By Ashish Singh MEAWW The NYC mayor makes this plea after his speech about the life and death of 18-year-old drill rapper Chii Wvttz who was gunned down in Bedford-Stuyvesant. A day after giving an emotional speech on the death of 18-year-old drill rapper Jayquan McKenley, aka Chii […]
By Mack Lamoureux VICE On Dec. 27, 2021, a minor figure in the ‘manosphere’ went on a targeted killing spree across Denver. VICE News has learned before he was killed, he made a movie outlining his plans. Now, his friends are selling it. Less than two weeks after […]
Katie Halper fact checks reporting on Dave Chappelle’s alleged role in deterring the construction of an affordable housing complex in Ohio.
“Nothing is free” – So I guess we’ll ignore the immense amounts of dollars that Americans pay in taxes.
Krystal and Saagar comment on Joe Rogan’s wide ranging political views including a compilation of his leftist and liberal opinions that divert from the mainstream media narrative about him
By Joe Scotchie Chronicles In 1920 a group of writers gathered at the home of playwright Sidney Hirsch in Nashville for bi-weekly sessions of reading and dissecting each other’s prose and poetry. It was the beginning of an outpouring of creativity from a group that would try to […]
By Richard Hanania Class and elites, on the right and left I recently spoke with Rob Henderson about the HBO show Succession. We both have found the series a smart and compelling take on our contemporary politics. Some themes we touch on: differences between conservative and liberal elites; […]
In “1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows,” renowned Chinese artist Ai Weiwei details his struggles with censorship and his fight for human rights.
Saagar covers the Rock’s decision to fold on his support for Joe Rogan after he was pressured by a woke celebrity who expressed concerns about Rogan’s previous use of the N-word
Robby Soave details the controversy surrounding Olympics protest art posted at George Washington University, and explains why some college adminsitrations show deference to China.
Krystal analyzes the Rogan smear campaign from the perspective of how it represents a deeper rot of American politics and what the end result of something like this could be
By Grayson Quay The Week Spotify removed over 70 episodes of Joe Rogan’s podcast The Joe Rogan Experience Friday, according to The Daily Beast and the website “JRE Missing,” which compares Spotify’s current listings with a database that includes every episode ever released. Rogan has drawn criticism for […]
More Rogan drama. By Jessica Bennett New York Post Joe Rogan has responded to a resurfaced clip of him using the N-word almost two dozen times while hosting his wildly popular podcast, “The Joe Rogan Experience.” Calling the clip “the most regretful and shameful thing I’ve ever had […]
By David Klion, The Nation What’s most striking about the Mailer contretemps is how it embodies so many aspects of the current discourse around cancel culture and free speech. The first “cancel culture” episode of 2022 began just three days into the new year, when the journalist Michael […]
By Joel Mathis The Week The author and podcaster Roxane Gay has joined the (so far, small) exodus of artists who are choosing to leave Spotify rather than share a platform with Joe Rogan and his COVID misinformation. “It was a difficult decision — there are a lot […]
Former Democratic presidential candidate says attempts to censor Joe Rogan is ‘latest indicator about the real danger’ society is facing.
The commentary on this issue I have heard so far. David Crosby of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young fame recently described his former bandmate and censorship fan Neil Young as “the most selfish person I know.” This assessment may help explain how the iconic ‘60s rock star could […]
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave make the case that the Biden administration’s public calls on Spotify to censor information is a violation of the First Amendment.
Krystal and Saagar offer their perspective on the comments made by The View’s Whoopi Goldberg about the holocaust and how the show has responded
On this week’s Bad Faith Brie tackled the latest Joe Rogan/Spotify controversy with an all-star panel: Taylor Lorenz, technology reporter for the New York Times; heterodox writer at Substack Freddie DeBoer; & Evan Greer — activist and musician with an album titled “Spotify is Surveillance.”
Who do you trust more about COVID? A legendary rock star or the world’s most popular podcaster? The biggest takeaway from the latest culture war battle is that you get to decide.
By Peter Goffin GTA The 1972 hit ‘Walk on the Wild Side’ was called ‘transphobic’ by the University of Guelph student association, which apologized for playing the song on campus. The student union at the University of Guelph has gained international attention — much of it negative — […]
Kim Iversen makes the case against Whoopi Goldberg’s suspension from The View.
Always remember that Joe Rogan has let real leftists on his show while most of the lamestream media won’t even speak with them.
By Damon Linker, The Week There’s something odd about the protest against Spotify’s mega-podcaster Joe Rogan. It started when folk-rocker Neil Young issued an ultimatum: Rogan shouldn’t be spreading skepticism about vaccines, so either he goes or I do. When Spotify refused to break its multimillion-dollar deal with […]
Saagar takes a deep dive into the hedge funds behind the campaign by Neil Young and others to cancel Rogan and boost other music services such as Amazon music
Kim really needs to be on Rogan, would make for a fantastic discussion.
Remember when getting a second opinion for a medical issue was not only widely accepted but also encouraged?
When Jordan Peterson talked about how he wore some sort of outfit with a cape to visit a prison as a grad student, I was like “oh……he’s not right.”
By LEAH WILLINGHAM CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Gov. Jim Justice has a message for singer and actress Bette Midler, who called West Virginians “poor, illiterate and strung out” in a tweet after Sen. Joe Manchin refused to support President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better Act. The 70-year-old Republican […]
Batya Ungar-Sargon, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave react to the Chinese government’s alternative “Fight Club” ending.
It’s hilarious how after decades of conservatives bashing “activist judges” liberals are now the SCOTUS haters. By Caroline Downey National Review Joy Behar, co-host of the show The View, compared the Supreme Court to a “dictatorial branch of government” because of the unique appointment process and lifetime tenure […]
He said, “I’m against censorship, but when it’s matter of life or death…” That’s the biggest fallacy, most proponents of censorship use this fallacy to eliminate opposition. You are either for censorship or you are not, that’s it.
Team Rising debates the influence of Big Tech in stopping the spread of online disinformation.
By Chrissie Marie, Newsbreak A British university slapped George Orwell’s novel 1984 with a trigger warning following concerned some students might find it “offensive and upsetting.” The novel examine the how the role of truth and facts in a society can be manipulated under a dictatorship. The school […]
Apparently, Spotify ditched Neil instead. Batya Ungar-Sargon and Robby Soave react to Neil Young’s efforts to push The Joe Rogan Experience off of Spotify.
By Phoebe Zhang South China Morning Post The ending has been altered on a streaming site to remove a series of explosions; instead, inserted text states everyone involved was either sent to a prison or a mental asylum China routinely censors foreign films either in full or partially, […]
By Noel Joshua Hadley The Unexpected Cosmology BELIEVE IT or not, this paper is intended as a prelude to the Manson family murder hoax. What you are currently reading came about on the mere basis that I decided to do some digging into the Sharon Tate and Roman […]
Saagar makes the case that Hollywood star and wrestling legend Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson should run an outsider campaign for President in 2024 as Joe Rogan suggested on his show
Krystal and Saagar talk with policy expert Matt Stoller about Microsoft’s decision to buy gaming giant Activision Blizzard and how it could affect the video game industry
Well, that ought to be…interesting. By Brendan Morrow, The Week Daniel Radcliffe is ready to get weird. The Harry Potter star will portray “Weird Al” Yankovic in a biopic about the famed parody musician, Roku announced Tuesday. The film, WEIRD: The Al Yankovic Story, will be an exclusive to […]
By Geoff Shullenberger Outside Theory “Woke” once denoted an oppositional mentality. How has it come to mean something close to “square”? Recently, the journalist Michael Wolff reported that a centenary republication of Norman Mailer’s work had been scrapped due to objections to his notorious 1962 essay “The White […]
By Elizabeth Braw, Defense One The campaign offers an early test for the country’s new anti-disinformation agency. In Sweden, an unusual anxiety is afflicting children and young teenagers. Some can’t sleep. Some ask their parents if Russia is about to attack their country. Where did they get that […]
By Matt Taibbi The terrific humorist, journalist, and novelist talks about the downfall of journalism, bureaucratic absurdity, and class cruelty in a blistering indictment of an America turned upside down. Walter Kirn is from the Midwest, worked for Time magazine, and has written a pile of wonderful novels, […]
By Matt Taibbi As yokel-bashing reaches impressive new heights, reports of yet another year of record profits and a widening wealth gap go unnoticed. Jimmy Kimmel Live, fast becoming Leonid Brezhnev’s never-realized dream of a Soviet Tonight Show, just put out a high-effort gag called “Anti-Vax Barbie.” It’s […]
What is interesting, however, is that a lot more people from outside the Right seem to be becoming increasingly critical of the PC/woke/cancel whatever trend. It’s not just Alt-Right/Lite, palecon, and Republican folks anymore. You have mainstream entertainers like Harvey and Chappelle, and increasing more people from the […]
We live in a world where daytime talk show host Oprah and a former President of the United States are given equal importance in headlines. We have lost all seriousness.
Krystal and Saagar respond to the controversy that developed when media outlets claimed Jon Stewart accused J.K. Rowling of antisemitism only for him to shut down the story
Todd Lewis is joined by Keith Preston, Terminal Philosophy and Swithun Dobson to discuss the current lack of new and creative ideas to deal with the problems of modern 21st century America.
Krystal and Saagar are joined by journalist and Don’t Look Up Producer David Sirota to hear his response to critical reviews and the popularity of the movie so far
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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