In this special hybrid event, FPRI’s Robert Strausz-Hupé Chair in Geopolitics, Robert D. Kaplan, discusses how the world of today resembles the Weimar Republic, the German government from 1919 until 1933 that faced hyperinflation, political division, and other issues.
In this Direct Interview, John speaks with Doug Stokes, Professor of International Security and Strategy at the University of Exeter. As the liberal global order is further eroded by identity politics and woke ideology, Professor Stokes and John consider the impacts of these progressive movements and a way […]
With wealth inequality soaring and the power of the elites growing, is society returning to the feudal era? The demographer and geographer Joel Kotkin joins Steven Edginton in this week’s Off Script podcast to discuss his theory of “neo-feudalism”.
Progressotards never seem to learn that compulsory secularization is precisely how you fuel religious extremism. By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz A new law, put in place on Saturday in Canada, is causing concern that it may criminalize the dissemination of the Bible. The concern is that Bill C-4, the […]
By Patrick J. Buchanan, LewRockwell.Com After the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and the Warsaw Pact dissolved, the breakup of the USSR began. But the dissolution did not stop with the 14 Soviet “republics” declaring their independence of Moscow. Decomposition had only just begun. Transnistria broke away from […]
By Daniella Bassi, LewRockwell.Com The US and other countries of the Western world are divided by ever more stark ideological differences, to put it mildly. Because most people live in societies where the power to make some of the most important choices and to use offensive force to […]
By Wayne Price, Anarchist Library “Traditional” Anti-Semitism Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism Political Conclusions A Jewish joke from World War II: A Nazi officer stopped an old Jewish man and demanded that he answer, “Who started the war?!” Knowing what was good for him, the old man answered, “The Jews!” […]
Apparently, Kevin Carson, who is definitely the best modern anarchist economist, has a publicly available manuscript for a new book examining different theories of the state. As many readers know, I lean toward a type of hybrid theory of left/right power elite models, a kind of intersection of […]
By Kevin Carson, Anarchist Library Reviews Abstract Preface Part One: Background Chapter One: The Age of Mass and Maneuver I. A Conflict of Visions II. The Triumph of Mass in the Old Left III. The Assault on Working Class Agency IV. Workerism/Laborism Chapter Two: Transition I. Drastic Reductions […]
In the battle between left and right, we need both Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine, both of whom are ironically recognized as proto-anarchists by the anarchist historian Peter Marshall. By Yuval Levin, The Independent Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine were late-eighteenth-century political thinkers and prolific writers who disagreed […]
By Sean Illing Vox How the right is trying to “cancel” left-wing speech. We’re in the midst of something like a moral panic over so-called “cancel culture.” As I noted a few months ago, there’s a rising contingent of thinkers — on the left and right — who […]
By Paul Gottfried, American Greatness Chuck Schumer’s chutzpah in doing anything to maintain and expand his party’s power stands in depressing contrast to the go-along attitude shown by Republican congressional leaders. There is something almost breathtaking about the way Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) seizes every opportunity […]
China’s debt crisis is worse than anyone thought. Here’s why.
The Signal How did a gas pipeline from Russia to Germany become central to the fate of Ukraine? Anatol Lieven on the intense game of diplomacy going on with Moscow, Berlin, Washington, and Kiev. Thousands of Russian troops remain massed at the Ukrainian border, where Moscow started moving […]
By Caroline Mimbs Nyce The Atlantic Omicron is leading to school closures and reigniting familiar debates around the safety of in-person learning. In Chicago, public schools remain closed amid a dispute with the teachers’ union over when to switch to remote instruction. Districts in other parts of the […]
By Grayson Quay The Week American and Russian diplomats made little progress on defusing tensions in Eastern Europe during talks that began Monday in Geneva, The New York Times reports. Moscow has massed 100,000 troops on its border with Ukraine. Putin said in December he would prefer to […]
By Peter Weber The Week Text messages released by the House Jan. 6 committee are a reminder how closely intertwined Fox News and former President Donald Trump’s White House were during his presidency — several prominent opinion hosts privately pleaded for Trump to stop the Capitol siege by his […]
By Joel Mathis, The Week Republicans aren’t so angry about the insurrection. They just object to how Democrats talk about it. When President Joe Biden last week marked the anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection with a speech castigating former President Donald Trump for inciting the rioters, Sen. […]
By Brigid Kennedy The Week According to a new Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll, Americans’ political concerns are shifting ahead of 2022 midterm elections in perhaps quite a challenging way for Democrats. More specifically, the AP-NORC poll found that “management of the pandemic, once an issue […]
Elizabeth Holmes has been found guilty on four counts of wire fraud. In 2018, Norah O’Donnell reported on Theranos, the company led by Holmes with a blood-testing machine that could never perform as touted that went from a billion-dollar baby to a complete bust.
By Michael Shellenberger Progressives say they care more about working people and climate change than Republicans and moderate Democrats. Why, then, do they advocate policies that make energy expensive and dirty? Progressive Democrats including Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Pramila Jayapal, the head of the House progressive caucus, […]
By AntiBoomerEquation Evidence from Conquistadores by Fernando Cervantes that Nation States and Anti-clericalism are the Root of Modern Tyranny. Charles, the first European to rule significant parts of the Americas, developed a keen interest in the continent: although he focused primarily on how best to make the resources […]
The United States is seeing its highest “quit rate” since the government started keeping track two decades ago. Bill Whitaker speaks with employers who are scrambling to find help and people who left their jobs and aren’t looking back.
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave react to Novak Djokovic’s legal victory in his fight to remain in Australia as protests break out in Melbourne.
Their working conditions remind me of sweatshops from the turn of the 20th century. Amazon workers need to unite and unionize.
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss Senator Jon Ossoff’s soon-to-be bill banning members of Congress and their families from trading stocks.
Krystal and Saagar cover the major screwup from POLITICO over the weekend who falsely claimed liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor was seen with Democratic leadership at a fancy DC restaurant after conducing SCOTUS hearings remotely
Imagine being the guy who watches a Sandy Hook conspiracy theory video, and likes it so much he immediately buys Super Male Vitality.
Batya Ungar-Sargon breaks down cable news’ coverage of the first anniversary of January 6.
Krystal and Saagar cover the most cringeworthy demonstrations from liberals on January 6th including Hamilton songs, Dick Cheney celebration, and a ratings disaster for cable news
Again, our Federal Government is based on the principle of checks and balances: depositing large checks into their bank accounts to increase their balances.
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss Democrats’ electoral strategy going into the 2022 midterms.
Krystal offers her perspective on Candace Owens’ claims about vaccines and why the rhetoric from the pharma skeptics on the right falls flat without proposing real solutions
We live in a world where daytime talk show host Oprah and a former President of the United States are given equal importance in headlines. We have lost all seriousness.
Krystal and Saagar are joined by economist Philip Pilkington to examine how wealthy economies are skewered in favor of the older generations and what the consequences could be moving forward
“Don’t get into the limousine, Mike. Don’t get into the limousine, Mike. Don’t get into the limousine, Mike.” Mike Pence was wise to listen to his inner voice then.
Team Rising debates whether America is headed towards a second Civil War.
Saagar lays out the false claims made by the New York Times and CDC about children getting diabetes from covid and how the public health establishment has lost people’s trust
Reality reads like an Onion article sometimes.
Ryan Grim details the campaign showdown between Rep. Betty McCollum and the young DFL progressive attempting to unseat her.
Krystal and Saagar debunk the false claims made by liberal Supreme Court justice Sonia Sotomayor about covid hospitalizations among children during hearings on Biden’s federal vaccine mandate
Biden: “You were defeated… But your policies were not we are still keeping them alive.”
The hosts answer your questions about Roe v. Wade, politicians they admire, and natural immunity.
Krystal and Saagar look at the discouraging numbers from the December jobs report and how the Biden administration is spinning them to convince people the economy is doing well
The truly sad thing about this add is: That there are people who believe that! Seriously, some people need a reality check, especially those who have profited from the system (upper middle class people mostly, who think that through adapting to the perverted state the system is in, […]
Katie Halper reacts to news that Andrew Cuomo will not face any prosecution for his alleged sexual harassment of a former aide, or his role in New York’s Covid nursing home deaths.
Krystal and Saagar respond to the confrontation between Texas GOP Sen. Ted Cruz and Tucker Carlson after Cruz used the word ‘terrorist’ to describe the Jan 6th Capitol riot
Ted Cruz’s biggest enemy? Video recordings of Ted Cruz.
Richard Hanania breaks down his new book, “Public Choice Theory and the Illusion of Grand Strategy: How Generals, Manufacturers and Foreign Governments Shape American Foreign Policy.”
On Krystal Kyle & Friends, Krystal and Kyle Kulinski talk all things Fed policy & history with a leading economist
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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