Month: April 2023

Why Marx was Right: Alienation

Here’s the drop on Marx’s (and in the case of the alienation from nature, Marxist) different forms of alienation, including alienation from self, alienation from others, and alienation from labour and the products of labor. Along the way I give a few reasons not to listen to willfully […]

The Dark Side of Working in the Weed Industry

FEATURED Exploitation, Abuse, and Death: The Dark Side of Working in the Weed Industry The cannabis industry is booming, but workers say they face low wages, rapacious bosses, and life-threatening conditions. Dusty Christensen FROM THIS ISSUE Impeach Clarence Thomas and Remove Dianne Feinstein We’ve booted Supreme Court Justices […]

It’s Time to Separate School and State

SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 2023 Libertarians and conservatives taken with the Friedman model are not thinking boldly enough. The answer is … the total separation of education and state. – Cruz Marquis “It’s Time to Separate School and State” [2023] HORNBERGER’S BLOG April 28, 2023 Dismantle the Cuban Embargo […]

The final hours of Bob Lee

April 29, 2023   A NOTE FROM OUR EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ALYSON SHONTELL This week, Fortune held its annual Brainstorm Health conference and it was electric. Fortune Well editor Jennifer Fields and senior writer Erika Fry cochaired the event along with health tech venture capitalists Deena Shakir and Christina Farr. […]

The fight over Airbnbs

April 29, 2023 Hello, Insiders. Short-term rentals — like the accommodations available on Airbnb and Vrbo — are at the center of nationwide debates over how to regulate them. Today’s big story focuses on the fight over these rentals in one small city in Montana. What else is […]

How to end Supreme Court rot

Episode 122 with Corey Robin Krystal Kyle & Friends Apr 28, 2023 Corey Robin wrote the book on Clarence Thomas and judicial corruption — literally. So we’re thrilled to have him on the pod this week to break down the scandal surrounding the Supreme Court justice lately, taking […]

What is Authoritarianism?

Today I will be joined by Keith Preston to discuss the nature of Authoritarianism. Locals: https://praiseoffolly.locals.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/PoFPodcast Telegram: t.me/PraiseOfFolly_1511 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PraiseOfFoll… BuyMeACoffe: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/PraiseOf… Subscribe Star: https://www.subscribestar.com/PraiseO… Substack: https://substack.com/profile/40985862…

A tale of two Earth Days

TAC Editor’s Weekly The latest in Main Street conservative news View this email in your browser Dear Reader, By now, the May/June issue of the print magazine should be arriving in member mailboxes. Readers will notice the contents are posted online, behind the paywall. (To view, become a […]

Salesforce rollercoaster

 View in browser Subscribe April 28, 2023 Hello, Insiders. Matt Turner, editor in chief of business, here. COVID-19 helped launch Salesforce skywards, but high-profile exits, slowing growth, and pressure from investors have made for a bumpy 18 months. CEO Marc Benioff says his performance through that time has […]

4/28/23: Marianne Calls Out DNC on Fox News, Taliban Kills ISIS Leader, Charles Barkley Gale King New CNN Show, Don Lemon Highlight Reel, Constitutional Amendments, EquiFax Sells American Tax Records, Havana Syndrome Gets More Money

Krystal and Saagar discuss Marianne Williamson going on Fox News to talk about the DNC barring primary debates, the Taliban killing an ISIS leader, Charles Barkley and Gale King announce their new CNN show “King Charles”, we take one last look at Don Lemon’s highlights of the past […]

What Is Your Endgame?

Peter R. Quiñones Apr 28, 2023 When I shifted away from the previous philosophy I preached, the most difficult pill for me to swallow was that the vast majority of people did not share my political and cultural goals. It made me realize that people do not want […]

Dismantle the Cuban Embargo

FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 2023 There never was a good war or a bad peace. – Benjamin Franklin, Letter to Josiah Quincy [1773] HORNBERGER’S BLOG April 28, 2023 Dismantle the Cuban Embargo Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently visited Vietnam with the aim of establishing closer relations with that […]

The Tucker-Bobby Insurgencies

Why Carlson should join Kennedy and run. Andrew Sullivan Apr 28, 2023 (Getty photos by Janos Kummer and Joseph Prezioso) The Biden campaign is now officially on, and it has a slogan: “Finish The Job.” No, I’m not making that up. The exhilaration everyone feels is only intensified […]

What is Authoritarianism?

Today I will be joined by Keith Preston to discuss the nature of Authoritarianism. Locals: https://praiseoffolly.locals.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/PoFPodcast Telegram: t.me/PraiseOfFolly_1511 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PraiseOfFoll… BuyMeACoffe: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/PraiseOf… Subscribe Star: https://www.subscribestar.com/PraiseO… Substack: https://substack.com/profile/40985862…

Uncomfortable History

Grappling with Western misdeeds does not require us turn indigenous tribes into pious exemplars of moral instruction. Christopher J. Ferguson 27 Apr 2023 · A review of Indigenous Continent by Pekka Hämäläinen, 592 pages, Liveright (September 2022) The Freudian concept known as “reaction formation” refers to a psychological […]