Strong Ideas Held Lightly
Peter Banks, Jacob SavageA collection of reflections, essays, and general detritus from the mind of Peter Banks.
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The manic pixie nymph of the early internet
I’ve been wanting to write an article on Curtis Yarvin for a while now. As a matter of fact, I’ve already written two full articles—one in 2024 and another in 2025—which I opted, almost certainly...
Land reform kills the aristocracy
that and the Industrial Revolution
So I’ve got a theory on ~aristocrats~ as a social class and I wanted to yap about it a bit. Because it is something that essentially no longer exists in the West — or most of the world writ large — but as...
Industrialized Feudalism
Why it worked was why it failed
I recently finished Ian Kershaw’s two-volume biography of Hitler—Hubris and Nemesis—and so I’ve naturally been thinking about WW2 a lot. As my wife can attest, I’m willing to talk anyone’s ear off about the...
Form-Tested Welfare
and other Kafkaesque horrors
About three years ago now, me and my wife purchased our Tesla Model 3 while living in California. Before this we had been using my Camry — Vivi — whose cries of pain whenever we used the brakes brought an uncom...
Who was the best US president?
Results of the community poll from Washington to Lincoln
For a while now I’ve been running a daily presidential tier list over on Notes — with everyone voting on rankings of S through F. We’ve just reached Lincoln, which puts us about a th...
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Husband | American | Boyd Institute President. Notes are for yapping. Essays are for thinking.
Jacob Savage is a ticket scalper and very occasional writer who lives in Los Angeles.
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