Monthly Archives: July 2025

A Bad Trip with Leo Strauss: Review of Matt Pegas’s The Black Album

A pragmatic proposal for the reintegration of those too far gone. With the growing popularity of O9A and contemporary Discord spin-offs like Rapewaffen and 764, Pegas is attempting to mitigate the damage while appealing to these 4chan nihilists. There’s a hint of self-awareness in the first part of the book, during which he has a […]

What Can You Do Sometimes?

My asshole is bleeding. Not in some metaphorical sense—just the raw experience of blood dripping from it. It has a tendency to present at particularly trying times in a humiliating display of life’s dark, degrading humor. It initially occurred the morning after the first time I did cocaine. I was 21, and on New Year’s […]