Category: Culture Wars/Current Controversies

Exactly What You’d Think

Exactly What You’d Think Plus: Charter cities, bitcoin, nuclear energy, San Francisco, and more… LIZ WOLFE Utterly predictable: Yesterday was Super Tuesday, the day on which voters in 15 states decided they would apparently like more of the same. With the exception of Vermont, where Nikki Haley won the Republican primary, it […]

Get ready for Biden-Trump

March 6, 2024 • 4 min read with Dan DeFrancesco Good morning! Nikki Haley plans to suspend her Republican presidential primary bid, The Wall Street Journal reports. She is slated to make the announcement in a speech later this morning.   In today’s big story, we’re mapping out what the […]

Invasion by Air

Today’s Talking Points The Biden Administration Is Secretly Flying Hundreds of Thousands of ‘Inadmissible Aliens’ Into US – Townhall ‘Not The Solution’: Dem Gov Vetoes Bill Greenlighting Police Arrests Of Illegal Immigrants – Daily Caller Hillary Clinton shrugs off fact Biden is old with demand voters support him […]

The Wars on Drugs and Immigrants

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 2024 [A]ggressors cannot wage total war without introducing socialism. – Ludwig von Mises, Interventionism: An Economic Analysis [1940] HORNBERGER’S BLOG March 6, 2024 The Wars on Drugs and Immigrants The war on drugs has been going on for decades. The goal of the war was […]

Supreme Court Tells Texas to Hold On

Supreme Court Tells Texas to Hold On Plus: More reactions to the Supreme Court’s other decision in the Trump ballot disqualification case, D.C.’s continued minimum wage confusion, California’s primary elections, and more… CHRISTIAN BRITSCHGI The other Supreme Court decision. Fresh off a unanimous decision keeping former President Donald Trump on the […]

How Things Really Are

P R Reddall Mar 5, 2024 P R Reddall explores the surprising depth found in revisiting the familiar, using the film Total Recall as a key example to highlight how new insights can transform our understanding of reality and ourselves. Many years ago I was asked to read […]

Politics is Downstream from Politics

Today’s Talking Points California Officials Lie About Election Security While Opening America’s First ‘Transgender’ Voting Center – The Federalist Reps. Loudermilk and Johnson announce release of 5,000 hours of Jan. 6 footage following arrest of Blaze Media’s Steve Baker – The Blaze House GOP Probing if Biden Administration […]

Populism To Counter De-Nationalized Elites?, UAE To Buy a Chunk of Prime Egyptian Real Estate, Gaza in Rochdale, “Hindu Supremacy”, Chernobyl as Non-Human Paradise?

Niccolo Soldo Mar 2, 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. Request: Please hit the like button at the top or bottom […]

Ikeaology

Sietze Bosman Mar 2, 2024 Sietze Bosman critiques modern conformity and societal norms, as illuminated by the everyday choices and living spaces of the masses. The glimmering of the spring sun flows through the windows of Man-in-the-world’s affordable-sized apartment. The streams of liquid dawn adorn the interior with […]

Stardom-crossed Lovers

Sponsored by Hirmer Publishers Frances Wilson ‘Diabolical Fame’ Composed of rhapsody and opinionation, without shape or chronology, Roger Lewis’s biography of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton tries to get at the strangeness of stardom. Linda Greenhouse Social Progress & the Courts For decades Gerald Rosenberg, author of The Hollow Hope, […]

Google’s Brave New Woke-AF World

When DEI merges with AI, the post-truth dystopia will become impossible to escape. Andrew Sullivan Mar 1 ∙ Paid READ IN APP Gemini’s result when Cynical Publius asked it to “create images of Henry Ford.” “The nature of psychological compulsion is such that those who act under constraint […]

The Psychology of the Anti-Trumpian: Part 1

by Dr. Charles William Dailey Arktos Journal Mar 1, 2024 Charles William Dailey discusses the deeper meaning of Trump derangement syndrome. Moral judgments and condemnations constitute the favorite revenge of the spiritually limited against those less limited — also a sort of compensation for having been ill-favored by […]

Border Pageantry

Border Pageantry Plus: Putin threatens nukes, D.C. mulls a crackdown on theft, Bloomberg blames right-wingers, and more… LIZ WOLFE Why can’t we apprehend both of them at the border? Yesterday, both President Joe Biden and his presumed opponent in November, former President Donald Trump, arrived at the southern border for a whole lot of politicking […]

Back to Basics… Once Again

Peter R. Quiñones Mar 1, 2024 When you read the amount of material I do and interview countless people on a variety of subjects, it’s easy to become distracted. Constantly going back over the basics is important, and I often forget to do that for long stretches. Even […]

The Trump Joke

New York Review of Books Our March 21 issue—the London Book Fair issue—is now online, with Gary Younge on Britain’s woes, Meghan O’Gieblyn on godly delusions, J. Hoberman on Harry Smith’s feverish sensibility, Joshua Hammer on the traumatic recent history of Iraq, Frances Wilson on the intensity of […]

Commitment Issues

Commitment Issues Plus: Brooklyn communists, Shenzhen Costco, Chernobyl mythbusting, and more… LIZ WOLFE Actually cool results: Last night, Michigan’s primaries brought a welcome surprise: As of this morning, over 100,000 Democratic voters had chosen “uncommitted” instead of casting votes for Joe Biden—up from roughly 20,000 uncommitteds in each of the […]