Category: Economics/Class Relations

SA’s CEOs on why they have hope

Friday, 4 October 2024 “The smallest feline is a masterpiece.” Leonardo da Vinci STORY OF THE DAY SA’s CEOs on why they are optimistic about the country By Ray Mahlaka Sentiment around South Africa has improved since the coalition government was formed and Eskom’s blackouts faded. However, CEOs […]

Stuck in a Moment

Recently from The Signal: Martin Wolf on why global trade is slowing down. … Today: What’s wrong with China’s economy? Victor Shih on the major reckoning facing the government in Beijing. … Also: Gustav Jönsson on America’s tricky relationships with dictators. … & now live: Your invitation to become a […]

The World’s New Business Model

Recently from The Signal: Jan Leighley on who votes in America. … Today: Why is international trade slowing down? Martin Wolf on advanced technologies, left-behind communities, and economic warfare with China. … Also: Gustav Jönsson on how working with establishment conservatives has been transforming the nationalist right in Sweden. […]

The Nationalism of the Common Man

by Kenneth Schmidt Arktos Journal Sep 18, 2024 Kenneth Schmidt elaborates on nationalism as a product of both intellectual engagement with culture and the lived experiences of the working class, arguing that dogmatic neo-liberalism has ravaged community bonds, traditional institutions, and family structures. Nationalists of various kinds, ranging […]

We Are All Central Planners Now

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2024 You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it’s going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other […]

The Parasites of Malibu

Anthony Flores and his girlfriend, Anna Moore, met Dr. Mark Sawusch, a twice-divorced ophthalmologist who had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, at a vegan-ice-cream shop in Malibu in 2017; a week later, they moved into his bungalow on the Pacific Coast Highway; a year later, he was dead […]

Libertarian Unity?

By Cake Boy A question in the current anarchist milieu is whether anarcho-capitalism and anarcho-communism are compatible. Is bottom unity ( libertarian unity) possible? The main topic here is land. Both schools, anarcho-communism and anarcho-capitalism, have different perceptions of what land is and what it should be. To […]

Child Support Insurance: A Solution to the “Financial Abortion” Debate that Both Pro-Choicers and Pro-Lifers Can Get Together Behind?

A way to make things much fairer in regards to this issue? Random Musings and History Apr 28, 2024 Start writing today. Use the button below to create your Substack and connect your publication with Random’s Substack Start a Substack Some pro-choicers have previously proposed a “financial abortion” […]

The Geopolitics of Wine

by Peter Zeihan on September 9, 2024 YOU CAN LEARN MORE ABOUT SCOTT BASE VINEYARD BELOW CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO Today’s video is fueled by Scott Base Vineyard in Cromwell, New Zealand. After all of the time I’ve spent in New Zealand, this is far and away […]

Subversion Subverted

Troy Southgate Sep 03, 2024 DURING the 1950s, a Parisian collective of radical artists and outsiders called the Letterist International would employ a clever propaganda technique known as détournement. The term itself, meaning ‘re-routing’ or ‘hijacking,’ epitomised the group’s tendency to appropriate capitalist slogans – particularly in advertising […]

KKR’s $1 trillion gamble

Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024 Lee Clifford Executive Editor, Enterprise Most private equity firms are something of a black box. We know they take huge bets and often spin wild profits, but it’s not always clear how. In his latest feature for Fortune, veteran finance reporter Shawn Tully wanted […]

Can Techno-Trumpism Work?

3 lessons from a decade of populism Craig Willy Jul 31, 2024 Not your grandpa’s GOP. (Original meme @elonmusk.) Populism marches on. In the United States, Trumpism has consolidated its hold over the Republican Party. With the choice of of J. D. Vance as Donald Trump’s vice-presidential candidate, […]

Maoism in a Nutshell

How the “spiritual atom bomb” wrecked China Craig Willy Aug 24, 2024 My maternal grandfather was a manager in the British textile industry. In that capacity, he traveled to China in 1971 and acquired the above second-edition copy of Mao Zedong’s “Little Red Book.” The 1966 Foreword by […]

Moguls for Trump

Our September 19 issue—the Fall Books Issue—is now online, with Anahid Nersessian on Rachel Kushner’s spy novel, Ben Tarnoff on Silicon Valley’s Trump bloc, Jed Perl on Jenny Holzer, David Shulman on the ICJ’s ruling on Israel’s unlawful occupation, Fintan O’Toole on Kamala Harris, Marina Warner on Rikki Ducornet’s […]