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Not Tired of Winning Yet CCLVII
Posted March 26, 2026 By John C WrightParable of the Lawful Bride
Posted March 25, 2026 By John C WrightA prince asked for a maiden’s hand, and she agreed to wed. She was poor, so all things were made ready at the prince’s command: from the jeweler, a golden ring; from the dressmaker, a splendid white gown; bridesmaids and best man, and flower girls were invited, and a bishop to perform the ceremony.
The servants of the prince who had served him faithfully since his coronation were invited, and his mother was given a prominent place, and each brought gifts for the bride. A honeymoon bower was prepared and adorned.
But the bride said to the prince: “Greatly I respect your laws, O Prince, that you have written. Tell me: where is it written that I must wear a ring to be wed?”
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Kickstarting Joy!
Posted March 24, 2026 By Mrs. WrightAnd now for a word from my lovely and talented wife, about the Starquest Kickstarter. The words below are hers:
Kickstarting Joy!
Just wanted to make folks aware of our current Kickstarter.
If you have been following Starquest, great! If not, if you loved Star Wars and Space Opera, this series is for you!
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On Certainty (02 of 03)
Posted March 23, 2026 By John C WrightThis is the second essay of three on the topic of philosophical uncertainty which mires the modern age.
In the first essay, we examined how the perhaps laudable attempt to use skepticism to distinguish truth from opinion led to an overabundance of skepticism which doubted all things, including the ability of a rational mind to think, or see, or know anything whatsoever.
The current essay addresses the limits of skepticism.
A future essay will describe the cure for our current overindulgence, drunkenness, and delirium tremens too liberal a libation of the wine of skepticism modern folly has induced.
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On Certainty (01 of 03)
Posted March 21, 2026 By John C WrightPhilosophy in the modern age has became useless for the acquisition of wisdom, that is, for coming to know the true, the virtuous, the beautiful.
Modern philosophers teach that nothing is certain: that truth is relative; virtue promotes vice; beauty is in the eye of the beholder. And the eye cannot be trusted.
An overindulgence in uncertainty we certainly have now. We are drowning in it. All is in doubt.
Let us ponder the rise and fall of uncertainty through history, define its limits, and suggest a cure for the current overindulgence. The current essay will trace the history of uncertainty, and say how it became an idol in the modern age. Future essays will treat with the question of limit and cure.
The Rise and Fall of Uncertainty
One point on which modern schools agree is that nothing is certain. Of this, they are certain.
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Fourth Stretch Goal Blown Past!
Posted March 20, 2026 By Mrs. WrightJagi, here again.
The Make Space Opera Great Again! Kickstarter has blown past its fourth Stretch Goal–all in less than two weeks.
This means we have funded copyediting for the last four books and three covers AND we have unlocked sharing the Starquest short story, written for a Backer of the previous campaign, with the Backers of this campaign.
Want to read the short story and vote on which of John’s currently out-of-print books to cover?
Joining this campaign for a single dollar gets you both of those things!
Also, we can make custom tiers. Do you have books one to seven, but you’d like signed copies of 8 to 12? Do you have half the ebooks, but would back for the final six? Want a tier with four books and the Andromeda pickleball paddle?
Whatever it is you would like, let us know, and I will make it happen
Jagi
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The Most Important Announcement of My Life!
Posted March 17, 2026 By Mrs. WrightAllow me to let my wife speak for both proud parents of a newly published author.
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… The older of our two writer sons has written two novels and will soon be starting on the third, in addition to designing a roleplaying/trading card game.
The youngest, however, just beat him to becoming published, as his short story, “Draconian Murder College,” is now live as part of the latest Fantastic Schools anthology, Fantastic Schools Universities.
(For those who are wondering, yes, “Draconian Murder College” is in part a parody of a certain popular series set at a dragon-related college with a good dose of murders. But this story also stands on its own. My son was merely inspired by a description of the premise.)
So keep an eye out for Justinian Oberon Wright!
He is now an author
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Have you ever wanted to go to magic school? To cast spells and brew potions and fly on broomsticks and – perhaps – battle threats both common and supernatural? Come with us into worlds of magic, where students become magicians and teachers do everything in their power to ensure the kids survive long enough to graduate. Welcome to … Fantastic Schools Universities …
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SpeakerCone: John C. Wright – On Writing
Posted March 17, 2026 By John C WrightMy interview with Michael Finney
In which I am asked about my past, my writing, my influences, my philosophy of writing, and my latest release: the STARQUEST series.
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Mass Migration in the Modern World
Posted March 13, 2026 By John C WrightOne might behold the rapid de-civilization of the West, the capture of London and New York and Texas by Jihad, or the flood of Hindu or African migrants overwhelming Europe and North America, and wonder where Europeans might flee, once the Europeans are done turn their nations over to the Saracens.
Once might also wonder where where the impoverished Africans, Asiatics, and Orientals can flee once the Saracens take over their native seats?
In either case, the choices are to submit to Mohammedanism, or to rally, fight, and destroy them, seize their lands, and convert them to Christianity.
Our religion can peacefully coexist with devil worshippers only for so long as the we are strong and they are weak, unwilling or unable to attack or undermine us.
Peace in the long run is not possible because the sacred customs of Christendom, and the entire way of life of the West, monotheism and monogamy, liberty and equality, reason and chivalry are antithetical to the most cherished customs, polygamy, slavery, idolatry, of the unchristian lands.
But such strength, for the moment, rests entirely in Western hands. What we witness is not a barbarian invasion, but a suicidal treason. They are not overtopping the walls: the gate are opened from within by the very watchmen we set to stand watch
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Wow! Callooh! Callay!
Posted March 12, 2026 By Mrs. WrightJagi, here.
Only four days in, and we are a mere $23 from the next Stretch Goal of getting 2 of John’s books covered!
You guys are the best!
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Thank you!
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Make Space Opera Great Again!
Posted March 10, 2026 By John C WrightIt is time once more to pass the hat and ask for patronage and donations.
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We are starting our latest crowdfunding campaign to fund the copyediting of Starquest Books 9 to 12 and (if possible) bookcovers for other John C. Wright works currently out of print.
We include below a note on an unpublished novella in the STARQUEST background, The Mind-Quest of Iralek.
Set in the time of the onset of the Unholy War, before the Empire arose, this macabre tales tells of an Urnain savant, Iralek of Inner-tier, when ordered to find a polite way to end his life at the pre-determined end of his span, seeks death in space by sailing to the most ancient and forbidden of worlds, but finds instead the secret behind the suicidal longevity of his superscientific underground utopia. More on this below.
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The Manifesto of the Cornucopians
Posted March 9, 2026 By John C WrightThis is a reprint of the first column ever published here in my journal. Oddly, it seems to be part of an ongoing conversation, of whose earlier segment, if any, I have no record.
sophistibation asks:
I’m curious what your suggestion, if any, is for a long-run solution to the problem of overpopulation, given your seeming distaste for contraception, one-child policy, etc. I’m not suggesting that there is a current global overpopulation crisis, but only that eventually the population must be limited either by “self-regulation” (abortion, contraception in the case of the West today) or by war, famine, etc. Interested to hear your thoughts.
I am a Cornucopian, which is the opposite of a Malthusian. The term was coined to define the position of economist Julian Simon whose famous wager with doomsayer Paul Ehrlich in a sane world would would have put paid to the Malthusian predictions of the latter. (You can see more about the Simon-Ehrlich wager here.) A Malthusian says that population growth (especially of Irish, Hindoos and Negroes) leads to disastrous scarcity of resources, resulting in mass famine, war, and apocalyptic megadeath. A Cornucopian says that population growth, while it creates dislocations and even disasters (such as the enclosure laws of England) does not necessarily lead to the scarcity of any particular resource, nor all of them.
More people does not mean less stuff.
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A Word on Pascal’s Wager
Posted March 6, 2026 By John C WrightA man named Schrodinger hands you two black boxes. Neither by shaking the box nor pressing your ear to the side can you determine the contents. In one is a cute kitten, which you would no doubt like. In the other is all the plagues of Pandora. You can only open one, but, due to the nature of the box, it might prove empty.
If you pick the catbox, the possibilities are (a) a kitten (b) no kitten. You either win or break even.
If you pick the plague box, the possibilities are (a) all plagues of mankind unleashed on the world, sickness and death (b) no plagues. You either take a loss or you break even.
No one in his right mind picks up the plague jar.
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Genre, Ghosts, and Family Resemblance
Posted March 4, 2026 By John C WrightThe boundary line between science fiction and fantasy is porous and ill-guarded, and many an attempt to define the difference rigorously leads to categorizing recognized classics of one as the other, so that Jack Vance’s The Dying Earth are science fiction (since taking place in the future) but Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek is fantasy (since warp drive, time travel and Vulcan mind meld are magic);
But, likewise, attempts to combine both into ‘speculative fiction’ or some other general category, leads to categorizing HG Well’s The Time Machine with Dicken’s A Christmas Carol on the grounds that both involve time travel; or Island of Dr Moreau with Aesop’s Fables on the grounds that they both involve talking animals.
Genres are not defined by writers and editors, but by readers, who naturally want to read books that are “like” books they like.
But the ways in which the books are alike, the conventions and expectations, groups things in a way that is easy to recognize but hard to define.
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On National Repentance
Posted February 20, 2026 By John C WrightToday’s recommended video clip. Lionel Shriver on the Winston Marshall Show discussing the Progressive narrative of National Guilt.
See the full episode here: The Shocking Psychology of Liberal Women – Lionel Shriver
A friend of mine points out that Lionel Shriver all but repeats CS Lewis’ words on the Dangers of National Repentance, even if she doesn’t realize it.
Unfortunately the very terms in which national repentance is recommended to him conceal its true nature. By a dangerous figure of speech, he calls the Government not ‘they’ but ‘we’. And since, as penitents, we are not encouraged to be charitable to our own sins, nor to give ourselves the benefit of any doubt, a Government which is called ‘we’ is ipso facto placed beyond the sphere of charity or even of justice. You can say anything you please about it. You can indulge in the popular vice of detraction without restraint, and yet feel all the time that you are practising contrition. A group of such young penitents will say, ‘Let us repent our national sins’; what they mean is, ‘Let us attribute to our neighbour (even our Christian neighbour) in the Cabinet. whenever we disagree with him, every abominable motive that Satan can suggest to our fancy.’
My comment:
Lionel Shriver she is right when she says the narrative of racial guilt is playacting guilt without feeling guilt. To the contrary (as she says) they feel nothing but high self esteem and infinite self righteousness.
She is more than right about the protestors who fight with the police. The passive resistance of the real civil disobedience heroes of their secular hagiographies is not what they mimic, not when they so obviously enjoy cursing and spitting on the police, or throwing bricks and incendiaries. They think they are invulnerable because they are righteous.
The middle class boobs, females or effete men, who provoke armed policemen do not realize they are risking their lives. It is all theater to them.
But I think she is wrong where she says that psychology of what they are doing is convoluted. The psychology is clear.
When asked “but why do they loathe their fellow countrymen?” Lionel Shriver answers that the Left regards their fellow countrymen as their moral inferiors, lacking in the purity of Leftwing compassion for the poor.
Here, she is taking the Left at their word, which she should not do. The matter is not convoluted, but simple. Leftism is hatred of fatherhood (particularly of one’s heavenly father) and hatred of anything that reminds them of fatherhood.
Obviously the Left has no compassion for the poor — otherwise they would have rushed federal aid to rural farmers devastated by floodwaters in North Carolina, nor would they support the importation of rapists, murderers, and drugrunners, and pederast slave rings.
They hate the poor with a profound hatred, if they think of them at all (which is doubtful) and what the poor to die off, to make room for the Spotted Owl.
No, the alleged compassion for the poor is merely a weapon to undermine the authority of the current social order, and, indeed, since poverty will be with us always, all social orders ancient and modern, Occidental and Oriental.
The moral inversion of the Left, in whose mind, since God is the Devil, good is bad and bad is good, necessitates a hatred of fatherhood, and a hatred all authority and obedience to it. Progressivism is transgression. It is rebellion in and of itself. Not rebellion against anything, but against everything.
Unfortunately, this includes rebellion against human law, moral law, the laws of logic, and the laws of reality: hence, for example, their deep and deeply unpopular bizarre obsession with transgressive gender theory and child genital mutilation.
They wish to use their compassion as a weapon, not to aid the poor, but to harm the rich, and, by extension, the entire system of laws and customs which created the wealthy class.
They are satanic. Civilized onlookers, having no experience with deep and real evil, may have difficulty grasping this.
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