Crisis in Russia

Ed Halter Queens of the Screen For a decade starting in the early 1960s, a private Los Angeles society called the Gay Girls Riding Club made delirious, elaborate drag parodies of Hollywood films. Aida Alami The Land of Dust and Plastic In Almería, the Moroccan and West African […]

WFH is crushing Middle America

June 25, 2023 Hi, I’m Matt Turner, the editor in chief of business at Insider. Welcome back to Insider Today’s Sunday edition, a roundup of some of our top stories.   On the agenda: Work from home is crushing Midwestern downtowns. How the Brown economist Emily Oster became […]

What Is Marxism?

An explanation of classical Marxism, followed by an explanation of the general term ‘Marxism.’ If you want to support the channel, here are the best ways to do it: 1) Watch the full video 2) Subscribe if you haven’t 3) Share with a friend 4) Support me with […]

Body Politics

Our July 10/17, 2023 Issue Read Online Read as PDF FEATURED We Need a New Body Politics Our new special issue is about one thing: defending the right of everyone to be able to do what he or she or they want with their own body, free from […]

Wagner Group stages armed rebellion

Harold  Maass Did DOJ let Hunter Biden off easy? Catherine  Garcia The Check-In: Catacomb music, reducing jet lag, and more Justin  Klawans Wagner Group stages armed rebellion Advertisement from Wisebread Earn $200 After Spending $500 The Week  Staff The hybrid-work mega-commute The Week  Staff 7 guilt-ridden cartoons about […]

Why Julian Assange Must Be Freed

Speaking in London, on behalf of the jailed Wikileaks founder Matt Taibbi Jun 24, 2023 At Parliament Hill in London Saturday, there was a demonstration on behalf of jailed Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Present was the famed rendering of Assange, Chelsea Manning, and Edward Snowden made by sculptor […]

Russian Anarchists on the Wagner Mutiny

Statements from Three Anarchist Organizations 2023-06-24 Current Events Български čeština čeština Deutsch Early on June 24, Vladimir Putin addressed Russia about the unfolding rebellion of the Wagner private military company, saying that Yevgeny Prigozhin’s rebellion is “pushing the country toward anarchy and fratricide.” This is a misuse of […]

Who Swims with the Scientist?

“Defining wildness is not an easy task,” writes David Quammen in an essay we published online last month, but at the least it “requires living creatures of many different forms entangled in a system of surging and ebbing interactions.” These are the insights of a writer who has spent a […]

Airbnb’s cruel summer

June 24, 2023 Happy Saturday, Insiders! Americans are still booking short-term rentals from Airbnb and Vrbo at record rates. But the growing pool of hosts means some short-term-rental owners are seeing their revenue drop by up to 18%. More last-minute bookings, shorter stays, and budget travelers are leaving […]

The Nazis Weren’t Fascist?

Addressing the claim that National Socialism wasn’t Fascist. My longer explainer:    • FASCISM: An In-De…   If you want to support the channel, here are the best ways to do it: 1) Watch the full video 2) Subscribe if you haven’t 3) Share with a friend 4) Support me with a small […]

Tabia Lee On How To Teach Kids

The fired DEI director champions diversity, individualism and critical thinking. Appears in this episode Andrew Sullivan Dr. Tabia Lee is an educator and consultant. She was the faculty director for the Office of Equity, Social Justice, and Multicultural Education at De Anza College until she was fired for […]

Kamala’s Old Stomping Grounds

For contest #380, we find ourselves at the intersection of elites and terrorism. Plus, possums! Chris Bodenner Jun 23, 2023 (For the View From Your Window contest, the results below exceed the content limit for Substack’s email service, so to ensure that you see the full results, click […]

Reject Right-Wing Marxism

By Bobby Miller, National Review In a thought-provoking essay published this week in Law & Liberty, entitled “Revanchist Revolutionaries,” Michael Lucchese convincingly argues that modern paleoconservatism is a distortion of the conservative intellectual tradition. By scrutinizing A Paleoconservative Anthology, edited by Paul Gottfried, Lucchese highlights the ideological shift within paleoconservatism towards […]

Revanchist Revolutionaries

By Michael Lucchese, Law and Liberty Since the upheaval of 2016, the American Right has been casting about for a new basis for conservative politics. While some look to national conservatism or integralism, others have attempted to revive the legacy of failed presidential candidate Patrick Buchanan. Many detect […]