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2026 19

  1. Numb in Central Asia, prologue: Turks in space
  2. Four years of ignorance, cupidity, and spleen
  3. You met me at a very Chinese time in my life
  4. The marriage of the sun and the moon
  5. The carrion-eaters
  6. You have to believe in the gods
  7. Infinite America
  8. Everyone is Keir Starmer
  9. A fire was in my head
  10. If you let AI do your writing, I will come to your house and kill you
  11. Reading is magic
  12. Is my writing too wet?
  13. Who wants to save the UK?
  14. You'll regret it
  15. Child’s Play
  16. How to read Numb at the Lodge
  17. The century of the maxxer
  18. Good and evil in Iran
  19. Prophecies for 2026

2025 22

  1. Do you believe in society’s lies?
  2. What's the point of words?
  3. The world’s first matcha labubu genocide
  4. Numb at Burning Man
  5. The soil falling over my head
  6. Three years of apathy, lassitude, and failure
  7. The whispering ones
  8. Against truth
  9. The law that can be named is not the true law
  10. In my zombie era
  11. What is Europe?
  12. Lessons in violence
  13. An island of strangers
  14. Douglas Murray, gruesome toady
  15. Dreams never end
  16. Ideologies of the near future
  17. Born in the wrong generation
  18. What year is it? A roundtable
  19. The crab
  20. A universal, absolute, and infinite theory of vibes
  21. There’s someone on the ice
  22. Prophecies for 2025

2024 33

  1. Numb in India, finale: The fire sermon
  2. Numb in India, part 8: Love is all and love is everyone
  3. Numb in India, part 7: Land of gloop
  4. Numb in India, part 6: The greater game
  5. Numb in India, part 5: Jai Shri TV
  6. I told you so
  7. Numb in India, part 4: Dharma police
  8. Numb in India, part 3: Numb in Pakistan
  9. Numb in India, part 2: The city beautiful
  10. Numb in India, part 1: Where the sun never sets
  11. Two years of blindness, arrogance, and vice
  12. Eternity
  13. Against lists of books
  14. Nobody understands Nietzsche (except me)
  15. Numb at the Spectator summer party 2: After the orgy
  16. I love America and the world
  17. King Joe forever
  18. Five prophets
  19. The book against death
  20. What is the world's oldest hatred?
  21. This green and growing earth
  22. One all-consuming swamp
  23. Baby wants bloodshed
  24. How to live without your phone
  25. Curtis Yarvin does not live in reality
  26. The dust of God
  27. A truly foreign language
  28. How to look at Nazis
  29. Against the brave
  30. Manifesto of the Armed Front of Love
  31. Strange News from Another Star, No. 6: The self
  32. Before I reach my enemy, bring me some heads
  33. Prophecies for 2024

2023 38

  1. The black mountain
  2. A dreadful dim fire
  3. Taylor Swift does not exist
  4. Live from the hate march
  5. Collect your own bones
  6. Bread, figs, phosphorus
  7. But not like this
  8. One year of envy, lies, and greed
  9. Numb in China, finale: 天朝
  10. Numb in China, part 8: 新中国从未来到来
  11. Numb in China, part 7: 东方红，太阳升
  12. Numb in China, part 6: 房子是用来住的、不是用来炒的
  13. Numb in China, part 5: 为人民服务
  14. Numb in China, part 4: 施氏食獅史
  15. Numb in China, part 3: 秦始皇对长生不老的追求
  16. Numb in China, part 2: 中南海 中南海 抽烟只抽中南海
  17. Numb in China, part 1: 中华全国阻止干涉他人事情协会
  18. Strange News from Another Star, No. 5: At home
  19. Numb at the Spectator summer party
  20. Intimacy
  21. The beautiful Russia of the future
  22. How to enjoy your SecondSelf Skinset Pro
  23. The repulsive crust
  24. The Numb at the Lodge guide to writing guide
  25. In England's dreaming
  26. Eight billion hogs, screaming
  27. What is an egg?
  28. All the nerds are dead
  29. The Cacophony
  30. Wokeness is not a politics
  31. Strange News from Another Star, No. 4: Other lands
  32. Dahl's chickens
  33. Djinn
  34. Downtown 23
  35. Strange News from Another Star, No. 3: Messages
  36. Notes from a normal country
  37. Strange News from Another Star, bonus edition: Hatsuyume
  38. Prophecies for 2023

2022 13

  1. A user's guide to the zairja of the world
  2. Confessions of a mask
  3. The brute brute heart of a brute like you
  4. The secret history of Wakanda
  5. Strange News from Another Star, No. 2: Death
  6. Welcome to Hell
  7. We're all perverts now
  8. Alex Jones is a beautiful woman
  9. Strange News from Another Star, No. 1: Reality
  10. Me, me, me, me, me
  11. Legion
  12. Scenes from the state funeral
  13. The internet is already over