Month: October 2021

The New Face of Autocracy

By Joel Kotkin A former Facebook employee hailed by the media as a whistleblower testified this week on Capitol Hill about the social media giant’s algorithm, and how it harms children and democracy. Frances Haugen told the the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product […]

These 3 firms own corporate America

By Jan Fichtner, Eelke Heemskerk, The Conversation A fundamental change is underway in stock market investing, and the spin-off effects are poised to dramatically impact corporate America. In the past, individuals and large institutions mostly invested in actively managed mutual funds, such as Fidelity, in which fund managers […]

Anarcho-Blackness

Anarchist News From ILL WILL A Conversation with Marquis Bey In the summer of 2020, Marquis Bey published Anarcho-Blackness: Notes Toward a Black Anarchism with AK Press. Released hot off the heels of a nationwide uprising against white supremacy and the police, the book stages an encounter between […]

Remembering Brian Micklethwait

By Sean Gabb Remembering Brian Micklethwait: The Man Who Made Libertarianism Fun Obituary by Sean Gabb Published on the 20th October 2021 in The Critic Magazine Brian Hugh Micklethwait was born on the 26th September 1947, the youngest son of Sir Robert Micklethwait, a lawyer of some distinction […]

Is America Becoming Rome Versus Byzantium?

By Victor Davis Hanson Independent Institute Our Byzantine interior and Roman coasts are quite differently interpreting their shared American heritage as they increasingly plot radically divergent courses to survive in scary times. In A.D. 286 the Roman emperor Diocletian split in half the huge Roman Empire administratively—and peacefully—under the control […]

The State As An Establishment Cult

Our Timeless Existence Imagine state-run churches with mandatory tithes and taxes. Imagine the state licensing clergy. Imagine the state allowing “alternatives” to their state run church system, but only if they are licensed, approved, and regulated to be a mirror of the state run church system. Imagine attendance […]