Category: Culture Wars/Current Controversies

Dodcast #57: Jeff Russell

Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more   Dodcast Dodcast #57: Jeff Russell 0:00 2:01:58 Dodcast #57: Jeff Russell Luke Dodson and Jeff Russell Feb 20 READ IN APP Jeff Russell on growing up in Texas; religiosity and rationalism; studying classics; serving in the military; BAP and the […]

U.S. Begins To Talk Ceasefire

U.S. Begins To Talk Ceasefire Plus: Catholic funeral for transgender activist, Donald Trump’s props, deep tech in El Segundo, and more… LIZ WOLFE U.S. works to negotiate ceasefire: The United States, via a U.N. Security Council resolution, is urging a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas “as soon as practicable”—using ceasefire […]

Krugman vs. Krugman

New York Times columnist tries to memory-hole his prior views on immigration by Michael Lind February 19, 2024 Michael Lind chronicles civilizational shifts and national trends, writing about American politics and culture with a deep understanding of history and appreciation for America’s highest ideals. See all in Michael […]

Salvini’s Next Move, BlackRock to Fractionalize the World, Armenia vs. Azerbaijan Is Far From Over, The Tyranny of the Algorithm, Another Cosmic Riddle Solved

Niccolo Soldo Feb 18, 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 […]

The Trump of Myth and Legend

February 15, 2024By Paul Gottfried Creative Commons via DeviantArt Recently, courtesy of Arktos Press, I received a book titled Esoteric Trumpism about the brilliant, heroic leadership qualities of former President Trump. The author, Constantin von Hoffmeister, argues with great eloquence that Trump is the leader America needs in […]

Joe Biden, Senior Citizen

FEBRUARY 16, 2024 Joe Biden, Senior Citizen President Joe Biden recently seemed to conflate François Mitterrand with Emmanuel Macron, Helmut Kohl with Angela Merkel, and Mexico with Egypt. The latter remarks came during a press conference in which Biden addressed a report by special counsel Robert Hur that […]

Save the Date

Save the Date Plus: Scammers, smear campaigns, climate suicide, and more… LIZ WOLFE Hush, hush: Yesterday, a judge in New York set the first Donald Trump trial date for March 25. This trial involves alleged hush money payments that the former president paid porn star Stormy Daniels back in […]

Israel Raids Hospital

Israel Raids Hospital Plus: Moscow subway stations, climate activists souping and glueing, Rachel Dolezal’s plight, and more… LIZ WOLFE Raid in Gaza: News broke this morning that the Israeli military is beginning its raid of Khan Younis’ Nasser Hospital, in the Gaza Strip. The BBC reported that one trauma surgeon said, […]

The Worries of a Retiring NSA Chief

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2024 Trusting government officials to teach honest history is like relying on plantation owners to teach slaves how to escape. – James Bovard, Last Rights [2024] HORNBERGER’S BLOG February 14, 2024 The Worries of a Retiring NSA Chief Gen. Paul M. Nakasone, who recently retired […]

The Great Dissonance

Zander Feb 14, 2024 Zander argues that unsustainable tension between popular will and the actions of elites inevitably results in great reckonings. A friend recommended* the recent film Nefarious (2023) as a rare example of a genuinely right-wing production, something almost unheard of in mainstream Western entertainment today. […]

Another Damn Impeachment

Another Damn Impeachment Plus: Suozzimentum, gun factories, body-count discourse, and more… LIZ WOLFE If at first you don’t succeed: On their second attempt, House Republicans have successfully impeached  Alejandro Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary, in a 214 to 213 vote. Mayorkas has made history as the first sitting cabinet member […]

Dodcast #56: Greg Moffitt

Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more   Dodcast Dodcast #56: Greg Moffitt 0:00 1:30:54 Dodcast #56: Greg Moffitt Luke Dodson and Legalise Freedom Feb 13 READ IN APP Talking to Greg Moffitt of Legalise Freedom about growing up in Ballymena; outsiders finding niches; being a music journalist; […]

Tucker Dreams of Moscow

Tucker Dreams of Moscow Plus: Aid for Ukraine, remote learning for 5-year-olds, intermittent fasting for Palestine, and more… LIZ WOLFE Do authoritarians, in fact, do it better? Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who was in Moscow this week to interview Russian President Vladimir Putin, had very nice things to […]

Bill Ackman’s Fight Against Everything

It’s really impossible to single out just one memorable moment from Reeves Wiedeman’s deliriously entertaining profile of Bill Ackman, the manic billionaire investor engaged in a war on multiple fronts against Harvard, Joe Biden, the media industry, DEI initiatives, and plagiarists of every stripe — except, notably, his […]

The Many Lives of George Eliot

Beyond the Marriage Plot George Eliot’s novels were ruthless and precise dissections of the 19th-century marriage plot, exposing, Francesca Wade writes, the “harsh disparities between societal expectations of married life and their own, often painful experiences of it.” Reviewing a new biography of the English novelist, Clare Carlisle’s […]

Delinquent Countries

Delinquent Countries Plus: RFK Jr.’s Super Bowl ad, New York’s war on Airbnbs, Biden’s TikToks, and more… LIZ WOLFE Trump spouts off about Russia and NATO: On Saturday, at a campaign rally in South Carolina, former Republican President Donald Trump recalled a hypothetical that he said he’d entertained with […]