Tent

Tent In a tent, Two thin mats stretched Over the rippled sand. Two little girls chat: “I earned more money today,” One says, Moving her fist in a circular motion Over her other palm, Teasingly. The other promises She’ll force her small neck To endure the box of […]

Some anti-Councilism Procedures

Some anti-Councilism Procedures Professional ideologists in the East impute to the council communists a sectarianism which, ignoring the necessary “meditations” or “stages”, would bring them closer to Stalin, the Gang of Four or other excessive centralists, while stigmatizing their alleged propensity for enterprise egoism… Read more 56 minutes […]

The Colony Must Fall

The Colony Must Fall Anonymous Submission In the early hours of the morning on the eve of Invasion Day 2025, a monument dedicated to the diggers of WWI was defaced. Red paint was splashed all over the statue with the words “the colony must fall” and “land back” […]

Jeremy Carl Boasts That The Trump Administration ‘Implemented’ Every Recommendation From His Book

Jeremy Carl Boasts That The Trump Administration ‘Implemented’ Every Recommendation From His Book Upon taking office, President Trump issued executive orders which banned federal diversity, equity, and inclusion programs and rescinded an executive order which prohibited discrimination in federal contracting. In response, Jeremy Carl boasted that Trump “implemented” […]

Work is Warping Politics

Americans rarely touch their government directly. They engage with the American system at work. Jan 29, 2025 The modern world of work is a great black hole warping politics. Few people realize this, because you can’t see a black hole directly with your eyes—they don’t give off light. […]

Tragedy over the Potomac

NATIONAL REVIEW JANUARY 31, 2025 ◼ There are some members of Congress we’d like to buy out, too.   ◼ A fatal commercial plane crash happened in the United States for the first time in nearly 16 years. At Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, an American Airlines CRJ700 in […]

Bill Gates, David Kynaston on private school, vaping, Thatcher, the future of Ukraine, Camelot, WG Sebald, Florida and Scunthorpe.

Inside: Bill Gates, David Kynaston on private school, vaping, Thatcher, the future of Ukraine, Camelot, WG Sebald, Florida and Scunthorpe. Feb 01, 2025 Finn Good morning. Welcome to the Saturday Read, the New Statesman’s guide to politics, culture, books, and ideas. This is Finn with Nicholas and George. […]

Trump Executive Orders Galore

Not even two weeks have passed since Donald Trump took office, but his administration has been dizzyingly active. The whirlwind of executive orders coming from the White House has clarified many of Trump’s priorities … but it’s also raised a lot of questions. How will Trump deliver on […]

Who Threw the Bums Out?

Brought to you by BetterHelp Recently at The Signal: Emile Dirks on whether the Chinese Communist Party really controls TikTok. … Today: Why did people around the world vote out incumbents last year? Steven Levitsky on the emerging complexity of the populist right. … Also: Gustav Jönsson with some historical […]

Vibe Shift

by Jay Lantis HighwayHypnotist Jan 31, 2025 Jay Lantis argues that Trump’s second rise to power, driven by a youth rebellion against the disillusioning failures of neoliberalism and hyper-progressivism, signals the cultural resurgence of the American right, with ripple effects poised to empower Europe’s own fight for sovereignty […]

The Tiger Show

Caitlin Johnstone Jan 31, 2025 Listen to a reading of this piece (reading by Tim Foley): It doesn’t have to be this way. Nowhere is it inscribed upon the fabric of reality that control of the world must be ceded to the dumbest, crudest and cruelest among us. […]

The Uncertainty of Trump 2.0

JANUARY 31, 2025 The Uncertainty of Trump 2.0 The Trump Administration Unabashedly Embraces the Monroe Doctrine → When it comes to Donald Trump, the name of the game seems to be uncertainty. Will he end the most successful foreign aid program in US history? James North asked that […]

Franz Brentano and National-Anarchism

Troy Southgate Feb 01, 2025 I WAS studying the thoughts of one of the very early phenomenologists, Franz Brentano (1838-1917), whose On the Manifold Meaning of Being According to Aristotle reminds me somewhat of the spirit behind National-Anarchism. A huge inspiration for both Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) and Edmund […]

The Campaign to Destroy Public Schools

Sponsored by the Robert B. Silvers Foundation In “‘Their Kind of Indoctrination,’” published on the NYR Online shortly before Donald Trump’s second inauguration, Diane Ravitch writes about the troubling future of American public education. Referring to the president’s infamous remark from his first campaign—“I love the poorly educated”—Ravitch warns that his second […]

Tarriffs? Income Taxes? Both?

Read in browser February 1, 2025 Senior Fellow Judy Shelton breaks down the connection between oil prices and inflation on Fox Business. Don’t Substitute Tariffs for Income Taxes: You’ll Get Both Senior Fellow and David J. Theroux Chair Phillip W. Magness argues with co-author David R. Henderson argue […]

Ukraine is Running Out of People, DeepSeek and the AI Industry’s “Sputnik Moment”, Trump Regime Suspending NGO Funding, The #MAGA Class, Death of NYC Bohemia

Niccolo Soldo Feb 01, 2025 Every weekend (almost) I share five articles/essays/reports with you. I select these over the course of the week because they are either insightful, informative, interesting, important, or a combination of the above. Share One subject that I have not covered over the years […]

Consumption as Cancer to Living Beings

by Rose Sybil Rose Sybil Feb 01, 2025 Rose Sybil argues that humanity’s overreliance on technique, driven by the illusions of humanism and consumption, is destabilizing ecosystems, disrupting cultural bonds, and accelerating societal and environmental entropy, necessitating a fundamental shift in human organization to restore balance and preserve […]