How are changes in U.S. abortion law reshaping American life? Mary Ziegler on the ambiguous political fallout of a seismic legal event. Ivy Gould / The Signal Nearly a year after the United States Supreme Court overturned the Roe v. Wade legal precedent from 1973 that codified women’s […]
Grappling with Western misdeeds does not require us turn indigenous tribes into pious exemplars of moral instruction. Christopher J. Ferguson 27 Apr 2023 · A review of Indigenous Continent by Pekka Hämäläinen, 592 pages, Liveright (September 2022) The Freudian concept known as “reaction formation” refers to a psychological […]
Narrowing permitted ideas on both left and right, one unsuitable voice at a time Matt Taibbi Apr 27, 2023 That interview says it all, doesn’t it? Not long ago I was writing in defense of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. When she first entered Congress as an inner-city kid who’d knocked […]
How prominent is “Christian nationalism” becoming in the U.S.? Curtis Chang on the challenges for American Christians, and American democracy, from “the secular god of politics.” Thomas Vitali (Originally published 2022 | 12.13) “We need to be the party of nationalism,” the U.S. Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene […]
Jose Nino’s Digest Here are my most recent articles for you POLL: Voters Believe Politics is Behind Classified Leaks According to a recent Rasmussen poll, politics is motivating the media’s release of leaked classified information. The poll found that 54% of likely United States voters believe most media […]
April 26 2023 Good morning from Washington, where the Left continues to celebrate commentator Tucker Carlson’s sudden departure from Fox News. Unfortunately, truth-tellers are in short supply, our Jarrett Stepman writes. You know things are bad when student leaders at a Christian college bar a Chinese dissident from […]
Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave react to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-N.Y.) celebratory comments about Tucker Carlson’s exit at Fox News. #aoc #tuckercarlson #deplatform
Gutfeld had her making his argument for him. This lady was a prosecutor, then judge, and didn’t see herself walking right into that? People: we need gun laws Republicans: gun laws won’t stop shootings. People: well then, let’s get rid of weed laws. Republicans: well, that’s different. We […]
That’s how it works in highly fragmented societies along tribal-sectarian lines. Economic issues are superseded by tribal-sectarian ones, even in societies with a high level of economic disparity.
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 Activist leads antisemitic chanting at Al-Quds Day rally, Houston, via MEMRI screenshot Calls For Violence at Texas Al-Quds Day Rally […]
April 25 2023 Good morning from Washington, where the administrative state fancies itself as smarter than individual Americans. With that same attitude, our Katrina Trinko writes, two state governments are fixing to replace parents. Want to know virtually every word Tucker Carlson said to a Heritage Foundation audience […]
By Dana Ferguson , Scott Maucione , Bente Birkeland, Rick Pluta, Colin Jackson, Acacia Squires Activists and community members march into the Minnesota State Capitol building during a Trans Day of Visibility rally on March 31, 2023. Nicole Neri for MPR This year, at least 12 states have […]
The Michael Morell story demonstrates that the intelligence community needs sweeping reform, beginning with getting spies all the way out of domestic political life Matt Taibbi Apr 24, 2023 Former Acting CIA head Michael Morell chilling On September 08, 2002, New York Times writers Michael Gordon and Judith […]
Peter R. Quiñones Apr 24, 2023 Most of you know I grew up in the borough of the Bronx in New York City. What you may not know is that there are wealthy parts of the Bronx. Some sections of the Bronx are historic, and the architecture—particularly on […]
Legalized Marijuana’s $30 billion industry arrived in Midwest in 2018 after decades of traumatic criminal marijuana laws. How do these new laws repair damage to communities? How are cannabis users effected? Missouri’s Amendment 3 adopted in November 2022 contained many “constitutionally-driven” deadlines for legal recreational marijuana, including automatic […]
Linh Dinh Apr 22, 2023 [Lankham Hotel in Pakse on 4/22/23] Never home, I still must establish a routine, so wherever I go, the first order of business is to find a congenial place to write. At 5:24AM on 4/23/23, I’m sitting at a long table outside the […]
Academic Agent Apr 22, 2023 Today Elon Musk tweeted out ‘demographics is destiny’. This, of course, was the mantra of the Alt Right in its 1.0 version between 2014 and 2017. To be clear, Musk does not mean it in the Alt Right sense, he means it in […]
April 24 2023 Good morning from Washington, where it looks like the Justice Department has avoided tying radical pro-abortion agitators to attacks on pro-life pregnancy centers. Mary Margaret Olohan reports. In a speech closing The Heritage Foundation’s 50th Anniversary Leadership Summit, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis outlines a winning […]
By Keith Preston April 22, 2023 I have no particular loyalty to any specific cultural faction. My approach is to criticize the dominant ideological superstructure of the ruling class of a particular society during a specific era. Right now, totalitarian humanism is dominant in the West, and I […]
Iyer, R., Koleva, S., Graham, J., Ditto, P., & Haidt, J. (2012). Understanding libertarian morality: The psychological dispositions of self-identified libertarians. PloS one, 7(8), e42366.
Episode 121 with Daniel Nichanian Krystal Kyle & Friends Apr 21, 2023 Brandon Johnson’s election, far-right candidates losing school board elections, TikTok censorship of the Marianne Williamson left: these are the things we’re covering in this week’s episode with “election lifeline” Daniel Nichanian. Daniel founded the political magazine […]
Peter R. Quiñones Apr 21, 2023 The State is inevitable. I understand that’s a strange statement to make when Americans already live under a State so large that it would make Stalin envious. What could be a more obvious declaration? But many either choose to ignore reality, are […]
How a theater queen in search of fame jumped on the trans bandwagon and won. Andrew Sullivan Apr 21, 2023 I’ve largely ignored the entire Bud Light tempest in a toxic teacup because social media outrages and brand boycotts come and go and tend to leave little trace […]
The philosopher gives a qualified but powerful defense of the Enlightenment. 5 hr ago Susan is a philosopher and writer focusing on the Enlightenment, moral philosophy, metaphysics and politics. She was professor of philosophy at Yale and Tel Aviv University, and in 2000 assumed her current position as director […]
Is James Lindsay’s woke understanding of liberalism one that James Madison and other founders of America’s constitutional order had in mind when they established the American republic? By Paul Gottfried April 20, 2023 Earlier this month, an article I had just published in Chronicles, “Marx Was Not Woke,” […]
Representative Stacey Plaskett, who called Michael Shellenberger and me “direct threats to people who oppose them,” is now threatening me with prison – over Mehdi Hasan’s uncorrected error Matt Taibbi Apr 20, 2023 Wow. When I think this iteration of the Democratic Party can’t sink any lower, it […]
April 21 2023 Happy Friday from the nation’s capital, where The Heritage Foundation is celebrating its 50th anniversary as America’s outpost in Washington. We’ve got reports from the first day of the pioneering think tank’s two-day, policy-packed Leadership Summit that precedes tonight’s gala festivities. For starters, learn what’s […]
Exclusive with journalist, Matt Taibbi, as he discusses being threatened with jail by a member of Congress for testifying about the Twitter Files to Congress.
Jose Nino’s Digest Here are my most recent articles for you POLL: More Americans Believe Mental Health Not Gun Control as Cause of Mass Shootings After the mass shooting at Nashville’s Covenant School on March 27, 2023, there have been increased calls for civilian disarmament among the political […]
By Tom Woods Yesterday Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., officially announced his bid for president. And his speech had some great bits in it. Have I gone soft, and love politicians now? Don’t worry about that. What I do genuinely respect is a disruptor. Because if anything deserves to […]
Birds Aren’t Real, But Technocracy Is! – #NewWorldNextWeek The Corbett Report Apr 20, 2023 SHOW NOTES AND MP3: https://www.corbettreport.com/nwnw517/ In this week’s edition of New World Next Week: 9/11 patsies’ CIA link is less of a bombshell, more of a squib; Google’s AI hallucinations sends shivers down Elon […]
Jon Harris talks to Paul Gottfried about his views on Wokeism, Marxism, and Christian Nationalism including the recent controversy concerning James Lindsay’s interpretation of one of his recent articles. Paul Gottfried coined the term paleoconservative and is a former Professor of Humanities at Elizabethtown College. He is the […]
Theara Coleman Has the GOP’s culture war been for naught? Peter Weber Making sense of the Fox News-Dominion settlement Justin Klawans Dominion CEO says ‘we feel we got’ accountability from Fox Brendan Morrow The Mandalorian: 8 burning questions after the season 3 finale Advertisement from Wisebread Earn $200 […]
By Ian Welsh On April 12, 2023 Comments The simple history of the pre-Civil War era in the US is that the slave states wanted the non slave states to return escaped slaves to them. The free states did not want to do that, and it eventually led […]
The modern campus experience is sociologically fraught, but it just might have the keys to rebuilding social capital Robert Stark Apr 18, 2023 Higher education is hyper competitive, with acceptance rates at top universities much lower than they were in the past, which is also an economically exploitative, […]
Matt Taibbi 2 hr ago I’d be lying if I said I didn’t spend last week wondering how to undo any damage to the #TwitterFiles caused by my interview with MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan. Short of jumping in a DeLorean and time-flying back to cancel, few ideas presented themselves. […]
1 Over $2.9 million raised in one day for Ralph Yarl, the teen shot after going to the wrong address Ralph Yarl, a Black 16-year-old high school junior, narrowly survived being shot twice on April 13 after going to the wrong Kansas City address to pick up his younger twin […]
Devika Rao Can a fishing ban save the West Coast’s salmon? Justin Klawans The bloody conflict in Sudan Catherine Garcia Ralph Yarl: When ringing the wrong doorbell turns violent Brendan Morrow The looming Hollywood writers’ strike Advertisement from Wisebread Earn $200 After Spending $500 Justin Klawans DNC 2024: […]
Mike McCormick, a former White House stenographer for the Obama administration exposes Biden corruption and kickbacks from Ukraine. Mike sits down with Kim to discuss his evidence about the POTUS corruption. Follow Mike on substack for updates: https://substack.com/profile/54786357…
Your Guide to 5th-Generation Warfare The Corbett Report Apr 18, 2023 TRANSCRIPT AND SOURCES: https://www.corbettreport.com/5thgen/ We are in the middle of a world-changing war. This is no ordinary war, however. Most of the victims of this warfare aren’t even able to identify it as war, nor do they […]
“You were supposed to attack civilians, women, children — Innocent people outside the political arena — For one simple reason: To force them to turn to the State and ask for greater security.” Gavin Nascimento Apr 15, 2023 Although the topic of mass shootings is never an easy […]
Can the mayors of Los Angeles and San Francisco succeed where Gov. Gavin Newsom failed? Beige Luciano-Adams Apr 17, 2023 San Francisco Mayor London Breed, California Governor Gavin Newsom, and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (Getty Images By Beige Luciano-Adams In Los Angeles, we see more incidents of […]
By Gabriel Schoenfeld Monday, May 23, 2022, 9:11 AM A protest in Washington D.C. in 2017/ (Ted Eytan, https://flic.kr/p/RBbYvq; CC BY-SA 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/) In the three months since Russia began its war of aggression, the character of the country has been changing before our eyes. Its much-vaunted military […]
The Corbett Report Apr 16, 2023 by James Corbett corbettreport.com April 16, 2023 In the “Dissent Into Madness” series, we have been exploring the nexus of psychology and politics. In Part 1 of this series, “The Weaponization of Psychology,” I detailed the process by which the psychiatric profession […]
I will be joined by Keith Preston, Swithun Dobson and Terminal Philosophy to discuss this excellent video by WhatIfAltHist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JDLr… Where he speculates as to how a second American civil war might go down.
FLASHBACK: Our Leaders Are Psychopaths (2009) The Corbett Report Apr 15, 2023 SHOW NOTES AND MP3: https://www.corbettreport.com/flashback-psychopathy/ FROM 2009: They walk among us. On the outside. they’re just like you and me, but on the inside they are unfeeling automatons who care only for themselves. They are the […]
Episode 120 with Norman Finkelstein Krystal Kyle & Friends Apr 14, 2023 All things left, all things identity politics, all things cancel culture, plus his new book: “I’ll Burn That Bridge When I Get To It,” that’s what’s on the docket for our interview with Norm Finkelstein today. […]
Peter R. Quiñones Apr 14, 2023 When I tell people that there is no such concept as individualism, I am usually met with some form of the straw man fallacy. No, I am not saying I have the right as an individual to walk up to you and punch […]
Jose Nino’s Digest Here are my most recent articles for you FBI Claims Internet Lingo Like “Based”, “Chad” and “Red Pill” Is Connected to “Extremism” On April 10, 2023, new documents were released exposing the FBI’s latest attempt to flag common Internet slang as “Violent Extremism.” The Heritage […]
When right-wing judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk dropped his decision to roll back access to the abortion pill last week, the reaction on my timeline can be best summed up as “Calm down and trust the legal process.” Commenters ripped apart the Trump appointee’s pseudoscience-steeped opinion — which overturned […]
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