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 […]
Charles, aka Charlemagne, is the proprietor of the NeoReactor Substack, and hosts of the YouTube channels “Charlemagne” and “Academic Agent” Charles joined Pete for a livestream in which they described, and commented on what is known as ‘the Dissident Right’
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 […]
Michael Kazin, Georgetown professor and author of What It Took to Win: A History of the Democratic Party, American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation, and The Populist Persuasion: An American History, joins The Realignment to discuss the future of the Democratic Party, how economics can trump […]
One of the best descriptions of the mechanics of domestic US politics I have seen to date from Michael Lind. By Michael Lind, Tablet If the Republicans retake Congress in the midterm elections of 2022, as many expect, a lament will be heard in 2023 and 2024 from […]
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, […]
MOST READ Jeffrey Sachs Presents Evidence of Possible Lab Origin of Covid-19 Sharon Lerner An article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences calls for an independent investigation of information held by U.S.-based institutions that could shed light on the origins of Covid. READ MORE → […]
Krystal and Saagar are joined by policy expert Oren Cass to consider whether the conservative institutions in DC will shift after the 2022 primaries to become more responsive to the GOP base
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 […]
MOST READ Democratic Voters Deliver Stinging Rebuke to Party’s Manchin-Sinema Wing Ryan Grim Voters shrugged off an obscene amount of spending from super PACs to send a message to Democrats: Do something. READ MORE → Rep. Kurt Schrader, the “Joe Manchin of the House,” Nears Defeat in […]
Whether one likes these “Idaho insurgents” or not, what they are doing is tactically correct from their own vantage point, just as what the Socialist Alternative is doing in Seattle is also correct from their vantage point. By Christopher Mathias Huffington Post A radical GOP faction, in open alliance […]
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 – […]
I would be far more critical of David Brooks than this guy, but this piece makes some interesting points. By Greg Thomas My late grandfather, Horace Thomas Sr., back in the 1970s when I was an adolescent, would explain to me the distinction between destructive and constructive criticism. […]
Communists outside America and Europe are known to be very different from Western leftists. They are comparatively conservative, pragmatic, and deeply patriotic – whereas Western leftists are liberal, ideologically fanatical and self-hating. The question is: Can Marxism-Leninism be made compatible with the Soros Left? What are the origins […]
Krystal and Saagar have Marshall Kosloff interview journalist James Pogue to better understand the ideas around the JD Vance and Blake Masters Senate campaigns at the center of the New Right
Al-Jazeera Over a three-year period, 327 employees of Germany’s federal and state security authorities have been found to have links to right-wing extremism. The figures are from the Federal Ministry of the Interior’s second situation report on right-wing extremism in the security agencies, due to be published on Friday and […]
The Kristol section of the neocons is now recolonizing the Democrats in partnership with the Kagans, who were always the neocons’ representatives in neoliberal circles. By Andrew Sullivan Weekly Dish If you live long enough, and haven’t been lobotomized, you’ll change a lot of your views and opinions. […]
Francis Fukuyama, author of Liberalism and Its Discontents, The End of History and the Last Man, and Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment, joins The Realignment to discuss the emerging challenges to Classical Liberalism from the left and right, why the war in Ukraine […]
The cringe meter has been broken for years now Kyle
Krystal and Saagar are joined by journalist and commentator Ryan Grim who tells the story of a leftist campaign that self destructed as a warning to progressives nationwide
Jen Pan speaks with Ben Burgis about whether or not the Left should worry about the culture wars. The answer is, well, not really. We stand a much better chance of winning power by focusing laser-like on the material concerns that poll after poll show are overwhelmingly the […]
Somebody must have thrown some water on her. “Unlike many of her fellow neoconservatives, she had never had a Marxist phase. “The only grand posturing of my teens,” she once recalled, “had been a declared intention to die on the barricades in Palestine.” If only she had gotten […]
By Ron Dart Synopsis: A significant struggle began in the year 1776 over the fate of a continent, and there are those who believe that this struggle ended in the year 1783, with the ancient ways of the Old World being given over entirely to those of a […]
Saagar and Marshall Kosloff talk to journalist and author Matthew Continetti for The Realignment Podcast about how the right has shifted over time and the extremes on both sides
The Implosion of a Democratic Socialist Campaign Ryan Grim Brandy Brooks, an equity consultant running for Maryland office, was well-positioned to resolve a harassment complaint by a campaign staffer and friend. Mediation was successful — but it fell apart anyway. READ MORE → How a Supreme Court […]
LA Progressive The Supreme Court’s upcoming decision to reverse Roe v. Wade (an early draft of which was leaked Monday) doesn’t ban abortions; it leaves the issue to the states. As a result, it will put another large brick in the growing wall separating Blue and Red America. […]
By Darel E. Paul, Compact Across the West, right populism is in retreat. Both right and left liberals were shocked in 2016 by the victory of Brexit and the election of Donald Trump. In 2017, things then went from bad to worse. Even as Emmanuel Macron emerged as […]
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 […]
Socialist societies could exist regardless of their stance on abortion. It’s a cultural issue and therefore not core to a socialist project.
By Andrew Sullivan, Weekly Dish To say that a leaked draft of a Supreme Court ruling prompted an elite meltdown would be a gross understatement. This was a culture war 9/11. “I have typed and deleted a great many comments,” Roxane Gay tweeted. “What do you say when […]
Articles by Jose Nino Thomas Massie Points Out an Inconvenient Truth about a Potential Roe v. Wade Reversal Sponsored Ad The leak of a Supreme Court draft opinion pointing to the Court overturning Roe v. Wade, has made many on the Right rejoicing about the prospects of abortion […]
Marshall and Saagar are joined by Matthew Continetti, author of The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism. Matthew returns to take The Realignment back to its roots and discuss what Trump and Biden era debates on the right mean for 2024 and beyond, who exactly is (and […]
Gurdjieff had a point when he promoted the idea of avoiding identifying with anything.
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), […]
A billionaire who’s anti-left? No waaaaay
The Signal Why is the far right winning ground in France? Marc Weitzmann on how fear and national trauma are shaping the politics of the Fifth Republic. Rodrigo Kugnharski In a victory speech under the Eiffel Tower, Emmanuel Macron acknowledged that many of the votes cast for him […]
By Emma Bowman, NPR May Day, celebrated by workers across the globe as International Labor Day, falls on May 1. But you’d be forgiven if that’s news to you. While the day traces its origins to an American laborers’ fight for a shorter work day, the U.S. does […]
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 […]
Marianne Williamson brings her trademark humanitarian insight and warmth as a second-time guest on this week’s episode of Krystal Kyle & Friends. We’re thrilled to have her back — this time to talk about why Nina Turner’s congressional race is a microcosm of a larger rift in the […]
By Andrew Sullivan Bari was an op-ed editor at the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times before leaving to create her own op-ed page on Substack, “Common Sense.” She’s also the author of How to Fight Anti-Semitism, and for some reason one of the most reviled […]
Contributing editor for Harper’s magazine, James Pogue, describes the rise of what he calls ‘the New Right.’
By Patrick Deneen, Compact In the 1960s, when anti-totalitarian intellectuals were focused on the threat posed by the Soviet Union and Maoist China, the Italian philosopher Augusto del Noce saw a different danger on the horizon. It stemmed not from the Marxist East, but from the liberal West. […]
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 […]
By Michael Cuenco, American Affairs Journal In George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, the dictatorship of Oceania subjects its citizens, or at least those within the ruling Party, to a ritual known as the “Two Minutes Hate,” in which a giant “telescreen” blares out propaganda to a captive audience. The […]
By Declan Leary, The American Conservative The Right: The Hundred Year War for American Conservatism, by Matthew Continetti, (Basic Books: 2022), 496 pages. Matthew Continetti opens his new book on the history of American conservatism with a reminiscence of his first day at the D.C. offices of the […]
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, […]
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 […]
This is so 1979. By Samuel Goldman The Week The kids are not all alright. That’s the message from Vanity Fair, the May issue of which includes a report from a small but colorful corner of the intellectual and political landscape. In the after-parties and corridors of the […]
By Paul Gottfried, Chronicles A recent posting on neocon-lite website, Quillette, by its go-to authority on foreign affairs, Ronald Radosh, makes unkind references to Pat Buchanan, Pedro Gonzalez, and me: The current issue of Chronicles, meanwhile, includes an article by Pat Buchanan condemning President Biden’s “vilification” of Putin, […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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