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Small-Scale Question Sunday for July 16, 2023

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Does anyone know of a good history of NRx, discussing the emergence of different strains of thought and where they’ve settled?

I suppose much of the culturally right-wing, nationalist branches were integrated into the alt-right and national conservatism movement, but what of neocameralism and the libertarian ethos of competitive governance? Peter Thiel, Patri Friedman, charter cities, etc.? Yarvin simply writes too many words for me to bother reading outside of certain exceptional pieces.

I vaguely remember there was a progressive author who wrote about the development of the very online / ‘alt’ right and while it was riddled with very stupid culture warring I seem to recall that as a straightforward history tracking various Twitter accounts, obscure blogs and online personalities it had some value.

Angela Nagle - Kill All Normies?

Yes, it's a polemic (mainly against centrist progressives, actually) but I recall it having a lot of good stuff about how obscure figures and movements kind of coalesced into the online right pre-2017.

I learned about it from Scott. But that was ten years ago, and didn’t cover any of the real expansion.

Yeah, I’ve read Scott’s two pieces from back in the day. I thought the piece you linked to was great, while the anti-NRx FAQ wasn’t his best work and did a disservice by not attacking his steelmanned version. Regardless, these pieces are nearly a decade old. I’m wondering where all the neocameralists went (Prospera?) and how the movement developed since then, considering it’s now basically disappeared as it’s own entity.