The Soul of the Artist

by Chōkōdō Shujin Chōkōdō Shujin Jun 21, 2024 Chōkōdō Shujin asserts that a true work of art must reflect the artist’s state of mind, for it is this inner world that gives life and authenticity to the creation. A work of art always reflects the state of mind […]

A Trump Slump?

JUNE 21, 2024 A Trump Slump? Trump’s Conviction Was Supposed to Boost His Popularity. It Hasn’t. → President Joe Biden and Donald Trump are essentially tied in the national polls. Almost anything could tip the election. And, as Chris Lehmann reported this week, there is some good news […]

My Problem With IVF — And Ours

The creation of human embryos as a means to an end. Andrew Sullivan Jun 21, 2024 ∙ Paid (Christophe Archambault/AFP via Getty Images) Longtime Dishheads know my basic position on “reproductive freedom.” For all my Catholicism, I’m for it. I believe in maximal sexual freedom for consenting adults […]

Sign the petition: “I will not attend”

U.S. Representatives Ro Khanna and Jim Clyburn have joined a growing number of congressional Democrats who say they will NOT attend Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before Congress.1 The Israeli military has killed 35,000 Palestinians and 200 aid workers in Gaza. Food, water, and medical aid has […]

The 2024 election is already rigged

Trending story June 21, 2024 The 2024 election is already rigged Critics have targeted former President Trump and many MAGA Republicans for questioning the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. While questions about voter fraud, changes to voting rules, “Zuckerbucks,” a … Read more MORE STORIES FOR YOU […]

Trump Suddenly Loves Immigration

Trump Suddenly Loves Immigration Plus: Catholic hospitals may be forced to provide euthanasia, Milei’s accomplishments in Argentina, migrant crisis near the Canary Islands, and more… LIZ WOLFE The H-1B visa about-face: “What I want to do and what I will do is, you graduate from a college, I think […]

Believers Don’t Want to Know – Politics

Here is the promised link to the 920 page Mandate for Leadership: https://static.project2025.org/2025_M… Here is the link to the quoted article from The Heritage Foundation: https://www.heritage.org/budget-and-s… Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAJf… f you like what I do, please consider supporting my efforts. PATREON► https://www.patreon.com/aronra […]

Big money food fight

June 21, 2024 • 5 min read with Dan DeFrancesco Happy Friday! The best AI-generated picture… wasn’t generated with AI. A photographer won the top prize in an AI contest with a real picture to show the ethical issues around the tech. In today’s big story, we’re looking […]

Mr. Putin Goes to Hanoi

by Peter Zeihan on June 21, 2024 With Russian President Vladimir Putin heading to Vietnam, some American security experts are getting concerned about the future of the US-Vietnam relationship. To understand why the Vietnamese are working with Russia, we need to take a quick history lesson. Every American […]

Anti-Economy Anarchy

By thecollective From Ignited In Dark: Against The Dominant Idea by Wulfinna Along with being opposed to every state, every political denomination and every form of society and civilization, I am opposed to every economic system and the notion of economy in general having an effect on my […]

Sects, Cults, and Heretical Messiahs

By anon (not verified) Raoul Vaneigem’s “Resistance to Christianity” With its stunning wraparound cover, featuring a detail from Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights, this edition of Raoul Vaneigem’s landmark “Resistance to Christianity: A Chronological Encyclopaedia of Heresy from the Beginning to the Eighteenth Century,” translated by […]

6/21/24: Matt Taibbi On Trump, Elon, and Russia

American author and journalist Matt Taibbi joins Ryan and Emily for Counterpoints Friday released early to premium subscribers. Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (3:07) Matt’s Journalism Career (33:56) The 2008 Housing Crisis (45:25) 2016 Presidential Election (1:01:29) Independent Journalism (1:29:49) The Twitter Files (1:39:47) EoS For support connecting your locals […]

“Him, Adam, Her, Eve”

Scholastique Mukasonga, translated by Emma Ramadan Forever Elsewhere In keeping with the inalienable rights of the Storyteller, allow me to invent a different fall from grace. J. Hoberman Polish Compassion Green Border is the filmmaker Agnieszka Holland’s latest confrontation with her country’s brutal history. Rachel Donadio Meloni’s Cultural Revolution “Was […]

‘Quiet vacationing’ summer

June 20, 2024 • 4 min read with Dan DeFrancesco Happy first day of summer! With the changing of the seasons, it’s worth reassessing your wardrobe. These are the summer accessories you should ditch. (No more cargo shorts!) In today’s big story, we’re looking at why the rise […]

What Is Stonewall in 2024?

Only a few months after the June 28, 1969, police raid on the Stonewall Inn set off a riot that became the symbolic start date of the modern LGBTQ+ liberation movement, the dive went out of business. The current-day bar that is in (part of) the original space […]