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The Last Reaction
The Wheel Turns, Ages Come and Go, And Thus Dies the Russian Reaction
• October 8, 2021
• 800 Words • 519 Comments
It was never my mission to pursue "activist" goals so much as to try to accurately understand and explain how the world works, and at best, play some modest role in informing the debate in those areas that I hoped could make use of some of my insights. From that perspective, my record of my... Read More
Open Thread 226
• August 15, 2023
• 100 Words • 951 Comments
Here’s a new Open Thread for all of you. To minimize the load, please continue to limit your Tweets or place them under a MORE tag. Meanwhile, I'd also recommend a couple of my recent columns about aspects of the current Presidential campaigns of Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Donald Trump, Eugene Debs,... Read More
Open Thread 188: Russia/Ukraine
• May 17, 2022
• 100 Words • 792 Comments
The previous Open Thread is approaching 1,000 comments and getting a little sluggish, so here's a new one. I'm embedding the videos of the recent Scott Ritter/Ray McGovern discussion as well as the Munk Debate featuring John Mearsheimer. ---Ron Unz
Open Thread 180: New Ukraine Thread
• March 12, 2022
• 100 Words • 21 Comments
Discussion continues at the next Open Thread. Please note that I am no longer involved in any capacity with this blog, which is henceforth known as the Russian Reaction Community. It will presumably be maintained at The Unz Review for as long as demand for it exists. As I mentioned before, all my "serious" commentary... Read More
Open Thread 179: Russia/Ukraine Cont
• March 9, 2022
• 495 Comments
Like it or not, but shock and disbelief is inevitable.
Open Thread 178: Russia/Ukraine
• March 4, 2022
• 472 Comments
The last Open Thread is getting very sluggish, so here's another one. Again, please use the MORE Tag to hide all but your first Tweet and otherwise keep the thread load manageable as long as possible. --- Ron Unz
Open Thread 177: Continuing Russia-Ukraine War
• February 26, 2022
• 100 Words • 931 Comments
The previous Open Thread focused on the Russia-Ukraine war has nearly reached 800 comments, and the large volume of Tweets and other embedded material has led to complaints of sluggishness, so I'm opening this new thread. In order to minimize such problems in the future, it's probably a good idea to use the MORE tag... Read More
Open Thread 176: Wrapping Up
• February 21, 2022
• 500 Words • 797 Comments
Russia has just recognized the LNR and DNR, the logical culmination of Russia's "Nationalist Turn" that identified as having been initiated under Putin by the late 2010s, as well as shorter-term predictions. As things stand now, we have: We have Putin openly calling Ukraine a Bolshevik-created fake state to universal Western shock and disbelief, openly... Read More
Open Thread 175
• February 16, 2022
• 100 Words • 569 Comments
The previous thread had become very sluggish and the Russia/Ukraine situation led Anatoly to publish his first new Substack column in several months: So here's a new Open Thread for the Karlin commenting commenting, with a few of the Russia/Ukraine comments relocated here from the end of the previous one. --- Ron Unz
Open Thread 174
• February 7, 2022
• 606 Comments
Here’s a new Open Thread for the Karlin commenting community. — Ron Unz
Open Thread 173
• January 18, 2022
• 1,079 Comments
Here’s a new Open Thread for the Karlin commenting community, jump started with a relocated comment from the previous thread. — Ron Unz
Open Thread 172
• January 1, 2022
• 1,025 Comments
As a New Year's present, here's a new Open Thread for the Karlin commenting community, jump started with a few relocated comments from the previous thread. --- Ron Unz
Open Thread 171
• December 13, 2021
• 971 Comments
Here's another Open Thread for the Karlin commenting community since the previous one has gotten very long and sluggish to load, jump starting it by moving a couple of the previous comments. — Ron Unz
Open Thread 170
• November 27, 2021
• 969 Comments
The previous Open Thread had passed 1,000 comments and was getting very sluggish to load. Since Anatoly is apparently very busy working on crypto-currency projects, I've gone ahead and opened this new one for his commenter-community, moving a few of the last comments over to it. --- Ron Unz
Open Thread 169
• November 4, 2021
• 1,020 Comments
There's apparently popular demand for a new Open Thread so here you go! Though I probably won't be checking up on the comments here much. I needed to recharge the past month. But I'll start writing much more frequently on the Substack from next Friday on.
Open Thread 168
• October 12, 2021
• 400 Words • 1,171 Comments
This is presumably my last Open Thread on Russian Reaction (posted on on A123's request). As I said in the previous thread, after 7 years of blogging, I will be leaving The Unz Review. Though my original intention was to focus on other, non-blogging related projects, there was such a large outpouring of demand for... Read More
Open Thread 167
• September 30, 2021
• 300 Words • 440 Comments
* In his latest newsletter, Adam Tooze points out that the Chinese government is asserting greater state control over the economy, including the power of Chinese business magnates to "cash out" of their holdings. In retrospect, this is perhaps the most logical explanation for the crypto crackdown. * Diana Fleischman has a good article in... Read More
Russia's Nationalist Turn
How Putin Created the Russian National State
• September 28, 2021
• 9,200 Words • 795 Comments
For the first time in more than a century, the Russians have a state that they can call their own, a state run by and for the Russian people - the hallowed "Russian National State" (RNS) that has been the holy grail of Russian nationalism in the post-Soviet era. At first glance, this seems like... Read More
China Isn't Going to Make It
• September 24, 2021
• 600 Words • 438 Comments
I have been a long-term China bull since I began blogging. Proof (2008). A lot of what the Western media was writing about China were based on Sinophobic fantasies that had no correlation with reality. Just to be clear, I am still a China bull, at least in the sense that I'm sure its GDP... Read More
Open Thread 166
• September 23, 2021
• 300 Words • 252 Comments
🇷🇺💪🇮🇳 * As usual, "real result" of United Russia would have been around 35% instead of 50% (and a simple majority instead of a Constitutional majority). But Western criticisms much less effective in the wake of analogous - if statistically implausible - claims about the 2020 US elections. * EVERGRANDE. I was a China bull... Read More
Megatsunami
• September 19, 2021
• 400 Words • 73 Comments
There's not much point worrying much over geological existential risks. They come too infrequently too be a major risk, and those that do occur more often, are not big enough to matter in the big picture. Still, if there's one risk that is both potentially highly destructive and occurs at a relatively high rate, it... Read More
Russian Elections 2021: The Thread
• September 19, 2021
• 400 Words • 155 Comments
For the past two days I have been awoken by loudspeakers in my neighborhood playing Soviet-themed music telling me to go vote in the elections in a radio announcer type voice. Here are the wealth of choices I have on offer in my district: Elena Gulnicheva, commie QT endorsed by Navalny's "Smart Vote". Incidentally, it... Read More
Open Thread 165
• September 16, 2021
• 300 Words • 300 Comments
Another pilgrimage to the Fortress Monastery. *** * AOMI. Robin Hanson: The Insular Fertile Future. Reproductively successful cultures are insular from the global culture. * Scott Alexander: Book Review: Modi - A Political Biography * AFGHANISTAN. Apparently internal frictions amongst the Taliban, with Pakistani-backed hardliners winning out and filling the Cabinet exclusively with Taliban (in... Read More
Woke Sexism: Women 2-3x More Likely to be "Targeted" for Crimethink
• September 16, 2021
• 1,100 Words • 140 Comments
Since the end of the Bush era, disinvitations and cancelation campaigns have become the near exclusive preserve of the Left, with the range of opinion warranting such attacks spreading beyond the traditionally taboo HBD/IQ nexus to encompass more and more areas, such as affirming the existence of physiological differences between the sexes. According to a... Read More
American Gas Burners, Russian Nuclear Starships
• September 16, 2021
• 1,000 Words • 41 Comments
mal comments on a post from last year: Well, there’s nothing wrong with current Russian commercial space program such – they are launching OneWeb satellites now and there’s a Korean one thats supposed to go on Angara. SpaceX does have more launches but thats because they launch their own Starlink constellation and Russian Sphere is... Read More
Homicide Rates in Africa
• September 16, 2021
• 200 Words • 22 Comments
Charles Murray was widely lambasted a few weeks back for this Tweet: Indeed, Sub-Saharan Africa isn't that bad according to official homicide stats. For instance, Burkina Faso and Benin claim 1.3 and 1.1 /100,000 homicides, respectively, per year (from UN Office on Drugs and Crime's International Homicide Statistics via World Bank). But Africa is a... Read More
Open Thread 164
• September 10, 2021
• 553 Comments
No Sovoks → 500 Million Russians
• September 4, 2021
• 400 Words • 303 Comments
Matt Yglesias might want a billion Americans. But there would have been 500 million Russians in the absence of the Bolshevik Revolution, as was predicted by Dmitry Mendeleev in a 1907 book. Putin, who it is now very clear reads my blog and Twitter, recently said as much himself in a meeting with schoolchildren in... Read More
Open Thread 163
• September 3, 2021
• 100 Words • 436 Comments
I was at the Army-2011 expo this week. Very cool, sort of like a military-themed Geek Picnic. *** * POWERFUL COMMENT. Thorfinnsson on the Japanese economy. * Adam Tooze: Chartbook #35: It's not the fall that kills you .... Afghanistan's looming triple crisis. "Afghanistan as a country where the costs of central governance exceed local... Read More
Ukraine Shuts Down Independent Media
• August 29, 2021
• 300 Words • 323 Comments
Since the start of this year, the Ukraine has mounted an accelerating campaign to shut down all "pro-Russia" (apostrophes because more often than not they're not so much explicitly pro-Russian, as merely less anti-Russian and more oppositionist than the mainstream) media. Examples include: This February saw the shutdown of three TV channels (112 Ukraine, NewsOne... Read More
Commie Anti-Vaxxers
• August 28, 2021
• 500 Words • 217 Comments
Politics is tribal. "Conservatism" is situational. And so you can get some "unlikely comic book crossovers" if looking at the world through country-specific ideological prisms. According to one recent poll, the most pro-vax Russians are United Russia (i.e. the most pro-Putin) voters, presumably reflecting the official state position which is and has always been pro-vaxx.... Read More
Open Thread 162
• August 26, 2021
• 300 Words • 299 Comments
*** AFGHANISTAN * The terrorist attacks today. The Taliban did free all those Islamist militants, not all of them would have been strictly suborned to the Taliban themselves. What's so surprising? * Notable foreign relations developments. Tajikistan has adopted a cold tone to the Taliban, accusing them of gong and has reportedly supplied the NRF... Read More
Open Thread 161
• August 21, 2021
• 100 Words • 323 Comments
*** * MUSTREAD. @pseudoerasmus thread on the history of the Taliban. * Steve Sailer on Pashtun proverbs. * Erik D'Amato: 20 Hungarian Lessons the West Is Still Missing * Noah Carl: Observations on Afghanistan * Lyman Key thread on Chinese TFR. We still don't really know what's going on there. * MUSTREAD. Philip Lemoine: Why... Read More
Where Are the Afghanis?
• August 20, 2021
• 1,100 Words • 160 Comments
The past is the best guide to the future, so there's no surprise that there is already a rebellion breaking out against the Taliban. Finding its core in the natural fastness of the Panjshir Valley, which foiled repeated Soviet attacks during the 1980s, the Northern Alliance is reconstituting itself under Ahmad Massoud (the son of... Read More
Taliban Rule Is the Democratic Will of 13% of Afghans
• August 18, 2021
• 3,300 Words • 348 Comments
It is true that Afghans probably have the highest "Islamism Quotient" in the world. Support for sharia, as Steve Sailer reminds us, is basically universal. He refers to a 2013 PEW poll, which Razib Khan and I had covered a few years back. Furthermore, 79% of Afghans who support sharia also support the death penalty... Read More
Afghanistan: 20 Years, $2 Trillion, 20 Days
• August 15, 2021
• 1,100 Words • 387 Comments
First thought is that the US spent 20 years and $2 trillion trying to build a democracy in a half-literate country of goatherders that disintegrated within 20 days. Think what you could have done with that (dependent on your preferences). "Green New Deal". Free college. 335 ship Navy. Mars base. This adventure must have set... Read More
It's a Zoomer's Market
• August 15, 2021
• 200 Words • 71 Comments
Like them, hate them, or consider them genderfluid TikToking herbivores, but one thing the zoomers undoubtedly get right is that they know the value of their labor and aren't afraid to spell out their conditions to seething boomers. Isn't this, like, the free market at work? Why would a supposed "libertarian" have a problem with... Read More
Rainbow Ascendant
• August 13, 2021
• 800 Words • 129 Comments
I mentioned this Ipsos poll on global attitudes to LGBT in a previous Open Thread, but it really deserves a separate post on account of its significance. I think it demonstrates three things: LGBT rights (as in marriage and adoption) have become universalized beyond their Western core, with the Rest sliding into line soon after... Read More
Open Thread 160
• August 12, 2021
• 400 Words • 217 Comments
*** * Emil Kirkegaard: The ‘Hereditarians bad people’ objection. On the recent spat between Cathy Young vs. Charles Murray, Steve Sailer, and other hereditarians. Ended with Steve being blocked by Cathy. * Hungary has become an object in the culture war. Their demographic problems long predate Orban, who was actually more successful on the economy... Read More
India in the Olympics
• August 2, 2021
• 200 Words • 289 Comments
It's fascinating to think that what is now a solidly lower-middle income country with a population that is on the cusp of overtaking's China's has just two medals in the Olympics so far. It's a bit less surprising when one considers that the average Indian man might only be about as strong as the average... Read More
Open Thread 159
• July 31, 2021
• 500 Words • 825 Comments
Rosatom HQ. *** * RIP. Sam Dickson: William H. Regnery II: A Hero’s Life. A Hero’s Death. I intersected with him in Moscow in 2018 at the end of a transit of the Trans-Siberian with a friend. Too little to get a know a person, but my impressions were positive, FWIW. On a non-political tone,... Read More
41% of Ukrainians Agree They and Russians Are One People
• July 28, 2021
• 100 Words • 266 Comments
These are the results of a recent poll from Rating Group. 41% agree with Putin's position, 55% disagree. Not bad, considering there's now been a generation's worth of state svidomy narratives. But possibly the most startling result (and certainly one that I didn't expect is there there's essentially zero difference across age groups. 44% of... Read More
Cultural Autonomy in Film
• July 24, 2021
• 300 Words • 345 Comments
Chinese protectionism/censorship (they only allow 34 Hollywood movies a year) has helped incubate a domestic film industry. As Richard Hanania points out, citing a study by James McMahon, that as of now, 9 out of 10 of the highest grossing films in Chinese history are domestic, all released in the last few years. Something like... Read More
Open Thread 158
• July 16, 2021
• 1,100 Words • 957 Comments
Time for something more stereotypical. *** * The AK. About a couple of months ago the National Bolsheviks ("Other Russia") had me round to their "bunker" for a podcast. It's now been released, you can listen to it here. (Obviously only in Russian). Alt Right columnist Tobias Langdon "featured me" as a Jew besmirching the... Read More
Innovative Immigrants. But Which Ones?
• July 14, 2021
• 200 Words • 169 Comments
America's ability to draw high quality human capital from abroad is one of the lynchpins of its economic strengths and probably goes some ways to explaining why it's GDP per capita is significantly higher than would might be predicted from its national IQ. Alexander Kruel recently had a Twitter thread about precisely which groups of... Read More
Navalny's Popularity on the Wane
• July 11, 2021
• 100 Words • 154 Comments
That's what I counselled people hoping for (or fearing) that a color revolution was imminent a few months ago: Look at the numbers. Well, since then, they have if anything plummeted further. 14% approval vs. 62% disapproval. Down from half a year ago. Furthermore, while young people are relatively more pro-Navalny (this is not surprising:... Read More
Vkusvill Jumps the LGBT Shark
• July 10, 2021
• 400 Words • 141 Comments
I wrote about Woke Capital making inroads into Russia after Netherlands HQ'ed Yandex.Taxi fired a driver who refused service to a rude Black foreign student last year. However, not all such corporate attempts to signal fealty to progressive values are paying off. Vkusvill is a nice chain of grocery stores that are somewhere in between... Read More
US Homicide Rate 60% Higher Than Russia's in 2020
• July 10, 2021
• 200 Words • 96 Comments
This translates to a homicide rate of 7.4/100,000 homicide rate using the US population of 332M as the denominator. I wrote about the history of the Russian homicide rates here. This is how the centennial comparison now looks like between Russia and the US after the latter's embrace of #BLM and community policing. US at... Read More
Open Thread 157
• July 9, 2021
• 500 Words • 254 Comments
*** * I think travel in much of Europe will remain significantly restricted as Delta makes its way from UK/Portugal to mainland Europe. * Nature - Mounting evidence suggests Sputnik COVID vaccine is safe and effective. But Europeans still not rushing to approve, with France being intransigent in particular. Seething over Sanofi failure? * Aeroflot... Read More
Rejecting Sputnik to Own Putler
• July 6, 2021
• 500 Words • 166 Comments
Yesterday the Levada Center released a new poll on vaccines that tends to confirm my contention that Russia's tawdry pace of vaccinations is not a result of supply constraints, but the banal fact that many Russians (including in older age groups) would simply rather catch Corona than get vaccinated. The first observation is that the... 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.