Category: Culture Wars/Current Controversies

Kamala’s Discipline

Sponsored by CUNY Graduate Center Patricia J. Williams Expanding the Vocabulary With great discipline and sanity, Kamala Harris has been navigating a minefield of Trumpian insults and attempts to debase her. On the Election Ten New York Review contributors consider the United States’ sixtieth presidential election, on subjects ranging […]

Peter Zeihan on the Border Crisis

by Peter Zeihan on October 18, 2024 Join Patreon, Watch The Live Q&A, And Support MedShare in the Process Still haven’t joined the Patreon? Well, if you don’t want to miss out on the Live Q&A, join “The Analyst” tier before next Wednesday, October 23rd! You’ll get early access to […]

Kamala Harris and Tim Walz Are Imploding

Josh Hammer Newsweek Senior Editor-at-Large And Host, “The Josh Hammer Show” Into the home stretch we go! There are now officially less than three weeks remaining until the presidential election. Hard to believe, right? It’s anybody’s race, but all signs right now point toward a veritable Harris-Walz implosion—and […]

The unraveling of a cat tale

Oct 15, 2024 By Jacqueline Sweet “In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs!” warned Donald Trump during the September 10 presidential debate. Seemingly flabbergasted by his own allegation, his voice rose as he pushed the point forward, delivering his rhetorical cat de grâce. “The people that came in, they’re […]

Turbo-America, Simplified

“I think I’ll use crayons this time.” Niccolo Soldo Oct 15, 2024 Share Out of everything that I have written on this Substack, the concept that has gained the most traction has been the one that I call “Turbo-America”. Published back in April of 2022, you can read […]

The Threat

In the Review’s November 7 issue Laurence H. Tribe applies the lessons he’s learned in his decades as a constitutional scholar and advocate—he has argued before the Supreme Court three dozen times—to the stark choice presented by this year’s presidential election: The threat to all our personal freedoms and […]

Trump Attempted A Coup

Trump attempted to illegally install himself as president after losing a fair election Bentham’s Bulldog Oct 14, 2024 1 Introduction Most Republicans seem to agree that what happened on January 6th was a big nothingburger—a few people got a bit too rowdy and broke in, no big deal. […]

A Fair Trade

Sponsored by Reaktion Zephyr Teachout Harris’s Chance on Trade Kamala Harris has a chance to outflank Trump’s rhetoric on tariffs—and lay out her own vision of fair, green, worker-first global commerce. Joost Hiltermann The Path to Regional War For more than nine months, Israel and the Iran-led axis […]

Trump assassination attempt at Coachella Valley rally thwarted when man with multiple guns, fake passes arrested – Riverside sheriff

News Updates From CLG 13 October 2024 All links are here https://www.legitgov.org Previous edition 8 Oct.: Hurricane Milton supercharges into monster 180mph storm: ‘This is nothing short of astronomical’   Trump assassination attempt at Coachella Valley rally thwarted when man with multiple guns, fake passes arrested – Riverside sheriff […]

How America Is Grooming Italian PM Meloni, Portland Realizes That It Fucked Up, India vs. Wikipedia, Civic vs. Ethnic Nationalism in Europe, Scotland’s Most Remote Pub

Niccolo Soldo Oct 12, 2024 Every weekend (almost) I share five articles/essays/reports with you. I select these over the course of the week because they are either insightful, informative, interesting, important, or a combination of the above. Share Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni was feted recently at a swanky […]

The Zombie Trance

winter oak Read on blog or Reader The Zombie Trance By winter oak on October 11, 2024 by Mike Driver Without free thought free speech is worthless – George Cooper Was the ‘Covid’ period a mass conversion event? I thought I was done with writing about the events of the […]

When Everything Spaghettifies

Could ideological polarization, gender divides, and wealth disparity signal that the singularity is near? J.K. Lund Oct 10, 2024 Risk & Progress| A hub for essays that explore risk, human progress, and your potential. My mission is to educate, inspire, and invest in concepts that promote a better […]

The Silence of the Wolves

Michael Rectenwald and JM Oct 10, 2024 By Michael Rectenwald and John-Michael Rectenwald The devastation and human toll wreaked by hurricanes Helene represent this election season’s October Surprise. October is also World Series season. What do the two have in common you ask? Legendary sportscaster Vin Scully was […]

Woke Is Here To Stay

The fallout over Tony Dokoupil’s interview of Ta-Nehisi Coates shows that woke ideas have permeated the institutions. Sam Kahn Oct 10, 2024 Author’s Note:  I’ve been an editor at Persuasion for close to two years and, for me, it feels overdue to acknowledge what a jewel Persuasion really […]