Archive - Fathom Five

Jordan Peterson and the nonsense machine

How mediocrity became the dominant force in Western culture

Jul 12 •

June 2025

From the Archives: How Shakespeare ruptured Modernity

Shakespeare's late plays expose the cynicism and nihilism of Modernity

Jun 4 •

May 2025

The Ukraine negotiations: paying Putin's price

How Russian battlefield dominance is driving, and stalling, peace talks

May 29 •

Reading club: six book recommendations

Ghosts, spies and Chechen warlords

May 25 •

From the Archives: Notes on scientism

How the worship of science rotted Western culture and the modern mind

May 17 •

The end of Europe’s “soft power” delusion: part two

The pivot to Asia and European irrelevance

May 4 •

April 2025

The end of Europe’s “soft power” delusion: part one

On Europe's drastic civilisational decline

Apr 30 •

November 2024

Some recommended reading: a shortlist of forty books

A concise reading list of great Western works

Nov 9, 2024 •

September 2024

The self-hating age

How oikophobia, the repudiation of inheritance and home, is decaying the West

Sep 11, 2024 •

February 2024

Biden's ruinous foreign policy (II): Gaza

How the Biden movement has wreaked havoc across the globe

Feb 17, 2024 •

Biden’s ruinous foreign policy (I): Ukraine

How the Biden movement has wreaked havoc across the globe

Feb 14, 2024 •

January 2024

On G. K. Chesterton’s ‘The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare’

This great underread novel of the twentieth century explodes the nihilism and victimhood of the modern left

Jan 7, 2024 •

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