Category: Culture Wars/Current Controversies

Land of the Haters

Land of the Haters Plus: Migrant resettlement, Tom Cotton op-ed scandal, oppressors-in-training, and more… LIZ WOLFE America is an outlier: New polling by the Pew Research Center indicates that the U.S. is a global outlier when it comes to majority attitudes toward social media. “People in emerging economies are particularly likely […]

The Lighthouse: Why Worker-Owned Firms Are Uncommon | Anti-Semitism from the Left | Biden vs. Medicare Advantage

February 27, 2024  •  Weekly Newsletter Why Shareholder Firms Tend to Persist Over Worker-Owned Models Caleb S. Fuller Workers could control the means of production today if they wanted, so why don’t workers convert capitalist firms into labor-owned firms? The underrated scholarship of Henry Hansmann provides the answer. […]

Confessions of an Islamist Apologist

Konstantin Kisin Feb 26, 2024 As of last weekend, I am apparently an “Islamist apologist”. I’ve “lost the plot”. I am, of course, “controlled opposition”. How did this transformation happen? After all, when Islamist threats of violence forced Speaker Lindsay Hoyle to abandon parliamentary convention last Wednesday, I […]

Class of ’24

By Joel Kotkin ebruary 22, 2024/in Demographics, Politics, The Economy Most political coverage in America revolves around personalities, stratagems, and the cultural issues that appeal to the activist class in both parties. Yet the real determinant in 2024 will not be abortion, “systemic racism,” gender fluidity, or climate […]

What Happened in Vegas

Jake Nevins Imperial Era The National Football League’s embrace of gambling, Taylor Swift, Nickelodeon subscribers, data analysts, beer enthusiasts, international sports markets, and ever more corporate sponsors helped the Super Bowl fit right in to Las Vegas. Dennis Zhou Filming and Forgetting Taipei Edward Yang’s films approach Taiwan’s […]

Super Bowl Churchianity

By Rev. Chuck Baldwin Published: Thursday, February 22, 2024 Download free computerized mp3 audio file of this column (To subscribe to my columns at no cost, click here.) On Super Bowl Sunday, February 11, tens of thousands of “churches” all over America shortened services, canceled services altogether or […]

Texas Representative Ellen Troxclair Is Trying to Hide Her Pro-Establishment Voting Record

Jose Nino’s Digest Here is my most recent content for you Texas Representative Ellen Troxclair Is Trying to Hide Her Pro-Establishment Voting Record Is Texas State House Representative Ellen Troxclair attempting to whitewash her legislative track record? According to political insiders, several residents in Troxclair’s district — House […]

America as Zion, Will the USA Abandon Ukraine?, Europe’s Farmers Are Simply Right, ‘Stigmatized Turks of Balkan Descent’, In Defense of Gone With the Wind

Niccolo Soldo Feb 24, 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 […]

Blue Laws for Red Citizens

February 24 2024   Blue Laws for Red Citizens COMMENTARY By Victor Davis Hanson Ideology and party affiliations increasingly determine guilt and punishment. Opponents are first targeted, and then laws are twisted and redefined to convict them. More Sorry, Politico: You Don’t Get to Rewrite the Declaration of […]

Looming Deadline

Looming Deadline Plus: Nuclear reactors, space firsts, Fani Willis’ love life, Trump sneakers, and more… LIZ WOLFE Congressional shutdown? A girl can dream! Today, the federal government will start preparing for a partial shutdown, as two government funding deadlines loom—March 1 for one set of agencies, and March 8 […]

The Case for Open Borders

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2024 I love the smell of commerce in the morning. – Brodie, Mallrats [1995] HORNBERGER’S BLOG February 22, 2024 An Utterly Fantastic Book on Immigration I just finished reading an utterly fantastic new book. With the possible exception of The Future of Freedom Foundation’s 1995 […]

The Swiftboater Coming for Biden

Donald Trump is more chaotic than ever — demanding “absolute immunity,” prodding Russia to attack NATO, selling gold-lamé sneakers — but his third campaign is the calmest one yet. The leaks have dried up. Staffers aren’t knifing one another in broad daylight. The machine methodically took apart Ron […]

ADL Gives Head-Scratching Reason for Excluding Nashville Transgender Shooter From ‘Extremist Murders’ Report

February 23 2024   ADL Gives Head-Scratching Reason for Excluding Nashville Transgender Shooter From ‘Extremist Murders’ Report NEWS By Tyler O’Neil The Anti-Defamation League claims right-wing extremists committed “all” the extremist-related murders in 2023, discounting the apparent extremism of Audrey Hale. More San Francisco Puts a Noncitizen in […]

Kaboom!

Sponsored by Yale University Press Tim Flannery Ready to Rumble A new book by the volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer details the gifts and destruction brought by volcanoes, and the sublimity and terror experienced in their presence. Lynn Hunt A New Force Set Loose A new history of pre-1789 France […]

AI Contracts Woke Mind Virus

AI Contracts Woke Mind Virus Plus: Russian sanctions, Finnish gun ranges, Milei supremacy, and more… LIZ WOLFE Maybe the Founding Fathers were actually black? Yesterday, Google’s artificial intelligence–powered image generator, Gemini, came under rightful fire for being utterly unable to depict historical and hypothetical events without forcing relevant characters […]

A Form of Navalny

A Form of Navalny Plus: Teen boys go after tampons, Ken Paxton goes after migrant charities, and more… LIZ WOLFE Taking crazy pills: Former President Donald Trump said last evening that the civil fraud verdict that will force him to pony up $355 million for inflating his net worth to banks is actually “a form […]

Warped Terminology on Open Borders

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2024 If government is not “under the law,” citizens will be under the federal boot. Apathy over arbitrary power exemplifies the rising political illiteracy. If people don’t recognize the peril of government violating its own laws, is American democracy beyond redemption? – James Bovard, Last […]