A Socialist Swearing In

A Socialist Swearing In Plus: the limits of Zohran Mamdani’s ability to ruin New York, Trump’s National Guard withdrawal, and a deadly New Year’s blaze in Switzerland CHRISTIAN BRITSCHGI Mamdani sworn in: Zohran Mamdani, 34, was sworn in as the new mayor of New York City on New […]

Will Zelensky survive 2026?

2026: Budanov’s year. Coup? CIA defeats MI6? Biletsky, Syrsky, and others. Events in Ukraine Jan 02, 2026 ∙ Paid I believe the future belongs to General Kirillo Budanov, head of Ukraine’s military intelligence. The country’s most accomplished spook. One of the CIA’s most astounding assets. A man so […]

Trump vs. Venezuela

Join Todd Lewis and the team, Florian, Keith, and Ale,x as we discuss the rising tensions between the US and Venezuela during Trump’s second term. My Contact Info: Locals: https://praiseoffolly.locals.com/ X: https://twitter.com/PoFPodcast Telegram: t.me/PraiseOfFolly_1511 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PraiseOfFoll… BuyMeACoffe: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/PraiseOf… Subscribe Star: https://www.subscribestar.com/PraiseO… Substack: https://substack.com/profile/40985862… Email: tertullian155@protonmail.com Co-host: Keith Preston: […]

The Rise of Militant Centrism

By Frank Furedi, Compact Magazine   Centrists often come across as wishy-washy compromisers, instinctively committed to smoothing out political differences and avoiding conflict. But this familiar description no longer captures the reality of contemporary politics. Instead, recent decades have seen the rise an extremism of the center, or […]

Five politicians of 2025

Zelensky, Yermak, Myndich, Malyuk, Shabunin. Events in Ukraine Jan 01, 2026 What’s the right format for a roundup of the year? Events? Far too many have transpired. Processes, reforms, intrigues? Too abstract, too complex. So I’ve settled with a rather phallocentric list of individuals. Their affairs involve the […]

Syria Turns Violent…Again

Released on Patreon on Dec 25, 2025 Need a gift this holiday season? Purchase a membership to Peter Zeihan’s Patreon page for someone who needs it… GIFT A MEMBERSHIP HERE Following the recent attacks on US troops in Syria, the question of the day is: Why does the […]

The Dawn of the Mamdani Era

No images? Click here Today in The New York Review of Books: Corey Robin, Deborah Eisenberg, Willa Glickman, and Michael Greenberg look at the future of Mamdani’s New York; Isma’il Kushkush finds himself trapped in Khartoum; Yiyun Li goes on an adventure with Beryl Bainbridge; Michael Dirda revives the […]

Right-Wing YouTuber Behind Viral Minnesota Fraud Video Has Long Anti-Immigrant History

Most Read Right-Wing YouTuber Behind Viral Minnesota Fraud Video Has Long Anti-Immigrant History Jonah Valdez Before alleging fraud in Minnesota’s Somali community, right-wing YouTuber Nick Shirley built a following with anti-immigrant clips. Read More → Dan Goldman Supported Warrantless Spying on Americans. Now His Primary Opponent Is Hitting […]

My poems

By Anonymous Poetry Person You want too much Your body is a stone A hungry ghost In a cold well You look at the lights You live in the future You think about the past   Everything bores me I want to be a heroin addict I wrestle […]

Twenty-Five Years of Attacking the System

In January of 2001, Attack the System went live. At the time, it was little more than a personal project—rough, marginal, largely invisible outside a small circle of anarchists, libertarians, and political misfits who were already alienated from the prevailing ideological order. The site had no institutional backing, […]

Why Are Zoomers Embracing Extremist Ideas?

By Joel Kotkin December 24, 2025/in Demographics Conservatives have rightly denounced the extremist tendency among young progressives, but there’s a similar problem now evident on the Right. A new Manhattan Institute study of Generation-Z Republicans confirms this problem, with some embracing conspiracy theories, including antisemitic ones, that were […]

America’s Great Migration

By Joel Kotkin December 23, 2025/in Demographics ‘For many states that were once great have now become small; and those that were great in my time were small formerly. Knowing therefore that human prosperity never continues in one stay.’ So wrote Herodotus in his Histories, in the fifth […]

How Did Liberty Fare in 2025?

December 31, 2025 Welcome to The Lighthouse, the weekly email newsletter of the Independent Institute covering politics, economics, current events, and everything in between. Dear Readers, Thank you to all our readers who have followed our stories throughout this year! Before we wade into 2026, here are our […]

Arktos 2025 in Review

Making Anti-Globalism Global Arktos Journal Dec 31, 2025 As 2025 draws to a close and the dawn of 2026 is just ahead, Arktos is celebrating 16 years of making anti-globalism global and assembling the world’s leading dissident library. In 2025, we brought out as many as 344 publications […]

Happiness IS the way

  “There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way. There is no way to peace, peace is the way. There is no way to enlightenment, enlightenment is the way.” -Thich Nhat Hanh Happiness IS the way. This quote has been appearing in my mind a lot […]

2025: Battles and numbers

2026: the battle for the south. The Kramatorsk/Sloviansk pincers. 9 frontline sectors, 2024-25. The meaning of Kursk. Attrition levels. Events in Ukraine Dec 31, 2025 2025 has ticked on by. The year has seen many promises of the war’s imminent end. So far, it’s easier to imagine another […]

Did 2025 Almost End With a Bang?

Making sense of the “Putin assassination attempt” Kevin Barrett Dec 31, 2025 I awoke Monday morning to alarming news: Ukraine had tried to assassinate Putin. Media reports claimed a drone swarm had targeted the Russian president’s residence in the Novrogod region. Russia said they shot down all the […]

Venezuela Strike? – Trump with Netanyahu – Ukraine Drone Attack – Minn. Somali Fraud

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