Neoliberalism Never Happened

January 29, 2025 Welcome to The Lighthouse, the weekly email newsletter of the Independent Institute covering politics, economics, current events, and everything in between. Dear Readers, The Trump Administration has now had a full week under its belt, but it is still uncertain how it will be staffed. […]

Fathoms

Caitlin Johnstone Jan 29, 2025 Listen to a reading of this piece (reading by Tim Foley): And the liberals shriek about Donald Trump while the sky rains blackened skeletons And the capitalists surf on collapse like raptors on an updraft And we scurry back and forth between toil […]

1/29/25: Trump Funding Freeze Blocked, Charlamagne Confronts Vivek, US Romania Coup & MORE!1/29/25: Trump Funding Freeze Blocked, Charlamagne Confronts Vivek, US Romania Coup & MORE!

Ryan and Emily discuss Trump funding freeze blocked by judge, Stephen Miller spars with Tapper on deportation, Charlamagne calls out Vivek on DOGE exile, CNN liberal resistance anchor pushed out, US caught in Romania coup, Trump envoy visits Gaza. Timestamps: (00:00)Intro (7:45)Judge BLOCKS Trump Funding Pause After Medicaid […]

Globalist Showman Keeps on Karping On

Troy Southgate Jan 27, 2025 IN 2023, the World Economic Forum staged its annual conference at Davos and Swedish TV had the chance to conduct an interview with Alex Karp of the Palantir Technologies corporation. Having developed so-called ‘Artificial Intelligence’ (AI) programmes for the American secret service, Karp […]

Trump: Caesar of the New Imperium

by Constantin von Hoffmeister Constantin von Hoffmeister Jan 27, 2025 Constantin von Hoffmeister unveils Trump as a Spenglerian Caesar, a Faustian force reviving the West’s will-to-power, where hierarchy replaces decay and destiny is forged through strength and action. The empire reawakens, its arteries, once choked by compromise, now […]

Boomers, Xers, and Budgeting

by Peter Zeihan on January 27, 2025 Today’s video was originally released on Patreon 1 week ago. If you want to see the videos as soon as they come out, join the Patreon! You’ll get early access to videos and newsletters, as well as exclusive perks like live Q&A sessions, […]

Some Perspective Is In Order

On the US desire to purchase Greenland Niccolo Soldo Jan 28, 2025 Share I think that some perspective is in order: The USA (or at least its allied in coordination with it) destroyed the Nordstream pipeline that connected Russia to Germany under the Baltic Sea President Trump is […]

A Snitch Society

TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 2025 We do not have to create a conscience for ourselves. We are born with one, and no matter how much we may ignore it, we cannot silence its insistent demand that we do good and avoid evil. No matter how much we may deny […]

Romania’s Voided TikTok Election

How a mischievous social media campaign backfired and led to the first scratched vote in EU history. Jan 28, 2025 Romanian presidential candidate Calin Georgescu prepares to give a statement to media on November 26, 2024 on the outskirts of Bucharest, Romania. Photo by Andrei Pungovschi/Getty Images. Romania’s […]

Vive la Résistance!

Sponsored by the University of California Press De Gaulle, always determined to give the world his version of the great events in which he had been involved, recounts the first of these salvations in The War Memoirs. This work—originally published in three volumes between 1954 and 1959—is justly celebrated for its […]

Trump Ended DEI. Now What?

President Trump signed a flurry of executive orders last week, leaving media pundits breathless in their efforts to cover it all. One of the most controversial orders was titled “Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing.” Yes, conservatives applauded loudly the government’s suspension of its commitment […]

About This Life

winter oak Read on blog or Reader About This Life By winter oak on January 27, 2025 by Mike Driver Stop for a moment, listen, can you hear it? Like a strain of music in the distance, lost, then heard again. Spring is coming. Hope gathers itself in the soil, the […]

Mutualist Case Study

By Cake Boy In the last ten years, we saw a return of the mutualist movement under the control of C4SS. The aim of the mutualists was to build a new society in the shell of the old. They propagated homesteading, squatting, and radical free markets, what they […]

The Matrix (1999): A Libertarian and Philosophical Reflection

2 January, 2025 Bryan Mercadente Bibliographic Details: Title: The Matrix Directors: Lana Wachowski and Lilly Wachowski Producers: Joel Silver Screenplay: Lana Wachowski and Lilly Wachowski Music: Don Davis Cinematography: Bill Pope Editing: Zach Staenberg Production Companies: Village Roadshow Pictures, Silver Pictures Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures Release Date: March […]

A Review of The Great Taking

18 January, 2025 Bryan Mercadente Title: The Great Taking Author: David Rogers Webb Publisher: Self-published, 2023 ISBN: Not listed David Rogers Webb’s The Great Taking offers a critical look at the changes in financial systems and property ownership. Webb argues that the shift from tangible ownership to electronic […]