Season 3 of Love Gov: The Metaverse of Madness is OUT NOW! Independent Institute’s award-winning web series Love Gov has returned with a third season! Episodes one and two are live now, and the remaining three episodes will be released later this month! Each of the five episodes in the series follows […]
Ben Sixsmith Oct 29 Howard Stern is traipsing back to his Manhattan studio after two years of staying at, and broadcasting from, his enormous Hamptons home. Stern has been too afraid of COVID-19 to budge from his palatial residence since the beginning of the pandemic. What happened to […]
Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of “Love Like There’s No Yesterday”: Love like there’s no yesterday like you’re the first to ever love like it’s fresh and for the first time because it is fresh and for the first time and the illusion otherwise is just […]
Of all the rock rebels to emerge in the 1950s, few captured the new genre’s attraction and danger as unforgettably as Louisiana-born piano player Jerry Lee Lewis. MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Jerry Lee Lewis, the untamable rock ‘n’ roll pioneer whose outrageous talent, energy and ego collided on such […]
The star of films like The Player and Bull Durham opens up about two tough years of pandemic politics, and worries society is purposefully phasing out the common meeting space Matt Taibbi After the Covid-19 crisis began, actor Tim Robbins was like everyone else in suddenly having both […]
Insider Nicholas Carlson October 26, 2022 Hello, Insiders! We are mired in bad news: War in Europe. Inflation everywhere. Horrible quarterly results from Google’s parent firm and soon others. So here’s some good news, from the teens of all people. It turns out they are into a […]
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By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I’ve been compiling this twisted little list of frighteningly anti-authoritarian films for about four years now and a lot has changed during that short time for both cinema and authoritarianism. With the epoch shattering cataclysm of the pandemic […]
Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of “Some Find”: Some find it easier to die than to go on living. Some find it easier to avoid looking at death than to ever truly live. Some find it easier to turn their bodies into hardened weapons and go […]
New York Review of Books Christopher de Bellaigue Khamenei’s Dilemma How far will Iran’s supreme leader go to suppress the protests that have rocked the Islamic Republic since mid-September? Francine Prose ‘We Know What That’s Like’ The filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s recent arrest in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison marks […]
New York Review of Books Sponsored by Duke University Press Our November 3 issue is online now, with Sigrid Nunez on Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux, Bill Keller on prison abolition, Giles Harvey on Ian McEwan, Brenda Wineapple on the nineteenth-century radical Lydia Maria Child, John Banville on Rilke’s metamorphoses, […]
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Sharon Osbourne said she wanted to be refunded for the nearly $1 million donation she made to the BLM organization. She made the comment in reaction to claims that rapper Ye made about the organization being a scam. #BLM #KanyeWest #Ye
By Mira FoxOctober 11, 2022 Over the weekend, the rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, posted several antisemitic statements to Twitter and Instagram, alleging that the rapper Diddy is being controlled by Jews. He then threatened to go “death con 3” on “JEWISH PEOPLE.” Right before that, […]
Why “pacifists” aren’t “fascifists” Matt Taibbi John Lennon was born October 9, 1940. He would have been 82 today. In 1972, South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond sent a letter to the office of Attorney General John Mitchell, suggesting Lennon be deported. Thurmond believed Lennon’s antiwar and anti-Nixon […]
By Billy Binion, Reason Hollywood often takes liberties. But there’s a distinction to be made between poetic license and historical revisionism. It’s difficult to watch The Woman King and not conclude it’s a masterfully made movie. It has soaring action scenes—the sort that will make you squirm and […]
Krystal Kyle & Friends Comedian RM Brown joins us this week for a conversation about bringing comedy to left politics, right-wing attacks on basic freedoms — from trying to shut down gay marriage to book-banning frenzies — and where our movement’s priorities should be right now. As you’ll […]
Purchase $11.50 The Science of Character Ludwig Klages ‘It is up to European man to know his modern mythology and the heroes related to it. Tolkien, like an “Anglo-Saxon bard”, is one of those noble heralds who have brought our civilisational wealth to its pinnacle. May his work, […]
New York Review of Books Sponsored by Brandeis University Press Our October 20 issue is online now, with Fintan O’Toole and Darryl Pinckney on the queen and the Windsors, Jenny Uglow on Berlin, Joshua Cohen on Jared Kushner’s ego-neediness, Kwame Anthony Appiah on the German Romantics, Sue Halpern on […]
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New York Review of Books Hilton Als Godard’s Women Cinema is a gift in that it allows for exposition—the betrayal of secrets—in frame after frame, actress by actress. Jerry Brown On the Downbeat Joan Didion was gentle in person, and quiet-spoken, but ferocious in her honesty. Malise Ruthven […]
New York Review of Books Sponsored by Reaktion Books Hermione Lee Poet of the Dispossessed Joseph Roth was unwavering in his passion for the vanished Austro-Hungarian Empire, which inspired his greatest novel, his hatred of nationalism, and his prophetic and courageous loathing for the Nazis. About everything else, as […]
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“[Victor Serge’s] work has always been a testament to the spirit of liberty, to the individual’s stubborn endurance against the tyrannical systems that seek to crush them.” —Jared Marcel Pollen, Los Angeles Review of Books LAST TIMES Victor Serge Translated by Ralph Manheim Edited and with an introduction by […]
New York Review of Books Linda Greenhouse A Powerful, Forgotten Dissent Stephen Breyer’s dissent in the Supreme Court’s Parents Involved case has proved prophetic about the decision’s consequences for racial integration in public schools. Michael Gorra Corrections of Taste Terry Eagleton’s Critical Revolutionaries traces a shift in English studies in which close […]
Video playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. James Corbett at the 9/11 Truth Film Festival The Corbett Report 2 hr ago SHOW NOTES AND COMMENTS: https://www.corbettreport.com/filmfestival-aq3/ On Sunday, September 11, 2022, James Corbett appeared at the 2022 9/11 Truth Film Festival (in support of the Lawyers’ Committee for […]
Look With Nature’s Eyes Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of “Look With Nature’s Eyes”: Thanks for reading Caitlin’s Newsletter! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Look with nature’s eyes, with atomic eyes, with Eden eyes, with primordial eyes. Stand on nature’s […]
New York Review of Books Joyce Carol Oates Disaster Was Her Element Miranda Seymour’s I Used to Live Here Once is a richly detailed and warmly sympathetic look at Jean Rhys’s turbulent, disjointed life. David Motadel My Husband the War Criminal Nancy Dougherty’s The Hangman and His Wife portrays Reinhard Heydrich as […]
Banned Hipster Before TikTok they had Daytime TV. The most infamous and self-referential – really Hollywood “Generation X” shit – the most hipster of them all was Jerry Springer. These shows had always staged fights, and some were likely real – Al Sharpton and Roy Inness were really […]
New York Review of Books Eric Foner The Complicity of the Textbooks In Teaching White Supremacy, Donald Yacovone traces how the writing of American history, from Reconstruction on, has falsified and illuminated our racial past. Dan Chiasson Rococo Risks With Venice, her latest collection of poems, Ange Mlinko offers an […]
Peter R. Quiñones In what is probably one of the least shocking things you’ll read here, a Disney produced animated show being marketed as an “adult cartoon” entitled, “Little Demon” has begun its run on the FXX network. Here’s the plot: Thirteen years after being impregnated by Satan, […]
If the NYROB is publishing articles on pan-secessionism by an Ivy League academic, it is an indication that elite opinion is now starting to take the idea seriously. New York Review of Books Sponsored by Share International Steven Simon and Jonathan Stevenson These Disunited States It is time to consider […]
New York Review of Books Andrew Kuo, whose painting Stay Up, 2014 shimmers on the cover of our Summer Issue—the first issue after we redesigned the print magazine—is an artist and author who contributes regularly to T: The New York Times Style Magazine and cohosts, with Ben Detrick, […]
Many readers buy books with every intention of reading them only to let them linger on the shelf. Statistician Nassim Nicholas Taleb believes surrounding ourselves with unread books enriches our lives as they remind us of all we don’t know. The Japanese call this practice tsundoku, and it […]
How to become an “antischolar” in a culture that treats knowledge as “an ornament that allows us to rise in the pecking order.” By Maria Popova “It is our knowledge — the things we are sure of — that makes the world go wrong and keeps us from […]
By James Badcock September 2, 2022 — 3.46pm Madrid: Salvador Dalí wanted to enslave races he considered inferior and establish a new “sadistic” world religion, a newly discovered letter has revealed. In the letter, which was written by Dalí in 1935, the artist proposed the enslavement of “all […]
Independent Institute If you haven’t yet seen our new 38-minute documentary film, Beyond Homeless…now is the time. Independent Institute has been submitting its documentary, Beyond Homeless: Finding Hope, to film festivals across the country. Beyond Homeless is a hard-hitting, challenging film that explores the root causes of street […]
New York Review of Books Sponsored by Hirmer Publishers Nathaniel Rich ‘The Italian Proust’ Italo Svevo’s late fiction has all the dark irony, self-flagellating introspection, manic obsessiveness, and unapologetic moral perversity of his best-known work. Phoebe Chen Perfect Recall In Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s new film, a Scottish orchidologist moves […]
INSIDER FEATURED ARTICLE ENTERTAINMENT I’m Conan O’Brien’s assistant of 13 years. I nap on the job, expense things I shouldn’t, and talk back — and I’ll probably work for him forever. By Eboni Boykin-Patterson Sona Movsesian was an NBC page and landed her assistant job through an internal […]
By Chris White For Dailymail.com Celebrities including Kanye West, Jay-Z and Khloe Kardashian received millions in government PPP (Payment Protection Program) loans, set up for desperate businesses hit by the Covid pandemic DailyMail.com can now reveal the exact amounts that these millionaires took out via the government program […]
I watched the whole series. I thought the producers over-dramatized everything, which I guess was easy enough to do with the murder, fugitive stories, and other deaths. But nothing really happened that wasn’t just ordinary human drama. The way some of the people express disillusionment at the end […]
By Peter R. Quinones Movies and books about people who have been programmed to kill on command when a codeword or phrase is said to them have always fascinated me. (SPOILER ALERT COMING) There are many but, in my opinion, the greatest of all is the 1962 version […]
Krystal Kyle & Friends Jesse Ventura was blacklisted by the WWE for attempting to unionize his pro wrestling colleagues. As Governor of Minnesota, he defied the U.S. embargo on Cuba in 2002 for a visit to Havana’s Food an Agribusiness Exhibition. As a third-party candidate, he beat the […]
The Monty Python legend says political correctness is ruining creativity in all aspects of human activity. From shows and movies ranging from Monty Python’s Flying Circus and Fawlty Towers to Life of Brian and A Fish Called Wanda, the comedian John Cleese has uproariously and relentlessly satirized politics […]
‘I think of Ireland as a Woke equivalent of Ceausescu’s Romania, 1989. Okay, you don’t have people disappearing . . . YET — though we get threatened on an industrial scale.’ — Craig Fitzsimons John Waters It’s not us, it’s them . . What has happened to rock […]
Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave react to Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters’ criticism of President Joe Biden over the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
Matt Taibbi Careful, those gun-fingers are dangerous Sunday morning reading brought me to this line, in between sips of coffee: Has the image of fatherhood in the “Taken” films fallen out of step with modern conceptions of masculinity? @AndrewAoyama explores what it takes to separate fatherhood from […]
By Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of this article: The Times has published an article titled “Lady Gaga embodies everything China fears,” subtitled “The singer’s uncompromising individuality makes her a serious threat to the mass imposition of cultural conformity through censorship,” and its contents are exactly […]
New York Review of Books: Since Saturday July 21, 2018, we have published 204 interviews with writers in our Saturday “Brief Encounters” newsletter. This week, given the evanescence of the Internet and the rapid turnover of our e-mail inboxes, we are resurfacing three of those conversations. Fintan O’Toole, Hari […]
By Andrew Sullivan As this blazing summer settles in, I found myself reading two essays lamenting the enormous and impossible task of doing nothing and accusing those who prefer quiet to noise as evil gentrifiers. (Both were in The Atlantic, naturally.) Allow me a brief dissent. Doing nothing […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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