I am a Russian repatriate, blogger, and intelligence researcher.
My primary blog is at Substack, where I write about Russia, geopolitics, psychometrics, and transhumanism.
Start here if you’re new to my work.
Classic Posts
Politics & Geopolitics
HBD/IQ
- Through A Glass Ceiling Darkly: Racial IQ Disparities And The Wealth Of Nations (2012)
- Analysis Of China’s PISA 2009 Results (2012)
- Our Biorealistic Future (2017)
- Coffee Salon Demographics (2018)
- When All You Have is a Hajnal Hammer… (2018)
- The Idiocy Of The Average – And Why It Matters (2018)
- The Geography of the Noosphere (2019)
History
Futurism & Transhumanism
Russia
- The Kremlinologist Catechism (2010)
- A PR Disaster: Five Views on Pussy Riot’s War (2012)
- The 5 Types of Russian American (2012)
- The Russian Cross Becomes A Hexagon (2013)
- Russia and the Depression That Wasn’t (2015)
- Russian Support of Stalin Is Tribal (2016)
- Trump Is Factually Right on Crimea (2016)
- Russian Nationalism 101 (2017)
- Russia’s Technological Backwardness (2018)
- How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Putin Again (2019)
- Russia’s Nationalist Turn (2021)
Russian History
На русском
Inventor of the Soviet Freezer, Apollo’s Ascent, Idiot’s Limbo, and the Katechon Hypothesis.
- Contact: Email, VK, urbit (~lacrys-halseg).
- Twitter: @powerfultakes
- Discord: Powerful Takes
- Crypto: @ethotaku (@akarlin.lens) / mirror.xyz
- На русском: akarlin.ru и Мощные Братки (ТГ)