Category: Culture Wars/Current Controversies

The Global Right’s Catch-22

How Global Efforts Against the Woke Onslaught Might Destroy Culture Alan Schmidt Nov 19, 2024 A while ago, Martin Sellner had a meeting regarding a proposed policy to remigrate third world refugees out of Germany. In a saner time, this dispute thousands of miles away would not mean […]

A Meeting with David Icke

Troy Southgate Nov 22, 2024 IN early-May 2001, as my beloved Crystal Palace recovered from financial administration and needed to win its final two games at Portsmouth and Stockport in order to avoid slipping out of the second tier of English football for the first time since 1977, […]

Pumping Trump’s Brakes

NOVEMBER 22, 2024 Pumping Trump’s Brakes  The Green New Deal—From Below → The Green New Deal languished in Congress for five years, and it might not have any hope of passing during a Trump administration. But it does have something that the left can tap into: grassroots power. […]

What Could Stop Him?

Sponsored by Bodleian Library Publishing Jonathan Freedland A Feigned Reluctance Rory Stewart, in his recent memoir, observes with detachment what is ludicrous in politics—even when he’s near the center of it. David Cole What Could Stop Him? Our Constitution includes multiple guardrails against Trump-like presidents. But those checks and […]

The EU and the Illusion of Democracy

by Hans Vogel Hans Vogel Nov 21, 2024 Hans Vogel dismantles the European Union’s pretense of democracy, condemning its bureaucratic incompetence, economic decay, and the authoritarian grip of its delusional elite, who accelerate the EU’s collapse while silencing dissent. The European Union has twenty-seven member-states, a population of […]

The Neocon/Democratic Alliance; Liberal Interventionists and the Soros War-Machine; Grifting Wall Street Generals; Palantir’s War-Technocracy and the Dialectic; Sneak Peak of Trump’s Swamp Picks

Sean Jobst Nov 19, 2024 by Sean Jobst 19 November 2024     The previous article described ritual elements in this unfolding political theater, looking at both Trump and Harris in psychological terms of the Shadow and Personas; subservience of those marionettes to Israel, stressing just how far […]

Steve Bannon’s Second Term

November 18, 2024 Steve Bannon had a week for the ages leading up to the election. On October 29, the right-wing organizer and former Trump lieutenant was released from federal prison after serving time for contempt of Congress. He immediately kicked into action, trying to get his old […]

Deadlock in Ukraine

Sponsored by the University of California Press Tim Judah Ukraine Divided Almost three years after the beginning of Russia’s invasion, Ukraine is not defeated, but Russia is not victorious, either. Erin Maglaque Soundscapes of the Silenced In late Renaissance Florence one in five women lived behind institutional walls whose […]

NORMAN FINKELSTEIN on the Election, “It’s So Stupid. They don’t want to see…”

Eminent political scientist Dr. Norman Finkelstein joins me for a discussion on the election, in this first segment of a longer conversation. Finkelstein was one of the few public intellectuals who predicted a Trump win/Harris loss against mainstream media narratives and prominent pollsters. #normanfinkelstein #kamalaharris #Election2024 #Trump #democraticparty […]

Here We Go Again

NOVEMBER 15, 2024 Here We Go Again The Future of Public Health—or Lack Thereof—Under Trump → This week, pundits, journalists, and Internet trolls alike started to sift through the wreckage of the 2024 election to try to figure out what the Democrats did wrong. Did they hug too […]

The Old Man’s Back Again

Sponsored by Reaktion Books In the days since Donald Trump was elected president, he has already pledged to end birthright citizenship—a right enshrined in the Fourteenth Amendment—by executive fiat, to shutter the Department of Education, and to deport millions of people. The Review has asked a number of contributors […]

The Horrors of Family Separation

Sponsored by the University of California Press Our December 5 issue is now online, with Fintan O’Toole on the return of Trump, Erin Maglaque on the silence of the convent, Patricia J. Williams on the horrors of family separation, Tim Judah on Ukraine three years after the invasion, Jonathan […]

Is California Shifting to the Center?

By Joel Kotkin November 8, 2024/in California, Politics In the election’s wake, California remains part of the Left Coast, clinging to the western edge of Trump world, more an outlier than a trendsetter. Nearly 60 percent of Golden State voters picked the homegrown presidential candidate, and solid majorities […]

Alain de Benoist on Trump’s Victory

by Alain de Benoist Arktos Journal Nov 11, 2024 Alain de Benoist analyzes the results of the American presidential election. While he welcomes the victory of the people over the Establishment, he nonetheless cautions against excessive optimism regarding the potential positive consequences of Donald Trump’s victory for France […]

Turbulence and Distance Proximities Explains Contemporary Politics

ACADEMIA LettersTurbulence and Distance Proximities ExplainsContemporary PoliticsDana-Marie RamjitPostinternationalism is a theory that describes the modern dynamic political environment thatcharacterized our world since World War II up to today. This paper discusses two central con-cepts of postinternationalism: turbulence and distant proximities and how they adequatelydescribe the current contemporary political […]

Oratio pro Donaldo Trumpo

by Micha Kat Arktos Journal Nov 10, 2024 Micha Kat defends Donald J. Trump, asserting that despite unfounded attacks linking him to Epstein, the Clintons, and Freemasonry, his mission remains to protect the republic from deep state forces and fulfil his vision to elevate the people. Today, I […]