I greatly appreciate your work and am happy to support you with a paid subscription. But I often feel like a bit of a chump when your excellent articles appear in City Journal well before they are available on Substack, such as "California Provides Sex-Change Procedures..." which was published yesterday morning at City Journal and was not available until today on Substack.
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Is the exclusive reporting you speak of here coming from non-Substack sources like the California Post or City Journal, or is some coming from your Substack itself, or is it something else?
Your question gets at something profound. Carl Jung would likely agree with much of what Howard Zinn said, though he’d frame it differently. Jung observed that when any idea, value, or system becomes too dominant in society—whether it’s technocratic control, bureaucratic “safety,” or a fixation on efficiency—its opposite inevitably rises with equal force. This is the law of enantiodromia: the pendulum swings. The more a system tries to seal itself off, the more the collective unconscious pushes back. What seems like closure today may actually be setting the stage for a strong counter-movement tomorrow. Zinn might say the same from a political lens: power feels most secure when ordinary people believe resistance is pointless. Jung would add that this very belief sparks the return of the repressed—the yearning for liberty, dignity, and real human connection that the system has tried to suppress. Both warn against fatalism. The current “closure” feels heavy because it’s so one-sided, but history and psychology suggest no such imbalance lasts forever. The resourcefulness of ordinary people—their refusal to be fully absorbed by the machine—hasn’t vanished. It’s simply waiting for the tension to snap. When it does, the opposite force Jung described won’t ask permission; it will just emerge. The task now is to stay aware, keep small freedoms alive, and be ready when the pendulum swings back.
You are kidding right? Your trump president is the most fraudulent president our country has ever had! Tell me, what has trump ever done for a butterfly? FN
Please look into Minnesota.
And New York anbd Massachusetts --probably has the longest history of waste, fraud and abuse plus cronyism on steroids.
They might as well call it the Stop Shirley and Rufo bill.
I greatly appreciate your work and am happy to support you with a paid subscription. But I often feel like a bit of a chump when your excellent articles appear in City Journal well before they are available on Substack, such as "California Provides Sex-Change Procedures..." which was published yesterday morning at City Journal and was not available until today on Substack.
We usually try to post the City Journal investigative articles on Substack the same day they're released over there; yesterday's report was an anomaly in being republished here one day late. Paid subscribers get access to exclusive content from Chris, such as his Friday newsletter, which includes his weekly news roundup and interview excerpts.
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Oregon. Please. Oregon.
Investigating JB Pritzker's reign as governor in Illinois would be far more fruitful. Please look into that.
Is the exclusive reporting you speak of here coming from non-Substack sources like the California Post or City Journal, or is some coming from your Substack itself, or is it something else?
Your question gets at something profound. Carl Jung would likely agree with much of what Howard Zinn said, though he’d frame it differently. Jung observed that when any idea, value, or system becomes too dominant in society—whether it’s technocratic control, bureaucratic “safety,” or a fixation on efficiency—its opposite inevitably rises with equal force. This is the law of enantiodromia: the pendulum swings. The more a system tries to seal itself off, the more the collective unconscious pushes back. What seems like closure today may actually be setting the stage for a strong counter-movement tomorrow. Zinn might say the same from a political lens: power feels most secure when ordinary people believe resistance is pointless. Jung would add that this very belief sparks the return of the repressed—the yearning for liberty, dignity, and real human connection that the system has tried to suppress. Both warn against fatalism. The current “closure” feels heavy because it’s so one-sided, but history and psychology suggest no such imbalance lasts forever. The resourcefulness of ordinary people—their refusal to be fully absorbed by the machine—hasn’t vanished. It’s simply waiting for the tension to snap. When it does, the opposite force Jung described won’t ask permission; it will just emerge. The task now is to stay aware, keep small freedoms alive, and be ready when the pendulum swings back.
You are kidding right? Your trump president is the most fraudulent president our country has ever had! Tell me, what has trump ever done for a butterfly? FN
As long as we apply the same level of scrutiny to Trumpian related fraud. Or are we operating a two tier system?
All Fraud Matters
That is true -- you should.