Category: Left and Right

Kayfabe Populism

By Caitlin Johnstone It’s so important that the public have no real say in US politics that the empire not only set up two oligarchic puppet parties which pretend to oppose each other, but also set up fake populist movements within each of those factions which pretend to […]

New Books from Arktos

NEW BOOKS $29.50 The War on Gender Claire Rae Randall Transgender rights have recently come to the fore as a social issue and yet there are many who feel that this is being pushed too far and too fast. Claire Rae Randall is a transsexual woman who transitioned in […]

Right Critical Theory with Jacob Siegel

A must listen. LISTEN HERE Tablet senior writer Jacob Siegel joins me to discuss the rightward trajectory of certain insights of Frankfurt School-derived critical theory, especially in light of the history of the journal Telos and its founder and editor, Paul Piccone. We also discuss Piccone’s friend Paul Gottfried, […]

The Sinister Symmetry Of CRT And GRT

By Andrew Sullivan, Weekly Dish The extremes of right and left on immigration are fueling each other. The MSM rushed last weekend to explain the previously obscure conspiracy theory that motivated a mass-murderer on a shooting spree in a black neighborhood in Buffalo, New York. We didn’t get […]

Factions Of The Dissident Right

00:00 – America First 05:32 – America, Second 07:17 – Ethnonationalists 08:50 – American 3P 11:24 – AmRen/Vdare 12:23 – 3P Ideologues 13:11 – Racist Liberals 14:48 – Populists 16:47 – Post-NRx Christians 20:54 – BAPists 21:18 – Paleoprogressives 23:24 – Pagans 25:11 – Blackpilled Accelerationists 26:56 – […]

The Undead Consensus

By Sohrab Ahmari, Compact Tuesday’s Manhattan Institute gala in New York City was a show of force from the establishment right. The assembled executives, foreign-policy hawks, and pro-business editorialists celebrated two of their own, Citadel Capital chief Ken Griffin and Wall Street Journal opinion editor Paul Gigot. The […]

Communism Is Not Conservative

By Zoltanous and Momcilo Nevesky Thanks to the insanity of the internet a new phenomenon of “Conservative Communism” (formerly known as “Patriotic Socialism”) is now a thing. Frankly on face value this is just so ridiculous it shouldn’t even be addressed. Unfortunately because of personalities like Infrared (Haz), […]

Kshama Sawant FIGHTING The Machine

Kshama Sawant is a leader of a Trotskyist party that is slowly taking over the Left in Seattle with the goal of turning Seattle into a communist city-state. They make for an interesting counterpart to Doug Wilson’s Christian Reconstructionist enclave in Moscow, Idaho next door. May they eventually […]

The Many Agonies of Jacobin Magazine

By Sohrab Ahmari Compact The afterworld haunts the latest print issue of Jacobin magazine. The theme is “The Left in Purgatory,” and the cover illustration shows Sen. Bernie Sanders and Reps. Ilhan Omar and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on a couch in some sort of waiting room. Jacobin back issues […]

A New History of the Old Right

By Marcus Wither, Reason In the American right, populism has always been lurking in the shadows. The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism, by Matthew Continetti, Basic Books, 480 pages, $32 Unlike most accounts of the American conservative movement, Matthew Continetti’s The Right begins in the 1920s, […]

When The Star[bucks] Align (w/ Kshama Sawant)

This week, Briahna spoke to Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant about the rash of Starbucks coffee locations unionizing around the country, why the Staten Island Amazon unionization effort was successful, the problem with some professional organizers, Chris Small’s Tucker Carleton appearance, the difference between DSA and Socialist […]