The Diorama Builds Itself
A cartoon about the year 2300 is actually a museum exhibit under construction right now, by the same kind of person who built all the ones we’ve since apologized for open.substack.com/pub/chris…
Praying With Your Fists Up
Punching down was supposed to mean punching the powerless. Follow the rule far enough and it turns out to be a religion instead open.substack.com/pub/chris…
Nothing Comes In or Out
On toil, Etsy, and why every disruptor eventually becomes the guild it once broke open.substack.com/pub/chris…
I had no clue that John passed away on the day I randomly posted a No Agenda Show primer. Quelle coïncidence. Crazy.
Push The Button, Chucklehead open.substack.com/pub/chris…
I’ve been watching No Agenda since 2008—and I’m a Knight—and I just discovered that my beloved John C Dvorak passed away days ago. Live on the show. Right now. Love you, Brother. Miss you already.
If you really do want full acceptance, try not being such an insufferable dick all the time to everyone.
The #DSA Isn’t Confused. It’s Correcting.
Give them this much: they figured out what went wrong, and they fixed it. open.substack.com/pub/chris…
Simple: yank all federal funding: “Republicans in House DOGE subcommittee excoriate a Smithsonian administrator” www.npr.org/2026/07/2…
The Parasite Was Always the Insurgency
A year ago the accusation was “hostile takeover.” Now it’s “parasite.” Same charge, new noun, same people making it. open.substack.com/pub/chris…
Unlimited Shrimp For All
Damola Adamolekun for President, 2028, or the closest thing the Constitution will let him have. open.substack.com/pub/chris…
Papers, Please
America is the only country on earth that thinks a membership check is a manhunt. open.substack.com/pub/chris…
Who the Fuck Is “We,” Kemosabe?
On the collectivizing pronoun, borrowed crowds, and the difference between “I” and everyone you’ve drafted without asking open.substack.com/pub/chris…
Is America the Dad with the Timeout or the Belt?
On planks, whistles, Göring memes, and the gap between a threat and a follow-through open.substack.com/pub/chris…
Push The Button, Chucklehead
A completely remedial explanation of the No Agenda six-week cycle, with a Berlin origin story and a Lost joke you didn’t ask for open.substack.com/pub/chris…
The Window Was Closing
Why the 2022 invasion looks less like conquest and more like a country racing a deadline open.substack.com/pub/chris…
Nobody Put You In The Water
Why “debt slavery” is the wrong metaphor, and what scuba training teaches you about arguing with someone who’s already panicking open.substack.com/pub/chris…
The False Choice
Why “pick the Nazi or pick the socialist” is a trick question, and Americans were never on that menu open.substack.com/pub/chris…
The Balloon We Keep Inflating
We didn’t solve mortality. We just found more efficient ways to postpone the correction open.substack.com/pub/chris…
Super-surprised it’s taken so long
Federal agents around the country were told in recent days that the F.B.I. would no longer investigate confrontations with immigration agents www.nytimes.com/2026/07/1…®i_id=68038104&segment_id=223365&user_id=43b188223c20b83024b329424895e8df
Homelander Trump
Why the mask came off, and why it was never a guardrail to begin with open.substack.com/pub/chris…