Daniel Kalder

Daniel Kalder is an author based in Texas. Previously, he spent ten years living in the former Soviet bloc. His latest book, Dictator Literature, is published by Oneworld. He also writes on Substack: Thus Spake Daniel Kalder.

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In praise of RFK Jr, America’s holy fool Joining forces with Donald Trump will only disappoint him

24 Aug 2024

The Californication of Texas

12 Aug 2024

Democrats are hooked on Hillbilly Horror

03 Jul 2024

DEI is driving big companies to Texas Nasdaq's diversity compliance is becoming too onerous

08 Jun 2024

Why RFK Jr is the Silicon Valley candidate

15 Apr 2024

Expect Google’s Gemini 2.0 to be even worse When it comes to AI, the cure is often worse than the disease

23 Feb 2024

Do Democrats secretly support Texas on the border crisis? Greg Abbott has done them a favour by challenging the federal government

26 Jan 2024

Are people really fleeing Texas?

18 Dec 2023

The fake history of Scottish tartan

30 Nov 2023

Will WeWork be the last of the fake tech unicorns? The office-leasing company is filing for bankruptcy

03 Nov 2023

KGB statue shows that Russia hasn’t shaken off the USSR’s ghost It's surprising a monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky didn't appear sooner

16 Sep 2023

Imagine a future without children

30 Aug 2023

Tech bros are destroying weird Austin

14 Apr 2023

Why doesn’t Scotland love King Charles?

16 Mar 2023

Texas and Florida lead the fight against the DEI complex The two states are defunding several diversity initiatives

10 Feb 2023

Ron DeSantis teaches Texas how to fight a culture war The Florida Governor is blazing a path for other states to follow

27 Jan 2023

You’ll miss Elon Musk when he’s gone The new Twitter CEO isn't like other billionaires

12 Nov 2022

In visiting Dunfermline, Charles declares himself a Scottish King The ancient capital is a smart choice for a royal visit

04 Oct 2022

Is Kazakhstan turning its back on its former leader? The country's capital will no longer be named after Nursultan Nazarbayev

16 Sep 2022

The unbearable lightness of Beto O’Rourke The Democrat may be intelligent, but he's utterly incapable of effective action

09 Sep 2022

Bambi’s mum had to die

31 Aug 2022

Is Donald Trump Jr running for president?

20 May 2022

Vladimir Zhirinovsky: the clown who predicted the Russian invasion Nobody took this jester-politician seriously — until it was too late

07 Apr 2022

The heroic failure of Cumbernauld

28 Mar 2022

Wanted in Turkmenistan: a dull dictator The country has endured two attention-seeking narcissists, but that could change

16 Feb 2022

Scotland has lost its sense of humour

25 Jan 2022

Where now for Kazakhstan’s dictator emeritus? He thrived for three decades, but Nursultan Nazerbayev's time has finally run out

10 Jan 2022

Austin pays the price for defunding the police The city experienced a record number of murders this year

14 Dec 2021

Is Austin the global free speech capital? The Texas city is becoming a home for eccentrics and dissenters

10 Nov 2021

NASA’s religious quest for UFOs The space agency is channelling ancient human desires

06 Nov 2021

China’s war on fun

22 Sep 2021

Young Russians love Stalin

24 Aug 2021

The castrated will inherit the earth

20 Jul 2021

Teach our kids about communism

06 Jul 2021

How Slovenia escaped the tragedy of history 30 years since independence the nation has embraced the West

25 Jun 2021

After 50 years of talks, Joe Biden still doesn’t get Russia A lot has changed since the President first visited in 1973

16 Jun 2021

Masterclass from Belarus: how to survive as a dictator President Alexander Lukashenko has some lessons for other strongmen

21 May 2021

The SNP have already won the culture war

19 May 2021

Chernobyl: A Traveller’s Guide

26 Apr 2021

Will Matthew McConaughey become Texas’s next Governor? The actor's blank slate politics has drawn many admirers

21 Apr 2021

Don’t fall for Putin’s enemies

15 Mar 2021

What America can learn from Russia

02 Feb 2021

WeWork’s mad messiah

15 Dec 2020

Is Texas turning blue?

29 Oct 2020

Older leaders are not always wiser

26 Oct 2020

My time with Jesus, in Siberia

19 Oct 2020

How paranoia drives politics

30 Sep 2020

Alaska could have ended history

21 Sep 2020

The secrets of Scotland’s ancient capital

25 Aug 2020

Is this the world’s worst dictator?

13 Aug 2020

How Europe’s Last Dictator survived

29 Jul 2020

What does my gladiator dream mean?

03 Jul 2020

This is no ‘cultural revolution’

18 Jun 2020

How Texas is coping with the end of lockdown

18 May 2020

Don’t go looking for utopia in lockdown

27 Apr 2020

Nineties Russia prepared me for coronageddon

30 Mar 2020

The cringe of Right-wing celebrity-worship

09 Mar 2020

Tinpot Trump is nothing like Hitler

28 Feb 2020

America’s rich and powerful will believe anything

12 Feb 2020

Russia’s brief encounter with the sexual revolution

08 Jan 2020

The End of the World is always nigh

31 Dec 2019

Communism’s war on Christianity and Islam

25 Nov 2019

Who are you calling a dictator?

15 Oct 2019

A vision of Britain’s polarised future

26 Sep 2019

Brexit, Thunberg and the dangers of blind hope

16 Sep 2019