Month: December 2023

Weapons for Christmas

Weapons for Christmas Plus: Elon Musk’s mom tells off the FCC, A24 tackles civil war, Nate Silver talks F.A. Hayek, and more… LIZ WOLFE Is $886 billion enough for you? Yesterday, the Senate passed a bill appropriating a cool $886 billion in defense spending. The bill extends authorization for Section 702, […]

Blowback and Russia’s Arrest of Evan Gershkovich

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2023 Government grants are eventually followed by government restrictions, and dependence often turns into submission.The ultimate victim of handouts could be democracy itself: politicians cannot undermine self-reliance without subverting self-government. – James Bovard, Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty [2023] HORNBERGER’S BLOG December 14, […]

New Legalise Freedom Interview

The Twilight of Travel Luke Dodson Dec 14, 2023 I had another excellent conversation with my friend Greg Moffitt of the Legalise Freedom podcast, this time focused on the ‘twilight of travel’, as the concrete realities of resource depletion and economic contraction are being weaponized by a technocratic […]

CNN Goes To Gaza

Caitlin Johnstone Dec 14, 2023 Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): CNN’s Clarissa Ward and her crew became the first western journalists to enter Gaza independent from Israeli forces since October 7, briefly visiting a 150-bed hospital that was recently constructed in a […]

12/14/23: 20% Of IDF Deaths Friendly Fire, IDF School Massacre?, Hunter In Contempt, Tech Firm Company Towns, Schumer Confirms UFO Coverup, Obama Linked Karen Muslim Harasment, Debunking Ukraine Lies

Krystal and Saagar discuss reports that 20% of IDF deaths are friendly fire as brutal fighting continues, allegations that the IDF committed a massacre of civilians inside a school in Gaza, Hunter gives public testimony while Republicans hold him in contempt, Tech firms break ground on plans for […]

Netflix power move

December 13, 2023 • 5 min read with Hallam Bullock Hello! I’m filling in for Dan DeFrancesco today and writing to you from London — where, yes, we do have separate faucets for hot and cold water, as one expat recently pointed out.   Netflix just pulled the […]

Benedetto Croce: Anti-Egalitarian

by Dmitry Moiseev Arktos Journal Dec 13, 2023 Dmitry Moiseev discusses Benedetto Croce, whose radical rejection of egalitarianism marks a major deviation from mainstream political thought influenced by the French Enlightenment. Neo-Hegelian philosopher Benedetto Croce (1866-1952) is often regarded as the most influential Italian liberal of the twentieth […]

Will the Climate Deal Do Anything?

Will the Climate Deal Do Anything? Plus: White supremacists and plagiarism, Milei and shock therapy, checking in on California, and more… LIZ WOLFE This time, they really mean it: Though historically climate agreements have infrequently amounted to much of anything, journalists across the mainstream publications are heralding the resolution […]

Adam Neumann’s secretive startup

INSIDE SCOOP Visual China Group via Getty Images; Ben Bergman; Rebecca Zisser/BI Adam Neumann created a secretive billion-dollar startup to transform apartment living I was the first reporter to step foot inside. READ NOW Insider Today Newsletter Get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in business from […]

On the Run With Pussy Riot

It was a few weeks before the election that would put the former president, more autocratic than ever, back into office. The threat of retribution against his critics was heavy in the capital where five women pulled on balaclavas and staged a protest against the Christian leaders who […]

12/13/23: Biden Tells Bibi He Must Change, IDF Runs Psyop On Israelis, Zelensky Begs For Aid In DC, Elon Goes To War With Unions, UAE Climate Conference Ignores Fossil Fuels, And Congress Battles Over Surveillance Legislation

Ryan and Emily discuss Biden telling Bibi he must change or lose international support, IDF runs psyop on Israelis, Zelensky visits DC to sway Congress on aid, Elon Musk goes to war with Swedish unions, UAE climate conference ignores fossil fuels, and Congress battles over surveillance legislation. Timestamps: […]

Lush, Garish, Pulpy, Sublime

Writing about Henry Threadgill in the Review’s Holiday Issue, Adam Shatz finds a panoply of words for the music of “one of American music’s great Romantics and a lifelong seeker of the sublime”: “impertinent,” “innovative,” “thrillingly abrasive,” “sacrilegious,” “swaggering,” “provocatively ambiguous,” “wildly expressive,” “lush,” “seductive,” “garish,” “pulpy,” “liberating,” […]

Is Free Speech a Relic in America?

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2023 The sons of torture victims make good terrorists – Andre Malraux HORNBERGER’S BLOG December 12, 2023 Giving Up on Freedom: School Vouchers One of the questions about libertarianism that has long fascinated me is: Why have so many libertarians given up on freedom? Everyone […]

Heat on Harvard

December 12, 2023 • 5 min read with Matt Turner It’s Tuesday, folks! We’ve all felt jealousy rise up within us while scrolling social media. Maybe it’s a photo of that ex with their new beau, or an annoying relative on a luxe vacation. The latest trigger for […]

Texas’ Abortion Law Test

Texas’ Abortion Law Test Plus: BTS gets conscripted, Harvard gets down with plagiarism, cruise ships ban weed, and more… LIZ WOLFE Texas’ medical exemption law gets tested: Kate Cox is a 31-year-old mother of two who is 20 weeks pregnant with her third child and seeking an abortion. The […]

12/12/23: Israel Hides Massive Casualties, Hamas Combat Footage, Israel Uses White Phosphorus, Zelensky Begs For Aid, Scotus May Save Trump, Shocking Housing Numbers, Deadly Panera Lemonade, US Gaslighting On Israel

Krystal and Saagar discuss Israel hiding massive casualties in Gaza as more Hamas combat footage emerges, Israel uses US Supplied White Phosphorus, Zelensky says Putin happy about deadlocked Ukraine aid, SCOTUS may save Trump from indictment, shocking housing numbers reveal crisis, Krystal and Saagar test deadly Panera lemonade, […]