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Keith Preston

Kazakhs Protest, and Russia Reacts

By Peter Zeihan on January 6, 2022 Russian-led forces entered Kazakhstan today, under the guise of a Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) peacekeeping mission. The former Soviet state and significant oil producer has seen several days of sustained public protests turned violent after raising the price of liquefied petroleum […]

The Travails of Trumpification

by Timothy W. Luke, Telos Also available in Kindle ebook format at Amazon.com. In this series of critical essays written over the course of Donald J. Trump’s presidency, from its chaotic early days to its calamitous end, Timothy W. Luke explores how the recent twists and turns in […]

Why Progressives Defend Drug Dealers

This article inadvertently or indirectly points out the limitations of “criminal justice reform” within the context of the current state-centric system. The problems that this writer is describing are not rooted in the claim that drug decriminalization has gone “too far.” The problem is that drug decriminalization has […]

Why Progressives Got Crime So Wrong

It is interesting that the serious discourse on issues pertaining to crime has largely shifted from “law and order conservatives” vs “soft on crime liberals” to moderates vs leftists. By Michael Shellenberger And why we can fight crime without mass incarceration. Over the last two decades, progressives came […]

Class and Caste

Quite a bit could be learned about Western politics by examining electoral patterns in India. The Democrats are an alliance between the Brahmins and Dalits and the Republicans are an alliance between the Vaishyas and Shudras, while the Kshatriyas are divided between the Democrats and Republicans, depending on […]

America’s Asymmetric Civil War

Michael  Lind, Tablet It’s within metro areas, not between the states. America’s states seem increasingly disunited. Divisions over controversies related to COVID— lockdowns, vaccine mandates, school closures—have accentuated existing splits among blue Democratic and red Republican states with respect to partisanship and attitudes toward crime and public policy. […]

The Price of Dissent

By Christopher F. Rufo City-Journal A Reuters data scientist questioned the Black Lives Matter narrative—so the company fired him. Zac Kriegman had the ideal résumé for the professional-managerial class: a bachelors in economics from Michigan and a J.D. from Harvard and years of experience with high-tech startups, a […]

The Modern Surveillance State (Documentary)

The Conscious Resistance Network presents: The Modern Surveillance State Written by Derrick Broze, produced by Jeremy Martin (Originally Released September 2018) Watch on Vimeo / Bitchute Transcript and sources: The War on Terror Immediately following the attacks of September 11, 2001, President George W. Bush promised Americans he […]

A New Year One for Gotham

By Joel Schlosberg, Garrison Center As “the city that never sleeps” turned the calendar to 2022 with the inauguration of Eric Adams just after midnight, partygoers didn’t need Frank Sinatra’s reminder to “start spreading the news” heard on the New Year’s broadcast from Times Square. New Yorkers were […]