Category: Culture Wars/Current Controversies

Why “Woke Right” is Wrong

The Boomer Establishment Is Weaponizing “Woke” to Maintain Power Jack Donovan May 28, 2025 Sheepdog photo from Adobe Stock James Lindsay first started pushing “woke right” just before and after the 2024 election. Lindsay did great work attacking communism and “woke” culture, so I wanted to see what […]

Israel, Charlie Kirk, and the Weaponization of Murder (w/ Max Blumenthal) | The Chris Hedges Report

Support my independent journalism at Substack: https://chrishedges.substack.com/ Follow The Chris Hedges Report on social media: https://linktr.ee/chrishedges (0:00) Intro (2:16) The Silent Feud Between Israel and Kirk (12:52) Netanyahu and Kirk (19:54) Netanyahu’s courting of alt media (23:19) The coming crackdown (30:57) Years of Lead (35:38) Rittenhouse (39:30) McCarthyism […]

The Woke Right Comes Of Age

And you thought they were in favor of free speech! Andrew Sullivan Sep 19, 2025 President-elect Donald Trump speaks to Brendan Carr, his intended pick for Chairman of the FCC, on November 19, 2024. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images) Let’s talk for a second about what Jimmy Kimmel actually said […]

Jimmy Kimmel’s Political Hackery

Greg Collard Sep 19, 2025 One of the many problems with the legacy press is its consistent implication — hell, often outright insistence — that criticism from conservatives is not legitimate. Friday’s piece from the New York Times mis/disinformation reporter Stuart Thompson is yet another example. Another way […]

The killing joke

Thursday, Week XXXVIII, MMXXV Recently: How much control does China really have over Russia? Sergey Radchenko on great-power politics, Moscow’s growing energy exports, and Beijing’s new sway. Today: U.K. authorities arrest two teenagers, allegedly from the Scattered Spider cybercrime collective that cons corporate help desks. Donald Trump floats a “NATO […]

Defying the Iron Law of Washington

Reviving Citizenship Stephen Baskerville and Arktos Journal Sep 18, 2025 Stephen Baskerville argues that the professional political class — both the Left and the Right — sustains and worsens problems to justify its own power and funding, leaving true change possible only through a revival of active, responsible […]

Biden’s Fiefdom

By Aleksey Bashtavenko, Academic Composition In the Republic of Ambaria, where train stations arrived hours before the trains themselves and the rivers sometimes flowed backward for sport, the people elected a man named Joseph Finnigan. Nobody remembered exactly when he first appeared in politics, though everyone swore they […]