The Midterms Are Looking Like 1974

Democrats will gain at LEAST 40 House seats and control of the Senate Ohio Barbarian May 14, 2026 Autumn, 1974. In the previous 12 months, President Nixon was forced to resign by the Watergate scandal, congressional investigations were exposing FBI and CIA psyops against the American people, gas […]

The New Authority

How credibility survives after institutional trust collapses Kenaz Filan May 14, 2026 In August 1996, a few days after Pravda’s last issue, Vladimir Putin moved to Moscow for a position in Boris Yeltsin’s second Presidential administration. The former KGB agent had found some success in St. Petersburg politics, […]

Consciousness, Nihilism, Emptiness

Troy Southgate May 17, 2026 ALTHOUGH Nishitani uses Buddhism and Christianity as a means of investigating the nature of religion in general, his Japanese background is obviously steeped in the former. This should not lead us to imagine that he has embarked upon a promulgating quest to convert […]

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

 Sponsored by Classical Pursuits As President Trump’s erratic negotiations with Iran drag on and oil prices continue to rise, the United States’ ostensible ethical justification for the war—regime change—has largely disappeared from mainstream news coverage. In the Review’s May 28 issue, Christopher de Bellaigue argues that the US and Israel’s relentless […]

The Death of Marat

Sponsored by Bodleian Library Publishing Today in The New York Review of Books: Lynn Hunt mulls the fate of Marat; Samuel Earle revisits Walter Lippmann’s decades of journalism; Larry Wolff watches a new production of Scott Joplin’s ragtime opera; a poem by Emily Berry; and, from the archives, […]

AOC Can’t Be Trusted on Foreign Policy

The rising progressive darling is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. José Alberto Niño May 16, 2026   Share Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) refuses to work with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on opposing funding for Israel but she had no problem joining Republican superhawks to take punitive action […]

The Claude Delusion

The Corbett Report May 16, 2026 by James Corbett corbettreport.com May 16, 2026 A funny thing happened earlier this month. Richard Dawkins, celebrated scientist and outspoken atheist, posted a cringeworthy think piece for Unherd concluding that Claude—a “next-generation AI assistant based on Anthropic’s research into training helpful, honest, […]

Power Moves East: China Teaches USA a Big Lesson | Chas Freeman

The US-China summit in Beijing confirms once more: US Hegemony is over. It’s a multipolar world now. I’m joined today once again by Ambassador Chas Freeman to discuss the shifting balance between the United States, China, Iran, Russia, and Europe. Ambassador Freeman’s HP: https://chasfreeman.net Ambassador Freeman’s Susbtack: https://substack.com/@chasfreeman6621… […]

All MAGA Tea Revealed!

Episode 278 with Ashley St. Clair Krystal Kyle & Friends May 15, 2026 ∙ Paid Former MAGA influencer Ashley St. Clair joins the pod for an absolute bombshell of a conversation about the intense public manipulation schemes happening behind the curtain of the Trump administration. We talk to […]

Abortion by Mail

Abortion by Mail Plus: Chinese relations, far-right extremists, Yale discriminated, and more… LIZ WOLFE  Mail-order abortion is preserved, for now: “We are pleased that a safe and effective drug Americans depend on will continue to be available while this litigation proceeds,” a spokesperson for Danco Laboratories (makers of […]

New Attacks in Hormuz

New Attacks in Hormuz Plus: a different type of pizzagate, Kevin Warsh as the new Jerome Powell, and more… LIZ WOLFE  The Strait of Hormuz sees more attacks: “In the latest incident on the trade route, an Indian cargo vessel carrying livestock from Africa to the United Arab […]

Facing up to reality

A personal account Paul Cudenec May 14, 2026 [Plus audio version] My first objection to the modern world in which I found myself was, I would say, cultural. My parents later told me that even as a very young child I was offended by the adverts that interrupted […]

Pop Life

Sponsored by Bloomsbury Academic Today in The New York Review of Books: Jarrett Earnest spins the top 40; Raven Leilani revisits Toni Morrison’s Love; Louisa Lim surveys Hong Kong literature since the Umbrella Movement; Nicholas Mulder ponders the future of maritime trade; and, from the archives, V.S. Pritchett on children’s […]

5/14/26: Trump Glazes Xi Jinping, China Iran’s Arms Sales, US Test Scores , Tucker v. Kevin O’Leary

Krystal and Saagar discuss Trump glazes Xi at summit, Fox Shocked by China’s advancements, China plans secret Iran arms sales, JD Vance gaslights on Trump not caring about American finances, US test scores plummet, Tucker humiliates Kevin ‘O’Leary on data centers. Zack Exley: https://zackexley.com/ Timestamps: (00:00)Intro (1:40)Trump GLAZES […]

Jacques Derrida’s Real Agenda

Troy Southgate May 12, 2026 YESTERDAY I was discussing the French philosopher, Jacques Derrida (1930-2004), and his reaction both to the linguistic methodology and prevailing structuralism of Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009). However, around the same time that Derrrida produced his 1967 deconstructionist work, Of Grammatology, he also published a […]

Trump’s Tariffs Ruled Illegal Again

May 13, 2026 Dear Readers, This week, Caleb Pettit covers the recent court decision on Trump’s tariffs. These were levied after the Supreme Court struck down a large chunk of the so-called “Liberation Day” tariffs, and Trump’s team used the exact arguments Senior Fellow and David J. Theroux […]

The Demonisation of the West

Troy Southgate May 13, 2026 HAVING grown up at a time when the world was seen to be divided between the competing forces of capitalism and communism, I do not recall the peoples of the West (and I use the term purely for convenience) ever insinuating that the […]