As of August 17, 2025, this blog is being published exclusively on Substack.

If you were a free subscriber here on WordPress, your subscription should be automatically moved to Substack. (Any problems, contact me at the email at the bottom of this post.)

The archive of previous essays — all 366 of them — will still be available on this website, at this link.

Since Election Day 2024, I have roughly doubled the output of this blog in response to the ongoing democratic emergency in the United States. With that increased output, I also introduced a paid Substack option for those additional posts, in addition to the essays that have always been free since the founding of The King’s Necktie way back in May 2017.

If you would like to receive those additional essays, you can become a paid Substack subscriber here. If you like what you read in this blog, I encourage you to consider it.

Free or paid, thank you for your support over the eight years of The King’s Necktie’s existence, and for being politically engaged during this fraught time for American democracy. I hope you will continue to follow and read the blog and spread the word.

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Thanks again.