12/14/23: 20% Of IDF Deaths Friendly Fire, IDF School Massacre?, Hunter In Contempt, Tech Firm Company Towns, Schumer Confirms UFO Coverup, Obama Linked Karen Muslim Harasment, Debunking Ukraine Lies

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Krystal and Saagar discuss reports that 20% of IDF deaths are friendly fire as brutal fighting continues, allegations that the IDF committed a massacre of civilians inside a school in Gaza, Hunter gives public testimony while Republicans hold him in contempt, Tech firms break ground on plans for […]

Netflix power move

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December 13, 2023 • 5 min read with Hallam Bullock Hello! I’m filling in for Dan DeFrancesco today and writing to you from London — where, yes, we do have separate faucets for hot and cold water, as one expat recently pointed out.   Netflix just pulled the […]

Benedetto Croce: Anti-Egalitarian

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by Dmitry Moiseev Arktos Journal Dec 13, 2023 Dmitry Moiseev discusses Benedetto Croce, whose radical rejection of egalitarianism marks a major deviation from mainstream political thought influenced by the French Enlightenment. Neo-Hegelian philosopher Benedetto Croce (1866-1952) is often regarded as the most influential Italian liberal of the twentieth […]

Will the Climate Deal Do Anything?

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Will the Climate Deal Do Anything? Plus: White supremacists and plagiarism, Milei and shock therapy, checking in on California, and more… LIZ WOLFE This time, they really mean it: Though historically climate agreements have infrequently amounted to much of anything, journalists across the mainstream publications are heralding the resolution […]

Adam Neumann’s secretive startup

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INSIDE SCOOP Visual China Group via Getty Images; Ben Bergman; Rebecca Zisser/BI Adam Neumann created a secretive billion-dollar startup to transform apartment living I was the first reporter to step foot inside. READ NOW Insider Today Newsletter Get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in business from […]

On the Run With Pussy Riot

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It was a few weeks before the election that would put the former president, more autocratic than ever, back into office. The threat of retribution against his critics was heavy in the capital where five women pulled on balaclavas and staged a protest against the Christian leaders who […]

12/13/23: Biden Tells Bibi He Must Change, IDF Runs Psyop On Israelis, Zelensky Begs For Aid In DC, Elon Goes To War With Unions, UAE Climate Conference Ignores Fossil Fuels, And Congress Battles Over Surveillance Legislation

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Ryan and Emily discuss Biden telling Bibi he must change or lose international support, IDF runs psyop on Israelis, Zelensky visits DC to sway Congress on aid, Elon Musk goes to war with Swedish unions, UAE climate conference ignores fossil fuels, and Congress battles over surveillance legislation. Timestamps: […]

Lush, Garish, Pulpy, Sublime

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Writing about Henry Threadgill in the Review’s Holiday Issue, Adam Shatz finds a panoply of words for the music of “one of American music’s great Romantics and a lifelong seeker of the sublime”: “impertinent,” “innovative,” “thrillingly abrasive,” “sacrilegious,” “swaggering,” “provocatively ambiguous,” “wildly expressive,” “lush,” “seductive,” “garish,” “pulpy,” “liberating,” […]

Is Free Speech a Relic in America?

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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2023 The sons of torture victims make good terrorists – Andre Malraux HORNBERGER’S BLOG December 12, 2023 Giving Up on Freedom: School Vouchers One of the questions about libertarianism that has long fascinated me is: Why have so many libertarians given up on freedom? Everyone […]

Heat on Harvard

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December 12, 2023 • 5 min read with Matt Turner It’s Tuesday, folks! We’ve all felt jealousy rise up within us while scrolling social media. Maybe it’s a photo of that ex with their new beau, or an annoying relative on a luxe vacation. The latest trigger for […]

Texas’ Abortion Law Test

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Texas’ Abortion Law Test Plus: BTS gets conscripted, Harvard gets down with plagiarism, cruise ships ban weed, and more… LIZ WOLFE Texas’ medical exemption law gets tested: Kate Cox is a 31-year-old mother of two who is 20 weeks pregnant with her third child and seeking an abortion. The […]

12/12/23: Israel Hides Massive Casualties, Hamas Combat Footage, Israel Uses White Phosphorus, Zelensky Begs For Aid, Scotus May Save Trump, Shocking Housing Numbers, Deadly Panera Lemonade, US Gaslighting On Israel

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Krystal and Saagar discuss Israel hiding massive casualties in Gaza as more Hamas combat footage emerges, Israel uses US Supplied White Phosphorus, Zelensky says Putin happy about deadlocked Ukraine aid, SCOTUS may save Trump from indictment, shocking housing numbers reveal crisis, Krystal and Saagar test deadly Panera lemonade, […]

Secret Indian Memo Ordered “Concrete Measures” Against Hardeep Singh Nijjar Two Months Before His Assassination in Canada

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Most Read Why Does the Chicago Police Department Tolerate Abusive Racists in Its Ranks? Jamie KalvenChicago police officer Raymond Piwnicki has 99 civilian complaints on his record, many of them involving racist invective and violence. READ MORE →   Secret Indian Memo Ordered “Concrete Measures” Against Hardeep Singh […]

The Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect

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Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more The Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect or, Why idiots continue to trust the media when they are demonstrably wrong about everything The Corbett Report Dec 10 READ IN APP by James Corbett corbettreport.com December 10, 2023 Have you ever seen a news story […]

McDonald’s big changes

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December 11, 2023 • 5 min read with Dan DeFrancesco Welcome back! Love can be found in many places… including outside the window of your high-rise apartment. In today’s big story, we’re looking at some of the recent big changes at McDonald’s, including the launch of a new […]

Struggling Artist

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Struggling Artist Plus: Digital AR-15s, actual AR-15s, politicians livestreaming sex acts, and more… LIZ WOLFE Libertarian hero? At the end of last week, the Department of Justice filed nine tax evasion-related charges against Hunter Biden, the president’s son. “The charges include evasion of assessment, failure to file and pay taxes and false or […]

Elon Musk’s luck has run out

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INSIDE SCOOP Arantza Pena Popo/ Business Insider Elon Musk’s luck has finally run out Buying Twitter was the biggest gamble of Musk’s career. Now he — and his empire — are cracking under the pressure. READ NOW Insider Today Newsletter Get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories […]

Holism and Morality

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Sietze Bosman Dec 11, 2023 Sietze Bosman argues that a holistic worldview can inspire a natural moral doctrine aligned with the inherent order of creation. The concept of holism was first introduced by Jan van der Smuts, a South African general, statesman, and philosopher. Where Smuts shaped his […]

There Once Was an Empire

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Over a century ago, Austria-Hungary collapsed and a generation of writers wrote about what it was like to have your whole world melt away. Anton Cebalo Nov 19, 2023 Two Soldiers at Arras (1918) by John Singer Sargent When it comes to history writing, one of the most […]