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Oliver Buchannon
Justin Murphy

Former professor. PhD. I left academia in 2019 to write and teach independently full-time.


The Bari Weiss Strategy

Oct 8, 2025

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6 min read

The Bari Weiss Strategy

Notes on a $150M playbook that's never been written down

In Domestic War, Beware the Rabble

Sep 22, 2025

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3 min read

In Domestic War, Beware the Rabble

Notes on an "unfortunate season" of civil conflict

Plato: The First Indie Scholar (Plus a NorCal Meetup in 3 Weeks)

Jul 7, 2025

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8 min read

Plato: The First Indie Scholar (Plus a NorCal Meetup in 3 Weeks)

A preview from my forthcoming book and an upcoming weekend in the woods.

Ecstatic Swoons

May 14, 2025

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10 min read

Ecstatic Swoons

Stendhal, Lacan, Gutenberg, Nick Land and more

A Blow to the Head

Feb 24, 2025

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9 min read

A Blow to the Head

On Alex Karp, Hélène Cixous, Gorgias, Sarah McNally, and More

Catastrophe and Child's Play

Feb 17, 2025

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8 min read

Catastrophe and Child's Play

Notes for the week

Homo Sacer and the Invention of Reading

Feb 2, 2025

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5 min read

Homo Sacer and the Invention of Reading

The final installment of our 2024 annual letter.

The Next 5 Years of Other Life (Part 3)

Jan 21, 2025

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8 min read

The Next 5 Years of Other Life (Part 3)

An annual review in 3 parts.

The Next 5 Years of Other Life (Part 2)

Jan 9, 2025

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7 min read

The Next 5 Years of Other Life (Part 2)

An annual review in 3 parts.

The Next 5 Years of Other Life (Part 1)

Jan 7, 2025

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8 min read

The Next 5 Years of Other Life (Part 1)

An annual review in 3 parts (with a shipping update on The Independent Scholar).

Nietzsche's Big Mistake: Three Ideas on Christianity

Nov 25, 2024

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5 min read

Nietzsche's Big Mistake: Three Ideas on Christianity

A close reading of St. John blows Nietzsche out of the water. 3 highlights from the latest episode of the Other Life podcast.

Libidinal Economies

Aug 10, 2024

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8 min read

Libidinal Economies

And how masterpieces are made.

On the Miracle and Scandal of Education

Aug 6, 2024

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4 min read

On the Miracle and Scandal of Education

You are allowed to go straight to true knowledge of the highest things.

Dostoevsky vs. Nietzsche

Aug 3, 2024

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9 min read

Dostoevsky vs. Nietzsche

And the second most fateful bookstore encounter in history...

Deadline Tonight

Aug 2, 2024

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4 min read

Deadline Tonight

On Nietzsche's fatal mistake

You Can Probably Just Have It

Jul 30, 2024

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3 min read

You Can Probably Just Have It

No Doesn’t Always Mean No

Jul 23, 2024

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8 min read

No Doesn’t Always Mean No

Nietzsche, Marinetti, Ecuador, and my new print book coming soon

Deadline tonight

Jun 29, 2024

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3 min read

Deadline tonight

Aristotle and the Secret of Esoteric Boomerism

Seminars, Meetups, and Dinners in NYC, Philly, Austin

Jun 23, 2024

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5 min read

Seminars, Meetups, and Dinners in NYC, Philly, Austin

And online, too.

Heraclitus, Nietzsche, John the Apostle, and a Wyoming Trip Report

Jun 10, 2024

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7 min read

Heraclitus, Nietzsche, John the Apostle, and a Wyoming Trip Report

On speech, truth, and the printed word

The Rising Returns to Focus

May 5, 2024

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5 min read

The Rising Returns to Focus

And the accelerating rate of paradigm turnover

Time Capsules and Air Lifts

Apr 22, 2024

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6 min read

Time Capsules and Air Lifts

News and updates, the essays of Samuel Johnson, and more...

On the Unleavened (A Thought for Easter)

Mar 31, 2024

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7 min read

On the Unleavened (A Thought for Easter)

"Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old bread leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth." —Corinthians 5:8

The Auteur and the Ghetto

Mar 16, 2024

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5 min read

The Auteur and the Ghetto

Multipolar aesthetic warfare, cruelty, marriage, and Charlotte Perriand

A Simple View of Bitcoin in Historical Perspective

Mar 10, 2024

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4 min read

A Simple View of Bitcoin in Historical Perspective

What could enjoy the Mandate of Heaven more than an autopoietic truth system offensive to all prestigious consensus and immune to human manipulation?

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Other Life

Every month, I mail a printed letter teaching one of the most important and unknown ideas in the world—something that cannot be found on the internet.