Right-Wing YouTuber Behind Viral Minnesota Fraud Video Has Long Anti-Immigrant History

Most Read Right-Wing YouTuber Behind Viral Minnesota Fraud Video Has Long Anti-Immigrant History Jonah Valdez Before alleging fraud in Minnesota’s Somali community, right-wing YouTuber Nick Shirley built a following with anti-immigrant clips. Read More → Dan Goldman Supported Warrantless Spying on Americans. Now His Primary Opponent Is Hitting […]

My poems

By Anonymous Poetry Person You want too much Your body is a stone A hungry ghost In a cold well You look at the lights You live in the future You think about the past   Everything bores me I want to be a heroin addict I wrestle […]

Twenty-Five Years of Attacking the System

In January of 2001, Attack the System went live. At the time, it was little more than a personal project—rough, marginal, largely invisible outside a small circle of anarchists, libertarians, and political misfits who were already alienated from the prevailing ideological order. The site had no institutional backing, […]

Why Are Zoomers Embracing Extremist Ideas?

By Joel Kotkin December 24, 2025/in Demographics Conservatives have rightly denounced the extremist tendency among young progressives, but there’s a similar problem now evident on the Right. A new Manhattan Institute study of Generation-Z Republicans confirms this problem, with some embracing conspiracy theories, including antisemitic ones, that were […]

America’s Great Migration

By Joel Kotkin December 23, 2025/in Demographics ‘For many states that were once great have now become small; and those that were great in my time were small formerly. Knowing therefore that human prosperity never continues in one stay.’ So wrote Herodotus in his Histories, in the fifth […]

How Did Liberty Fare in 2025?

December 31, 2025 Welcome to The Lighthouse, the weekly email newsletter of the Independent Institute covering politics, economics, current events, and everything in between. Dear Readers, Thank you to all our readers who have followed our stories throughout this year! Before we wade into 2026, here are our […]

Arktos 2025 in Review

Making Anti-Globalism Global Arktos Journal Dec 31, 2025 As 2025 draws to a close and the dawn of 2026 is just ahead, Arktos is celebrating 16 years of making anti-globalism global and assembling the world’s leading dissident library. In 2025, we brought out as many as 344 publications […]

Happiness IS the way

  “There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way. There is no way to peace, peace is the way. There is no way to enlightenment, enlightenment is the way.” -Thich Nhat Hanh Happiness IS the way. This quote has been appearing in my mind a lot […]

2025: Battles and numbers

2026: the battle for the south. The Kramatorsk/Sloviansk pincers. 9 frontline sectors, 2024-25. The meaning of Kursk. Attrition levels. Events in Ukraine Dec 31, 2025 2025 has ticked on by. The year has seen many promises of the war’s imminent end. So far, it’s easier to imagine another […]

Did 2025 Almost End With a Bang?

Making sense of the “Putin assassination attempt” Kevin Barrett Dec 31, 2025 I awoke Monday morning to alarming news: Ukraine had tried to assassinate Putin. Media reports claimed a drone swarm had targeted the Russian president’s residence in the Novrogod region. Russia said they shot down all the […]

Venezuela Strike? – Trump with Netanyahu – Ukraine Drone Attack – Minn. Somali Fraud

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University Donors Pull Funding Over Free-Speech Crackdowns on Campus

Alumni and benefactors revolt as conservative students and faculty face growing censorship on elite campuses. Dec 30, 2025 A growing revolt is underway among major university donors as free-speech crackdowns, ideological enforcement, and selective discipline trigger what critics describe as an unprecedented backlash against higher education’s ruling orthodoxy. […]

LOOP: US cuts aid funding to UN

View in browser TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30 US CUTS AID FUNDING TO UN, PRESSING FOR REFORMS  The U.S. announced yesterday that it will pledge $2 billion for UN humanitarian programs, a reduced level of funding compared with recent years, as the Trump administration continues to cut overall foreign assistance […]

Tocqueville and Democracy as Destiny

Antoine Dresse and Arktos Journal Dec 30, 2025 Antoine Dresse (”Ego Non”) revisits Alexis de Tocqueville’s prophetic insights into the unstoppable march of democratic equality. Writing nearly two centuries after Tocqueville’s journey to America, Dresse examines how the French aristocrat’s “religious terror” at witnessing democracy’s advance has proven […]

Did You Say “Domination”?

by Alain de Benoist Arktos Journal Dec 29, 2025 Contemporary critics obsess over “domination” while ignoring a far more insidious phenomenon: alienation. Unlike domination, which implies a clear divide between oppressor and oppressed, alienation ensnares everyone—exploiters and exploited alike—in a system of unconscious servitude. Drawing on Rousseau’s insight […]

Eulogy For A Jewish “Nazi”

Joseph Jordan Dec 28, 2025 Most dismiss Vladimir Putin’s assertion that the West is arming and funding Jewish Nazis to mass murder Russians for Sorosite liberalism as Kremlin schizophrenia. But the strange bedfellows coming together to honor the recently deceased Russian Volunteer Corps (RKD) commander Denis “White Rex” […]