Israel’s culture of rape and child abuse

Vanessa Beeley | April 8, 2024 What has underpinned this wholesale slaughter of Palestinian civilians and children in Gaza – the 7th October Hamas “atrocities” that include the media-amplified claims of “mass rape”. Claims led by the discredited ZAKA organisation whose founder has a history of rape and pedophilia. ZAKA […]

Fleeing Opportunity

How immigration distorts internal mobility, and why it matters. Apr 09, 2024 Aporia Magazine Written by Arctotherium. During the 19th and 20th centuries, internal migration to productive locations was one of the greatest sources of upward mobility and economic progress.1 People moved from countryside to city, from densely […]

Bodyguards for Jhb bigwigs

Tuesday, 9 April 2024 “Where tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of human civilisation.” Daniel Webster STORY OF THE DAY Cash-strapped City of Joburg splurges on bodyguards for bigwigs By Ferial Haffajee In addition to bodyguards, the politicians will receive 40 cars from […]

The “Humane” in Art

by Chōkōdō Shujin Chōkōdō Shujin Apr 09, 2024 Chōkōdō Shujin challenges the prevailing norms of mediocrity in art and literature, advocating transcendence beyond the “humane” to reclaim the soul of artistic ambition and creativity. The artist is sovereign. However, a work of art is, on the one hand, […]

Jamie Dimon’s manifesto

April 9, 2024 • 5 min read with Dan DeFrancesco Hello! If your eyes are hurting after looking at yesterday’s solar eclipse, here’s what could be wrong with them. (Yes, “sunburned eyes” is a thing.) In today’s big story, we’re looking at Jamie Dimon’s annual letter to shareholders […]

Arabella Advisors

Good morning, Dark money is a scary term because it is a scary thing. Left-wing billionaires have been covertly pumping money into elections across the country for a while now. Only recently has it began to come to light how this happens: through Arabella Advisors. Arabella Advisors is […]

Ghost Ships

Sponsored by University of California Press Two weeks ago, a 985-foot container ship called the Dali struck Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, leaving six construction workers presumed dead and shutting down the city’s port. “The crash,” Vanessa Ogle writes in the NYR Online this morning, “brought fresh attention to the global shipping industry.” […]

The Freedom to Die

A new book sheds light on our monstrous treatment of the mentally ill Leighton Woodhouse Apr 09, 2024 In 1961, the sociologist Erving Goffman published Asylums, a book of four essays on what the author called “total institutions.” Total institutions are places like army barracks, monasteries, or mental […]

Try, Try Again

Try, Try Again Plus: Trump’s abortion principles, celebrating Larry David, a bizarre Chechnyan music crackdown, and more… LIZ WOLFE Handouts to voters: Though his first attempt at student loan forgiveness was struck down by the Supreme Court in June of last year (Biden v. Nebraska), President Joe Biden apparently […]

Serfdom Reform vs. Liberty

TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 2024 The fundamental theory of liberty upon which all governments in this Union repose excludes any general power of the State to standardize its children by forcing them to accept instruction from public teachers only. The child is not the mere creature of the State… […]

Arizona’s Split Reality

Arizona finds itself in a strange place in U.S. politics right now. As Washington correspondent Olivia Nuzzi puts it, “Voters here are in the unusual position to potentially determine who leads the American government and how much power that leader may have to execute his will.” It is […]