BOOK REVIEW: Bodaciously True & Totally Awesome, Episode III: Danger Zone by Chris Orcutt

29 Monday Jun 2026

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Bodaciously True & Totally Awesome, Episode III: Danger Zone by Chris Orcutt

Review by Perrin Lovett

 

On Monday, April 21, 1986, millions of Americans tuned in to watch Geraldo Rivera open Al Capone’s vault. After weeks of hype and two hours of slow torture, we found out that the vault contained nothing. Remember that? Well, ready or not, it’s time to go back to 1986. And no one can take us there like Chris Orcutt. Bodaciously True & Totally Awesome, Orcutt’s nine-part epic novel about teenage life in the penultimate decade of the twentieth century, continues. Here follows a brief look at Episode III: Danger Zone. Unlike Capone’s, Orcutt’s ink-and-paper vault contains everything.

(Cover design by Victoria Heath Silk.)

*Orcutt, Chris, Bodaciously True & Totally Awesome, Episode III: Danger Zone, New York: Have Pen, Will Travel, 2026.

Chris Orcutt is the author whom many correctly regard as the American Tolstoy and whom I’ve previously called “the best American novelist alive today.” I’ve also proclaimed that Orcutt has joined the ranks of the greats—Homer, Ovid, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Pushkin, Gogol, Murakami, et al. Once again, with Danger Zone, he does not disappoint. With three decades of experience, Orcutt approaches his literature with a keen ear and voice, an impressive attention to detail, and an unswervingly creative imagination. Before this review commences in full, please consider the following bookkeeping items:

I hereby incorporate all points of my previous reviews of Bad Boy and True Blue as if each point were restated in full. Summarily updating a few of them for Danger Zone, I advise that the reader is still on a thrilling literary roller coaster ride. Avery “Ace” Craig continues to endear himself to readers. He is still the archetypal ladies’ man. Orcutt’s writing is once again perfect. And once again, the physical book is a monument to literary art. The philosophy, rhythm, and tone of the whole work play out seamlessly, a condition that will have the reader, regardless of his age, right there, participating in the excitement. Avery is still trying on spiritual or philosophical hats, as Orcutt puts it, some of them self-serving, see on or about page 252, but that is to be expected from a young man confronting adulthood in the decade when Generation X rose into full self-awareness. Finally, the reader had better be ready, because the endless parade of 1980s music rocks on! 

As with True Blue, Danger Zone contains a subtle shift. Orcutt keeps developing Avery’s world, but he slows down just a little, allowing his protagonist (and readers) to look around with a bit more concentrated focus. And right off the bat, your reviewer focused on something that is semi-palpable in the first two episodes, and which is now brought to light. Avery is a master of language. And he is overly gifted with hand-eye coordination. Therefore, I had previously found it curious that he struggles with two particular subjects in school. If one has read Bad Boy and True Blue, one might have caught it as well. I wasn’t going to mention it, but “Pa” did it for me. Just like I once did, Avery calls one of his grandfathers “Pa.” That’s cool enough as-is. But Pa, while entertaining one of Avery’s three hundred love interests, remarks about his grandson’s schooling. Sweet Penny goes right along: from around page 22:

[Pa]: “Your boyfriend here’s a pretty bright fella, but he can’t do Latin—”

[Penny]: “Or geometry—”

[Pa]: “To save his life…”

That’s the “what” of it; I’ll leave the “why” to the reader’s discovery and/or imagination, one of many, many things to think about.

While addressing unusual academic issues, Danger Zone does not shy away from examining various family dynamics. All of it is presented non-polemically as a series of scenes and dialogues. Some of it is charming, while other parts are a little disturbing. The reader will be reminded that we are as we are, sometimes with the caveat of “alas.” The reader will find great interest in Avery’s heated discussion with Penny’s father, among other items. A lot of the drama comes from Penny and Avery’s other girlfriends. Early in the saga, I had my hopes up for one particular romance, but… Let’s say that Orcutt delivers a script in which one cannot be exactly certain of what is about to happen, only knowing that whatever it is, it’s going to be good. And if one analogizes Avery’s love interests to baseball, then this episode might just be the inning when he hits that elusive first home run. Thrills abound, both new ones and carryovers from the previous episode. 

As I noted, the music we all remember rolls on. Here, I select two tunes for reference. At just the right time, Orcutt treats us to “Private Idaho” by the B-52s and, a little later, “Your Love” by The Outfield. I was going to mention that there’s a great video of Tony Lewis performing the latter song live in 2018. Ahem. But Orcutt has all that covered and more: each episode comes with a FREAKING AWESOME 80s playlist on Spotify. Groove along with Ep. III if one will. And one should. 

Danger Zone ends with another cliffhanger. The setup is very interesting, and we are left with our hero and two friends (yes, it’s Avery, so their women) literally hanging off a cliff. (Down a hill is like off a cliff.) The preceding scene is short and simple enough, and contains a modicum of foreshadowing. But the reader ends his reading on the edge of his seat—kind of like the characters. With six more episodes to go, it stands to reason that they escape. But as for how, we will have to trust the author. 

He’s earned our trust. And we will have to wait to find out. I mentioned it once before, but the pause between these titles is mildly vexing. But that’s an homage in and of itself; reading every episode is a great pleasure. Episode IV, Secret Lovers, will be released in October of 2026. And one day! One day, the whole book will sit on the shelf awaiting a full, non-stop reread. I trust you, gentle reader, have cleared a foot or so on the bookcase.

Spoiler alert! Danger Zone is a hair shorter than the previous installments. But that is more than okay, as, in my estimation, this episode slows down and focuses. It’s a win-win because, as the whirlwind abates just a little, and Ace and Company hone in on a few things, so too will the reader. I caught myself dwelling on details of all kinds. And I’m sure the reader’s experience will be similar. Remember Wall Street with Charlie Sheen? That movie flew by, but when it slowed a little, like when Gordon Gekko spoke to Bud Fox on the phone from the beach that morning, the scene packed an extra punch. If “money never sleeps,” then Avery Craig never loses. Cheer on his latest exploits in Bodaciously True & Totally Awesome, Episode III: Danger Zone. Once again, it’s a mandatory read.

Bonus! Here’s what BTTA looks like, as-is, and this is only a third of the whole book!

And good luck finding the coffee cup! 😉

14 Years and Counting

24 Wednesday Jun 2026

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Happy 14th blog anniversary.

2012 almost feels like yesterday, and it’s hard to imagine where the time went. Yet, we soldier on. Here, I will note that despite my cutbacks in posting, or maybe because of that, 2026 has already shaped up to be about the biggest and best year in blog history. Here’s to another … how ever many more years. And thank you, dear readers, for your visits!

Perrin

AURELIUS is Coming Soon!

15 Monday Jun 2026

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I just got the go ahead to debut the front cover, which is already on the sidebar and on the Books Page. The prequel to The Substitute, set roughly a year before that novel began, Aurelius is a hard-charging action novella with a few appended, related short stories. The title matter, along with the final story, finds the one and only Tom Ironsides blasting his way through a host of Epstein-esque baddies. They, of course, don’t stand a chance. Coming this summer from Green Altar Books.

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The Books Page, Etc.

14 Sunday Jun 2026

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My lazy summer days project, number 248, is to convert or merge the Perrin Lovett Books (.com) site into my Books tab here at the old blog. WISH ME LUCK! If all goes well and as planned — not that there is a plan… — then it will all be new and improved and so forth. And the …books-dot-com address will just reroute here. Or something. Under the new tab, as I envision it, each book cover will click over to a dedicated page for that title.

And not to give it away too early, but we’re coming up on another new title rather soonish! Stay tuned.

Quality improvements for you, because I care. ♥

BOOK REVIEW: Orthodoxy and the Kingdom of Satan by Father Spyridon Bailey

12 Friday Jun 2026

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Orthodoxy and the Kingdom of Satan by Father Spyridon Bailey

Review by Perrin Lovett

 

This review concerns an extremely important book, Orthodoxy and the Kingdom of Satan by Father Spyridon Bailey. I review less than ten percent of the books I read, and I fancy that all the works in that select tenth are important, entertaining, or both. Today’s subject book is that and more, the epitome of importance. Every single Christian and all people of goodwill who, in any way, stand against the rot of postmodernity should read it. Herein, without giving all of it away, I’m going to try to go chapter by chapter in an attempt to do it justice.

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Bailey, Fr. Spyridon, Orthodoxy and the Kingdom of Satan, Solihull, UK: FeedARead, 2017 (Kindle Ed.)

Father Spyridon Bailey is a priest in the Russian Orthodox Church in England. In addition to his pastoral duties, he has undertaken a popular public ministry with his Simple Path to God Podcast. His YouTube channel is a trove of information and inspiration; consider this recent reflection on the deception of worldly happiness. Blessed with a most sincere and pleasant conversational demeanor, he is also an excellent scholar and writer. Orthodoxy and the Kingdom of Satan is available at Amazon.

Take a close look at the Contents of Orthodoxy…, from the TOC, page 5: Introduction, War, The United Nations, Powerful Elites, The European Union, Freemasonry, Ancient Cults, Ecumenism, Zionism, Banking, One World Government, Education, Mind Control, Child Abuse, The Council On Foreign Relations, Christianity the Real Enemy [of the satanists], Evolution, Nihilism And Materialism, and Preparing For What Is To Come. The covered topics alone should warrant interest in the book. Know that they are arranged and presented in that order for a reason. Father Spyridon sets forth the problem confronting the faithful, walks through the machinations of the wicked that afflict mankind, ties them all together, and then provides the only sane and Godly summary advice for dealing with them. 

For the sake of space, I must focus specifically. The first four chapters get right to the heart of many of our troubles: war is a racket designed to foster power at the expense of lives; the UN was designed to supplant Almighty God and Christian morality; the elites are real and really dangerous; and the EU Parliament Building looks like the artistically depicted Tower of Babel for a reason. I note that in Chapter 4, on page 51, Father Spyridon explains what few know or care to admit: Washington, D.C. is, by Pierre L’Enfant’s original design, a giant Freemasonic-satanic temple. 

Chapter 5 deals with Freemasonry: “[A]n occult organisation opposed to the Church and its teachings. Freemasonry teaches that salvation is not achieved through Christ alone, but through a collection of esoteric practices, many of which are satanic.” (See page 54.) One might know a decent Freemason. One might even be a decent Freemason. But that does not change the literally luciferian nature of the order, its hierarchy, and its two gods, LUCIFER (the good) and Adonai (the bad). In this chapter, some of what Father Spyridon presents is as shocking as it is educative. Despite the protestations of some, Freemasonry is incompatible with Christianity. From page 64: “The higher degrees of Freemasonry contain teachings entirely based on the [Judaic] Kabbalah … and it is as a whole an occult system that uses images and symbols to re-enact a promise of resurrection by means of a Godless philosophy.” 

Chapter 6 delves into ancient cults, particularly as their lingering practices are connected to Freemasonry and other facets of the Enlightenment. Such cults have been at odds with the Church since the days of the Apostles. This chapter naturally flows into the next, which concerns Ecumenism. The goal of that movement is the redefinition of Christianity, from Christ’s Truth to a man-made message of worldly unity. (See page 75.) 

Chapter 8 concerns Zionism, “a nationalistic and racist movement that has been willing to sacrifice Jewish and Palestinian lives in order to achieve its political aims.” (See page 85.) Father Spyridon shows, as did Dr. Blake Alcott at the beginning of The Rape of Palestine, that the Zionist movement is older than many think. And it has politically conquered much of the West, including the near total subjugation of the U.S. to the point that any criticism of it is considered secular blasphemy. In this chapter, Father Spyridon explains the Talmudic subversion of the faith of the ancient, pre-Christian Jews. (See page 95.) He also gets into the links between Zionism and Protestantism and those between Zionism and Freemasonry. (See pages 97-99.) 

Chapter 9 concerns international banking and, as one might guess, the links between it and all of the foregoing wickedness. The reader will learn, as summarized on page 103, “how the bankers control governments, destroy international economies when it serves their own ends, and how they are working to create a system of control that will result in economic slavery of every person on the planet.” The power of the bankers over England and America is long and entrenched. On page 104, Father Spyridon includes a somewhat craven quote from Thomas Jefferson: “Slavery to a military force can be abolished by an opposing force of arms. But a debtor’s enslavement to a creditor, no weapons can overthrow.” As Jefferson and company were loath to include any reference to the true Trinitarian God in any of America’s founding documents, one wonders if they were familiar with the Biblical concepts of the Sabbatical and the Jubilee, not to mention the subject matter of Jesus’s first public sermon. Orthodoxy… was published just a few years before Russia, China, and the BRICS+ nations began their staunch opposition to the Western financial slavery system; their traditional, nationalistic replacement approach appears to be working very well for the greater part of humanity. Yet within the West, the enslaved are approaching the tedious end of the faux prosperity conjured by the bankers; Father Spyridon walks readers through the many steps and phases that led us to this sad point. What he presents, even to those familiar with the postmodern monetary and financial systems, is staggering. One very interesting point he makes is the blame-shifting concerning the financial disaster, from the malevolent bankers to their victims. To wit, on page 120, he notes: “Greeks were portrayed as a lazy, untrustworthy nation who were seeking debt forgiveness because of their selfish lifestyle.” That false characterization should sound familiar to U.S. student loan victims, and any borrowers slandered over the impossibility of their usurious financial condition. 

The imposition of debt slavery over so much of the human population leads directly into the next chapter, concerning attempts to establish a One World Government. Christians should not fear calling this evil what it is. (See page 125.) The proponents of globalism have not been quiet in extolling the inverted virtues they wish to impose on humanity. Father Spyridon includes quotes from Winston Churchill, James Paul Warburg, and others to this effect; these are reminders that, regardless of whether ordinary people notice, the wicked usually explain exactly what they are doing as they do it. 

Chapter 11, “Education,” kicks off with an informative quote from J.D. Rockefeller: “I don’t want a nation of thinkers. I want a nation of workers.” (See page 137.) The modern schools began as factory worker and soldier training camps where a child’s curiosity and capability was beaten out of him. They have since morphed into anti-Christian social experiments and pedophile hunting grounds. Father Spyridon’s experience here is personal, as he spent 14 years fighting the system within the U.K. schools. (Id.) He goes very deep into what shaped the schools, who was behind the intrusions, and the attendant results of the assorted subversions. He reminds us, on page 152, that, “The right to educate children must never be taken from parents, and the state must never be permitted to dictate the values and standards it believes supersede all other belief systems.”

“Education” naturally progresses into Chapter 12, “Mind Control,” and Chapter 13, “Child Abuse.” Both of these satanic phenomena stem from the operations of the elites, their governments, and the intelligence agencies within those governments. Numerous examples, from television to pornography to lgbtP predation of children, are provided. Many of them are deeply disturbing. 

The Council on Foreign Relations, as Father Spyridon argues on page 186, Chapter 14, serves as an intermediary between the foregoing groups and their dark works. Chapter 15 explains that the true enemy of the satanic world disorder is Jesus Christ and His Church. The following chapters cover the effects of Darwinian Evolution and Nihilism, two sides of the devil’s coin. The former severs man from his traditions, and the latter renders the individual a being of nothingness, ever ready to be deluded and captured. 

Father Spyridon’s final chapter, 18, “Preparing For What Is To Come,” reassures Christians that we are fighting in a spiritual war. (See page 224.) “Our struggles here in time in this world will determine our eternal condition, and so we must reject the temporary comforts that tempt us from taking up our cross. Let us open our eyes to what is happening, let us recognise how Satan is working against us with every weapon his kingdom provides.” (See page 231.) Orthodoxy and the Kingdom of Satan is a masterfully compiled litany of those weapons. And rather than giving in to despair when confronted with the dreadful arsenal, the book and its author valiantly leap to defend the Christian Faith and those who adhere to it.

As I noted, Orthodoxy and the Kingdom of Satan will be an invaluable resource for any Christian or anyone else who wants to make sense of the current age of death, slavery, and doom. Regardless of one’s views on eschatology, one must realize at this very late hour that something, many things, in fact, have gone dreadfully wrong. Given the magnitude of what has happened to us all, even an honest atheist should admit, in the total absence of religious considerations, that there now exists a system of total degradation and control that threatens every corner of the world. Father Spyridon’s book is a no-holds-barred look at what has happened, and is a strong encouragement to take up the fight against evil. Please make reading it a high priority.

Once again, I am grateful to the esteemed Jose Miguel for recommending this excellent book. Please read some of Jose’s thoughts, some of the most learned and coherent going today.

Pokemon was WAY Worse Than Originally Thought

11 Thursday Jun 2026

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WAY worse. From RT:

Ground-level footage from around the globe which millions of Pokemon Go users gathered over the years was likely fed to the US military, augmenting its satellite mapping for potential use in warfare, Google whistleblower Zach Vorhies has told RT.

Released in 2016 by San Francisco-based firm Niantic, Pokemon Go became one of the gaming industry’s first successful forays into augmented reality, using players’ smartphone cameras and GPS to overlay digital creatures onto real-world locations.

“I don’t think that anybody that was playing Pokemon Go had any vision that their data was going to be used in order to kill people. But that’s what it’s being used for today,” Vorhies told RT on Thursday, arguing that user data was exploited “to play a more deadly game, that of warfare.”

Well, what’s done is done. It’s a shame that not a soul warned anybody about this back at the time. Hold on! Someone did. Yep, it’s another case of read Perrin today or wait ten years for RT. See here and here.

BOOK REVIEW: Sigma Game: The Complete Socio-Sexual Hierarchy by Vox Day

05 Friday Jun 2026

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Sigma Game: The Complete Socio-Sexual Hierarchy by Vox Day

Review by Perrin Lovett

 

Hierarchies are inherent. Orcas are apex predators because they are, not because anyone labeled them as such. Likewise, a suckermouth catfish is a bottom feeder because of the way it eats, rather than how anyone perceives or captions it or its diet. The same goes for where various men fall into the grades of the socio-sexual hierarchy, based on attractiveness, behavior, and societal reception. While we may have some traits from multiple tiers, all men fall into one primary category. Understanding this fact, as it pertains to oneself and to society at large, is critical for better navigating through the myriad phases of life. Vox Day has written a masterful guide that exposes the simplicities and intricacies of human socio-sexual relationships.

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Day, Vox, Sigma Game: The Complete Socio-Sexual Hierarchy, Switzerland: Castalia, 2026 (Kindle Ed.).

Years ago, Vox Day, the original internet superintelligence, broke down the ranks of men in society, adding a clear and comprehensive taxonomy to what had been a murky and frequently misunderstood concept. Since then, the classifications have still been misused, intentionally and inadvertently. Today, there is no excuse for not understanding who is who. Sigma Game is available from Amazon.

Upfront, on page 8, Day gives helpful advice for male readers: whoever you are, it’s not about you. 

Seriously, if you find yourself thinking “yeah, but what am I?” then you are not in the right frame of mind to get the most out of what this book can provide you. Just set yourself aside for the duration. You’ll still be you when you finish. As with most things, you’ve got to learn the material before you can successfully apply it.

The ranks are, see pages 14-15: Alphas, the natural leaders; Bravos, Alpha loyalists; Deltas, ordinary average men; Gammas, the annoyingly dishonest; Sigmas, lone wolves, and; Omegas, the isolated rejects. Lambdas, homosexual men, are not discussed in Day’s book as their proclivities are outside the human ordinary. 

Sigma Game, well thought out and edited, is largely arranged in chapters that either define the categories or explain them. Vexatious Gammas receive treatment in four consecutive chapters, more than any other group. Gammas receive so much attention because they have the ability to wreak so much havoc if left unchecked. Day devotes an entire chapter, Chapter Twelve, to “Dealing With Gammas.” “[T]he good news is that Gammas are, once you know what to look for, remarkably easy to identify, because their behavioral tells are consistent, predictable, and difficult for them to suppress even when they are aware of them.” (See page 242.) “Mealy-mouthed vocabulary is a specific and identifiable rhetorical pattern.” (See page 243.) Day goes much deeper into the art of Gamma spotting. And he provides advice for organizations, women, parents, and even Gammas themselves about how to deal with and avoid the irksomeness of the deluded and the dishonest.

Within and without the world of the Gamma, Day provides excellent examples for each category. Being that he is a reader, many of Day’s representatives come from literature. Paris, Prince of Troy, is the archetypal Gamma. (See page 191.) Paris’s brother, Hector, is the ideal Alpha. “[I]t is Hector who most vividly illustrates the Alpha’s burden in its purest form.” (Page 55.) “Perhaps no character in modern literature better exemplifies the Bravo than Samwise Gamgee from Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.” (Page 99.) 

The title classification, the Sigma, has become a bit of a celebrity in postmodern popular culture. Many men, young and old, and particularly Gammas, have erroneously styled themselves as Sigmas. But this is the rarest type, one Day had to neologize due to its anomalous nature. Achilles is the Sigma of Homer’s Iliad. (See page 278.) Chapters Fifteen and Sixteen are dedicated to the Sigma. With examples, Day defines what the designation means, what a Sigma is: “The Sigma is the outsider who doesn’t play the social game and manages to win at it anyhow.” (See page 304.) And what he is not: “[I]f you cannot stand up to the entire weight of the social consensus and confidently tell it, “No, you move”—then you should never, ever, attempt to convince anyone that you are a Sigma.” (Page 303.) 

Sigma Game provides helpful information for understanding, working with, and working around the assorted classifications, with examples from various settings. Day also delves into issues regarding women, see Appendix A, and midwits, see Appendix B. Written by a Sigma and a man with a UHIQ, Sigma Game is relatable enough and well-reasoned enough to satisfy anyone’s curiosity. It is a resource that will help everyone. For all these reasons, I highly recommend adding it to one’s library.

BOOK REVIEW: How to Slay a Wizard by Owen Benjamin

29 Friday May 2026

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How to Slay a Wizard by Owen Benjamin

Review by Perrin Lovett

 

Words have meanings. And when their meanings are distorted or subtly channeled, they become spells. Who casts spells? Wizards. They’re real, and they are not limited to the silly variety found in movies like Fantasia. Consider that, just a few years ago, millions and millions of people took a known poison out of fear, all because a wizard in the form of a talking rat on the television told them to. That’s misused authority and appropriated power. It’s a problem that calls out for a solution. Luckily, Owen Benjamin has given us one. 

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Smith, Benjamin Owen, How to Slay a Wizard, Switzerland: Castalia, 2026 (Kindle Ed.).

Owen Benjamin might be the tallest comedian on earth. And he’s one of the best. Despite being canceled by the usual suspects for speaking truth to wickedness, he continues to use humor as a weapon against evil and as armor for the good and decent. As a former insider and a man blessed with keen discernment, he knows exactly how to call out the movers and shake-downers of Clown World. Find him on UATV. How to Slay a Wizard is available from Amazon.

Within the 185 pages of How to Slay a Wizard, Benjamin packs an abundance of truth. Wizards are ultimately only servants of satan’s lies. But the threat that they represent is immense. Word wizardry convinces otherwise honest, ethical people to do things like modify their DNA based on lies, support wars against people who mean them no harm, live child-free and miserable, limit what they say for fear of offending some nebulous victim or another, and on and on. This is today, just as it has ever been, a legitimate challenge. 

The modern dominance of the wizards started, as Vox Day once suggested, by breaking the Christian prohibition against blasphemy. The people were told that anything was allowable under the guise of free speech and the like. Yet, no sooner had the wizards vanquished the old safeguards than they instituted new rules of their own. Free speech became hate speech, a concept Benjamin deals with decisively in his book. From page 88: “The word ‘hate speech’ is a wizard term. It means speech the wizard hates, because it threatens his position.” 

Benjamin uses famous wizards, like Saul Alinsky, to show precisely how a wizard’s mind works. He points out that, like all evildoers, these shifty spell masters can only invert and mock; they cannot create. As such, and I was surprised to see the connection made, instead of formulating their own new formulas, the modern wizards only stole and perverted the tactics from The Art of War by Sun Tzu. (See page 53.) 

As astounding as much of what Benjamin presents is, it is also very simple, as he explains it. He has quite the gift for communication. And he uses it, on page 178, to expose the “big lie” behind all wizardry: four simple words. And once one sees the lie, how does one then slay the wizard? Benjamin answers that question in only five words on page 129. 

A good book provides needful information and entertainment. How to Slay a Wizard hits that mark and surpasses it. A great book also allows the reader to become involved in some small way, or it recalls some memory the reader might have forgotten. Your reviewer was drawn in, with laughter, several times in this manner. 

Who needs to read Benjamin’s excellent book? You. It will be a special service to younger readers who seek a means to identify the controlling works of the word masters and how to halt their effects. These defensive tactics were once a part of the grammar, logic, and rhetoric study lessons available to Western students. Sadly, those civilized exercises have vanished from what now passes for schools in places like America. But much of the deficit can be filled with just one book, How to Slay a Wizard. As such, I highly recommend it. Buy a copy and read it today. Your reviewer gives great thanks to Mr. Benjamin for his time, talent, and dedication in writing it. 

Book Cost Conundrums

28 Thursday May 2026

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Here’s a story from IRNA that builds on my column a few weeks ago. Translation may be required. The problems facing Iranian publishers and booksellers are similar to those faced by their US counterparts. While the Iranians have a few issues that Americans don’t — many of them caused by America — they also have a few solutions unknown to Yankeekind.

If under the existing mass market system, books worldwide become money drains for all parties involved, the solutions appear to be either going all digital, with all the troubles associated therewith, or, as Vox Day once noted, returning the book to its former status as a luxury item. Both might work for a while. Either way, any way, something has to give.

BOOK REVIEW: The Fate of White America by Constantin von Hoffmeister

22 Friday May 2026

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The Fate of White America by Constantin von Hoffmeister

Review by Perrin Lovett

 

The United States Constitution, as originally ratified by the several American States, expressly stated that the new federal government was ordained and established for the Founding generation and their Posterity. The Founders were exclusively White Europeans, primarily of English descent. The 1828 edition of Noah Webster’s American Dictionary of the English Language defines “Posterity” as: “Descendants; children, children’s children, etc. indefinitely; the race that proceeds from a progenitor.” Likewise, “American,” as a title, is defined: “…now applied to the descendants of Europeans born in America.” So it was that the Americans were White Caucasians of European descent, largely of English stock and living in an extension of English culture. Other European races were added to the mix over time, which did complicate cultural matters. Still, until around 1950, White Europeans comprised roughly 90 percent of the U.S. population. Today, however, they account for little over half the population, their total numbers and relative percentage rank are falling, and, as Constantin von Hoffmeister notes, they are in a crisis. Here follows a brief look at Hoffmeister’s new book, The Fate of White America. 

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von Hoffmeister, Constantin, The Fate of White America, Multipolar Press, 2026 (Kindle Ed.)

Constantin von Hoffmeister is a German gentleman and scholar who studied English Literature and Political Science in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. A multilingual intellectual, he has worked in the United States, India, Uzbekistan, and Russia. The author of Esoteric Trumpism and Multipolarity!, he is also a commentator for Russia Today and the founder and lead editor at Multipolar Press. The Fate of White America is available at Amazon. 

At the outset of this review, I’d like to thank the author for his keen observations and analysis. I am reminded that an outside perspective, the more learned, the better, sometimes offers glimpses of things all around us that we, in our ordinary doings, might miss. Whites have been in the news, of course, and of late. Perhaps one read Alexander Dugin’s epic jeremiad about “Whites,” a tirade that von Hoffmeister defended, correctly, in your reviewer’s estimation. 

So, what is the fate of White America? At present, as von Hoffmeister asserts, White Americans are in a crisis. And that is where The Fate of White America kicks off, addressing the situation in real, historical, and philosophical terms. The book begins with a look at Madison Grant’s 1916 book, The Passing of the Great Race. Grant’s good and not-so-good ideas are presented. Long before the postmodern age of radical demographic change, with many still refusing to acknowledge it is happening or that it is of concern, some were already concerned over 100 years ago. Their unease settled around the replacement of the principles that once guided the native stock of America, those regarding not merely ethnic identity, but also, and especially, see page 6, the “religious, political, and social foundations” of the old America. The interest was real and valid; as Jose Miguel recently noted, “By the 1900 US census no more than thirty-eight percent of the American Empire’s population was of the founding stock.”

Despite the subject matter, von Hoffmeister’s thoughtful work is not a racialist or racist screed, as I suspect some might want to portray it. He covers the differences between various views on race, and does so very well. Traditional non-White Americans, and others, may find something of value in von Hoffmeister’s words. Who will be offended by The Fate of White America? Liberals, of the First Political Theory variety, and globalists. And if they are so offended, then that will be higher praise than anything your reviewer could heap on the worthy author. 

The Fate of White America then backs up and delineates the emergence of White America. The concept of standardized White people, in place of previous national identities, was a kind of compromise for early Americans. While it gave them a sense of collective identity, it came at the expense of losing parts of their various traditions. The author notes a correlation between this process and the Enlightenment ideas that helped turn the British Colonies into American States. 

Chapter 3 deals with the concept of the “melting pot,” which, von Hoffmeister notes on page 20, is relatively new, emerging around 1929. He draws on Wyndham Lewis’s thoughts on racial consciousness and how the changes faced by the Western world upset long-standing customs. To wit, page 23: 

In earlier eras, aristocracies, warrior castes, and cultural elites provided direction to their societies. In the modern age, according to Lewis, such figures drifted towards the margins. Political institutions and moral doctrines stripped them of legitimacy. The law they once embodied collapsed beneath democratic leveling and bureaucratic uniformity. These displaced figures wandered like prophets whose warnings fell upon deaf ears. They perceived the possibility that Western civilization might gradually merge into broader global systems, losing its distinct character in the process. Lewis compared their predicament to the tragic figure of Cassandra from Greek mythology, whose accurate prophecies earned ridicule rather than belief.

The reader probably has one or more notions, or examples, of how this process has affected some facet of Western and American life, whether it be Christianity, masculinity, athleticism, or intellectualization. If so, then one will likely wonder, alongside Lewis and von Hoffmeister, if the West can regroup, refocus, and carry on. Therein might lie a large part of the riddle facing White America. 

Moving forwards, von Hoffmeister addresses America’s place in the new multipolar world order. On page 29, he writes: “Multipolarity does not herald the disappearance of the United States from the stage of history. It signals a transformation in scale, ambition, and orientation.” He is correct, though it is likely speculative whether the U.S. will continue to hold its current shape and composition. And that process, regardless of how America approaches it, is happening at this moment. The Fate of White America is a most timely book.

The book carries powerful declarative statements. On page 34, one of them is: “The true threat to mankind lies not in the recognition of racial reality but in the deliberate attempt to ignore it.” The author then proceeds to explain the rights of people, Whites included, and what it does and does not mean for a people asserting their identity. The book does not shy away from attacks on identity. In Chapter 7, “America’s Faustian Spirit,” von Hoffmeister tackles Emmanuel Celler’s lifelong project, the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. Of that sea change law, on page 46, von Hoffmeister writes and asks: “Over the following decades, the demographic composition of the United States changed at a pace unprecedented in the country’s earlier history. More than sixty years after that legislative turning point, the question arises once again: how do White Americans themselves interpret the identity of the nation?”

Pick a random White American and ask him that. The odds are that, regardless of what is said, a sense of confusion or frustration will be conveyed. And the next chapter, “Decline and Civil War,” delves into those sentiments, as stated upfront, analyzing “the internal fragmentation of the United States through a civilizational framework, drawing on [Oswald] Spengler and [Martin] Heidegger to interpret political conflict as a symptom of deeper cultural exhaustion.” Homage is paid to Julius Evola, among others. If one has not read Evola’s “American ‘Civilization,’” then one should.

The book proceeds with additional introspective treatment, some of it partly metaphorical, and with a presentation both informative and sublimely entertaining. For Americans blessed with Southern character, Chapter 13, “Spengler and the Confederacy,” will be a legitimate treat. 

The final few chapters are a kind of examination of the very current happenings in America. Attention is paid to the examples of Charlie Kirk and MAGA, and von Hoffmeister revisits some of his thoughts from Esoteric Trumpism. Chapter 16, “Cimmerian America,” is a bit of genius, a combined ode to Patrick Buchanan and Conan the Barbarian, confronting “the death of the West as both an ending and a threshold.” (See page 110.) “‘Is this the end?’ The answer comes, low and steady: ‘That depends on whether we still remember how to fight.’” Id. The ending is as poetic as the body of the book is insightful. I leave the final thoughts about who might “mistake motion for mastery” to the reader’s examination. 

If you, dear reader, whether you are White, American, or otherwise, enjoy a challenging ballad to the art of civilization, then do yourself a favor and read The Fate of White America. As with any great book, it will get the gears inside one’s head turning. To the White American reader, know that, though it is conditioned according to God’s designs and graces, fate is still largely in your hands. Constantin von Hoffmeister has given you, us, that is, an excellent summation of where we came from, where we are now, and where we might go tomorrow. 

*As seen originally at Multipolar Press.