Month: May 2023

Wages for Housewives

Sponsored by Duke University Press Larry Rohter The Inventor of Magical Realism It remains a mystery why Miguel Ángel Asturias’s brilliant novel Mr. President remains less well known in the English-speaking world than the many novels it inspired. Anna Shechtman Wages for Housewives The Real Housewives’ work is to produce drama, […]

The metaverse is dead

 View in browser Subscribe May 14, 2023 Hi, I’m Matt Turner, the editor in chief of business at Insider. Welcome back to Insider Today’s Sunday edition, a roundup of some of our top stories. Happy Mother’s Day to anyone celebrating today.   On the agenda: An obituary for […]

What Happened to the Left?

The ideology of the ruled is now the dogma of the rulers Leighton Woodhouse May 14, 2023   Last week, Glenn Greenwald appeared as a guest on the Ben Shapiro Show. The coupling, Shapiro pointed out, was “weird.” For years, Greenwald and Shapiro have traded vicious barbs on […]

Sanctions Are War By Other Means

The Corbett Report May 14, 2023 by James Corbett corbettreport.com May 14, 2023 Were you aware that nearly one-third of the planet is under economic sanctions of one sort or another? No? Why not? Even those who don’t pay much attention to the nexus between geopolitics and economics […]

Weaponizing Death

May 13 2023 Good morning from  Washington, where President Biden made policy changes that broke our southern border as a barrier to illegal immigrants. Now some on his team don’t want journalists to witness a new surge of border crossers, our Mary Margaret Olohan reports. The Left uses […]

Startup Societies, Part Two: A Reflection on the Work of Fitzpatrick, O’Connor, Mayes, Widmer, Srinivasan, Crimethinc, and Block

By Keith Preston May 13, 2023 See Part One here. Bellamy Fitzpatrick on the Trichotomy of “Decentralist Anarchy,” “World Domination Anarchism,” and “Worldwide Wokeness” In January 2020, Bellamy Fitzpatrick, a well-known figure in left-wing anarchist circles in North America, produced a brief blog post that summarizes very well […]

12 Murdered With Cyanide

Hostage Standoff: Abductor Shot and Killed By Florida Police Authorities in Florida have released police body camera footage of a shooting that resulted in the death of a suspect with a long criminal record, and left his hostage injured.  Read More… 12 Murdered With Cyanide Authorities have arrested […]

Writing into Silence

June 16, 1948, was the beginning of the twelve-year conflict that would come to be called “the Malayan Emergency” by British colonial troops and “the Anti-British National Liberation War” by the predominantly ethnically Chinese Communist fighters seeking to overthrow them. Five thousand civilians died, and as much as […]

Musk upends NBCUniversal

 View in browser Subscribe May 13, 2023 Hello, Insiders. Before we begin: It’s Mother’s Day tomorrow in the US and Canada. If you’re in need of a last-minute gift, our reviews team has some picks for you. For today’s edition, we’re taking a look at the “crisis” inside […]

The 25 most innovative boards

May 13, 2023   A NOTE FROM OUR EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ALYSON SHONTELL This week, Fortune published its annual Modern Board 25 list, recognizing some of the most innovative and diverse boards of directors among S&P 500 companies.   The most effective and impactful boards share a few traits: They’re […]

Baseball Player Shot During Game

Baseball Player Shot During Game A baseball player was shot during a game in Texas. Read More… Violence Breaks Out in Chico – One Teen Dead, Five Injured A party in California turned deadly early Saturday morning when a shooting broke out, claiming the life of a 17-year-old […]

The Intermission Is Over

CNN has done us a favor in a way: Trump remains the central issue of our time. Andrew Sullivan May 12, 2023 Reporters watch the CNN town hall with Trump in New Hampshire on May 10. (Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images) The reason so many are freaking out […]

Will AI destroy the music industry?

Brigid  Kennedy Will AI destroy the music industry? Harold  Maass Where does Kyrsten Sinema belong? Brigid  Kennedy The mess and merit of CNN’s disastrous town hall Advertisement by Enbridge Lowering emissions today for clean energy systems tomorrow. Learn how. Theara  Coleman 2 Michigan school districts ban backpacks after […]

5/12/23: Elizabeth Holmes Returns In NYTimes, Biden Tik Tok Kids Panic, Netflix’s Cleopatra Drama, Dianne Feinstein Returns, Spencer Snyder on American Financial Literacy

This week we discuss the Elizabeth Holmes profile in the New York Times that showcases her new persona “Liz”, the Biden Tik Tok kids panic on the Tim Dillon show when they admit they’ll lose followers if they criticize the Democrats, Netflix’s upcoming show “Cleopatra” is sparking drama […]

Journo Dysphoria

PLUS: Shelon CEO :: The Meth Pipes Are Back :: Anarchy Tragedy Michael Shellenberger Beige Luciano-AdamsAlex Gutentag Leighton Woodhouse May 12, 2023 Journo Dysphoria For nearly 75 years after 1945, reporters were one thing and politicians another. Journalists were imagined to be objective in their reporting on politicians, […]