On Thursday afternoon I had watched just a few minutes of a Youtube video with The Zman and Ramzpaul speaking with Padraig Martin about Iran and Islam. I didn’t get very far into it before I had to run but I made a note to go back and watch the rest later. Then later than day I saw this on Twitter.
He must have passed either shortly after the video was recorded or the next morning. His final post of his blog auto-published in the morning of the 26th and it is possible/likely he was already dead: The End Of Free Will.
The Dissident Right will miss him. His real name was John Christopher Zander and his was a powerful, sober voice and a needed contrast to the multitude of silly fools and/or degenerates that often dominate the conversation in the medium of social media that rewards the loud and obnoxious at the expense of the serious and thoughtful.
He was a pretty private person. I know he still had a regular job and it sounded to me like he did consulting of some sort. Whatever it was, I got the impression that he was good enough at it that he could move from Baltimore, a city he lived in for many years and referred to Lagos, to West Virginia. He was apparently doxxed by the anti-White hate group that calls itself “The Southern Poverty Law Center” but I didn’t even realize it as he didn’t mention it to my recollection and it didn’t appear to impact him professionally but it does reinforce that the SPLC, ADL and other anti-White hate groups are made up of the very worst people in America. There is a great deal of freedom in finding a way to make a living that is insulated from Their shenanigans.
His writing was usually lucid and thoughtful although he did have an amusing tendency toward typos and misspelling that he didn’t seem to care about. He lived alone for as long as I can remember reading him, and it has been a long time, probably at least 10 years as his was one of the websites I frequented before starting my new blog.
From what I can tell, and mostly confirmed by a post from Peter Brimelow…In Memoriam ZMAN ….The Zman was a somewhat solitary creature. He had recently moved to West Virginia and had two cats but as far as I know he wasn’t married, perhaps was divorced?, didn’t have a girlfriend nor close family. While I don’t know who found him, the local sheriff contacted the Brimelows who managed to track down a relative. Like I said, he was a solitary guy but seemed mostly comfortable with that. He was getting into gardening, bought an older truck to fix up, was working on a badly needed update to his blog and generally seemed to be enjoying life. He struck me as someone that it would have been a lot of fun to hang out with in his garage enjoying a cold beverage.
I didn’t agree with The Zman on every issue or position, the only person I agree with 100% of the time is the handsome devil looking back at me in the mirror, but I agreed with him almost all of the time. He epitomized the Dissident Right, being someone focused on what really is and not what we wish would be.
He didn’t suffer fools and in what I can say is one of the highest compliments I can offer, his writing and podcasts often made me really stop and think. I mean that literally, on many occasions while listening to his podcast while on a walk I would stop and back up to listen to something he said again, and I often referenced something he said on my own blog. I didn’t read everything he wrote although I tried, nor did I listen to every podcast, but I found his thoughts valuable enough to subscribe to him on Substack. I hope his blog stays alive for some time to come, it is a wealth of interesting material.
He was a much needed voice on the real Right and will be missed by many.
Amen on that Brother…
I liked going to his blog,
ZMAN RIP.
Few could match his insight, and virtually none could match his prolific output.
I’m going to try to keep alive the phrase oleaginous rumpswab
He’ll be missed. Part of my daily routine.
Sad news indeed. I was an avid reader of his for a very long time. A sane voice in the wilderness. He will be missed.
Back in 2013 or so, Z-Man was one of my first introductions to the Red Pill/Dissident Right along with Cheateau Heartiste, HGG’s* Alpha Game, WRSA, and Identity Dixie. It was a breath of fresh air to see that others shared the same opinion regarding immigration and race. And I learned that I was not alone. Back then, the Dissident Right was pretty small. Today, if you go to https://normalamerican.com/news/ you will see there is a plethora of choices and a niche that will fit you.
Thanks to the internet, the Dissident Right genie has been let out of the bottle. Z-man was one of the first to breach the walls. IMHO, in the long term, our side will prevail and I don’t think it will take 700 years like it took for the Spaniards to kick out the Muslims. #negrofatigue is a meme infiltrating even the mind of normies. Thanks Z-Man. I’ll say a prayer on your behalf and offer my gratitude for enlightening me.
*HGG, you know, Humanity’s Greatest Genius AKA Vox Day. Roll your eyes all you want but his web site Alpha Game opened my eyes to the true nature of women.
Oh. My. F%ckin’. God. Then the curse is real! I remember in a old post Zman saying that he would be hesitant to consider doing a show with RamZPaul as just about every cohost the guy has ever had came to bad ends: one went to jail and another DIED! He joked about how it might get him killed to do the show!
Is the curse real, then? Is Ramsey really the ghost or reincarnation of Ramses I or II, out to harm random white people to get revenge on those who defiled his tomb? Even if it’s just coincidencES there seem to be an eerie number of them by now.
I disagreed with some of his opinions too but he was still miles ahead of poseurs like jew-lover Jared and his buddies Brimelow and “Derb”! Those who are content to strictly go after the low-hanging fruit (niggers, illegals etc ) but willfully ignore the catalysts creating them are mountebanks par excellence.
Are they sure it was natural causes? Living alone creates an easy target for the usual suspects to attack.
You have very big shoes to fill, Art.
I loved his objectivity. He didn’t get worked up, or diverted or misdirected – and that was his biggest sin. He would home in on the bad guys, scientifically dissect them and put them under the microscope… and make them make sense. And then – when you least expected it – he’d cut loose with a rude zinger that would send coffee up my nose and all over the keyboard.
I think a lot of dissidents are solitary types. As you say – in a world dominated by morons, perverts and hysterics… the dissidents are better off on their own.
RIP Z…
Is anyone REALLY sure it was natural causes? After being doxed by the Jew Mafia in the SPLC, I tend to wonder/doubt whats real or not.
That was a sad surprise, and troubling since he was 2 years younger than me. Sad that he just got settled moving from Lagos, and had little time to enjoy it. Always sad to see someone die before they get a chance to retire.
His was one of the first voices I heard that said COVID was fake and gay, and that the vax was about money, nothing more. That was before the earliest voices saying it was deadly.
I read his blog every day and started my Fridays with his podcast. If you get a chance, download EP144 – Deep Blackness before it goes away. It’s epic.
He coined a term that I use now, and have started to hear others say – “She was wafted up on the warm thermals of white generosity” About an ingrate stronk black woman at Harvard med being an ingrate.
I didn’t always agree but always learned something and put on the thinking cap.
What more could you ask for.
Godspeed Zman.
Have listened and read the Z Man for years. Yes, his blog was always my daily first read, and one of two Substacks I support financially. In my eighth decade and have lost numerous friends, family but this has left me a bit stunned. An unmatched prolific and intelligent writer in our universe, he will be greatly missed… RIP Z Man, your wit & wisdom will live on and help those yet unknown to “our side of the river”.
He will be missed.
He was a once in a generation talent. Z wrote 1000 words daily. It took him inside 20 minutes to snap them off. His articles were pithy, tight, and focused, usually with a great closing paragraph. Plus he had a weekly hour podcast, and a day job. Z always reiterated that evolution is real. As a result, your genes are central to who you are. Then its culture and politics downstream. He thought the long 20th century of ruin brought on by ideology is over. What comes next is anyone’s guess. But Our people come first. Rest in peace, brother.
Please follow https://x.com/FriendsOfZman , there will be a funeral
in Berkeley Springs WV late next week for those who want to pay respects.
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