An interesting aspect of the pandemic has been the way so many left-leaning anarchists and libertarians have uncritically embraced the proclamations of “experts,” apparently forgetting the Frankfurt School critique of scientism and the Foucauldian critique of the therapeutic state. And many right-leaning libertarians have become all-purposes contrarians. By […]
A Dr. McCoy moment or another swine flu ’76 moment? Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti weigh in on the FDA Advisory Panel’s approval of Pfizer’s Coronavirus vaccine, new restrictions across the country, and the latest Covid case counts.
My take on social welfare programs is that workers and taxpayers should demand their full salaries, with no deductions, and create their own unemployment, healthcare, and retirement programs. This perspective isn’t original to me. I learned it from Sam Dolgoff over 30 years ago.
Herbert Spencer has the therapeutic state figured out in 1851 By Phillip W. Magness, American Institute for Economic Research In the 19th century, outbreaks of Cholera were common, and Britain deployed a “Board of Health” to manage and suppress the disease. England experienced a particularly severe wave of […]
By Michael Gryboski, Christian Post Reporter A church in California that has reportedly held worship services indoors with hundreds of attendees not wearing face masks was held in contempt of court and fined. For months, Calvary Chapel of San Jose and its pastor, Michael McClure, have overseen worship […]
By Eric Todisco, People A Los Angeles judge has ruled that L.A. County’s outdoor dining ban will be limited to three weeks as planned, and then must be reassessed by the health department before the ban can be extended. On Tuesday, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge James Chalfant […]
This is a pretty good overview of the latest pandemic news. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti weigh in on the start of Covid vaccinations in Britain, Dr. Anthony Fauci’s prediction that we will see another surge in cases stemming from Thanksgiving, and reports that the Trump Administration chose […]
It is obvious enough that “big capital” is using the pandemic as a means of eliminating its competition from “small capital” and the petite bourgeoisie, which is why it is not surprising that right-libertarians and small “c” conservatives, for whom small capital is a primary constituent, are the […]
Some more pan-secession in action. New Jersey 101.5 To help slow the spread of the novel coronavirus in New Jersey the state Health Department has dramatically stepped up its contact tracing program. If you test positive for coronavirus, a contact tracer from your local health department will call […]
Well, this should be interesting…
One law for the ruling class, another law for all other classes.
Globally, the lockdowns have had the effect of colonialism on steroids. By Kelsey Piper, Vox The coronavirus pandemic that’s shattered lives throughout high-income countries is hitting the developing world as well. But while many of the world’s poor countries affected by the virus have imposed the same social […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley People often ask me why I continue to insist on identifying with the far-left considering my growing rash of beefs with the movement and my increasingly contrarian tendencies, and its not a bad question. I find myself asking […]
New York Times bestselling author and Columbia University Ph.D. Tom Woods delivered these remarks to about 100 state legislators, whom he urged to be the voices of the truly voiceless in the debate over the correct response to COVID.
An amusing headline. Saagar Enjeti and Ryan Grim react to former Presidents Obama, Bush and Clinton volunteering to get the Coronavirus vaccine publicly to prove it’s safe.
Fraudci’s career of incompetence. By Ann Montague, Socialist Action Today Dr. Fauci is well known as a trusted scientist who is trying to guide the country through a pandemic. All the polls say over 80% of the people in this country see him as the most reliable spokesperson […]
Saagar Enjeti and Ryan Grim react to comments by former Trump campaign manager, Brad Parscale, who says Trump’s coronavirus response cost him the election.
We have always been at war with East Asia? Saagar Enjeti and Ryan Grim discuss the impact the Coronavirus is going to have on the United States longterm.
Things aren’t going to well. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti analyze a report that highlights trends in the diagnosis of diseases of despair in the United States.
By Duncan Whitemore, Mises UK Although I have written on the topic of how libertarian property rights can be applied to the situation of viruses in two, previous essays, it is useful to summarise this again for a clearer picture. Such an endeavor seems necessary now more than […]
The First Amendment survives by one vote. What part of “shall make no law” do the other four not understand? Having a Republican-dominated SCOTUS is probably a good idea as the wider culture (and therefore the elected branches of government) move further toward the cultural faux “left” with […]
It’s interesting that the king’s knights are telling Prince Andrew the Other to fuck off. Even the pigs can practice pan-secessionism. By Rich Calder, Wall Street Journal New York City law-enforcement officers won’t be knocking on doors on Thanksgiving Day to see whether New Yorkers are following Gov. […]
The degree to which people support their government’s COVID-19 policies depends on whether they support the current ruling party. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss polling by Pew that reveals how people worldwide feel about the response to the Coronavirus.
It is overwhelmingly clear that the response to the pandemic by virtually all governments everywhere has been to protect the health of the upper-middle and upper classes at the expense of the poor and working classes, who must either continue to work under increased hazards or simply lack […]
Krystal takes it to the Medical Industrial Complex in the age of Covid.
The SJWish terminology and rhetoric in this aside, this is actually a very good discussion of the class disparities associated with the impact of the pandemic. The impact of the responses to the pandemic has largely been to allow the upper-middle and upper classes to go on a […]
By Alexis C. Madrigal Whet Moser,The Atlantic The United States has made huge advances in fighting the coronavirus. The astonishingly high death rates the country saw during the spring have fallen, and Americans are much more likely now than they were then to survive a COVID-19 hospitalization. New […]
It’s good to see that Crimethinc recognizes that opposition to medical martial law is not just some crazy right-wing idea. It’s happening in countries that are much further “left” than the USA. Many left-wing anarchists have seriously dropped the ball on this question, just as many right-wing anarchists […]
Krystal and Saager totally lose me with their affirmation of Richard Wolff’s praise for China’s response to COVID-19. China is a test market for the kinds of state repression global and US national elites want to bring to the West. Unfortunately, if you scratch a right-wing populist like […]
I always thought Kim is too intelligent and independently minded to be a party-line leftist.
Hopefully, a grim winter will lead to some nice springtime insurrections. Professor of Economics, Richard Wolff, discusses how the lack of a stimulus will impact the American people.
It will interesting to see if a Bidenist regime imposes a national lockdown and/or mask mandate and what kind of protests that will provoke. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss newly imposed restrictions nationwide aimed at combating the spread of the Coronavirus.
By NATASHA KORECKI, ALEX ISENSTADT, ANITA KUMAR, GABBY ORR, CHRISTOPHER CADELAGO and MARC CAPUTO ,Politico Brad Parscale was on the phone with President Donald Trump and top White House officials in mid-February when someone on the line asked the campaign manager what worried him the most. Parscale, speaking […]
By Don Fitz During the last 10 years I have written multiple articles documenting how Cuba has better medical practice and education than the US. To be honest, I have known for a long time that there is an area of medical training where medical students in the […]
By Jeffrey Tucker, American Institute for Economic Research Every pre-modern society assigned to some group the task of bearing the burden of new pathogens. Usually, the designation of the unclean was assigned based on race, language, religion, or class. There was no mobility out of this caste. They […]
On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX poll finds half of voters believe cases will continue to rise. Featuring Rising’s Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti. This survey was conducted online within the United States from October 19-22 among 2,822 registered voters by HarrisX. The sampling margin of […]
By Harriet Barber, Telegraph More people will die of hunger caused by the pandemic than of coronavirus this year, according to a report from Oxfam. An estimated 122 million of the world’s poorest people could be plunged deeper into hunger and poverty, equating to 12,000 extra deaths a […]
First, the Coronavirus has so far killed no more people than a seasonal influenza. Bearing in mind the use of statistical methods bordering on the fraudulent, it may have killed fewer than seasonal flu. For this reason, the Lockdown and the obsessive social distancing have been grossly disproportionate […]
By Norbert Bolz, TELOS Nietzsche once said that culture was only a thin apple peel over a glowing hot chaos. That is probably to say that even a small shock suffices to confront us anew with barbarism and dizzying stupidity. And now we are actually dealing with a […]
Reasonable people typically understand that multiple values of parallel importance can co-exist at the same time and that a sensible approach to value conflicts is to make reasonable tradeoffs. Preventing the spread of a serious illness is a value. Preventing an economic meltdown is a value. Preventing government […]
Consent Factory One of the hallmarks of totalitarianism is mass conformity to a psychotic official narrative. Not a regular official narrative, like the “Cold War” or the “War on Terror” narratives. A totally delusional official narrative that has little or no connection to reality and that is contradicted […]
It looks like my review of Don’s book is getting picked up by a lot of outlets. That’s good because his book really exposes the US healthcare system for the scam that it is. By Keith Preston, Global Research The issue of healthcare reform is one that is […]
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