By Joel Kotkin Here’s a dirty secret: Great nations rest on a great common culture. I say it’s a secret because it’s become almost taboo to discuss this historic fact; progressives across the globe have turned decisively against national legacies, and it’s progressives who by and large dictate […]
By Joel Kotkin “I just took [my son] to our local Walgreens to buy him a toy. While there, a man shoved past me so firmly that he sent me into the shelving. Then he proceeded to fill a brown paper bag with Halloween candy and waltzed out […]
By Damon Linker, The Week Joe Biden’s steep slide in the polls since mid-summer is bad for the Democratic Party and, if it contributes to Donald Trump winning a second term in 2024, it could be terrible for the country. But it’s been very good for political punditry. […]
By David Faris The Week America’s political violence problem took a dramatic turn for the worse on Friday when Kyle Rittenhouse — who shot three people during riots following police reform protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Aug. 25, 2020, killing two — was acquitted of all charges in what had become the latest in […]
By Reeves Wiedeman Intelligencer It’s been a long 48 hours for your boy,” Dave Portnoy, the founder of Barstool Sports, said in an address to his 2.7 million Twitter followers late on a Friday night earlier this month. Portnoy was filming a response to an article published by […]
On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX poll shows President Biden’s approval ratings have slightly improved. This survey was conducted online within the United States from Nov 16 -Nov 17 – Nov 18 among 2787 registered voters by HarrisX. The sampling margin of error of this poll […]
Rep. Ro Khanna explains what he believes is Democrats’ central messaging problem.
Saagar does what the media elites refuse to do and provides an update on the Ghislaine Maxwell trial that could implicate many prominent members of society.
Krystal gives viewers a healthy guide on what they should choose to avoid talking about during Thanksgiving when politics inevitably comes up and family members have differences
Journalist Matt Taibbi details what the media should learn from their coverage of Kyle Rittenhouse.
Krystal and Saagar are joined by podcast host Briahna Joy Gray to hear about her strategies for discussing race in America with those who hold different views from her own
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss the parade incident in Waukesha, Wisconsin that killed five people.
This week, Briahna Joy Gray digs deeper into some broader themes that emerged from the Kyle Rittenhouse discourse. How productive is the “white supremacist” descriptor attached to not just Kyle, but to any number of actors associated with conservative politics? Even if it’s accurate, does a maximalist view […]
In this clip from our full episode, Briahna Joy Grays asks whether the left would respond differently if it were an armed BLM protester under trial. With Olayemi Olurin.
‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ host speaks to Kyle Rittenhouse about his plans for the future.
Kyle Rittenhouse calls on the president to watch his trial and slams the media for spreading ‘disgraceful’ lies about his case on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight.’
‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ host speaks to Kyle Rittenhouse about the events that led to his homicide trial.
Why am I not surprised? “National conservatism” is just neoconservatism reinventing itself with a less Friedmanite economic platform, with a faux Christian Democratic and/or populist presentation instead. And the usual collection of “conservative” dupes are already on board. There’s nothing like 60 years of failure to bolster one’s […]
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave discuss what Kyle Rittenhouse’s future might look like post-acquittal.
Robby Soave criticizes the ACLU for their interpretation of the verdict in Kyle Rittenhouse’s trial.
Krystal and Saagar track the central role that a business Hunter Biden has a direct stake in played in China’s chase for the Cobalt necessary for electric car batteries and other crucial products
Krystal and Saagar clear up the events and laws that factored into the verdict in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial that dominated the headlines and twitter punditry over the past few days
This is a pretty good critique/overview of “national conservatism” but it fails to point out the most important thing about it, which is that national conservatism is the latest neocon front movement. Notice that two of the movement’s leading intellectuals are a (likely) Pahlavist and an actual Israeli […]
By Tom Woods “The unvaccinated” have become public enemy number one in record time. They can be stigmatized, marginalized, and penalized at will. People have been led to believe that they are in danger from the wicked unvaccinated. Günter Kampf of the Institute of Hygiene and Environmental Medicine […]
By Brendan Morrow The Week A new report from New York’s State Assembly has found there is “overwhelming evidence” that former Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) engaged in sexual harassment. The Assembly Judiciary Committee on Monday released a 46-page report following an eight-month impeachment investigation into the former governor, […]
By Joel Mathis, The Week It’s a sign of how much the Donald Trump era has scrambled our politics that the American right — which not so long ago reflexively and joyfully defended capitalist prerogatives — is now actively considering whether big business has become so powerful that […]
By Samuel Goldman The Week What is Christian nationalism? Unless you’re a devoted student of religion and politics, you’d be forgiven for wondering. The concept has circulated for decades in scholarly circles, where it was more often used in an international context than applied to the United States. […]
It’s Going Down Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS Welcome, to This Is America, November 20th, 2021. On this episode, first we speak with the resident of a mobile home park in upstate New York, about how they are organizing to push back against a […]
By Peter R. Quiñones If you ever concerned yourself with Kyle Rittenhouse (KR) crossing state lines with a scary AR-15 there’s a reason: that was the narrative constructed almost immediately by the corporate press. It had nothing to do with the facts of the case. To shine a […]
By Tim Arango New York Times Chesa Boudin, the district attorney of San Francisco, will face a recall election next year after a backlash in one of America’s most liberal cities to his policies aimed at reducing the number of people in jails and prisons. Elections officials in […]
By Dominick Mastrangelo The Hill Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager who was acquitted of murder last week after shooting and killing two people in Kenosha, Wis., during civil unrest there last year, said he supports the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. “I’m not a racist person. I support the BLM movement,” […]
Police say they have a person of interest in custody after a fast-moving SUV broke through a barricade at a holiday parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, killing at least five and injuring more than 40 people.
By Mane Kara-Yakoubian Research published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology has revealed that hatred toward collective entities, such as institutions or groups – but not individuals – can bolster meaning in life. “I think that any casual observer of human nature recognizes that many prominent cultural […]
I generally share Greenwald’s take on the Rittenhouse case. He was an idiot, but not legally guilty.
“Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
By Joe Lancaster Reason Despite a tragic on-set death, there is no need to involve police officers in still more aspects of people’s lives. In October, a tragedy occurred on the set of Rust, a Western film in production in New Mexico, when star Alec Baldwin discharged a […]
*Kyle Rittenhouse: at the very least guilty of reckless endangerment despite plausibly acting in self-defense* We know from studies that the presence of armed individuals in protests, strikes, riots etc increases the chances of violence tremendously. This is true currently and historically. And we know that the presence […]
By Richard Hanania American Affairs Journal REVIEW ESSAY Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America’s Social Justice Scam by Vivek Ramaswamy Center Street, 2021, 368 pages In our political culture, there is no issue quite like wokeness. The conversation it provokes tends to be about everything and nothing at the […]
By Richard Hanania Those opposed to the social revolution need to understand how we got here, and present an alternative vision. In American Affairs, I review Woke, Inc., by Vivek Ramaswamy. I find him an interesting and compelling figure, but I think that his critique of wokeness and […]
Virtually everyone’s opinion on this case is based on their tribal affiliations not the facts of the case. You can almost predict what any individual might say based on what you already know about them, or what their stated affiliations are. By Jamala Rogers, LA Progressive In a […]
By Olivia Nuzzi Intelligencer Stephanie Grisham saw the pickup outside and yelped, “That’s Larry!” She grabbed a small package and raced out her front door, down the steps of the porch, through the gate of the white picket fence, and leaned halfway into the truck via the passenger […]
By Grayson Quay Protestors reacting to Kyle Rittenhouse’s exoneration broke windows and threw rocks at police officers in Portland, Oregon, Friday night, the New York Post reported. Local law enforcement said they had expected some upheaval in response to a not-guilty verdict. The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office declared […]
I’m not a Libertarian Party member, so I don’t get any say in what they do. But, apparently, what is going on in the party is a “culture war” showdown between something called the Mises Caucus (apparently, “paleolibertarian” types with views like those of the Mises Institute) and […]
By Andrew Sullivan The Weekly Dish How do we fight back against left extremism if the alternative is worse? I was a different person in the time before I realized that the only way to stop the far-Left was through radical use of state power to reorganize nearly […]
By Matt Taibbi and Matt Orfalea Kyle Rittenhouse was found not guilty on all six charges today, already causing a great exploding of heads in the pundit-o-sphere. Unrest wouldn’t be surprising. How could it be otherwise? Colleagues in national media spent over a year telling the country the […]
By Kali Holloway, The Nation Conservatives are rebranding an inclusive, honest accounting of American history as inherently anti-white. For more than a year now, conservatives have been waging war against the misdefined conception of critical race theory that they themselves created. The right-wing campaign against so-called CRT largely […]
By Jack Phillips, Epoch Times Kyle Rittenhouse’s defense attorney Mark Richards said that his client, defense lawyers, and prosecutors have faced numerous death threats during the homicide trial. After a jury acquitted Rittenhouse, 18, of all charges brought against him, Richards told reporters after the verdict that “everybody […]
As we awaited the verdict in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, Batya Ungar-Sargon and I discussed the argument in her book Bad News that wokeness serves the economic interests of wealthy liberals. Listen Here.
By Clare Hymes, CBS News A jury on Friday found Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty on all charges in the shootings of three men in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The jury who acquitted the teen was made up of seven women and five men. They had been deliberating since Tuesday morning […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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