By W. James Antle, The Week The woke left may be the new religious right: preachy, censorious, humorless, judgmental, constantly policing popular culture for impure thoughts. In fact, the new left compares unfavorably: Christian conservatives at least believed in redemption, even if it did not always manifest itself […]
Author of the Vulgar Marxism newsletter, Matthew Thomas, details the progressive response to New York City’s denial of food stamps, cash assistance, and unemployment benefits to qualifying New Yorkers who lost their jobs over failing to comply with the city’s vaccine mandate.
By Damon Linker The Week Nothing terrifies contemporary conservatives more than the thought that their woke-progressive enemies will bring the regulatory weight of the federal government — in alignment with Big Tech and the economic and cultural powers that dominate civil society — to drive them out of the […]
While I don’t entirely agree with the way in which Lindsay frames this analysis, Kulinski is mistaken to dismiss Lindsay’s entire analysis as foolishness. The book Lindsay co-wrote with Pluckrose called Cynical Theories is actually a really good critique of postmodern identity politics. But man since that book […]
Krystal and Saagar analyze the overwhelming recall of San Francisco school board members whose woke policies and covid school masking alienated local parents as Biden, Kamala polls plunge
Krystal and Saagar issue a strong condemnation of the actions taken against the Truckers Freedom Convoy by the Canadian government and US media reporters looking for lives to ruin
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave react to reports that Freedom Convoy protestors are being told to leave. They also weigh in on the publication of donor information.
By Samuel Goldman, The Week Everyone knows the Constitution prohibits Congress from any “law respecting an establishment of religion.” In the conventional interpretation, that means not only that church and state must be legally separate, but also that particular sects or denominations shouldn’t enjoy advantages denied to their […]
Predominantly white, Christian, and right-wing, dead anti-vaxxers are providing a source of morbid comedy for a growing audience that is just too burned out to care anymore. Dexter Thomas explores the phenomenon of America’s newest schadenfreude obsession.
Free Thought Project (EFF) — People don’t want outsiders reading their private messages —not their physical mail, not their texts, not their DMs, nothing. It’s a clear and obvious point, but one place it doesn’t seem to have reached is the U.S. Senate. A group of lawmakers led […]
Totalitarian humanism comes in many forms. Here is another example. Robby Soave details the troubling arrest of a young mother who struggled to find childcare during the first round of pandemic lockdowns.
All things considered, it is a good thing that the phenomenon of “left-wing anti-woke” has emerged in recent times with writers from across the spectrum of “left” opinion (from centrist liberals to Marxists) increasingly expressing discomfort with the “woke” paradigm. For a long time, critics of totalitarian humanism […]
Saagar takes an in-depth look at the financial interests and Democratic party operatives behind the attempt to get Joe Rogan removed from Spotify and canceled
Krystal and Kyle Kulinski of Krystal Kyle & Friends talk to professor and author Ben Burgis about why the left should support free speech for Joe Rogan and others they disagree with
By David Klion, The Nation What’s most striking about the Mailer contretemps is how it embodies so many aspects of the current discourse around cancel culture and free speech. The first “cancel culture” episode of 2022 began just three days into the new year, when the journalist Michael […]
My whole issue with the censorship debate is they just assume we’re all too stupid to recognize information and make our own decisions
Krystal and Saagar respond to the comments made by White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on behalf of the Biden administration demanding Spotify do more to censor Joe Rogan
Back in the 1980s and 1990s when the US religious right was more influential, I used to be a Richard Dawkins/Christopher Hitchens-like opponent of social conservatives. And I still maintain that a lot of conservatives would gladly maintain a cancel culture of their own when it comes to […]
By Peter Goffin GTA The 1972 hit ‘Walk on the Wild Side’ was called ‘transphobic’ by the University of Guelph student association, which apologized for playing the song on campus. The student union at the University of Guelph has gained international attention — much of it negative — […]
Always remember that Joe Rogan has let real leftists on his show while most of the lamestream media won’t even speak with them.
Kim Iversen goes over the new Johns Hopkins study that shows lockdowns were an absolute disaster.
Saagar is joined by comedian Akaash Singh to discuss his new comedy special premiering today on YouTube and some of the topics he explores including the emergence of woke Indian Americans
By Damon Linker The Week Warnings about the rise of “cancel culture” may sometimes be overblown. But the case of Ilya Shapiro, a libertarian expert in constitutional law placed on “administrative leave” from Georgetown University’s law school, is an especially egregious example of the trend — and runs […]
By Peter R. Quiñones Truckers could end every COVID related issue in seven days. Imagine trucks not entering DC for a week. Sure, they could get some things off ships, but those vessels are not prepared to cover the loss of the goods in those trucks. I can’t […]
Team Rising discusses new polling showing 70 percent of Americans believe it’s time we accept Covid-19 as part of our lives and move on.
Krystal and Saagar are joined by The Funky Academic to have a philosophical conversation about the meaning of life and freedom under covid and how liberals have lost sight of it
Rogan is effectively doing what Stern did and should double down and force Spotify to release him so he can use new tech, etc
Saagar takes a deep dive into the hedge funds behind the campaign by Neil Young and others to cancel Rogan and boost other music services such as Amazon music
Krystal and Saagar cover how the media and big tech have smeared and fought the convoy of trucks in Canada protesting the vaccine mandates by Justin Trudeau
Kim really needs to be on Rogan, would make for a fantastic discussion.
Either way Jim Acosta and Brian Stelter are two of the biggest tools on television.
Remember when getting a second opinion for a medical issue was not only widely accepted but also encouraged?
Robby Soave calls out the illiberal hypocrisy of those calling for Joe Rogan’s content to be removed from Spotify.
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 […]
By Matt Taibbi As the latest anti-Substack campaign shows, more and more people are forgetting why free speech works. Earlier this week, in the latest in a series of scolding campaigns, a Britain-based group called the Center for Countering Digital Hate gave a sneak peek at a research […]
By Chrissie Marie, Newsbreak A British university slapped George Orwell’s novel 1984 with a trigger warning following concerned some students might find it “offensive and upsetting.” The novel examine the how the role of truth and facts in a society can be manipulated under a dictatorship. The school […]
By Don Via Jr. Free Thought Project In June of 2020, the World Economic Forum launched an initiative known as The Great Reset—an agenda seeking centralization of power over the planet’s resources in reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic to reshape the direction of humanity under the guise of economic […]
By Victor Davis Hanson, Independent Institute Wokeism’s natural logic is to destroy the lives of people of both genders, of all races, and—if need be—of those of every age, all to leverage an otherwise unworkable ideological agenda. Wokeism has been described by its critics as the omnipresent use […]
Professor of film & media studies at UC Irvine, Catherine Liu, details her book, Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class.
Proving that leftoids are the least intellectual and rational political bloc.
The more pervasive totalitarian humanism has become, the more there has been a pushback, not only from the right but from the left. Hence, the emergence of opposition to totalitarian humanism on the Left. The development of a “left-wing anti-totalitarian humanism” is what I have been hoping would […]
By Jeff Salzman In this episode, I discuss a terrific essay I stumbled upon that brings an integral sensibility to a new cultural emergent: the differentiation of the political left into “woke” and “anti-woke” ideologies.. Cultural evolution proceeds through a process of 1) differentiating and 2) integrating. […]
By Aleksey Bashtavenko Academic Composition The American mentality is unabashedly elitist. Indeed, mediocrity is anathema to the American way of life. Much of the Americans’ ire toward communism has nothing to do with its tyranny, but with their animus toward equality. John Steinback had it right: Americans see […]
By Michael Shellenberger Introducing the Taxonomy of Woke Religion Over the last year, a growing number of progressives and liberals have pointed to police killings of unarmed black men, rising carbon emissions and extreme weather events, and the killing of trans people as proof that the United States […]
By Peter R. Quiñones I hope that you understand, or are at least beginning to, that the radical Left is not going to stop. Many people have pointed out that their belief in equity for all, which really means the destruction of the status quo and the lifting […]
By John M. Vella Chronicles Minds Wide Shut: How the New Fundamentalisms Divide Us by Gary Saul Morson and Morton Schapiro Princeton University Press 336 pp., $29.95 Fundamentalism has long been considered a religious phenomenon, a narrowmindedness that only afflicts Bible-thumping extremists. Yet fundamentalist thinking is everywhere today, […]
By Geoff Shullenberger Outside Theory “Woke” once denoted an oppositional mentality. How has it come to mean something close to “square”? Recently, the journalist Michael Wolff reported that a centenary republication of Norman Mailer’s work had been scrapped due to objections to his notorious 1962 essay “The White […]
By David R. Barnhizer There could not possibly be any parallel between the actions of MaoTse Tung’s young Red Guard zealots and the intensifying demands of identity groups in the US and Europe that all people must conform to their version of approved linguistic expression or in effect […]
By Matt Taibbi As yokel-bashing reaches impressive new heights, reports of yet another year of record profits and a widening wealth gap go unnoticed. Jimmy Kimmel Live, fast becoming Leonid Brezhnev’s never-realized dream of a Soviet Tonight Show, just put out a high-effort gag called “Anti-Vax Barbie.” It’s […]
What is interesting, however, is that a lot more people from outside the Right seem to be becoming increasingly critical of the PC/woke/cancel whatever trend. It’s not just Alt-Right/Lite, palecon, and Republican folks anymore. You have mainstream entertainers like Harvey and Chappelle, and increasing more people from the […]
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