Melvin Capital Lost HALF Its Value After Reddit Rescued GameStop
Krystal and Saagar provide the latest stock market updates and discuss the fate of Melvin Capital.
Robinhood Debacle Reveals Elite Tyranny
The Funky Academic, Irami Osei-Frimpong, discusses the newest stock restrictions on Robinhood and explains what the long term implications of them might be.
Gorsuch v. Over-Criminalization
Now that overcriminalization has started to spill over into the middle class and business class, even many on the right are turning against it. By C. Jarrett Dieterle, National Review Much of the media attention to date surrounding President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch has centered on […]
The Bernie Sanders Paradox
Murray Bookchin’s critique of Bernie from 1986. By Murray Bookchin, Anarchist Library The posters that appeared all over Burlington — Vermont’s largest city (pop: 37,000) in the winter of 1980–81 were arresting and provocative. They showed an old map of the city with a label slapped across it […]
The Failure Of The State And The Rise Of Anarchism In Contemporary Anti-Systemic Praxis
By Morgan Gibson The centrality of anarchism to the praxis of contemporary anti-systemic social movements has been well documented. From the alter-globalisation movement to Occupy, many contemporary anti-systemic movements are defined by their commitment to some of the central tenets of anarchism, including the pursuit of decentralized, directly […]
Functional Anarchism(s) and the Theory of Global Contemporary Art
By Michael Frederick Rattray Functional Anarchism(s) and the Theory of Global ContemporaryArtinvestigates the intersection of art and anarchist philosophy in order to shed light on the phenomenon of global contemporary art. Many scholars have addressed the impact of anarchism upon modern art, yet such studies tend to stop […]
The Revenge of the Yankees: How Social Gospel became Social Justice
Probably one of the best discussions of “culture war” politics and related socioeconomic factors I have seen to date. The Red Tribe/Blue Tribe conflict is less about socialism vs. capitalism, or communism vs. fascism, and more a continuation of the historic American battles between the high churches and […]
The ZIP Codes That Rule America
By Michael Lind, Tablet The real divide isn’t between red states and blue states or cities and rural areas. It’s between mega-rich political donors and everyone else. Before the recent election gave President-elect Joe Biden a solid majority of the Electoral College, some fretful Democrats worried that it […]
The New National American Elite
By Michael Lind, Tablet In the third decade of the 21st century, the Social Register still exists, there are still debutante balls, polo and lacrosse are still patrician sports, and old money families still summer at Newport. But these are fossil relics of an older class system. The […]
Biden administration ditches May obligation to withdraw troops from Afghanistan
That didn’t take long. The Pentagon says the Biden administration will not commit to a full withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan by May after it accused the Taliban of not honoring the commitments they made in their deal with the United States.
Alexandria Ocasia-Cortez: Campaign Finance Summary
In other words, the rising sectors of the ruling class: the tech oligarchy and the new clerisy. Antony Sutton would have said, “I told you so.” “These were the top campaign contributors to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in 2019-2020. An interesting combination of Big Tech, Big Media, a little Big […]
How America Changed During Donald Trump’s Presidency
BY MICHAEL DIMOCK AND JOHN GRAMLICH, Pew Research Center Donald Trump stunned the political world in 2016 when he became the first person without government or military experience ever to be elected president of the United States. His four-year tenure in the White House revealed extraordinary fissures in […]
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