Category: Culture Wars/Current Controversies

Bedlam in the Country

Bedlam in the Country Plus: Migrant shelter stabbing, Hollywood doom, Cuban spies, and more… LIZ WOLFE It’s looking like a no: Yesterday, Donald Trump received a less-than-warm reception from the three-judge federal appeals court panel tasked with deciding whether the former president should receive immunity from criminal election-subversion charges. “I think […]

Empire AI

  Empire AI Plus: Adult activists, Fani Willis’ love life, Catholic crackdown, and more… LIZ WOLFE Building the empire: New York Governor Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, seems to think that $275 million worth of state funds need to be directed toward AI research. In her State of the State […]

Hell Hath No Fury

Hell Hath No Fury Plus: Nuking the Hamptons, upcharging the autists, tearing down the statues, and more… LIZ WOLFE Hell hath no fury like a Bill Ackman scorned: For those just tuning in, let me catch you up on the Harvard/antisemitism/plagiarism scandal that just won’t end. Back in December, […]

What Ordinary Americans Want

ICYMI: Government Bans Prayers Talking About an LGBTQ Person’s ‘Need to Repent’ A government in the Australian state of Victoria treads on the sacred space of one’s own inner prayers, all in the name of protecting people who identify as LGBTQ. More Are You a Maker or a […]

The Left’s Winter of Rage

January 5 2024   The Left’s Winter of Rage COMMENTARY By Jarrett Stepman From the Summer of Love to the Winter of Rage, the Left masters the use of unleashing uncontrolled mobs on society to get its way. More Moms for Liberty Responds to Manhattan Official Dragging Their […]

Why I Left Progressivism

Libertarian author and podcaster Keith Knight discusses his book Domestic Imperialism: 9 Reasons I Left Progressivism. (Ep. 2436 ) Sponsors: Monetary Metals: https://monetary-metals.com/woods Persist SEO: https://ineedseo.help Book Discussed: Domestic Imperialism: 9 Reasons I Left Progressivism https://a.co/d/cP92Aie Guest’s Podcast: Don’t Tread on Anyone @KeithKnightDontTreadonAnyone@KeithKnightDontTreadonAnyone Guest’s Twitter: @an_capitalist

Curious Minds Think Alike

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Jeffrey Epstein Reportedly Said Bill Clinton ‘Likes Them Young,’ Maxwell Court Documents Reveal

January 4 2024   Jeffrey Epstein Reportedly Said Bill Clinton ‘Likes Them Young,’ Maxwell Court Documents Reveal NEWS By Tyler O’Neil Court documents released Wednesday reveal that Hollywood mogul and convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein reportedly said former President Bill Clinton “likes them young,” referring to girls. More […]

Epstein’s associates

January 4, 2024 • 5 min read with Dan DeFrancesco Almost Friday! Did you know no human has ever beaten Nintendo’s Tetris? Well, at least that was the case until 13-year-old Willis Gibson reached the game’s “kill screen.” See for yourself the moment Wilson realizes he beat the […]

Iran Explosion

Iran Explosion Plus: Gay fallout, Lithuanian badasses, Epstein buddies, Haley chutzpah, and more… LIZ WOLFE Mystery in Iran: Four years ago, the U.S. military killed Iran’s former top military brass, Qassem Soleimani, via drone strike. At a ceremony held yesterday to honor him, 103 people were killed and 211 were wounded […]

Harvard’s presidential exit

January 3, 2024 • 5 min read with Dan DeFrancesco Hi! We’re barely into 2024, but we already know the big movies coming this year. From a Bob Marley biopic to a “John Wick” spin-off, these are the most-anticipated films of 2024. In today’s big story, we’re looking […]

Predictions for 2024

Robert Stark Dec 31, 2023   Robert Stark’s Newsletter is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. -Ukraine War ends in a stalemate, Russia holds onto Crimea and large chunks of Eastern Ukraine, -there is another massive […]

Surveying the Ruins

Theodore Dalrymple Surveying the Ruins Political philosopher John Gray reckons with the crisis of life in the West. City Journal / Books & Culture / Politics and law, The Social Order Dec 22 2023 / Share The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism, by John Gray (Farrar, Straus and […]

Escalation in the Red Sea

Escalation in the Red Sea Plus: Inheritance taxes, lady gadgets, a stabbing in South Korea, and more… LIZ WOLFE U.S. Navy sinks three Houthi boats: Starting in October, the Houthis—a group of Iran-backed Yemeni militants—staged a series of attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea. This past weekend, […]

Multi-culti Reckoning

By Joel Kotkin December 18, 2023/in Politics, Urban Affairs The explosion of support for Hamas’s assault on human decency could well turn out to be the high-water mark of the progressive Left. The authoritarian multicultural ideology generated on campuses and transmitted dutifully by the established media has reached […]

Finding Jordan Neely

Over the past few months, as Lisa Miller has been working on this posthumous profile of Jordan Neely, it’s been hard not to think about how contingent the shape of a person’s life is. The designs of policymakers and institutions, the actions of people we know and of […]

Hundreds drowned. I survived.

INSIDE SCOOP Josh Adams How I survived the capsizing of the Adriana, which claimed the lives of hundreds While the world searched for billionaire adventurers on the Titan submersible, hundreds died as a migrant boat sank. This is their story brought to life. READ NOW Insider Today Newsletter […]

Hamas Supporters Try to Cancel Christmas

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  Thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters hold a “No Xmas as Usual In a Genocide” rally and march from Fifth Avenue to […]