The great ‘unbossing’

May 23, 2024 • 4 min read with Dan DeFrancesco Almost Friday! Grilling season is here, so take some tips from a chef on the best ways to cook your chicken on the BBQ. And here’s a bonus one just for newsletter readers: A little bit of high-quality […]

Why Is the Economy So Weird Right Now?

Why Is the Economy So Weird Right Now? Plus: Samuel Alito’s bad flags, simping for marijuana, and more… LIZ WOLFE What pundits say: “Joe Biden is, at the moment, losing his reelection campaign,” wrote The Atlantic‘s Annie Lowrey in a piece this week. “And he is doing so while presiding over […]

Drug-War Obtuseness in Mexico

THURSDAY, MAY 23, 2024 Liberalism rejects aggressive war not on philanthropic grounds but from the standpoint of utility. It rejects aggressive war because it regards victory as harmful, and it wants no conquests because it sees them as an unsuitable means for reaching the ultimate goals for which […]

Why I Fear the Future

Konstantin Kisin May 23, 2024 ∙ Paid In New York, Francis and I were invited to attend a musical about the artist Tamara de Lempicka. Lempicka, the wife of a Polish noble, flees the Russian Revolution and ends up in Paris. With her husband struggling to adjust to […]

5/23/24: Dems Scold Voters On Bidenomics, Charlamagne Confronts The View On Biden, Red Lobster Endless Shrimp Psyop, Trump Panics After Floating Birth Control Ban, Hamas Gains Thousands Of Recruits, ICC Arrest Warrants Debate, Pentagon Admits Gaza Pier Failure

Krystal and Saagar discuss Dems scolding voters for hating Bidenomics, Charlamagne trashes Trump and Biden on The View, Red Lobster endless shrimp psyop, Trump panics after floating birth control ban, insane Hamas IDF combat footage, debate on ICC arrest warrants for Israel, Pentagon admits Gaza pier failure. Timestamps: […]

Immortal Richard Wagner

by Karl Richter Arktos Journal May 22, 2024 Karl Richter criticises the recent German production of Richard Wagner’s Tannhäuser as reflective of the filth in all of contemporary Germany. According to reports, the medieval singer Tannhäuser, the title character of Richard Wagner’s romantic opera of the same name, […]

Carter Page Finds Trump Trial Eerily Familiar

May 22 2024 Biden Admin Hides Justification for Altering the Definition of ‘Recession’; Heritage Plans to Sue COMMENTARY By Tyler O’Neil The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project asked the Biden administration for internal communications on redefining “recession.” After suing, it got them, but so much has been redacted. More […]

Abortion is front and center this election

David Fincher’s Hitman as Everyman Urban Hannon David Fincher has a new film that once again updates Fight Club’s existential crisis for our time. In The Killer, we see a nameless main character high on pseudo-profundities and therapeutic life-hacks, all to cope with the anxiety of existence in a decadent age. […]

LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER: Foreign Policy Conference

REGISTER Realism & Restraint Amid Global Conflict Join The American Conservative and the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft on May 23 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in Room 902 of the Hart Senate Office Building, located at 120 Constitution Avenue NE in Washington, DC. The conference will include keynotes from Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH), Senator […]

The End of American Protest

To many people, it came as something of a shock when police in Robocop uniforms stormed the Columbia campus this spring to zip-tie and arrest largely peaceful student protesters. It was not a surprise, however, to veterans of the George Floyd uprising who knew from hard experience that […]

5/22/24: Thomas Massie Stomps AIPAC, Israel Seizes AP Equipment, Israeli Cops Caught Tipping Off Aid Attackers, Bill Maher Vs The View On Wokeness, Massive GenZ Boomer Divide, Scarlett Johansson Slams Altman Over AI Voice, Assange Wins Right To Appeal

Ryan and Emily discuss key elections including Thomas Massie overcoming massive AIPAC spending, Israel seizes AP equipment, Israel caught tipping off aid convoy attackers, Bill Maher spars with The View on wokeness and Israel, polls show huge generational divide in the US, Scarlett Johansson slams Sam Altman for […]

Jesus Conflating Two Distinct Archetypes

by Rose Sybil and Chilon Arktos Journal May 21, 2024 Rose Sybil and Chilon argue that the fusion of Caesar and Lifegiver archetypes leads to a misguided belief in effortless salvation, perpetuating materialism, and only through deep, sacrificial effort can we cultivate a future that transcends this decay. […]

A Test of American Leverage

Recently at The Signal: Alice Han on what’s at stake in the massive global surge of Chinese high-tech exports. … Today: What does the U.S. hold on sending bombs to Israel mean for the two countries’ relationship? Steven Cook on the new politics of an old alliance. … Also: […]

El Niño Sounds Off #16

Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more   El Niño Speaks El Niño Sounds Off #16 0:00 5:56 El Niño Sounds Off #16 José Niño sounds off on Thomas Massie’s bill to abolish the Federal Reserve. May 21 READ IN APP Upgrade to paid Share José Niño sounds […]

Bill Maher blasts Biden’s racism-stoking speech to black graduates at Morehouse College: ‘Not helpful’

Trending story May 21, 2024 Bill Maher blasts Biden’s racism-stoking speech to black graduates at Morehouse College: ‘Not helpful’ “Real Time” host Bill Maher blasted President Joe Biden’s racism-stoking speech to graduates of traditionally black school Morehouse College over the weekend as “not helpful” and inaccurate. Biden spent […]

Woke sports writer demands Harrison Butker lose his job to a woman — but he accidentally makes ironic admission

AM Edition May 22, 2024 TRENDING NOW Troubling details emerge in pastor’s wife’s mysterious suicide Christian tolerance allows Bill Maher to be greedy and inauthentic Demand for silver exceeds supply. Nothing could be more bullish. Click here for our free newsletter. Sponsored MORE STORIES THAT MATTER Harrison Butker’s […]

Showtime for Nvidia

May 22, 2024 • 5 min read with Dan DeFrancesco Halfway to the weekend! Capri Sun is selling giant jugs for customers whose appetites — but not tastes — have grown up. (Or maybe they’re still struggling to get those yellow straws through the pouches.)   We’re also […]