The ACLU once represented the best elements of the American Left. No more. The only value I see in the American Left at present is as a constraint on the American Right. The opposite is also true. The best we can hope for is that the two sides […]
Cotton appears to be trying to advance his own position by promoting himself as the “anti-Fauci” now that Fauci has fallen out of favor with much of the Right. This guy is extraordinarily dangerous. A Cotton administration would be the worst aspects of the Reagan, Bush I, Bush […]
While I don’t share his loopy Maoism, this video by Jason Unruhe explains pretty well why I reject virtually all US political factions, from far-left to far-right. Nearly all of these are merely rival teams within the global 1%. Most of the anti-one percenters are in fact one-percenters. […]
A new and excellent article from Michael Lind. By Michael Lind, Tablet What a newly rediscovered thinker got right and wrong. Who could have guessed that in the third decade of the 21st century, many conservatives would be discussing class struggle, while most progressives would be determined to […]
The comments thread underneath this video pretty much reflect the factionalism that is taking place on the Left at present.
–Far-right groups like the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys plan on being at the rally outside the US Capitol on September 18th to demand “justice” for those imprisoned over the January 6th Trump riots
Todd Lewis will be joined by Neil Kiernan an Anarchist who participated in both Occupy Detroit and Occupy Flint. He runs a youtube channel V-Radio: https://www.youtube.com/c/VRADIOHost/… We will discuss the current dissent into madness of the left and his desire to find sane leftists to talk to about […]
When it comes to mainstream politics, I’d say there are two priorities right now. One is preventing the Reaganites and neocons from making a full comeback on the right, and the other is preventing a full totalitarian humanist takeover from the left. The optimal situation is one where […]
For the neocons it’s always 1939, and for the left, it’s always Salem of 1690. By Banned Hipster Steve Sailer writes about the KKKrazy Glue that holds the various racial groups of the left together, pretending to believe that the Nazi party and the Ku Klux Klan actually […]
Saagar and guest host Marshall Kosloff are joined by author Vivek Ramaswamy to discuss the problems with woke capital and why the left and right should be concerned.
By Damon Linker, The Week What if the polarization of American politics and rise of right-wing populism in the Republican Party are a function of rural parts of the country becoming more like the historic South? That is the surprising suggestion of Will Wilkinson in a fruitfully provocative […]
Team Rising discuss the role the January 6 Capital riots will play during the 2022 midterm elections.
Alyssa Farah details how politically trying times bring out the best in Americans.
The Antifa is one of the few armies that consistently loses battles even when they outnumber the enemy 6 to 1. A group of antifa were saved by police after they were beaten and forced to retreat at a violent left vs right protest in Modesto, Calif. on […]
I have written before about why I am not a “conservative.” With all due respect to serious intellectual conservatives like my friends at the Charlemagne Institute, about 99% of American-style conservatives are the political equivalent of Joel Osteen fans even in their better moments. I could make an […]
How shitlib narratives are slandering anti-imperialist and working class-oriented leftists as fascists.
By Thomas L. Knapp, Garrison Center “President Joe Biden continues to humiliate the United States,” Joseph Klein whines at neoconservative rag FrontPageMag, “by letting the Taliban terrorists dictate the terms of his surrender.” Furthermore, writes Klein, “the president is clearly willfully blind to ISIS in Afghanistan being a long-term […]
By Ulick Fitzhugh, The Burkean A Historicist Revolt in Jurisprudence “The Guilty Have No Past” – Death in June Edmund Burke’s ‘Reflections on the Revolution in France’ cemented, in the eyes of conventional scholars and lay people alike, his place as the father of modern conservatism. Although frequently […]
Derrick Jensen, Todd Lewis, and I discuss the increasing instability and erratic nature of the modern left.
Briahna Joy Gray, host of Bad Faith podcast, discusses the connection between wealth and corruption.
More drama from Portland. What could possibly go wrong? By Alex Zielinski Portland Mercury As Portland prepares to take on the familiar role as a battlefield for far-right groups brawling with antifascist counter-protesters this Sunday, city leaders are relying on the possibility that attendees will “choose love.” During […]
By Keith Preston Because I am a frequent and often strident critic of the Left, I am often mistaken for a conservative. In fact, I have had right-wing readers of my books and essays express surprise that I am not nearly as far to the right as they […]
I’ve always disliked David Brooks as a neocon mouthpiece. But his “bourgeois bohemians” thesis was prophetic. When you’re right, you’re right. By David Brooks, The Atlantic The dispossessed set out early in the mornings. They were the outsiders, the scorned, the voiceless. But weekend after weekend—unbowed and undeterred—they […]
One thing I find particularly interesting is just how vast anti-statist thinking is. This piece is a very good discussion of intellectual and political history. The arguments are mostly a regurgitation of Russell Kirk, Robert Nisbet, and other similar thinkers in the Burkean conservative tradition. In his history […]
By Andrew Sullivan In the great movie, “A Man For All Seasons”, there’s a classic scene when Thomas More speaks to his ultimate betrayer and former friend, Richard Rich, who had lied about him under oath in exchange for the position of the attorney-general of Wales. More was […]
It’s interesting how so many ideas that we have promoted here at ATS for decades have now started working their way into the mainstream: pan-secessionism, cultivating the populist right as a counterpart to the neocons, de facto red/brown/green alliances, fourth-generation warfare, lumpenproletarian insurrection, UBI as an alternative to […]
Police aren’t going to break up a battle like that because there is a chance they could actually get hurt. It always happens like that. During the LA riots in ’92, Daryl Gates’ LAPD, one of the largest and best-trained police forces in the world, simply walked off […]
For many years, I have warned progressives that heavy-handedness in the name of progress frequently produces a less than happy ending for the forces of “progress.” Here it is. By Christopher Roach, American Greatness In recent years, Rod Dreher argued that Christians may need to retreat from a […]
By Damon Linker, The Week Tucker Carlson’s decision to spend last week broadcasting from Hungary and reciting nightly love letters to the country’s prime minister Viktor Orban on Fox News has predictably provoked an intense reaction. Many critics see this as the latest sign of a growing fondness for authoritarianism and […]
Possible FBI frontman Vaush vs. confirmed Katzenberg frontman Cenk. The “state security left” vs the “billionaire left.” The function of both seems to be to steer the left opposition towards pro-imperialist positions.
By Robert Stark The term Alt-Right, now for the most part obsolete, was a media buzzword for controversy with confusion about who and what views constituted the Alt-Right. Then the term Alt-Left was put forth, initially as a niche movement similar to what is now known as the […]
By Robert Stark “We will control the Horizontal. We will control the Vertical…. Another Dimension.” –Dimension X by Seven Red Seven The dissident center is not an organized movement but rather a big tent of syncretic politics. I propose a new Alt-Center that has core political principles, a […]
By David Rovics, Counterpunch I’m realizing that most people who come across something I wrote don’t seem to have read anything else I’ve ever written, and haven’t listened to my music. This post is going to be especially personal, so it’s important that you have some idea who […]
By Kevin Williamson, National Review As Democrats embrace authority and Republicans push countercultural revolution, we’re reenacting the 1960s with the roles reversed. The Republicans are having a Dionysian moment. Who’d’ve thunk? In ye olden days when American intellectuals wrote provocative books that people read and sometimes fought over […]
I would disagree with Yarvin that the “left” always wins. The left is certainly winning the culture wars but is so far losing big time on economics, foreign policy, the carceral state, and the expansion of the police state. The left is losing on the environment. This is […]
The Young Turks have revealed themselves to be total con artists who are functioning as Katzenberg mouthpieces. Last month, TYT-investor Jeffrey Katzenberg successfully lobbied the Los Angeles City Council to pass an anti-camping ordinance targeting LA’s homeless community. Less than 3 weeks prior to the ordinance being passed, […]
Todd Lewis is joined by Keith Preston, Terminal Philosophy and Swithun Dobson to discuss the factors giving rise to Progressive Ideas.
When a major daily newspaper like the Philadelphia Inquirer publishes an opinion piece like this, it shows these kinds of ideas really are starting to enter the mainstream. By Chuck Bonfig, For The Inquirer George Washington once wrote, “The establishment of our new Government seemed to be the […]
By David Lauter, Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON — This is the May 7, 2021, edition of the Essential Politics newsletter. Like what you’re reading? Sign up to get it in your inbox three times a week. Anyone who has watched U.S. politics in recent years knows that a widening […]
While totalitarian humanism is now in power, we also need to be mindful of authoritarian tendencies that oppose the dominant paradigm, whether from the left or right, and could potentially emerge as competitive challengers. I do not regard the “revolutionary Caesarism” that Curtis Yarvin is advocating as the […]
Kim Iversen reacts to reports that Brandon Ingram, a Frito-Lay employee, was electrocuted on the job and was denied help with medical bills from the incident.
By Peter R. Quinones “I just don’t understand, why does the other side hate me?” The answer to that question has become more clear with each passing day, but you’re not going to like it. It’s politics, plain and simple. Politics has overtaken every aspect of the lives […]
I’m currently having an interesting debate/discussion with this blogger. Interesting fellow. Check it out: Banned Hipster The idea of elite factions, uprisings and lumpen is quite a bit broader than progressive vs conservative in Preston’s view. Take the good old furry v brony divide. In a civil war […]
I am probably one of the few people on earth who is something of a fan of both Karl Marx and Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, despite serious disagreements with both. As a general rule, I think the Left is pretty good at criticizing the Right, and the Right is […]
Another capitalist/communist alliance? Antony Sutton would have told you so. From Van Jones Wikipedia entry: “After graduating from law school with his juris doctor in 1993, Jones moved to San Francisco, and according to his own words, “trying to be a revolutionary.” He became affiliated with many left […]
By Andrei Znamenski The paper explores the political and ideological evolution of the mainstream left thought collective in the West. Heavily influenced by the classical Marxian paradigm prior to the 1950s, this collective gradually shifted to the matters of culture and identity between the 1950s and the 1980s. […]
One guy who hates ATS attacks another guy who hates ATS. Banned Hipster Some silly anarchist site posted my article about the NSA, and I followed some links to this … let’s call him a “commie” although he probably calls himself a “Progressive” … named Matthew N. Lyons […]
By Wilfred Reilly Quillette The line between moral and empirical claims is a tricky one for debaters. In his thoughtful Quillette essay, “The Limitations of Black Conservative Thought,” Aaron Hanna—like me, a professor of Political Science—critiques some of the more sweeping theoretical claims of America’s intellectual tradition of […]
Some far-left analysis of the gender politics of the far-right. This description of the major players on the US far right at the present time seem accurate enough: In the spirit of Marasco’s strategy of bringing together multiple perspectives, I have three suggestions for ways to move the […]
Given that a left/right/center populist/libertarian/anarchist/decentralist political realignment is obviously not going to be happening any time soon, the best we can probably hope for at present is for an ongoing push-pull between the “Left” (Brahmins and their useful idiots) and “Right” (merchants and their useful idiots) as pan-secessionist […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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