Month: December 2022

Emancipation’s Limitations

New York Review of Books Sponsored by Classical Pursuits Sean Wilentz The Emancipators’ Vision Was abolition intended as a perpetuation of slavery by other means? Natalia Ginzburg and Alba de Céspedes On Women: An Exchange “That article of mine spoke of women in general, and said things we all know: […]

Gen Z’s slang, decoded

Nicholas Carlson December 15, 2022   Hello, Insiders. Glad to be back. Here’s a story our readers were into while I was out: Walmart rolled out self-checkout to streamline operations and reduce labor — but employees and customers say it’s causing a surge in thefts.   This makes […]

Jose Nino’s Digest: December 14, 2022 POLL: Plurality of Voters Believe Amnesty for Illegal Alien invaders Will Worsen Immigration Problems, and more

Here are my most recent articles for you POLL: Plurality of Voters Believe Amnesty for Illegal Alien invaders Will Worsen Immigration Problems As Congress is floating an amnesty program for illegal aliens, a plurality of voters believe such a program will exacerbate the current border crisis. Per the […]

How Gen Z Could Transform American Politics

By Monica Potts and Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux DEC. 14, 2022, AT 10:41 AM PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY EMILY SCHERER / GETTY IMAGES Welcome to Invisible Divides, a series exploring the profound differences in worldview between Democrats and Republicans. These beliefs about education, religion, gender and race align with partisanship — but run much […]

The Political Psychopath

From the boardroom to the war room Harrison Koehli 5 hr ago Remember Rod? TANNEN MAURY/EPA/SHUTTERSTOCK Before their research into corporate psychopathy, Paul Babiak and his colleagues raised several questions in need of answers. They are equally relevant to the study of political psychopathy and can be rephrased […]

The Lighthouse Weekly Newsletter: December 14, 2022 Censorship at Twitter | Follow the Money at Yale | Government-Induced Inflation

Twitter Files Confirm Censorship of the Great Barrington Declaration Phillip W. Magness and David Waugh (American Institute for Economic Research) New Twitter CEO Elon Musk has released files showing that Twitter and other tech companies intentionally blacklisted, censored, and suppressed the Great Barrington Declaration and its signers in […]

The Great Resignation

On the Coming Standard of Living Crisis RedHawk 8 hr ago “The battle outside ragin’ will soon shake your windows and rattle your walls, for the times they are a-changin’.” In 2022, the crisis facing young men has finally gone mainstream. Political pundits from all sides of the […]

Daily News: December 14, 2022 The Week-Understanding the U.S.-Africa strategy under President Biden

Joel  Mathis Understanding the U.S.-Africa strategy under President Biden Brigid  Kennedy Moroccan fans stranded after airline scraps flights to Qatar Harold  Maass Does America need more politicians like Kyrsten Sinema? Advertisement from University of Cincinnati UC Online MBA: Built for a Changing World Peter  Weber The European Union’s […]

Rising: December 14, 2022 Full Show-Bernie WITHDRAWS Yemen Resolution After Biden Challenge, Is Anti-War Left DEAD?

Bernie WITHDRAWS Yemen resolution after Biden challenge, is anti-war left DEAD?: Brie & Robby Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave discuss Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) withdrawal of his proposed War Powers Resolution. Briahna Joy-Gray: Twitter files journalists SMEARED; Matt Taibbi called racist, sexist, conservative Briahna Joy Gray examines […]

Democracy I

Joe Costello 21 hr ago Thomas Mitchell’s Athens: A History of the First Democracy is a great work of classical history. It ranks with the Italian Ferrero’s and the German Mommsen’s histories of the Roman republic in quality, breadth, and political insight. Mitchell is a professor at Trinity […]

On the State of the Art With Laibach

Laibach/Current members Totalitarian governments make extensive use of the appearance of power. Banners, marches, large plenary meetings of officials, and ritual parades of devastating weapons are veritable pageants of this language, scaled up from the logic of small despots to that of mass production. Often, this is a […]

Who are ‘My People’?

Peter R. Quiñones 36 min ago Many who are motivated by one political issue make it a habit to ally with people who agree with them on said issue, but ignore those people’s belief systems beyond that sphere. The anti-Empire, anti-war journalist Caitlin Johnstone is a perfect example. […]

A vaccine for cancer

Matt Turner, December 14, 2022   Hello, Insiders. Matt Turner here, filling in for Nicholas Carlson. I’m the editor in chief of business, and write my own Sunday newsletter, going behind the scenes of our biggest stories. Sign up here!   Today, I want to talk about Avatar. […]