By Neil MacFarquhar New York Times CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Jurors on Tuesday found the main organizers of the deadly far-right rally in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017 liable under state law for injuries to counterprotesters, awarding more than $25 million in damages. But the jury deadlocked on two federal […]
By Conrad Black, American Greatness The Rittenhouse case avoided the curse of the American justice system; it certainly did not exonerate or vindicate it. It is undoubtedly true that the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha, Wisconsin on Friday was a victory over dishonest and overreaching prosecutors, over […]
In this clip from our full episode, Briahna Joy Grays asks whether the left would respond differently if it were an armed BLM protester under trial. With Olayemi Olurin.
Why am I not surprised? “National conservatism” is just neoconservatism reinventing itself with a less Friedmanite economic platform, with a faux Christian Democratic and/or populist presentation instead. And the usual collection of “conservative” dupes are already on board. There’s nothing like 60 years of failure to bolster one’s […]
This is a pretty good critique/overview of “national conservatism” but it fails to point out the most important thing about it, which is that national conservatism is the latest neocon front movement. Notice that two of the movement’s leading intellectuals are a (likely) Pahlavist and an actual Israeli […]
By Jeremy Scahill, The Interception ANY DEMOCRATS, LIBERALS, traditional conservatives, and even some leftists continue to tell themselves that the election of Joe Biden was the first step toward restoring U.S. standing in the world after the damage caused by Donald Trump. And in a variety of ways — […]
Caleb Maupin is a widely acclaimed speaker, writer, journalist, and political analyst. He has traveled extensively in the Middle East and in Latin America. He was involved with the Occupy Wall Street movement from its early planning stages, and has been involved many struggles for social justice. He […]
A discussion of the relationship between the far-right and class politics from a far-left “anti-fascist” perspective. Some of this I agree with, and some of it I don’t, but my actual perspective on “anti-fascism” is that fascism is an archaic ideology that actually has very little influence in […]
By Andrew Sullivan The Weekly Dish How do we fight back against left extremism if the alternative is worse? I was a different person in the time before I realized that the only way to stop the far-Left was through radical use of state power to reorganize nearly […]
Uber-neocon David Brooks is hardly an objective source, but this sounds not so much “terrifying” as much as “the biggest joke ever.” This approach didn’t work 40 years ago and it’s not going to work now. This stuff is just a reworking of the religious right’s “God has […]
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 […]
By Harrison Stelter, The Nation The pundit Éric Zemmour is leading a confident and radicalized conservative movement. “What progressives fail to understand is that the future is not ruled by economic curves but by demographic curves,” Éric Zemmour postulated, visibly nervous before the audience of conservative activists assembled […]
By Jonathan Hyslop In the period from the mid-1930s to the beginning of the Second World War, a group of German seamen based in Antwerp combined with Amsterdam-based Edo Fimmen, Secretary of the International Transportworkers Federation, to wage a campaign against the Nazi government amongst the sailors of […]
Associate professor of history at Princeton University and contributing editor at Jacobin, Matt Karp, details what Democrats will have to do to win back working class voters.
Sectarian warfare among the tankies.
Apparently, the memorial for Angelo Codevilla is going to be a public event. I had some important disagreements with Codevilla. Like most conservative critics of the US ruling class, his critique was largely limited to the left-wing of the ruling class (as opposed to figures like Chomsky and […]
I usually piss off communists and reactionaries alike with this viewpoint, but communism was largely an outgrowth of monarchism. Communist regimes never came to power on any serious or durable level anywhere outside of largely preindustrial, feudal-agrarian “ancient regime” type of societies. The function of communism was to […]
A continuation of the series.
I generally view debates between “social democrats” and “free-market conservatives” the same way I would view a debate between a geo-centrist and a flat-earther. But anyone in a position where they are forced to have a conversation with someone as stupid as Charlie Kirk has my sympathy. In […]
My approach to economics amounts to “cut welfare and protection from the top-down, cut taxes and regulation from the bottom up.” Virtually no one agrees with me. For most liberals and leftists, the state is their religion. And most “limited government conservatives” and not a few “free market […]
A reader offers an interesting description of this program: In the latter third or so of this episode from the “Hell of Presidents” podcast (by Matt Christman and Chris Wade of the Chapo Trap House gang), they talk about the current moment in American electoral politics and where […]
There is a lot of wild hyperbole in this. What Hedges is describing in this is not “fascism” but good old-fashioned American Protestant bourgeois-liberal know-nothing populism. Nothing new under the sun. This guy Paul Street being interviewed by Hedges is a perfect illustration of what I call a […]
The latest installment.
The two articles below, one by conservative scholar Paul Gottfried and one from the liberal Washington Spectator, make for an interesting comparison and contrast. The common theme is that the electoral system is losing legitimacy, and both parties are looking for ways to bypass electoral requirements in order […]
David Pakman is a political commentator and host of The David Pakman Show. The Left and The Right really aren’t talking very well at the moment. It feels like if people don’t have the same political leaning, they see the world in an entirely different way, whether that’s […]
The party realignment is almost entirely complete at this point. The Democrats are the party of educated elites, and the Republicans are the party of the poor and working-class, with race being an outlier issue. This does not mean that the Republicans are becoming the party of “class […]
It is true that class divisions are the widest they have been in 100 years, and there are now more strikes going on than at any time since WW2. However, the class-based politics favored by the economic left still faces an uphill battle in terms of becoming the […]
Aaron is one of the hosts of the Timeline Earth podcast. Aaron and Pete begin a series where they read the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski’s, Manifesto and comment on it.
It’s interesting that now that the capitalist class is moving increasingly toward the cultural “left,” traditional conservatives are moving toward anti-capitalism. By Rod Dreher, The American Conservative If you don’t follow the world of right-of-center Christian intellectuals, you might not have heard of the integralists, proponents of a […]
Jason Unruhe gets in VC to debate Haz on American patriotism, third worldism, revolution, and more.
It’s interesting how a lot of tankies seem to be increasingly taking their tankieism more seriously. Grayson and Henry from the Infrared Collective put the final nail in the coffin to the claim, made by various self-proclaimed American ‘communists’ and ‘socialists,’ that socialism is incompatible with American patriotism. […]
By F. Cooper Adamo Chronicles The Dark Horse of Liberty When Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn wrote his 1974 book Leftism: From de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Marcuse, he dedicated it to “the Noble Memory of Armand Tuffin, Marquis de la Rouërie.” Tuffin was a French aristocrat born […]
By Andrew Sullivan A tough but civil conversation. Briahna, a lawyer and political consultant who served as press secretary for Bernie Sanders, co-hosts the superb podcast Bad Faith. I start our enjoyable convo with a simple question: how can we best facilitate the flourishing of black America? I’m […]
The living legend, former MIT linguistics professor and political commentator Noam Chomsky returns for this monumental 250th episode! In this interview, we discuss vaccination mandates, student loan debt, progressive media like The Young Turks (TYT), and the utility of voting for Democrats like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Chomsky also shares […]
Neocon stooge George Will on how neocons like himself were purged or marginalized in the GOP. Veteran conservative columnist and thinker George Will joins MSNBC’s Brian Williams to discuss how Trumpism – not conservatism – became the prevailing principle of the modern Republican Party.
On a daily basis, I come across more and more commentary from all over the political spectrum about the possibility of civil war, a coup, a revolution, or secession. Documentarian Ken Burns compares the current crises in the US to World War II, the Great Depression and the […]
Fiona Hill shares new details on Trump’s call with Putin and more from her book, “There is Nothing for You Here – Finding Opportunity in the 21st Century.”
British-born Russia expert Fiona Hill talks to DW’s Brent Goff on “The Day” about the danger to US democracy posed by former president Donald Trump, who like Russia’s Vladimir Putin has sought to prevent a transfer of power. Hill says Germany’s recent election serves an example of orderly […]
Conservative extremists such as Steve Bannon and Madison Cawthorn publicly and successfully aligning with the GOP–in addition to far rightwing Black and POC figures–are analyzed by experts in conversation with Joy Reid. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.
Public policy professor Jack Goldstone predicted three decades ago that elitism, inequality and political obstruction would help usher a Trump-like figure into power. His latest prediction? Another U.S. civil war. He and historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat join Mehdi to discuss.
At the bottom of this page is a reprint of an article I wrote on Alex Jones for an Alternative Right magazine back in 2010. It is interesting to revisit that article in light of what has happened in the past 11 years with the emergence of Trumpism. […]
This week, Seattle city council member Kshama Sawant returns to the podcast with an analysis of the ongoing infrastructure battle, and an update on the recall campaign against her. Briahna Joy Gray asks her how she plans to best the corporate interests aligned against her, and whether there […]
Kim Iversen details shocking poll numbers that show a large number of Americans want part of the country to secede.
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Fred Hampton had a dream. It was a little more militant than Doctor King’s, but no less ambitious. The young chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party dreamed of a grand coalition of revolutionaries spanning […]
Damon Linker is the only other commentator beside myself that I have ever seen use the description of “popular front” to describe the neocon-led (or neocon-embedded) anti-Trump coalition. Linker is what is called a “theocon. ” The theocons were a neocon front movement that was created by Podhoretz […]
By Juan Villa The words fascism, communism, socialism, and anarchism often times have been loaded words in terms of how everyday Americans have been schooled to interpret them. Therefore, the objective was to revisit these words through the interpretations of Intellectual Marxists themselves in order to understand these […]
By Ryan Cooper The Week For several years after the 2008 financial crisis, it seemed that any brand of European lefty party, from socialist to milquetoast liberal, was on the road to extinction. Center-right or even far-right parties dominated elections from the Nordics to Hungary. The one high-profile […]
Kim Iversen and Robby Soave discuss the latest round of feuding between CNN and Fox News.
In recent times, I have seen a dramatic increase in the number of commentaries like this coming from all over the political spectrum. By Rod Dreher, The American Conservative Whenever I hear Americans speculating about a civil war here, I usually roll my eyes and remind them that […]
By Matthew Sitman, The Signal The election and inauguration of the second-ever Catholic president of the United States were notably unoccupied with his Catholicism. In a diverse Democratic primary field—up against candidates who were women, non-white, Jewish, or openly gay—Joe Biden’s Catholic identity was essentially a non-issue. Yet […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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