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The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers, published by Harper and Brothers in 1902. This is the first illustrated edition of Chambers' infamous collection of eerie short stories centered around a mysterious play that drives its readers to irredeemable madness. 1/3

Brutal

When Robert E. Howard characters collide.

STARSHIP TROOPERS (1997, Paul Verhoeven)

DOGE wasn’t about efficiency, but this is more or less correct, and it’s rationalized on the grounds that, well, “Democrats are duplicitous and corrupt, too; we just decided to wear our even greater duplicity and corruption on our sleeves.” That’s right-wing populism now.

Concept Art for The Fifth Element I made in the early 1990 "ZORG's Office #9"

Will the new right make great art? Can they? For The Metropolitan Review we have Pedro L. Gonzalez taking a fascinating deep dive in an essay you won't want to miss. open.substack.com/pub/metropolit…

Some thoughts on art, politics, and the right. Thanks so much to Ross Barkan and The Metropolitan Review for publishing it. metropolitanreview.org/p/will-conserv…

This is such a cool design

Great piece by Pedro. I wrote a response. substack-proxy.glitch.me/articles/leigh…

My 10 Favorite Books about the American Civil War: 1. Bruce Catton, ARMY OF THE POTOMAC TRILOGY 2. Shelby Foote, THE CIVIL WAR 3. S.C. Gwynne, REBEL YELL 4. BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM, James McPherson 5. HYMNS OF THE REPUBLIC, Gwynne 6. THIS REPUBLIC OF SUFFERING, Drew G. Faust

Bruce Pennington cover art for "Quest for the Future" by A.E. van Vogt, 1972.

Very accurate. Hannibal is known to have excelled in aerodynamics and VFR

French armor, c. 1575

The role of the new right/dissident right seems to be to corral opinion in favor of supporting the rise of a surveillance state that is unlike anything that has ever existed before in the US in terms of its power and scope. And if you look closely, you can draw connections

This is really so indefensibly evil. Just giving the worst people free rein to develop the most dangerous instruments of power and control in existence, not only blocking states from regulating AI but preventing them from enforcing existing measures—all brought to you by a right