Joe Costello 21 hr ago Thomas Mitchell’s Athens: A History of the First Democracy is a great work of classical history. It ranks with the Italian Ferrero’s and the German Mommsen’s histories of the Roman republic in quality, breadth, and political insight. Mitchell is a professor at Trinity […]
Krystal Kyle & Friends 2 hr ago Coming off a busy and fun week of live shows, we’re giving you a one-of-a-kind crossover episode between KK&F and Kyle’s Secular Talk. Between our regular show and Secular Talk, we’re covering everything, from Kanye West’s appearance on InfoWars (and what […]
New from Telos Press: Approaches: Drugs and Altered States, by Ernst Jünger. Order the paperback edition today in our online store and save 20% by using the coupon code BOOKS20. Also available in Kindle ebook format at Amazon.com. Approaches: Drugs and Altered States by Ernst Jünger Translated by […]
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. — John Milton, Areopagatica [1644] HORNBERGER’S BLOG December 7, 2022 Roosevelt’s Infamy Eighty-one years ago today, Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The attack killed 2,335 military personnel and 68 […]
Lenny Ben David, Jerusalem Post A few weeks ago, the Associated Press reported that newly released tapes from US president Lyndon Johnson’s White House office showed LBJ’s “personal and often emotional connection to Israel.” The news agency pointed out that during the Johnson presidency (1963-1969), “the United States […]
Dr Declan Hayes The Burkean Seán O’Driscoll’s riveting account of British aristocrat Rose Dugdale’s topsy turvy life resembles a Monty Python thriller. Here is a niece of Oswald Mosley, a member of Britain’s ruling elite, who had once prostrated herself in front of their Queen, who had a […]
Nicholas Carlson, November 30, 2022 Hello, Insiders. I’m just going to say it: Go USA! Yes, I’m referring to World Cup soccer. The US men’s team advanced to the knockout stage yesterday — but not without a number of injuries to our star players. So, well, that was […]
By Matthew A Hall I study the interwar libertarian-socialist movements in Germany and Spain. This encompasses movements of industrial unionists, councilists, and syndicalists, as well as more traditional anarchisits. Currently, I’m looking at the construction of the “working class” during the Ruhraufstand (1920). I also study Spanish anarchism, […]
In his new book ‘Dangerous Rhythms,’ author TJ English exposes a dark underside of the music industry, showing how mob-adjacent Jews fought segregation while exploiting the talent. By Rich Tenorio Times of Israel “Jazz Provides Background for Death,” screamed the Associated Press headline following the January 26, 1959, […]
By Jorge Molero-Mesa, Isabel Jiménez Lucena The aim of this paper is to analyze the dynamics within Spanish anarcho-syndicalism between manual workers and medical professionals who shared the anarchist ideology. The incorporation of technicians into the labour movement was a common feature in the Western world; however, while […]
By Tom Woods The Hamilton musical, which I finally saw with my wife and two of my daughters this month, has been making Alexander Hamilton cool. Actually, though, Hamilton has always been a hero of mainstream left and right. That’s usually how you can identify a scoundrel: if […]
Captain Jack White: imperialism, anarchism and the Irish Citizen Army Published in Book Reviews, Issue 2 (March/April 2015), Reviews, Volume 23 LEO KEOHANE Merrion Press €20.25 pb, €49.95 hb ISBN 9781908928931 Reviewed by Angus Mitchell Of the many strands of radical thought to be reckoned with in the ideological crossfire of Ireland’s […]
By Tom Woods I thought of these in about ten seconds. That means there are way, way more than nine. How many of these can you smash until the pieces are particles of dust? (1) The financial crisis of 2008 was caused by deregulation. (2) “States’ rights” are […]
By Raymond Craib My work circulates around the intersection of space and politics. My first book examined the cartographic routines that helped create the Mexican state in the 19th and 20th centuries. My second book examined the persecution of young anarchists, workers and poets in early twentieth century […]
New York Review of Books Lynn Hunt ‘A Great Democratic Revolution’ Alexis de Tocqueville left France to study the American prison system and returned with the material that would become “Democracy in America.” David Salle Who Am I? What Am I? Charles Ray’s ambitious, technologically sophisticated sculptures allow […]
José Luis Ledesma Eduardo Romanos ‘[May Day is celebrated] year after year, without interruption’, wrote the Spanish philosopher Miguel de Unamuno (1907), ‘and this celebration seems to assume a ritual, a liturgical character. The value of these rituals is enormous, as long as their spirit is faithfully remembered’ […]
By Ariel David, Haaretz Vast review finds no evidence that the Torah laws were commonly observed before the second century B.C.E., says Prof. Yonatan Adler. Not all agree. When was Judaism born? Tradition says it emerged more than 3,000 years ago at Mount Sinai, when God gave Moses […]
Posted on November 15, 2022 by winter oak by Paul Cudenec I am very honoured to have contributed an article to the second issue of the beautifully-produced and highly interesting Parisian “counter-history” journal brasero which is being launched on Friday November 18 2022 (the first issue was reviewed in English here). […]
Britain, US, Russia – we’re all post-Soviet now Michael Taylor With apologies, I return to Fiona Hill’s valuable book ‘There’s Nothing for You Here – Finding Opportunity in the 21st Century’. She has a breadth of understanding which I suspect can only have been developed by someone […]
By Donnacha DeLong An examination of the enduring relevance of the syndicalist period of trade unionism and the ‘global justice’ movement, tracing the history of both and the influence on the first movement on the more recent and the aspects that have continued relevance. READ MORE
By Sara Stewart New York Post The late Chelly Wilson was a larger-than-life New Yorker who embodied the American dream. “She believed America was the greatest place in the world, that you were free here to do whatever you wanted to do,” her daughter Bondi Walters told The […]
by Salofaista and Zoltanous Introduction Fringe movements, whether in politics or religion, tend to attract fringe individuals. George Lincoln Rockwell, leader of the American Nazi Party, once made the observation that: “Creativity is fanaticism. Every creative genius has had to be a fanatic. Many of them have been […]
Posted by Albino SquirrelNovember 8, 2022 Posted inAmerican Politics, Conservative Case For Class Struggle, Geo Politics, History For almost the last 80 years the United States has had a free trade and global economy. Meaning countries do trade with very little restrictions on their economies such as no […]
Mises Institute Like the creation of the Federal Reserve, the Spanish-American War is one of those events that gets only a brief mention in traditional high school history textbooks, yet this war initiated by Teddy Roosevelt, America’s first progressive president, transformed America’s place in the world forever. Learn […]
An interlocked mix of faith, politics, and identity lies at the root of America’s unique bond with the Jewish people, argues Walter Russell Mead. Jorge González-Gallarza November 1, 2022 The Social Order The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel and the Fate of the Jewish People, […]
By Michael R. Auslin, Spectator World With worries about inflation, the war in Ukraine, and tension over Taiwan, it’s easy for Americans to forget that we are now deep into the four-year period marking the eightieth anniversary of World War Two. Last December marked eighty years since the […]
By Aleksey Bashtavenko Academic Composition Very few students of history have ever heard of William Jennings Bryan, and that shows a lot about why the American identity is in crisis. Americans tend to put practicality over idealism, profits over people, and above all efficiency over values. Today, it […]
FLASHBACK: Meet Smedley Butler (2010) The Corbett Report Oct 30 Save SHOW NOTES: https://www.corbettreport.com/flashback-butler/ FROM 2010: He was a tenacious soldier, the most decorated officer in the history of the U.S. marine corps…and he detested war. Find out about the tyrannical government moves and secretive fascist plots that […]
George Torres was labeled one of the most dangerous men in Los Angeles in the late 1990s and early 2000s, but always maintained that he was a simple grocery store owner. This is the story of his alleged underground empire. All information and media used to compile this […]
James Madison warned that “the means of defence against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.” Now, more than two hundred years later, Americans have seen Madison’s warning come fully to life. The second in our newest animated video series, America: From Republic to […]
Did political correctness enable the biggest sexual abuse scandal in British history? Ed West Ironbridge in Shropshire is seen as the birthplace of the industrial revolution — and a very pretty one as well. It was here that Abraham Darby the Elder first smelted iron with coke, hugely […]
By Tom Woods It’s almost eerie, isn’t it, how systematic and coordinated the daily attack on truth is. Even the headlines — the headlines! — are propaganda. Whether it’s Nicholas Sandmann and Covington Catholic High School, or matters of graver import like the war in Iraq, the housing […]
by Peter Zeihan on October 26, 2022 For all of Bill Clinton’s considerable intelligence, bouts of intense curiosity, and ability to make dazzle a room of even his opponents, there was not a lot of deep domestic or international policy crafting during his presidency. His focus on topics […]
Why secularization and cultural liberalism are inevitable Richard Hanania While writing my essay on the triumph of Fukuyama, I considered including something about recent protests in Iran but ultimately decided against it. The relevance of the ongoing disturbances in that country was addressed in a response to my […]
Like most countries, Canada has its own dark past. One of these was the invention of the “Fruit Machine” – a real-life “Gaydar”. For 40 years, the Fruit Machine would be used as a part of the “Gay Purge” in Canada – an attempt to remove all homosexuals […]
Boniface (Sunday) This song from The Clash is one of my favorites. The line “London Calling” refers to the BBC broadcast that was sent to Occupied Europe in WWII, which began with that line.1 Of course, we all know this song refers to a city, in England, called […]
New York Review of Books Christopher de Bellaigue Khamenei’s Dilemma How far will Iran’s supreme leader go to suppress the protests that have rocked the Islamic Republic since mid-September? Francine Prose ‘We Know What That’s Like’ The filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s recent arrest in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison marks […]
People like to draw parallels between the United States and the Roman Republic, using them to make various prediction about America’s future. This video explores the notion that America should rather be compared to Carthage, and if there is a country which emulates the ancient Romans, it is […]
The Signal What happened to the graves of Indigenous children reportedly discovered in Canada in 2021? Terry Glavin on the elaborate confusion obscuring an ongoing mystery and longstanding injustice. Mladen Borisov (Originally published 2022 | 06.02) Riots, vandalism, toppled statues, burned churches—they were all part of the fallout in […]
We cannot rethink history to console those it embarrasses. George Case 8 Oct 2022 Quillette There are many designations lately applied to social justice movements on behalf of women, non-white people, the LGBTQ community, and other groups: #MeToo. Black Lives Matter. Gay Pride. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Some […]
Why “pacifists” aren’t “fascifists” Matt Taibbi John Lennon was born October 9, 1940. He would have been 82 today. In 1972, South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond sent a letter to the office of Attorney General John Mitchell, suggesting Lennon be deported. Thurmond believed Lennon’s antiwar and anti-Nixon […]
Video playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Flashback: Torture is Bad The Corbett Report 2 hr ago SHOW NOTES AND DOWNLOAD: https://www.corbettreport.com/flashback-torture/ FROM 2008: Extraordinary rendition is a euphemism for a CIA program to kidnap people and fly them to secret prisons around the world […]
By Cheryl Bates Gay/Lesbian Review ONE OF THE LOW POINTS in American history was in the early 1950’s when Senator Joseph McCarthy successfully fueled and exploited Americans’ fear and paranoia about secret governmental conspiracies, launching witch hunts to expose allegedly subversive infiltrators and Communists within the U.S. government. […]
912 Courthouse Massacre led by the Floyd Allen Clan. 57 bullets in 90 seconds in Hillsville, Virginia. Appalachias Deadliest Family.
The Corbett Report VIDEO COURTESY HOLDING THE LINE ODYSEE CHANNEL via Holding The Line: On the 5th of October 2022, HTL welcomed back James Corbett for another discussion about his work and to get some insights into the current state of world geopolitics. In the interview with Rusere […]
Tocharus Time marches on, and the more things change the more they remain the same. Whether people learn from the mistakes of history is up to them knowing of them in detail, both in cause and effect. Today we’re going to discuss the many slightly varied diets of […]
It’s always interesting to check out what those on the losing side of history had to say. Description The Spanish Inquisition calls to mind cruelty, injustice, and religious persecution, but in On the Spanish Inquisition, Maistre shows us that the facts are quite different. So far from being […]
New York Review of Books The great achievement of Elizabeth II was that, merely by reigning for seventy years, she created and sustained the necessary illusion of permanence.” So writes Fintan O’Toole in an essay about the late queen from the Review’s next issue. O’Toole, last seen in our […]
The very first episode of “60 Minutes” included a feature on police brutality and police-community conflict. Not much has changed in 54 years. In 1968, on the very first episode of 60 Minutes, Mike Wallace interviewed Attorney General Ramsey Clark about the state of policing in America.
By Albano Squirrel September 18, 2022 We often time see debates on who in American politics is the real populist some say Donald Trump and the conservatives’ others will say Bernie Sanders and his social democrats and there was also be those who say Marxism or Fascism are […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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