Category: Culture Wars/Current Controversies

The TV Man Is Not Your Friend

By Caitlin Johnstone It’s very cute how empire apologists talk about driving Putin from Ukraine so there can be peace, like that’s a real thing. Like if it happened the war would just stop, and the US alliance wouldn’t with absolute certainty continue the attack and work to […]

Abortion: Views From the Pro-Life Right

From The American Conservative. Emmanuel Goldstein Vs. Abortion Clinics Look at this: .@CBSMornings is here to warn that “an intelligence bulletin” believes “extremists could be mobilizing during this… Rod Dreher May 10, 2022 The Democrats’ Radical Abortion Bill Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced yesterday that he is […]

Symposium: The End of Roe?

New York Review of Books In the second part of our symposium about the future of abortion in America, David Cole, Meaghan Winter, Sue Halpern, Sherrilyn Ifill, Catherine Coleman Flowers, Elizabeth Reese, and Melissa Gira Grant consider the ramifications of the Supreme Court’s draft decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health […]

Abortion, the Christian right, and antifascism

Matthew Lyons, a leading “antifascist” intellectual, actually has a pretty good definition of fascism. ” a revolutionary form of right-wing populism, inspired by a totalitarian vision of collective rebirth, that challenges capitalist political and cultural power while promoting economic and social hierarchy. ” See the Lyons article here. […]