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Video:Michael Viktor Kilarjian Associate Editor, The Intelligencer Additional commentary from:Tomás Arancibia Lozano“What is being described here is not an accident of culture but the function of a system. Contemporary literature in the United States — and by extension much of the Anglophone world — is not merely written by the privileged; it is filtered, refined, and authenticated by an institutional machine that reproduces its own class composition.The associate editor’s critique exposes an uncomfortable truth: the modern literary marketplace is governed less by organic discovery than by credentialed validation. Degrees, fellowships, residencies, awards — these are not incidental biographical details. They are the passport stamps that grant entry into visibility. A writer’s authority is now pre-certified before a reader ever encounters a sentence.Historically, literary production has often been entangled with class — one need only consider figures such as William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, or Emily Dickinson. But what distinguishes our era is bureaucratization. Privilege has been formalized into institutional process. It is no longer merely social positioning; it is a pipeline.The invocation of Annie Baker and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is not a personal indictment of their talent. It is an illustration of the pattern. Elite universities. MFAs. Prestigious fellowships. Award circuits. These pathways interlock. They produce not only writers, but legitimacy. When such writers depict economic stagnation or existential drift, the cultural establishment receives the portrayal as authoritative — not because it emerges from lived precarity, but because it has passed through approved channels.This is the literary machine: a self-reinforcing network of MFA programs, grant committees, critics, academic departments, and publishing houses that largely draw from the same socio-economic corridor. It decides what is staged, what is reviewed, what is assigned to students. It determines which narratives become canonical and which remain invisible.The defense of this system is always meritocratic. The best work rises. But “the best” is defined within institutions that privilege certain forms of polish, certain aesthetic vocabularies, certain intellectual postures — all of which are more accessible to those already equipped with time, financial stability, and educational access. The retail worker writing at night, the warehouse employee with no MFA, the autodidact without institutional affiliation — these voices may exist, but they do not circulate. Visibility is curated.From Bolivia, where literary production often unfolds outside formal patronage structures, the pattern is striking. When the gates are guarded by those trained within the same academies, diversity of experience narrows even as diversity of theme expands superficially. We are told that literature speaks for everyone, yet the arbiters of literary prestige are drawn from a remarkably small band of society.The associate editor’s argument ultimately lands here: the contemporary literary world confuses accreditation with authority and pedigree with profundity. The cost is not merely aesthetic dissatisfaction. The cost is cultural omission. Entire strata of lived experience remain uncanonized because they lack institutional endorsement.The question, then, is simple and destabilizing: Who decides what we read? The answer, at present, is not “the people.” It is the machine.”- Tomás Arancibia Lozano La Paz, Bolivia The Intelligencer is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.r9m.red/subscribe

by: Guest Contributor, Will Hazlitt - R9 Media The Intelligencer is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.r9m.red/subscribe

The Intelligencer is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.r9m.red/subscribe

The Intelligencer is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.r9m.red/subscribe

Please Welcome the New Associate Editor of R9 Media, The Intelligencer Newsletter and, the new Host of R9 Media’s TikTok Channel.The Intelligencer is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.r9m.red/subscribe

Interview with Dr. Jerry Vlasak, Founder of the North American Animal Liberation Press Office. A clip from the forthcoming documentary. An R9 Media / OBERIU Films production. Director: W. Wilmot This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.r9m.red/subscribe

Don’t be a pussy. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.r9m.red/subscribe

“Rule number one: Always stick around for one more drink. That’s when things happen. That’s when you find out everything you want to know.”― John Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.r9m.red/subscribe

Grow up, Get a Grip, Get a Life, and Make Some Noise.The Intelligencer is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Follow The Intelligencer and R9 Media on social media:TikTokXInstagramFacebook This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.r9m.red/subscribe

Your neighbor is most certainly an illegal drug user. The Intelligencer is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. And, if you want to find more great newsletters like this one visit: InboxReads This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.r9m.red/subscribe

read more here: Inherent ComplexitiesThe Intelligencer is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.If you want to find more great newsletters like this one visit: InboxReads This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.r9m.red/subscribe

“Nature seems (the more we look into it) made up of antipathies: without something to hate, we should lose the very spring of thought and action. Life would turn to a stagnant pool, were it not ruffled by the jarring interests, the unruly passions, of men. The white streak in our own fortunes is brightened (or just rendered visible) by making all around it as dark as possible; so the rainbow paints its form upon the cloud. Is it pride? Is it envy? Is it the force of contrast? Is it weakness or malice? But so it is, that there is a secret affinity, a hankering after, evil in the human mind, and that it takes a perverse, but a fortunate delight in mischief, since it is a never-failing source of satisfaction. Pure good soon grows insipid, wants variety and spirit. Pain is a bittersweet, wants variety and spirit. Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust: hatred alone is immortal.”- William Hazlitt - "On The Pleasure Of Hating" (c.1826)The Intelligencer is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. If you want to find more great newsletters like this one visit: InboxReads This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.r9m.red/subscribe

“Every day United Nations Peacekeepers protect the vulnerable and help to build and protect a fragile peace. In January this year, an ambush on a UN vehicle transporting injured civilians left a peacekeeper and several community members dead in the disputed territory of Abyei. Those that survived owe their lives to the courage and bravery of peacekeepers serving with the UN mission in Abyei, UNISFA - and to the selfless actions of one of them. Major Furqan Niazi from Pakistan retells his story of losing a colleague while saving lives under fire.”all courtesy: United Nations Peackeeping This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.r9m.red/subscribe

“This video highlights some key concepts on the Protection of Civilians (POC) in a United Nations Peacekeeping context and showcases the three tiers of POC actions.”all courtesy: United Nations Peacekeeping - Protection of Civilians Mandate This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.r9m.red/subscribe

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.r9m.red“If you want to understand a society, take a good look at the drugs it uses. And what can this tell you about American culture? Well, look at the drugs we use. Except for pharmaceutical poison, there are essentially only two drugs that Western civilization tolerates: Caffeine from Monday to Friday to energize you enough to make you a productive member o…

We knew the rules, but didn’t obey them. Deciding instead, to hang out with the freaks and ghouls. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.r9m.red/subscribe

There is a monument in the center of the cemetery which is thus engraved:Walk softly among these stones for here lie heroes.They carried no rifle nor wore a uniformBut always followed orders.They went into battle with trust and love of duty.Who amongst us can say we were betterWalk softly for here lie soldiers of Israel. -(J. Braverman)“Suddenly, Jack sensed that something was wrong. It was a cold November night, on the outskirts of Jabaliyah, one of Hamas' strongholds. Nahal soldiers were waiting in ambush for the terrorists. At the head of the force was Jack, a Belgian Shepherd attack dog trained for combat, and the soldier who worked with him, a role known in the unit as the "handler." Around them was silence, complete silence, occasionally broken by distant gunfire. There was no way for the Nahal soldiers to be aware of the nightmare that was unfolding: they were exposed, and a squad of terrorists was stealthily advancing. Their ambush was about to turn into an ambush against them.”more: Honoring the IDF's fallen four-legged heroes (YNET NEWS - Israel) This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.r9m.red/subscribe

Professional SportsAre they on the up and up?A Deep Divewith: Brian Tuohy#sports #nfl #nba #nhl #mlb #professionalsports #gamefixing #corruption #soccer #football #baseball #basketball #hockeyInterviewee: Brian TuohyMr. Tuohy is recognized by the U.S. Supreme Court as a scholarly authority on game fixing in sports, Brian is not beholden to the corporate sports media world. He is the author of the highly controversial sports books The Fix Is In: The Showbiz Manipulations of the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, and NASCAR; Larceny Games: Sports Gambling, Game Fixing, and the FBI; A Season in the Abyss: Sports Gambling vs. the NFL's Integrity; and his most recent, The Fix is Still In: More Corruption and Conspiracies the Pro Sports Leagues Don't Want You to Know About.Tuohy is an in-demand radio guest, having appeared on over 200 radio programs & podcasts across the United States and Canada, including the nationally syndicated programs the Dan Patrick Show, Coast to Coast AM, Fox Sports' Chris Myers Interviews, JT The Brick, The Brian Kenny Show on NBC Sports Radio, the Steve Czaban Show, and the Alex Jones Show (Infowars).Some of Tuohy's other sports-related writing can be found in Sports Illustrated, at Vice Sports, and at Sports On Earth as well as his own popular website thefixisin.net.Follow Brian Tuohy on Twitter:@TheFixIsInTuohyweb: https://www.thefixisin.netInterviewer: Will On Twitter: @f4speedmaster This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.r9m.red/subscribe

Interview with, United States Air Force, Major (Ret.) Michael BarnstableMajor Barnstable Served 21 years in the USAF with a primary Air Force Specialty Code of Navigator/Bombardier and 14 years as a military contractor at USCENTCOM.Assignment locations included Mather AFB CA, Castle AFB CA, Anderson AFB Guam, Barksdale AFB LA, Moron AB Spain, Fort Hood TX, and MacDill AFB FL. His many temporary duty assignments included numerous locations in the Far East, Middle East and Europe. He performed duties at the Squadron, Wing, Army Division and Combatant Command levels.The Major has 5000+ hours in the B-52 (G & H models) including Combat time in Operations Desert Storm and Enduring Freedom.Duties: Student Navigator, Navigator, B-52 Navigator, Instructor B-52 Navigator, B-52 Radar Navigator (Bombardier), Instructor Radar Navigator.Air Liaison Officer (2nd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Armored Division), Joint Air Operations Officer (USCENTCOM), Command and Control Officer in Charge (USCENTCOM).Contract staff-Combatting Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Division USCENTCOM, contract staff-USCENTCOM J5 Special Plans Division. The Major has worked in Conventional Operations, Special Operations (black & white) and a short time in Research & Development.Major Barnstable held a TOP SECRET (TS) clearance for more than 30 years with a Special Compartmented Information (SCI) caveat for 16 years.Interviewer: Willtwitter: @f4speedmasterbeacons.ai/f4speedmaster#USAF #UnitedStatesAirForce #B52 #CENTCOM #SpecialOperations #ResearchAndDevelopment #OperationDesertStorm #OperationEnduringFreedom #WMD #WeaponsOfMassDestruction #TopSecret #Russia #Ukraine #MiddleEast #FarEast #Europe #StrategicThinking #TacticalThinking #Strategic #Tactical #War #USMilitary #Military This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.r9m.red/subscribe

The Wildest Weasel in Operation Desert Storm and Beyondby: Coert van Breda Will Wilmot H. Smoke Trails - Journal of the F-4 Phantom II Society - Volume 27/ Number 1“Eagles may soar, but weasels don’t get sucked into jet engines.”-Steven Wright“We were shooting the SAMs (Surface-to-Air Missile), who were trying to shoot at the guys who were doing what they were doing, downtown.”-Colonel George “John Boy” WaltonF-4G Wild Weasel PilotOperation Desert Storm – 1991"On the night of January 19th, 1991, in Iraq, during Operation Desert Storm, a four ship group of F-4G Wild Weasel Phantoms were tasked with the mission of providing direct air support to B-52 Stratofortresses bombing Iraqi military positions".Narration by: Bethanie Monroe bethanie@monroevo.comhttps://www.monroevo.com/twitter: @themonroevoAuthor on twitter: @f4speedmasterMagazine: http://www.f-4store.com/F-4_Smoke_Trails.htm#smoketrailsmagazine #F4Phantom #OperationDesertStorm #Iraq#B52 #military #usmilitary #usairforce #wildweasel This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.r9m.red/subscribe