Category: Culture Wars/Current Controversies

Heinz Crimes

Troy Southgate Oct 08, 2024 IT might be a formidable corporation with the power to induce flatulence in untold millions of people, but the Heinz Company really hasn’t learned its lesson. After being forced to withdraw a 2008 advertisement in which two men were shown kissing in a […]

Ana Kasparian LEAVES The Left

This is why it’s dumb to associate yourself with any label. Conservative, liberal, republican, democrat… you should align yourself with ideas and concepts. Not groups, brands, or organizations. It’s ok to endorse them, and to work with the ones you most closely align with, but you shouldn’t make […]

Our Official Enemies

MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2024 The moment a person forms a theory his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory. –  Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Charles Thompson [September 20, 1787] HORNBERGER’S BLOG October 5, 2024 Our Official Enemies Whenever I see the vehement anti-Russia sentiment […]

The Flood That Might Sink Kamala Harris

October 5 2024   The Flood That Might Sink Kamala Harris COMMENTARY By Bradley Devlin The failures that plagued the Bush-Cheney administration’s response to Hurricane Katrina and the Biden-Harris administration’s response to Hurricane Helene are strikingly similar. More Biden-Harris Admin Raids FEMA Funds to Resettle Illegal Aliens COMMENTARY […]

Pity Lebanon and Pity the Lebanese, The History of Germany’s BfV, Ceding Patriotism to the Right, Infighting in Anti-Putin Exile Community, “Doom Scrolling”

Pity Lebanon and Pity the Lebanese, The History of Germany’s BfV, Ceding Patriotism to the Right, Infighting in Anti-Putin Exile Community, “Doom Scrolling” Niccolo Soldo Oct 06, 2024 Every weekend (almost) I share five articles/essays/reports with you. I select these over the course of the week because they […]

10 White Pills

by Zander Zander Oct 06, 2024 Zander argues that we face major challenges, but there is a great deal to feel positive about. When addressing the challenges we are facing as a people, it’s dangerously easy to sound nihilist or even defeatist. This is not just a trap, […]

Absurd Reductionism

“We are Blacks and you are the whites”, Ta-Nehisi Coates on Israelis and Palestinians, Exporting American Racial Narratives in Service of Empire Niccolo Soldo Oct 06, 2024 Share One shared location of agreement between mainstream western media and “alternative media” is found in the idea that US power […]

Leave It to the Authorities

Recently at The Signal: Isaac B. Kardon on what’s causing a surge of military confrontations in the South China Sea. … Today: Why have so many Americans turned against the idea of expertise in public affairs? David A. Hopkins on how the government has become increasingly reliant on experts, […]

Cowards and Liars

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The Many Lies of JD Vance

OCTOBER 4, 2024 The Debate Revealed the Fascist Behind the Curtain  Walz Defended Reality—Even as Vance Took Full Advantage of CBS’s Failure to Fact-Check → “Once it became clear that Trump had remade the GOP in his own image, Vance was shrewd enough to realize that he now […]

FEMA is creating America Firsters

By Tom Woods Mollie Hemingway of The Federalist is right: “In a sane country, this would end the party in power.” She’s referring to something you’ve probably heard by now. Exhibit A: “For Fiscal Year (FY) 2024, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will provide $640.9 million of […]

Divorced Men Are Falling for Trump

A major story line in this election cycle has been the purportedly yawning political divide between young men and young women. But one analysis that came out this summer from the conservative American Enterprise Institute found that it’s divorced men in particular who support Donald Trump more than […]

Linguistic Suppositions

Troy Southgate Oct 01, 2024 HAVING read the following sentence in a book on religious asceticism, in which somebody is replying to a Zen nun of the fourteenth century, I was disturbed to find that I had suddenly been transformed into a full-on grammar nazi: “You next mention […]

Eye on Springfield

In Springfield, Ohio, writes Gabriel Winant in the NYR Online this week, “local activists have attempted to hold the community together while Donald Trump and [J.D.] Vance summon a racist panic to rip it apart.” The work of these activists—labor organizing, community rallies, mutual aid, employment agencies—harkens back […]

Meta Bans Russian Media Outlets

View in browser The Extremism Roundup Promoting Civil Discourse and Marginalizing the Extremes A weekly compilation of the most important developments in the struggle against radical ideologies Islamist Extremism Muhyyee-ud-din Abdul-Rahman, 18, from West Philadelphiavia – NBC Philadelphia screenshot Philadelphia Teen Hoped to Make Bombs for Al-Qaeda Affiliate Muhyyee-ud-din […]

Guilty

CJ Hopkins Sep 30, 2024 So, the Berlin Appellate Court overturned my acquittal today. I am now, officially, at least according to the New Normal German authorities, a “hate-speech” criminal. I’m officially a “hate-speech” criminal because I compared New Normal Germany to Nazi Germany, and I challenged the […]