The Forever Labor Shortage

May 21, 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: We’re entering the Forever Labor Shortage — and millions of workers are set to […]

The Left-Right Spectrum Is Mostly Meaningless

The political landscape doesn’t fit on a simple map. Jesse Walker | From the June 2023 issue (Illustration: enjoynz/iStock) Here is one version of the left-right spectrum, as described in 1975 by a former Barry Goldwater speechwriter who had left the conservative movement to break bread with Black […]

Tory Autocracy

Over the past century, and even before, conservative political movements thrived by challenging the Left’s appeal to the working and middle class. Virtually all the successful movements on the democratic Right—Disraeli’s Tory Democracy to Thatcherism, Reaganism, and even Trumpism—won by establishing a link between conservative policies and upward […]

Dr. Steven Greer -Illegal Shadow Govt Suppression Of UAPs and Alternative Energy

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US Secretary of State Blinken Announces State Developed AI To Combat “Russian Disinformation”

Kim talks about AI tech being used to “track Russian disinformation” by the State Department with Kyle Anzalone who is the opinion editor of Antiwar.com, news editor of the Libertarian Institute https://libertarianinstitute.org , and co-host of Conflicts of Interest. You can find Kyle’s work here: https://conflictsofinterest.libsyn.com/ Get 20% […]

Economics as a Subdiscipline of War

The Banking Crisis is Just the Beginning Imperium Press Mar 21, 2023 Yarvin is really unfashionable these days as a “reactionary” who couldn’t quite shed his lolbertarianism. And there’s a great truth to this. His takes since returning to activity in the Trump era have been ice cold, […]

The Dutch Roots of Capitalism

SATURDAY, MAY 20, 2023 Most Americans think that “inflation” means generally rising prices, but Balfour correctly states that what is actually being inflated is the supply of money. – George Leef, “A Book to Help Young Americans Understand Economics: Economics in Action” [2023] HORNBERGER’S BLOG May 19, 2023 […]

Air travel chaos

May 20, 2023 Hello, Insiders. With Memorial Day in a little over a week, many of us are thinking about travel — planning it, booking it, avoiding it. So, today’s edition is all about travel. Our big story digs into why flying sucks so much. We’re also looking at where […]

Joe Biden, Habitual Racialist Demagogue

May 20 2023 Happy Armed Forces Day from  Washington, where President Biden is losing support among black Americans amid his racially charged rhetoric. Victor Davis Hanson isn’t surprised. Other young men shouldn’t hesitate to do what’s right, despite the persecution of a Marine veteran for his subway heroism, […]

Hippo Capsizes Boat: 1 Dead, 23 Missing

Hippo Capsizes Boat: 1 Dead, 23 Missing One child died, and 23 other people were missing after a hippopotamus collided with a boat carrying villagers, causing it to capsize. Read More… 12-Year-Old Charged with Murder of Sonic Employee A tragic event unfolded in Texas, when a 12-year-old and a 20-year-old […]

“We Are All Real Housewives!”

Sponsored by NYU Press Last weekend the NYR Online published “Wages for Housewives,” an essay by the scholar and critic Anna Shechtman on the reality TV series The Real Housewives. The title alludes to the work of the Marxist feminist theorist Silvia Federici, who in 1974 argued that women’s housework under […]

John Oberg On Veganism

The young activist is more practical and tolerant than most. John is an animal advocate and social media professional (@JohnOberg). He has served as the director of new media for The Humane League and the director of communications for Vegan Outreach, but now he’s an independent advocate funded […]

Our Weaponized Legal System Misfires

How partisan lawfare threatens democracy by Michael Lind, Tablet The greatest threat to democracy today is not populism, as elite liberals claim. Nor is it the old-fashioned dictatorial coup d’etat. The greatest danger that multiparty democracy faces is “lawfare”—the weaponization of national judicial systems by political parties to […]

Fentanyl will win the war on drugs

Instead of a hopeless struggle against supply, the U.S. must focus on reducing demand Bags of fentanyl seized by U.S. authorities at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago | REUTERSby Eduardo Porter  Bloomberg, May 17, 2023 So let’s say the U.S. labels Mexican drug cartels terrorist organizations, like so […]

A Century of Censorship

Matt Farwell’s painstaking timeline of over a hundred years of American information suppression, secret bureaucracies, and “anti-disinformation” scares The Hunt for Tom Clancy May 19, 2023 Clockwise from top left: Franklin Roosevelt, J. Edgar Hoover, Harry S Truman, and Joseph McCarthy The turn of the last century brought […]

5/19/23: Buttigieg’s “Cathedral Mind” in WIRED, Worker Happiness, AI Anti Trust w/ Matt Stoller, IRS Tests Free Filing, Michigan’s Toxic Paper Mill, Living Longer But Sicker

This week we discuss Pete Buttigieg’s doting profile in WIRED that refers to him as a “cathedral mind” among other things, Matt Stoller on AI anti-trust legislation, and James Li on Americans living longer but sicker lives. To become a Breaking Points Premium Member and watch/listen to the […]