The Red Letter

Three Poems

Hush Hush A whisper runs through the crowd. Knife bless the secret. Spooks hiding, foot thick drag to conceal their military haircut. Take a slag off a…

Aug 17 • 

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July 2025

Solzhenitsyn and the Weaponization of Dissidents

The link to my article that was recently published in Covert Action Magazine

Jul 15 • 

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May 2025

Yellow

(In honor of October 1917)

May 22 • 

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April 2025

The Mustache Prophecy

A Meditation on Stalin’s Final Speech

Apr 21 • 

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Red Pilled?

Right-wing Suspicion as a Nascent Critical Impulse

Apr 7 • 

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March 2025

Subscribers!

Hello all,

Mar 16 • 

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February 2025

Syntheholica

Leftism Enmeshed in the Capitalist Structure

Feb 22 • 

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Scarlet Apologia

or Why My Cat is a Soviet

Feb 8 • 

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December 2024

Satan Claus

or Why Don’t Santa’s Elves Unionise?

Dec 16, 2024 • 

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August 2024

Fee Male

second sex second best

Aug 6, 2024 • 

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July 2024

Hitler and Hairbows

Kitsch aesthetics, rising nationalism, mental pathology…

Jul 5, 2024 • 

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June 2024

The Barfy Movie

Feminist Subversion or Corporate Advertising?

Jun 13, 2024 • 

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