “internal scene of representation.” My reason for making this critique…”
Bouvard on Human Specificity and Victimary Culture
“Cofnas has an opportunity to show grace under pressure along with an unyielding insistence on the truth before a wide and mostly hostile audience. His entire "posture" suggests he's been preparing…”
Bouvard on Reserve Currency and Democratic Exclusion
“Both sides in the dollar as global reserve currency debate insist (rightly) on the urgency of the question without mentioning that this existential issue has never been a subject of any democratic or…”
Bouvard on Trump Administration's Governance Limitations
“The limits of the Trump administration--not rapid enough deportations, no securing of elections, no prosecutions of deeps state conspirators, very little progress in breaking up leftist…”
Bouvard on Trump Administration Economic Policy Criticism
“Doordash-gate seems to be replacing burrito-gate. The Trump administration has made commitments to help raise living standards for Americans, and much of what it has done and is doing will help young…”
Bouvard on Iran's Geopolitical Purpose
“With all the people (and there are a lot) saying that Iran is really about China I don't think I have seen anyone explain what, exactly, needs to happen in Iran to produce what desired effect upon…”
Bouvard on GOP Purge and Neoconservative Factionalism
“The only goal of the Vancers is purging the GOP of "neocons," "Israel Firsters," etc. They don't care about Iran, "affordability," "postliberalism," or winning elections--losing might equally help…”
Bouvard on Leftism's War Against Language
“Leftism ultimately has to turn against language itself, because language is the deferral of violence and any utterance that isn't sending its listeners directly to join the sparagmos is…”
Totally Datatized Tributarianism
“I have written often about turning assets into data and thereby turning the “economy” (the entirety of exchanges with the center) into one of data exchange and I would like to flesh that out in the…”
Bouvard on Neoconservatism's Governance Intervention Limits
“Neoconservative foreign policy merely extended the implication of the Cold War that the internal governance of smaller states was the business of larger powers--you can say this contradicts or…”
Bouvard on Trump's Singular Political Position
“I think some Trump boosterism is in order. I see Trump supporters make the point that he closed the border and acknowledge his deportations (while also in most cases minimizing the achievement). But…”
Bouvard on Post-Marxist Leftism and Terror
“The left after Marxism might very well be pol potian. Violent imposition of absolute equality and the destruction of any relation to which historic injustice can be attributed, I.e., every relation.…”
July 2026
Bouvard on Vance Movement's Anti-Israel Rhetoric
“I think the Vancers (i.e., Carlsonites) are, under pressure, becoming more explicit and moving toward using the epithet "Israel Firsters" more often and discarding vaguer euphemisms like "neocon,"…”
Bouvard on Washington's Anti-Factionalism and Constitutional Reform
“George Washington was strongly opposed to "factions," i.e., the entire party system that emerged following his own presidency. Have any of the postliberals inquired into his objections, and…”
Bouvard on Aeneid Film Adaptation Potential
“There don't seem to be any significant film versions of The Aeneid, so the field's wide open and Virgil includes the kind of moral ambivalence many are complaining Nolan foists on the Odyssey. The…”
Bouvard on Vance, Carlson, and Political Taboos
“I see people inventing all kinds of new rules for why you can't point out that JD Vance is Tucker Carlson with some trimmings to make sure he's not too obviously out of sync with Trump. But no one…”
Bouvard on Vance's Vulnerability to Carlson Accusations
“Vance (uninstigated) took umbrage at people claiming that he takes his marching orders from Tucker Carlson without denying it or noting that Carlson himself seems to see things that way. This is a…”