Pete and Aaron From Timeline Earth Read ‘State and Revolution’ by Lenin Pt. 2
Watch Part 1 here.
The Forgotten Old Right
Tom Woods Show In a recent episode of the Mises Institute’s Human Action Podcast, hosted by Jeff Deist, we discussed the Old Right, the loose collection of writers and thinkers who opposed domestic and foreign interventionism. Their names have almost been forgotten, and Jeff and I want to […]
Observations on the Causes of the Decline of Ancient Civilisation (2015), by Sean Gabb
By Sean Gabb I would be most reluctant to cross swords with Ludwig von Mises on economics. I have less regard for his history. We can reject the Polanyi/Finley claim that market behaviour is a modern and transitory development, and that ancient economies were so fundamentally different that […]
Eugenics without the state: anarchism in Catalonia, 1900–1937
By Richard Cleminson Current historiography has considered eugenics to be an emanation from state structures or a movement which sought to appeal to the state in order to implement eugenic reform. This paper examines the limitations of that view and argues that it is necessary to expand our […]
Digging for Utopia
By Kwame Anthony Appiah New York Review of Books Reviewed: The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 692 pp., $35.00 In The Dawn of Everything David Graeber and David Wengrow search for historical examples of nonhierarchical […]
The Roots of Inequality: An Exchange
By David Wengrow, reply by Kwame Anthony Appiah New York Review of Books In response to: Digging for Utopia from the December 16, 2021 issue To the Editors: In The Dawn of Everything David Graeber and I present a new history of humanity, based on the latest findings […]
Desmond Tutu, Anglican archbishop who helped end apartheid, dead at 90
By Grayson Quay The Week Desmond Tutu — the South African civil rights campaigner, Nobel Peace Prize recipient, and retired Anglican archbishop — died Sunday in Cape Town at the age of 90, Reuters reports. No cause of death was provided, but according to The New York Times, […]
World marks 30th anniversary of Soviet Union’s collapse
By Grayson Quay The Week On Christmas night, 1991, Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev resigned and relinquished his powers, including the nuclear codes, to Russian President Boris Yeltsin. The flag of the USSR that flew over the Kremlin was lowered, never to be raised again. The next day, the […]
Work and Don’t Lose Hope’: Republican Forced Labour Camps during the Spanish Civil War
By Julius Ruiz This article examines the use of forced labour in Republican Spain during the civil war. Althoughmuch has recently been written on Francoist camps, very little research has been undertaken ontheir Republican counterparts. As a consequence the significance of Republican camps has not been recognised. Although some […]
The Shock of Victory
This is a 2009 article from the late anarchist anthropologist David Graeber, who died last year, and who was probably as influential as any anarchist in the 21st century so far. I am posting this because the third section of this piece, the discussion of anarchism in the […]
We’re edging closer to civil war
By Charles M. Blow, New York Times The Supreme Court on Friday issued a decision allowing abortion providers in Texas to continue challenging a new law that bans most abortions in the state after about six weeks of pregnancy. But while the conservative majority didn’t close the door […]
‘Greatest Generation’ survey on race, sex and combat during World War II runs counter to its wholesome image
By Michael E. Ruane Washington Post In August 1944, an American soldier finishing up an Army survey was asked whether he had any further remarks. He did. “White supremacy must be maintained,” he wrote. “I’ll fight if necessary to prevent racial equality. I’ll never salute a negro officer […]
Perfectly kept dinosaur embryo from 66 million years ago found
Al-Jazeera The exquisitely preserved embryo discovered in China was preparing to hatch from its egg just like a chicken. Scientists have announced the discovery of an exquisitely preserved dinosaur embryo from at least 66 million years ago that was preparing to hatch from its egg just like a […]
Hippies and Evangelicals: Monist and Dualist Countercultures
Meaningness Francis Schaeffer, hippie guru and architect of the modern Religious Right “The counterculture” generally refers to the youth movement of the 1960s-70s: rock and roll, anti-war protests, psychedelics, the New Left, hippies, and the sexual revolution. While puzzling out how these elements cohered—to understand the counterculture functionally […]
The International Anti-Anarchist Conference of 1898 and the Origins of Interpol
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The Pre-1914 Anarchist “Lone Wolf” Terrorist and Governmental Responses
By Richard Bach Jensen After discussing the extent to which the period from 1878–1934, with its frequent incidents of anarchist assassinations and bombings, can be considered the classic age of “lone wolf” or leaderless terrorism, this article focuses on four acts of anarchist violence and police and government […]
The International Campaign Against Anarchist Terrorism, 1880–1930s
By Richard Bach Jensen, Taylor and Francis This essay presents a short overview of the “classic” era of anarchist terrorism between 1880 and World War I, while concentrating on an analysis of the little-known efforts by diplomats, politicians, and the police to control and repress anarchist terrorism. These […]
Ancient Greeks didn’t kill ‘weak’ babies, new study argues
By Andrew Curry, Science Stories of Sparta aside, analysis questions idea that infirm infants were abandoned to die. In his biography Life of Lycurgus, written around 100 C.E., Greek philosopher Plutarch recounted how the ancient Spartans submitted newborns to a council of elders for inspection. “Fit and strong” […]
The Authoritarian Right’s 1877 Project
Eric Levitz, New York Mag/Intelligency In a recent column for The American Conservative, Helen Andrews argues that Reconstruction — that brief slice of the 19th century during which Black Southerners enjoyed extensive political rights under the aegis of Northern Republicans — was “objectively bad.” Further, she insists that […]
The Impossible Fordist Baggage of Latin American Anarcho-Syndicalism
By Guilherme Falleiros and Katiuscia M Galhera ‘The Fordist baggage of anarcho-syndicalism’, by Ben Debney (see Anarchist Studies Blog), argues that anarcho-syndicalism was unable to keep pace with mutations in the labor sphere due to an assumed Fordist paradigm. This article takes as a starting point the fact […]
Springtime of Nations: Dixie
By Charlie Lee Springtime of Nations “If there is to be a separation, then God bless them both. And keep them in the Union if it be for their good, but separate them if it be better.” …Thomas Jefferson on the New England Hartford Convention of 1814. This […]
The Old Anarchism and the New
By Charlie Lee, Springtime of Nations In a previous video “Yes, Anarcho-Capitalists are Anarchists,” the case was made that anarcho-capitalism is a continuation of the historical anarchist tradition of Proudhon, Bellaguerrigue, Tucker and the rest, contrary to claims by ancoms that anarcho-capitalism has nothing to do with historical […]
A Flawed History of Humanity
A critique of David Graeber By David A. Bell “The Dawn of Everything” has been hailed as a masterpiece. But a careful reading of its look at the Enlightenment exposes concerning mistakes. “What if everything you learned about human history is wrong?” This is the way The New […]
This federal minister says it’s time to give land back to Indigenous peoples. What could that look like?
By Alex Ballingall Toronto Star OTTAWA—It was brisk and overcast on Parliament Hill this week when a small group from the distant First Nation of Attawapiskat presented a letter to two Liberal cabinet ministers charged with Indigenous affairs. Less than a decade ago, Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence staged a […]
Oliver Stone: ALL Evidence Points To JFK Murder Conspiracy
Krystal and Saagar interview legendary filmmaker Oliver Stone about his new documentary on the JFK murder that examines all of the evidence pointing towards a conspiracy
Bob Dole, former senator and presidential candidate, dead at 98
I actually voted for him in the 1988 Republican primary. I wasn’t so much a fan as much as I wanted to vote against Reagan’s VP, George H W Bush, and against Rev. Pat Robertson, who seemed to be crazy and would have his hands on America’s nuclear […]
Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America’s Empire
An interesting new book coming out soon. By Jonathan M. Katz A groundbreaking journey tracing America’s forgotten path to global power―and how its legacies shape our world today―told through the extraordinary life of a complicated Marine. Smedley Butler was the most celebrated warfighter of his time. Bestselling books […]
Reassessing the Legacy of George Wallace
By Joshua Doggrell Chronicles There was a very odd occurrence in the “Cradle of the Confederacy” in July 1987: Presidential aspirant and civil rights activist Jesse Jackson paid a visit to the Montgomery, Alabama, home of George Corley Wallace. It had been 126 years since Jefferson Davis stood […]
What if Everything You Learned About Human History Is Wrong?
By Jennifer Schuessler New York Times One August night in 2020, David Graeber — the anthropologist and anarchist activist who became famous as an early organizer of Occupy Wall Street — took to Twitter to make a modest announcement. “My brain feels bruised with numb surprise,” he wrote, […]
Epilogue on the Movement against Capitalist Globalization
Anarchist News From CrimethInc. 22 Years after N30—What It Can Teach Us Today Twenty-two years ago today, anarchists and other protesters successfully blockaded and shut down the summit of the World Trade Organization in Seattle. This was the dramatic debut of what journalists dubbed the “anti-globalization movement”—in fact, […]
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. in 1972: Hate America
An interesting glimpse of the culture war in its early phase. Buckley interviews Dotson Rader from Students for a Democratic Society. It’s interesting to watch this discussion from the vantage point of 49 years later, in light of subsequent and contemporary events. It’s funny how Rader chain-smokes through […]
A statue of Thomas Jefferson is removed from New York City Hall after 187 years
By Sara Smart, CNN The statue, which is a plaster replica of the original, according to the city, was removed from its pedestal Monday. The process took several hours, and the 7-foot statue was transported in a wooden crate to the New-York Historical Society, where it will be […]
Roosevelt Statue to Be Removed From Museum of Natural History
By Robin Pogrebin New York Times The bronze statue of Theodore Roosevelt, on horseback and flanked by a Native American man and an African man, which has presided over the entrance to the American Museum of Natural History in New York since 1940, is coming down. The decision, […]
New Evidence DEEPENS Malcolm X Murder Mystery
Krystal and Saagar cover the major developments in the mystery surrounding the murder of civil rights leader Malcolm X back in the 1960s
If You Truly Love America, You’ll Tear it Down
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley America is a nation that loves its fairytales and folklore, not just the legends that we teach to our children as if they were scientific fact, but the stories we tell ourselves that make up the very fabric […]
No, Stossel. The Pilgrims Were Starved by a Corporation, Not by Communism.
By Kevin Carson, Center for a Stateless Society Each year at this time somebody in the right-libertarian world, reenacting an obligatory Thanksgiving ritual, drags out the old chestnut about the Pilgrims at Plymouth almost starving from “communism” until private property rights and capitalism saved them. This year John […]
Private Property Rights Made the First Thanksgiving Possible
By John Stossel, Reason Happy Thanksgiving! But beware the “tragedy of the commons.” It almost killed off the pilgrims. Now, via Washington, D.C., it’s probably coming for us. Tragedy of the commons is a concept from an essay by ecologist Garrett Hardin. He wrote how cattle ranchers sharing a common […]
How the Troubles Began: a Timeline
This is a timeline of how the de facto civil war in Northern Ireland began in the late 1960s. The conflict lasted until the late 1990s, and there have been “incidents” since then. A civil war in the United States that involved the total breakdown of civil society […]
Guess whose statue they just took down
By Tom Woods First it was statues of people like John C. Calhoun. That worked, since Americans have been told that Calhoun, one of the only political thinkers the United States ever produced who’s actually worth reading, was uniquely wicked and racist, etc. Some warned that eventually the […]
Author: Americans Like Thanksgiving Too Much For The Progressive Left To Cancel It
Former opinion editor at the Wall Street Journal, Melanie Kirkpatrick, describes her new book: “Thanksgiving: The Holiday at the Heart of the American Experience.”
The false memory of an immaculate Ronald Reagan
By Samuel Goldman, The Week Is Donald Trump a continuation of the postwar conservative movement — or its executioner? A year after his electoral defeat, scholars, journalists, and pundits continue to debate the former president’s place in a lineage that extends back to Ronald Reagan, Barry Goldwater, and […]
Son of Khalil Islam is happy his father’s been exonerated in Malcom X killing, ‘but there’s still sadness’
By Brigid Kennedy, The Week The son of newly-exonerated Khalil Islam, who was wrongfully convicted in the 1965 assasination of Malcolm X, explained Thursday that while he’s happy a judge cleared his late father’s name, sadness nevertheless lingers. “It almost sounds casual to me that he’s been exonerated,” […]
Judge exonerates 2 men convicted of killing Malcolm X: ‘A case that calls out for fundamental justice’
By Brigid Kennedy, The Week Two men convicted of assasinating Malcolm X were exonerated Thursday afternoon, after a renewed investigation uncovered evidence that proved the men “were not involved with the killing and that “authorities withheld some of what they knew,” The Associated Press reports. The news comes […]
“Critical Race Theory” Is White History
By Kali Holloway, The Nation Conservatives are rebranding an inclusive, honest accounting of American history as inherently anti-white. For more than a year now, conservatives have been waging war against the misdefined conception of critical race theory that they themselves created. The right-wing campaign against so-called CRT largely […]
Was The 20th C. Political Realignment A MIRAGE?
Ryan Grim explains some of the the history behind today’s current political parties.
ConstitutionDAO’s Trying to Buy the U.S. Constitution. Here’s Why It Matters.
Will Papper, co-founder of SyndicateDAO and Julian Weisser, On Deck co-founder and ODX investor, join Marshall Kosloff on The Realignment to discuss their work as contributors to ConstitutionDAO to purchase one of 11 surviving copies of the U.S. Constitution.
Massacre at the Chetko Villages, 1853
By David G. Lewis, Journal of Critical Indigenous Anthropology The following is a direct transcription of a report from Joel Palmer of the Chetco Massacre of 1853. This is a well-known massacre on the southern Oregon Coast, and referenced in many of the ethnographies and Native histories of […]
The church of anti-fascism
By James McElroy Washington Examiner Why did our governing classes treat last summer’s antifa rioters with so much more indulgence than they did the rioters of Jan. 6? Paul Gottfried’s latest book, Antifascism, offers an explanation that goes beyond mere political enmity. Anti-fascism, Gottfried argues, is the ideological […]
Hannah Arendt on Anti-Racism as a Totalitarian Ideology
By Connor Grubaugh, Tablet When it entered office, the Biden-Harris administration promised to “lower the temperature” of America’s divisive conflicts over race, identity, and recognition. While Biden’s campaign appealed to moderates, however, his policies and appointments so far show him embracing a progressive “anti-racist” agenda fundamentally at odds […]
Hunter-Gatherer Culture
National Geographic Hunter-gatherer culture was the way of life for early humans until around 11 to 12,000 years ago. The lifestyle of hunter-gatherers was based on hunting animals and foraging for food. Hunter-gatherer culture is a type of subsistence lifestyle that relies on hunting and fishing animals and […]
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