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Keith Preston

Neoliberals Stage a Comeback

In a few decades, if not sooner, “conservatism” in the US will look a lot like the Biden Democrats of today, and “liberalism” will look like the Sanders Democrats. Today’s “conservatives” will assume the same role as the right-wing populist parties in Europe, i.e. loud but rather marginal.

Will Today Be a Sanders Sweep?

538 seems to think so. I always figured when the voting started in the primaries Sanders would start to do very well. So far, I’ve been right. A Sanders vs. Trump election would be…interesting. The corporate Democrats are certainly circling their wagons at this point (not that they […]

The Coming Global Debt Crisis?

By William S. Lind Traditional Right A spectre is haunting the world, the spectre of a world-wide debt crisis.  Could the coronavirus epidemic in China be the trigger? World debt levels, both public and private, have reached undreamed heights.  The United States is now running deficits of a […]

Anarchy: More or Less Government?

By Will Schnack Evolution of Consent Compared to monarchy, is democracy more or less government? It seems to depend on who is asked. Some will suggest that democracy is less government than monarchy is, because people have the ability to participate directly in the governing process. Others, however, […]

R.I.P. Aragorn Bang

Some sad news from AnarchistNews.Org. Apparently, anarchist publisher Aragorn Bang has passed away. Aragorn was a long time anarchist from the Bay Area, and the force behind the Little Black Cart publishing venture. R.I.P. At 10:26pm on Thursday February 13 Aragorn! walked on. After a debilitating stroke he […]

Free Marketers vs. Vulgar Libertarians

By Jake Recktenwald Rational Anarchy I recently stumbled upon this debate between Patrick Smith, a vulgar libertarian, and Mike Shipley, a comrade and libertarian who does great activist work. Smith, unsurprisingly, says some very dumb things that require rebuttal. This is not to say, of course, that Mike […]