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Mitrailleuse Memo

A weekly newsletter, for loose cannons. ed. J. Arthur Bloom
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Greetings, we're The Mitrailleuse, a new group blog.

I convened it a little over six months ago for a cross-ideological conversation about decentralism, which it has happily outgrown since, with 169 posts and 120,000 pageviews to date.

And we're still growing. This month, in Think Progress's round-up of best conservative writing, we were described as "a relatively new blog haven for quixotic conservatives and libertarians," (which isn't a bad way to put it, though we have a few lefties), and linked at Marginal Revolution (for the second time), Real Clear Policy, Nick Land's Outside In (twice), Rod Dreher, Robert Stacy McCain, and a local Tory official in Yorkshire.

So what do you actually write about?

By way of introduction, you would be hard-pressed to find another place on the Internet where an Occupy Oakland participant, an economist focused on free cities, and a neoreactionary discuss the concept of a political exit. Here are some other things we've been doing in the last six months:
  • Rob Mariani's #GamerGate post went viral
  • Kelly Barber wrote a widely-read libertarian dissent on open borders, and weighed in on the "libertarian brutalism" discussion
  • JJ Ladouceur reported on the state of the Jefferson State movement
  • Arthur Schechter wrote about the prospects for a hip hop traditionalism
  • Kayla Westbrook made the case for libertarian natalism
  • Nick O'Connell wrote a masterful post about the Anglicization and Sanskritization of Hinduism
  • Ephrem Antony Gray is in the process of teaching us to write poetry, amid other essays
  • Ezra Jones held down the left wing
  • Andrea Castillo on Ebola and why she's taking precautions
  • Mark Lutter went to Burning Man
  • James Miller of Mises Canada wrote on the Russell Brand-John Lydon feud
  • Courtney Michaluk wrote on the subtle subversiveness of Sia's "Chandelier
  • Robinson Woodward on procedural revolutions
  • I do regular round-ups of secession news from around the world and weekly Sacred Harp tunes.
Off-blog projects:

Many of the blog's contributors write elsewhere, and use the blog to promote and discuss our work, usually in posts like this. For example, Andrea Castillo has done great policy work on Bitcoin and the Ex-Im Bank. Ephrem Antony Gray has a political theory blog and a poetry blog. Courtney Michaluk has been seen at the Tax Foundation's blog and HuffPo, and Mark Lutter has written for The Freeman and PanAmPost. I'm sure I'm missing things.

In addition, we're all over social media. See our about page for Twitter links. Rob Mariani and I are the guys who brought you @Salondotcom, and JJ Ladouceur is the genius behind this Ezra Klein/Ezra Pound mash-up. I also maintain tumblrs on right-wing art, communism-themed restaurants, and neoconservative interpretations of poetry. If you have any suggestions for these, hit us up by e-mail or on Twitter. We're also looking for reader-submitted photos of Washington DC and its environs.

So we hope you'll join us. We're among the most interesting samizdat in the political blogosphere -- I don't think it's too much to say -- the online home of the libertarian reconquista, and, per our namesake weapon, a place for loose cannons. We encourage counter-espionage agents who may be receiving these dispatches to report them to the proper authorities. Or just forward this newsletter on to any friends who you think might be interested.

Godspeed,
J

P.S: We're always looking for new writers, so drop us a line at themitrailleuse@gmail.com if you think you've got something to say.
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