Global Consciousness and New Visual Order: The Populist Aesthetic Challenge

Tommaso Durante, The University of Melbourne, Australia This short essay presents a cutting-edge interpretation of the evolving gestalt of the global social whole by addressing the intersection between visual globalization, political theory and national populist ideologies. It focuses on the right-wing populist production, circulation, and consumption of “new” […]

Capitalism is Mapping a New Course

Troy Southgate Oct 29, 2024 ONE particular Marxist interpretation of the so-called ‘free market,’ and an observation that I happen to share, is that capitalists have been perpetuating a huge contradiction for quite some time. I am taking about ‘relations between things’ and ‘relations between people’. Commodities are […]

A Tsunami Approaches

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2024 Freedom cannot be won without sacrifice. If you set a high value on her, everything else must be valued at little. –  Seneca, Letters from a Stoic [circa 65 AD] HORNBERGER’S BLOG October 28, 2024 No One Is Coming to Get Us In a national-security […]

How Trump Goes to Prison

October 29, 2024 There are two important dates in November for Donald Trump. The first is next Tuesday, when he will either succeed or fail at the biggest comeback in American political history. The next is 21 days later, when he will be in a Manhattan courtroom to […]

‘Goliath Is Winning’

For the Review’s November 21 issue, Timothy Garton Ash traveled to Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-biggest city, about twenty-five miles from the Russian border. He was visiting “to repay a debt of honor”—Russian missiles recently killed seven workers at a factory that had printed, among other things, the Ukrainian edition […]

Race in America and the Dork Right

Against an Authoritarianism of Clerks Bronze Age Pervert Oct 27, 2024 1 The right’s thinking about race in America is mostly as pathological and boring as the left’s. Much constipated effort is devoted to refutations of “arguments” of the “woke,” or tedious genealogies tracing their origins back to […]

The Evangelical Left

Written by Millard J. Erickson Reviewed By David Hilborn Systematic Theology ‘The Evangelical Left’ is Erickson’s term for a North American movement which others have dubbed ‘postconservative evangelicalism’. He identifies its protagonists as Clark Pinnock, John Sanders, Stanley Grenz, Bernard Ramm and James McClendon. He also detects a […]

Construction/Individuality

By Cake Boy As we have seen, anarchism can have two meanings: an ontological meaning and a constructive social meaning. There are two anarchisms: individualist anarchism, which Emile Armand followed/lived/wrote about, and constructive anarchism, which people like Bakunin and Rothbard worked on. The individualist tradition has always resonated […]

Art

By Cake Boy A big reason why I can’t take authoritarian systems such as communism and fascism seriously has to do with art. I’m a big fan of absurd comedians like Tim and Eric, Eric Andrew, and Sam Hyde. The clowns of this time These artists can only […]

Buying Politicians is Easy

The Strange Story of Peter Thiel – Part Two The Corbett Report Oct 27, 2024 by James Corbett corbettreport.com October 27, 2024 Last week, in “The Strange Story of Peter Thiel,” I examined Thiel’s history, from his upbringing in a globe-trotting family to his years at Stanford to […]