Category: Culture Wars/Current Controversies

US Secretary of State Blinken Announces State Developed AI To Combat “Russian Disinformation”

Kim talks about AI tech being used to “track Russian disinformation” by the State Department with Kyle Anzalone who is the opinion editor of Antiwar.com, news editor of the Libertarian Institute https://libertarianinstitute.org , and co-host of Conflicts of Interest. You can find Kyle’s work here: https://conflictsofinterest.libsyn.com/ Get 20% […]

Unwanted Thoughts

Sponsored by Brandeis University Press Our June 8 issue is online now, with Trevor Jackson on the cryptocurrency craze, Howard W. French on the creation of Nigeria, Laura Kolbe on Siddhartha Mukherjee’s cellular story, Vivian Gornick on Marina Jarre’s novelistic memoirs, Erin Maglaque on the Catholic censors, John Washington on […]

Beware the ‘Christian Prince’

The Case for Christian Nationalism advocates for an ethnically uniform nation ruled by a “Christian prince.” Paul Matzko | From the June 2023 issue (Canon Press) The Case for Christian Nationalism, by Stephen Wolfe, Canon Press, 488 pages, $24.99 Since the 2016 election, the term Christian nationalism has […]

Durham is Too Late to Stop the Madness

A Special Counsel report chronicles how intelligence agencies engineered a national hysteria, but its publication comes too late to reverse the damage Matt Taibbi May 16, 2023 I read Special Counsel John Durham’s “Report on Matters Related to Intelligence Activities and Investigations Arising Out of the 2016 Presidential […]

“Damn, That’s Thin,” “I know,” “It sucks”: The Untold Story of the Trump-Russia Investigation

Susan Schmidt grabs eight key takeaways from Special Counsel John Durham’s report Susan Schmidt May 16, 2023 Special Counsel John Durham’s “Report on Matters Related to Intelligence Activities and Investigations Arising Out of the 2016 Presidential Campaigns” trickled out yesterday afternoon, hitting journalist inboxes just after 3:00 p.m. […]

Killer Bees Kill Six People

Killer Bees Kill Six People A bus accident resulted in the deaths of six people, who were the victims of a swarm of Africanized bees.  Read More… Ex–White House Employees Say Donald Trump Behaved Inappropriately With Women While President The rumors about Trump’s misogynistic behavior towards women, especially […]

Whose Side Are You On?

Peter R. Quiñones May 15, 2023 Partisan: a strong supporter of a party, cause, or person. We live in an age where being a “strong supporter” of a political party or person appears foolish to those who are paying attention. Parties are either actively working against the interests […]

The Century of Wall Street

Digital Odyssey May 15, 2023 “Antony Sutton comes to conclusions that are uncomfortable for many businessmen and economists. For this reason his work tends to be either dismissed out of hand as ‘extreme’ or, more often, simply ignored.” ~ Richard Pipe, Survival Is Not Enough: Soviet Realities and […]

Is marriage a form of slavery?

The Mindcrime Liberty Show discusses whether marriage is a form of slavery. Feminists, as well as other radical thinkers, view marriage as a form of slavery from which the individual needs to be liberated. Currently many men’s rights advocates would posit that men of all classes can and […]

Wages for Housewives

Sponsored by Duke University Press Larry Rohter The Inventor of Magical Realism It remains a mystery why Miguel Ángel Asturias’s brilliant novel Mr. President remains less well known in the English-speaking world than the many novels it inspired. Anna Shechtman Wages for Housewives The Real Housewives’ work is to produce drama, […]

What Happened to the Left?

The ideology of the ruled is now the dogma of the rulers Leighton Woodhouse May 14, 2023   Last week, Glenn Greenwald appeared as a guest on the Ben Shapiro Show. The coupling, Shapiro pointed out, was “weird.” For years, Greenwald and Shapiro have traded vicious barbs on […]

Weaponizing Death

May 13 2023 Good morning from  Washington, where President Biden made policy changes that broke our southern border as a barrier to illegal immigrants. Now some on his team don’t want journalists to witness a new surge of border crossers, our Mary Margaret Olohan reports. The Left uses […]

Journo Dysphoria

PLUS: Shelon CEO :: The Meth Pipes Are Back :: Anarchy Tragedy Michael Shellenberger Beige Luciano-AdamsAlex Gutentag Leighton Woodhouse May 12, 2023 Journo Dysphoria For nearly 75 years after 1945, reporters were one thing and politicians another. Journalists were imagined to be objective in their reporting on politicians, […]

Jordan Neely and the Tragic Commons

Sponsored by University of California Press Rachel Bedard A Culture of Repression and Neglect The inaction of Jordan Neely’s fellow passengers underscores the mistrust pervading our public spaces. We see a city operating with the fearful logic of a jail. Fintan O’Toole Golden Coats, Sacred Spoons Most of the coronation […]

CNN went full ‘Jerry Springer’

Thursday, May 11, 2023 Tom Nichols Staff writer I have advocated for giving Donald Trump’s sociopathic behavior full exposure. But CNN’s decision to run a town hall with the former president enabled that behavior and managed to harm journalism, the network’s reputation, and the American political process all […]

El Nino Speaks 85: In the Navy

Nuclear Caudillo comes back to talk about how wokism is undermining the United States Navy 3 hr ago Listen to José Niño sound off on contemporary political affairs. Share Has the United States Navy gone completely woke? Nuclear Caudillo makes another appearance at El Nino Speaks to talk […]

We’re living in post-shame America

Wednesday, May 10, 2023 Tom Nichols Staff writer A verdict against a sexual abuser and the indictment of a con-man fabulist are causes for optimism. But the fundamental indecency of the new American right marches on. First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic: An ominous warning […]

EXCLUSIVE: Republicans Demand Answers From NIH on Transgender Youth ‘Experiments’ Study That Left 2 Dead, Others Sterilized

May 10 2023 Good morning from  Washington, where congressional Republicans want to know why the government paid for a horrific study of transgender-identifying young people. Our Tyler O’Neil reports. Congress can make railroads safer after that toxic train derailment in Ohio, Sen. J.D. Vance writes. What’s Tucker Carlson’s […]