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Keith Preston

The Need for a New, New, New Left

What Nicky describes here is a perfect summary of what is wrong with today’s “Left.” ATS was created in part to challenge the hegemony of what might be called the “anti-iconoclastic left.” Most of today’s “leftists” are actually late 19th century/early 20th century progressives, only they have done […]

The Shifting Nexus of the US Culture War

Recent research by Pew shows that the perspective depicted in the meme below (so-called “faith and flag conservatives”) only represents about 10% of the US population. Most of the US right-wing nowadays are business conservatives, pro-labor populists, and socially moderate to liberal center-right or quasi-libertarian types. One thing […]

Brazen Drug Dealing & Fentanyl Use Witnessed At Official But Illegal San Francisco Homeless “Linkage Center”

I don’t generally agree with Michael Shellenberger on these issues (although he is interesting in his advocacy of nuclear power), but his ongoing reporting on the conflict between bourgie-normie liberal-yuppie-gentrifiers and the woke Left in the Bay Area is unintentionally hilarious. His writing reminds me of the 1970s […]

Against Bourgeois Anarchy

By AntiBoomerEquation For an Aristocracy of the Ego. Mencken and Christophe Cieters both advocate a Nietzschean approach to libertarianism. Renzo Novatore, Max Stirner, Zo d’Axa, Georges Palante and S. E. Parker are all examples of a profoundly anti-democratic rejection of statism and collectivism. John Beverly Robinson, John Badcock, […]

The deep state is no conspiracy theory

By Gilbert T. Sewall  Spectator World In 1958, Aldous Huxley foresaw a congestion of power able to shape and defy popular will. “Under the relentless thrust of accelerating over-population and increasing over-organization, and by means of ever more effective methods of mind-manipulation, the democracies will change their nature,” […]