Category: Culture Wars/Current Controversies

Where it leads

Wednesday, Week XXXVII, MMXXV Recently: Why is Russia screwing around with GPS navigation on flights across Europe? Darrell Driver on the psychological campaign to change European hearts and minds about Ukraine. Today: The American political activist Charlie Kirk has been murdered on a Utah campus, with police now questioning a […]

Epstein’s Birthday Book

Epstein’s Birthday Book Plus: Zoomer values, leftist naivete, prayer outlawed in parts of Australia, and more… LIZ WOLFE Do me a favor and tell the Reason overlords what you really think of Roundup. Truly: your feedback helps us improve this newsletter! (Unless it’s unhinged, in which case, it […]

Trumpocalypse Now!

Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more   Watch now   Trumpocalypse Now! The president’s methods are unsound. Terminate with extreme prejudice ; – ) Kevin Barrett Sep 7 READ IN APP Rumble link Bitchute link Press TV: The US President has threatened war on Chicago, where thousands […]

The Theatrical Grapevine

Troy Southgate Sep 04, 2025 YESTERDAY, we were exposed to one of those infamous ‘live mic’ incidents that I have discussed in the past and which involve leading politicians supposedly having an informal discussion that they assumed was private. Needless to say, there is little doubt that these […]

Freely Espousing

Sponsored by Gulbenkian Institute for Advanced Study Our September 25 issue—the Fall Books issue—is now online, with Trevor Jackson on the “abundance” agenda’s reheated deregulation, Ruth Bernard Yeazell on Jane Austen’s ephemera, Mark O’Connell on war profiteering 2.0, Lorrie Moore on Miriam Toews, Martin Filler on the art of […]

American Nightmare

American Nightmare Plus: Curtis Sliwa hit piece, China’s military parade, Florida’s vaccine mandates, and more… LIZ WOLFE Do me a favor and tell the Reason overlords what you really think of Roundup. Truly: your feedback helps us improve this newsletter! (Unless it’s unhinged, in which case, it doesn’t.) […]

Intel and the Managerial State

September 3, 2025 Welcome to The Lighthouse, the weekly email newsletter of the Independent Institute covering politics, economics, current events, and everything in between. Dear Readers, This week, Intel, the hardware designer and manufacturer, finalized its amended agreement with the Trump Administration. Previously, the corporation was a major […]

The Regime Will Destroy Itself – Academic Agent

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Trump Is Not Building a Ballroom

AUGUST 29, 2025 Trump Is Not Building a Ballroom No, the White House Is Not Getting a 90,000-Foot Extension → “Shattered stained-glass windows raining down on children should rouse us against guns,” Joan Walsh writes. “But Trump has too many people paralyzed.”   After the shooting in Minneapolis […]

Maybe Prayer Isn’t Bullshit

Maybe Prayer Isn’t Bullshit Plus: Beware of distorted data, inside the mind of Curtis Sliwa, a thong-related clarification, and more… LIZ WOLFE The “thoughts and prayers” breaking point: Yesterday morning, as schoolchildren in Minneapolis were attending Mass to usher in the new school year, a gunman shot through the stained glass […]

Cracker Barrel ditches new logo

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27 CRACKER BARREL DITCHES REDESIGN, KEEPS OLD LOGO  Cracker Barrel announced yesterday afternoon that it will readopt its traditional logo after days of backlash and an unprecedented plunge in the stock market. President Donald Trump had urged the company to ditch its controversial minimalist logo redesign […]