By Jason Lee Byas LAPD officer Christopher Dorner’s killings and the manhunt that they sparked left Angelenos in a state of terror. Innocent people were, wounded, or psychologically traumatized as a result of Dorner’s actions and those of his former fellow officers. These tragedies were not random flukes. […]
By Roderick Long “Can We Escape the Ruling Class?“ was originally published in the Autumn 1994 issue of Formulations by the Free Nation Foundation, written by Roderick T. Long. Nature of a Ruling Class We tend to think of the “ruling class” as a Marxist concept; but the notion has a long history […]
By Robert Weissberg Since the 1950s a multitude of solutions to revitalize decaying inner cities have come and gone. If anything, matters have grown worse—brave souls should visit Detroit, Cleveland, Gary, East St. Louis, Memphis, and countless others to see for themselves.
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By Philip Giraldi Countries frequently define themselves by what they believe to be true. When reality and belief conflict that definition might well be referred to as a “national myth.” In the United States many believe that there exists a constitutionally mandated strict separation between religion and government. […]
By Eric Margolis On 30 January, a Chinese Jiangwei II-class frigate entered the disputed waters around the Senkaku Islands, a cluster of uninhabited rocks in the East China Sea claimed by China as the Diaoyu Islands. A Japanese destroyer was waiting. When the two warships were only 3 […]
By John Whitehead “Much of our foreign policy now depends on the hope of benevolent dictators and philosopher kings. The law can’t help. The law is what the kings say it is.” ~ Ta-Nehisi Coates, writing for The Atlantic “If George Bush had done this, it would have […]
The Polemicist An essay in seven sections. The Fundamental Political Principle “That rifle on the wall of the labourer’s cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.”— George Orwell
By Uri Gordon This thesis explores contemporary anarchism, in its re-emergence as a social movement and political theory over the past decade. The methodology used combines participatory research and philosophical argumentation. The first part, “Explaining Anarchism”, argues that it should be addressed primarily as a political culture, with […]
By Mike Gibson Only a failure of imagination, the same one that leads the man on the street to suppose that everything has already been invented, leads us to believe that all of the relevant institutions have been designed and that all of the policy levers have been […]
By Daniel Larison Frederick Kagan didn’t understand why Rand Paul emphasized restraint and avoiding unnecessary wars: America’s foreign policy today is hardly one of militaristic, imperialistic determination to intervene. To put it charitably, this is an odd thing to say about the current state of U.S. foreign policy. […]
By Dr. Sean Gabb Not looking at the general circumstances, I’m in favour of gay marriage, and have been at least since I first wrote about it in 1989. If two consenting adults want to live together in close union, and can find a consenting minister of religion […]
By Justin Raimondo Sen. Rand Paul wants to be taken seriously – as a presidential candidate, as heir to the energetic youth-oriented movement founded by his father, and as a foreign policy Deep Thinker. This last goal was supposed to have been approached, if not reached, by his […]
Garett Fisbeck for The New York Times A Ron Paul supporter at a rally in Oklahoma City last year. By Brian Doherty RON PAUL, Republican of Texas, has retired from the House, after winning more than two million presidential primary votes in 2012. He took the party’s libertarian […]
By Steven Greenhut Americans will rarely witness the kind of full-scale manhunt now going on throughout Southern California and the San Bernardino mountains as hundreds of heavily armed police and federal agents hunt down Christopher Dorner, a 33-year-old former Los Angeles cop and former Naval officer suspected of […]
By Pat Buchanan If last week’s hearing for Chuck Hagel raised questions about his capacity to be secretary of defense, the show trial conducted by his inquisitors on the tribunal raised questions about the GOP. Is the Republican Party, as currently constituted, even capable of conducting a foreign […]
By Michael Parish All different, all the same
Brett Stevens reviews Paul Gottfried The bullshit is stronger than the bullet and the ballot. We have always been fighting the Revolution. This is the thesis, in a more complex form, of Paul Gottfried’s War and Democracy, a collection of essays centered on the instability of modern liberal […]
By Kevin Carson The following article was written by Kevin Carson and published on his blog Mutualist.Org: Free Market Anti-Capitalism, February/August, 2002. INTRODUCTION In On Community, a recent pamphlet on Gustav Landauer, Larry Gambone suggested the need for an “antipolitical movement” to dismantle the state, in order to eliminate obstacles to non-statist alternatives. […]
By Eric Heubeck Introduction The Problem–An Overreliance on Political Activism A New Direction Still Engaged–But Outside of Politics Remaining Importance of Defensive Politics New Traditionalists and Libertarians Movement Must Serve as a Force of Social Intimidation in Its Intermediate Stage
By David J. Theroux The world-renowned philosopher Alvin C. Plantinga has recently received the prestigious Nicholas Rescher Prize for Contributions to Systematic Philosophy, awarded by the University of Pittsburgh’s Departments of Philosophy, History, and Philosophy of Science, and the Center for the History and Philosophy of Science.
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Watch the video LAS VEGAS (AP) — The tiny Nevada town that’s home to one of the most powerful men in Congress is up for sale. The main properties in Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s hometown of Searchlight went on the market this week for just under $5 […]
By John Whitehead “Unfortunately, children do not organize, have no access to the media, and do not vote. They are relatively powerless to improve their own condition. Children need adults who will advocate for them.” ~ Professor David Elkind, Tufts University Just as the 9/11 terrorist attacks created […]
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Classical fascism and classical anarchism are philosophical brothers with a lengthy history of fighting each other. Both were composed of former Marxists equipped with militancy and syndicalism intertwined with
By Pat Buchanan When, in the 1950s, Nikita Khrushchev said, “We will bury you,” and, “Your children will live under communism,” Eisenhower’s America scoffed. By 1980, however, the tide did indeed seem to be with the East. America had suffered a decade of defeats. Southeast Asia had fallen. […]
By Daniel Larison White House Photo Ross Douthat makes a fair point: But just because the G.O.P. looks like it could spend a generation in the wilderness doesn’t meant that it actually will. National parties exist to win national elections, and that incentive alone often suffices to drive […]
By John Buffalo Mailer Oliver Stone Dilma Rousseff (Creative Commons) Oliver Stone has the same gripe with Barack Obama as he did with George W. Bush—namely, they both stand for American Empire, and he does not. Stone is a three-time Oscar winner, has made over 60 films, including […]
By Justin Raimondo We have to be thankful to Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of our more theatrical solons, for dramatizing the way in which the Israel lobby intimidates members of Congress: by asking Chuck Hagel if he could name a single Senator who was so intimidated he merely […]
By John Knefel The national security state has an annual budget of around $1 trillion. Of that huge pile of money, large amounts go to private companies the federal government awards contracts to. Some, like Lockheed Martin or Boeing, are household names, but many of the contractors fly […]
By Steve Fraser Shakespeare’s Polonius offered this classic advice to his son: “neither a borrower nor a lender be.” Many of our nation’s Founding Fathers emphatically saw it otherwise. They often lived by the maxim: always a borrower, never a lender be. As tobacco and rice planters, slave […]
By David D’Amato A few days ago, I heard Greg Gutfeld — a self-styled libertarian and host of Fox News’ Red Eye — grieve the “death of private property” in his comment on homeless people squatting in Bank of America-owned houses. As a free marketer, defender of private […]
Huffington Post George Takei says there’s a not-so-secret mission — or two — behind the bitingly funny videos and Facebook updates which the “Star Trek” legend posts regularly to his 3.5 million Facebook followers, who grow by 40,000 per week. “I think my new image as a comic […]
By David Lightmari High-end rifles in a gun shop in Arizona in 2011 | Will Seberger/MCT More on this Story Story | Newtown massacre may impel states to beef up mental health services Story | Gun debate begins in Congress, but both sides start out far apart By […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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