By James Patterson, Law and Liberty Coverage of the recent National Conservatism conference has highlighted the growing divisions in the conservative movement, especially when it comes to the exertion of political power in economic life. The intellectual roots of this conflict were on display earlier this year when […]
Examining a classic.
Matt Taibbi explains how media coverage of the Biden administration’s woes reveal the rot in elite journalistic circles.
By Grayson Quay The Week Voters in the French territory of New Caledonia vote Sunday on whether to remain a part of France, The Associated Press reports. New Caledonia, an archipelago in the South Pacific with a population of around 250,000, became a French colony in 1853, gained […]
By Brigid Kennedy It can be difficult to understand what exactly is happening along the Russia-Ukraine border without knowledge of the countries’ deeply intertwined histories. That said, here’s everything you need to know: What’s going on with Russia and Ukraine? A build-up of Russian military troops along Ukraine […]
By George Packer, The Atlantic To head off the next insurrection, we’ll need to practice envisioning the worst. A year after the insurrection, I’m trying to imagine the death of American democracy. It’s somehow easier to picture the Earth blasted and bleached by global warming, or the human […]
From, May 2021. BY ALEX GRANIER, Baton Rouge Advocate Democrats are waging political war on all fronts to transform America into a one-party state. Recently Democrats launched a legislative effort to “pack the court,” which if realized would add four seats to the U.S. Supreme Court. Since President […]
By Jeffrey Goldberg The Atlantic The GOP’s leaders are attempting to destroy the foundations of American democracy. In October of 1860, The Atlantic’s first editor, James Russell Lowell, wrote of Abraham Lincoln that he “had experience enough in public affairs to make him a statesman, and not enough […]
From February, 2020. By Brynn Tannehill, Dame Magazine The GOP has rigged the system on every level of government. Is there a path forward? ell me why you kept kicking him. You had already won.” “Knocking him down won the first fight. I wanted to win all the […]
From October, 2020. The different ruling class factions and their constituent groups increasingly favor one-party rule. by Jeffrey M. Jones Gallup 41% of Americans favor unified control of federal government 23% want divided control 52% of Republicans, 43% of Democrats favor one-party control WASHINGTON, D.C. — A new […]
This editorial from the local newspaper in Colorado Springs (April 2021) nails it. The various ruling class factions understand their system is crumbling and the different factions are looking for ways to create a one-party state for themselves. By Barry Fagin, Colorado Springs Gazette It doesn’t take much […]
From August 2020. New York Post Editorial Board Democratic lawmakers in Albany are never satisfied: Their party already has a firm lock on the key levers of power, yet last week they moved to solidify that power even more — via an amendment to the state Constitution. And […]
From September 2020. By Marc Thiessen, The Washington Post Democrats say “democracy is on the ballot” in November. They are right — because a vote for Joe Biden is a vote for a one-party state. That’s not hyperbole. If Biden wins, Democrats will likely keep the House and […]
The popularized expression “Let’s go, Brandon!” definitely has its legitimate applications. From the comments: “I clearly remember people saying that the Middle East would be the second Vietnam in the mid-2000s. Where are all those naysayers now that the Middle Eastern wars are unpopular EVEN AMONGST CONSERVATIVES? I […]
It has been argued by myself and others that the USA has more in common with Latin America than Europe, with the major exception being that the US has traditionally had a larger middle class. While the US ruling class increasingly resembles that of the European Union, a […]
Tim Marshall, author of The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World, The Age of Walls: How Barriers Between Nations Are Changing Our World, and Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World, joins The Realignment to discuss how the […]
At present, the Trumpists are the least dangerous faction of the Republican Party. The other two major factions, the neocon-led Never Trumpers and the neocon-adjacent/infested Natcons are worse. The Never Trumpers are folks who want to return the Bush-era neocons to power (e.g. Liz Cheney). Natcons want to […]
The participants on January 6 were mostly a motley collection of aging losers and mentally ill fruitbats. No one involved has been charged with sedition, treason, terrorism offenses, murder, or attempted murder. Mostly, there are guilty of institutional offenses like interfering with Congressional proceedings, or petty crimes like […]
By Emile Doak, The American Conservative Conservatism is alive and well. David Brooks is a scorned lover. This refers not to the circumstances surrounding his divorce from his wife of twenty-seven years, finalized in 2014 while he was writing The Road to Character. No, Brooks has instead been […]
By David Brooks The Atlantic The rich philosophical tradition I fell in love with has been reduced to Fox News and voter suppression. I fell in love with conservatism in my 20s. As a politics and crime reporter in Chicago, I often found myself around public-housing projects like […]
By Kaitlyn Tiffany The Atlantic A poster in the window of Cahoots Corner Cafe—great potatoes, good coffee—advertised a family event at the Oakdale, California, rodeo grounds. There would be food trucks, carnival games, live music, a raffle, and the opportunity to support the cause of “freeing child sex […]
By Sophia Ankel Yahoo News/Business Insider A woman who pleaded guilty in the Capitol riot is preparing for prison. Jenna Ryan told Insider she’d been researching what life was like behind bars. Ryan said she was watching YouTube videos, learning slang, and speaking with prison consultants. A Capitol […]
A reader writes: I thought this was a perfect example of how the Hyphenated tribal religious identity always comes first in practice with libertarians and anarchists. One of the subjects of Breadtube Serves Imperialism, Vaush, released a video where he goes on about supporting a CIA coup to […]
A reader writes: I get so annoyed by anarcho-sectarianism. I have always thought anSyndics are anarchists. I love Sorel. Mises calls it pseudo socialism and worker’s capitalism, so I don’t know why it triggers so many libertarians, except that they haven’t read Mises and are wedded to defending […]
By Charlie Lee, Springtime of Nations The world of academia has long been plagued by an unfortunate tendency of overspecialization. For example, economists tend to stick strictly to their discipline and know next to nothing about history. Conversely, it’s mostly true of historians that they know next to […]
By Byron Libertarianism Something that Libertarians often fail to do is to learn from our enemies. It is unquestionable that many different ideologies have had much greater success in the 20th century than libertarianism or classical liberalism. No matter how repressive these ideologies may be, it’s worth studying […]
By Charlie Lee Pansecession News For the crime of mentioning the existence of the 1940s East Turkestan Republic in a previously state sanctioned public school textbook, Sattar Sawut the former head of the Xinjiang education department has been given a suspended sentence of death for publishing “separatism” that […]
By Charlie Lee Springtime of Nations “Independence is not the kind of thing you can get by begging for it from other people. You should proclaim it yourselves. The Japanese refuse to give it? Very well then, tell them that you will cross over to someplace like Twante […]
By Charlie Lee Springtime of Nations When Classical Liberalism first gained prominence as a political movement in Europe and the Western Hemisphere in general, the ideology was closely tied to national struggles for independence against large empires. Aside from the liberal nature of the American Revolution, the wars […]
By Charlie Lee Pansecession News from AP: While defenseless city dwellers are massacred by the Burmese military dictatorship, the rekindled fight for Karen Independence has born fruit: An important army base was captured near the border with Thailand. The Two freedom fighting factions have began to form a […]
By Charlie Lee Springtime of Nations “If there is to be a separation, then God bless them both. And keep them in the Union if it be for their good, but separate them if it be better.” …Thomas Jefferson on the New England Hartford Convention of 1814. This […]
By VoltDeCleyre Springtime of Nations The Porfiriato To understand the neo-zapatistas, one must not overlook the importance of Mexican history itself. Before we get to the eponymous Zapata, let us look towards the conditions that made the Mexican people turn to him in the first place. The man […]
By Lap Gong Leong Pan-Secession News This is a story told by a Springtime of Nations Associate Lap Gong Leong, a citizen of Hong Kong. Before Hong Kong’s 2020 Legislative Council Election was delayed twice, the sixth election since the handover was to be held on September 6th […]
By Charlie Lee Springtime of Nations In the news what has become a perennial geopolitical issue has once again reared its head. Though the latest fighting ended in a ceasefire on May 21, 2021, the Arab-Israeli conflict has in some form or another been raging for over 100 […]
By VoltDeCleyre Springtime of Nations The nation of Cuba faces an exciting new development: A movement for liberty. Cuba has a history of being sought after, belonging to the Spanish, invaded by the British, traded to the USA, and independent yet carefully watched over by first the USA […]
By Charlie Lee Springtime of Nations The worldwide culture war between what we call the “left” and “right” has by now infected all political discourse, and Libertarianism is no exception. “Right-Libertarians” have socially conservative mores and favor more hierarchical forms of economic and social organization, while “Left-Libertarians” are […]
By VoltDeCleyre Springtime of Nations Pact of Zanjon Aftermath Carrying on immediately where we left off, the negotiations for peace were not successful in placating the desires that brought about the 10 year war in the first place. Despite the cited “mutual exhaustion” both parties felt, some rebels […]
By Charlie Lee, Springtime of Nations Communism is the economic system characterized by “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.” Bizarrely, it has become increasingly popular in recent years to claim that the champion of Egoism, Max Stirner, supported this system or at […]
By Charlie Lee, Springtime of Nations The face of socialism in America is the fiery Puerto Rican congresswoman, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez. One of her many publicity stunts involved attacking Donald Trump and the Republicans for the lethargic pace of cleanup and aid efforts after Hurricane Maria struck the […]
The Commie left vs State Department anarchism. You can’t make this shit up. You just can’t call Vaush “left” anymore. If you’re a full-on imperialist and state department cheerleader, then i don’t care how you say you FEEL about capitalism etc, you’re just not left. This is nuts […]
By Matt Taibbi A furious controversy in the richest county in America was about race, all right, but not in the way national media presented it. Part one of a series. Part One: “The Inconvenient Minority.” November 2, 2021, Election night, town of Sterling, Loudoun County, Virginia. Thanks […]
By Rand Paul, The American Conservative Saudi Arabia’s air and naval blockade of Yemen is an abomination. For years now, ships that would otherwise carry food, fuel, and medicine to the country have been turned away by the Saudi-led coalition, depriving the Yemeni people of the necessities to […]
By Charlie Lee, Springtime of Nations All of our previous entries in this series have discussed current and therefore not yet successful struggles against imperialist states. Today however, we get to talk about a movement that fought for secession and won. This week, Bougainville. You probably haven’t heard […]
By John Nichols, The Nation “Don’t ever tell me we can’t afford to invest in our communities when we just approved $778 billion for the Pentagon,” said California Representative Barbara Lee. Voters gave Democrats control of the White House, the Senate, and the House last year. That should […]
By Greg Tate, The Nation A guide for the perplexed, the puzzled, and the politically confused. Afropessimism is all the rage among millennial Black academics and activists—most notably among Black feminist critical race theorists, who themselves are now the prime targets of the MAGA crowd. Black intellectuals haven’t […]
By Damon Linker The Week Democracies are obsessed with “democracy.” That makes some sense. Basing politics on the consent of the governed, limiting government power, respecting the rights of citizens — all of these are important human achievements, ones from which even nominal democracies often fall short and […]
By Rick Henderson The Week Democracy can’t survive if we change the rules every time our side loses. There’s a new variant of partisan suspicion in America: The other side refuses to play by the rules and must be stopped at any cost or our country as we know it […]
By Brigid Kennedy The Week Inflation surged 6.8 percent from a year ago in November, coming in slightly above estimates, CNBC reports, per the latest consumer price index released Friday. After removing volatile food and energy prices, the CPI (which measures what consumers pay for goods and services) […]
By Summer Meza The Week First lady Jill Biden is not willing to entertain certain criticisms of her husband. Dr. Biden told CBS News’ Rita Braver that she thinks it’s “ridiculous” when critics suggest President Biden’s mental fitness is questionable. Per The Hill, she shook her head when Braver […]
On today’s What America’s Thinking, 52 percent of voters said they plan to spend about the same amount as last year on holiday spending.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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