Why Allow Dissent?

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2024 Liberty has nothing to do with national interests. It is about the individual. It concerns the liberty to live your own life, to pursue your own livelihood, and to come and go as you please to anywhere that’s open to you or anywhere you’re […]

Social Anarchism and the Rejection of Moral Tyranny

Social_Anarchism_and_the_Rejection_of_Mo-2 Benjamin Franks Outside philosophy departments, most self-identified anarchists are social anarchists who reject both the legitimacy of the state and private property. By contrast, most anarchist philosophers are of the pro-market variety. As a result, a philosopher has yet to write an analytic defense of social anarchism. […]

Kamala Harris and Tim Walz Are Imploding

Josh Hammer Newsweek Senior Editor-at-Large And Host, “The Josh Hammer Show” Into the home stretch we go! There are now officially less than three weeks remaining until the presidential election. Hard to believe, right? It’s anybody’s race, but all signs right now point toward a veritable Harris-Walz implosion—and […]

Sign the petition: Rep. Ocasio-Cortez: “The horrors unfolding in northern Gaza are the result of a completely unrestrained Netanyahu gov”

TELL CONGRESS: The United States is sending troops and weapons systems to Israel while the Israeli military bombs Al-Aqsa hospital and refugee areas in Gaza. The escalating violence led AOC to call for a total arms embargo on Israel. Sign the petition: Back Senator Sanders’s resolutions to stop […]

Leading political journalist calls banning the AfD an “authoritarian measure” that is “overdue,” insists that political repression is perfectly fine when it is exercised by a “constitutional state”

eugyppius Oct 15, 2024 This man is named Marco Wanderwitz. He is a member of the nominally centre-right Christian Democratic Union, and he’s been in the German Bundestag – our federal parliament – since 2002. He reached perhaps the apex of his career late in the era of […]

US early voter turnout surges

Wednesday, 16 October 2024 “Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window.” Steve Wozniak STORY OF THE DAY Company scores ‘irregular’ R122m health department contract By Azarrah Karrim The Department of Health irregularly appointed Brainwave Projects SA on a multimillion-rand contract for the provision of satellite internet […]

The unraveling of a cat tale

Oct 15, 2024 By Jacqueline Sweet “In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs!” warned Donald Trump during the September 10 presidential debate. Seemingly flabbergasted by his own allegation, his voice rose as he pushed the point forward, delivering his rhetorical cat de grâce. “The people that came in, they’re […]

Available from The Red Salon

Troy Southgate Oct 15, 2024 MY deep gratitude to Christina Taylor at The Red Salon for publishing my new haiku collection, Where the Thames Flows Into the Shinano, and for making such a wonderful job of it. I am also grateful to Robert Taylor and Juleigh Howard-Hobson for […]

Friends Like These

Recently at The Signal: Daniel Bessner on who actually runs U.S. foreign policy. … Today: Lucan Way on why collaboration is intensifying among the world’s most powerful autocracies. … Also: Gustav Jönsson on how U.S. political parties have gradually separated from American civic life. The Signal explores democratic life, […]

Turbo-America, Simplified

“I think I’ll use crayons this time.” Niccolo Soldo Oct 15, 2024 Share Out of everything that I have written on this Substack, the concept that has gained the most traction has been the one that I call “Turbo-America”. Published back in April of 2022, you can read […]

The Threat

In the Review’s November 7 issue Laurence H. Tribe applies the lessons he’s learned in his decades as a constitutional scholar and advocate—he has argued before the Supreme Court three dozen times—to the stark choice presented by this year’s presidential election: The threat to all our personal freedoms and […]

Survivors of Israeli Bombardment Face New Catastrophe: Epidemics, Amputations, Starvation

“Everyone is malnourished, everyone is immunocompromised” Murtaza Hussain Oct 15, 2024 Amid Israel’s brutal onslaught in Gaza, Israeli weapons makers have seen unprecedented financial success and a unique opportunity to show off their latest tech. The Palestine Laboratory, a four-part podcast series, takes listeners on a global journey into how this […]

Columbus? Nah, columbYOU!

TOTW – Columbus? Nah, columbYOU! By EmmaAintDead Of His-story’s biggest bastards, Columbus is surely up there with the worst. Ol’ Christopher was intimately documented through the opening chapters of Zinn’s “A People’s History” and has been taking the heat across schools, parks, local legislatures, forums, and social media […]