The Useful Veneer of the Aging Democrat

April 22 2023 Good morning from just outside the nation’s capital, where Fox News star Tucker Carlson sounds the alarm on America’s future in a speech saluting The Heritage Foundation on its 50th anniversary. Elizabeth Troutman and Ken McIntyre report. Related events include a discussion of depoliticizing the Justice […]

Infiltrating Literature

Sponsored by University of California Press In September 2022 Bret Easton Ellis, who in the 1980s had been, alongside Jay McInerney and Donna Tartt, one of the leading lights of an informal group of writers known as the literary Brat Pack, published The Shards, his first novel in thirteen […]

A rental from hell

April 22, 2023 Hello, Insiders. Happy Earth Day! Be sure to check out our One Planet initiative — an optimist’s destination for climate action, with reporting on leaders combating the climate crisis as well as tangible steps you can take at home, in the workplace, and in your […]

Who is winning in the culture war?

Episode 121 with Daniel Nichanian Krystal Kyle & Friends Apr 21, 2023 Brandon Johnson’s election, far-right candidates losing school board elections, TikTok censorship of the Marianne Williamson left: these are the things we’re covering in this week’s episode with “election lifeline” Daniel Nichanian. Daniel founded the political magazine […]

You Can’t Avoid the Inevitable

Peter R. Quiñones Apr 21, 2023 The State is inevitable. I understand that’s a strange statement to make when Americans already live under a State so large that it would make Stalin envious. What could be a more obvious declaration? But many either choose to ignore reality, are […]

Woke Liberalism?

Is James Lindsay’s woke understanding of liberalism one that James Madison and other founders of America’s constitutional order had in mind when they established the American republic? By Paul Gottfried April 20, 2023 Earlier this month, an article I had just published in Chronicles, “Marx Was Not Woke,” […]

4/21/23: Record Number Of Americans Identify “Independent”, Amazon Postpones HQ2 In VA, Gen Z Says No Future In America, Drone Operator Theater Play, Insane Zoom Call From Millionaire Exec, Proof Every President Is Criminal, Failed Netflix LiveStream

In this episode we cover a Record number of Americans now identifying as “politically independent”, Amazon postpones it’s new HQ2 project in Virginia after receiving massive taxpayer subsidies, interviews from our partner Jordan Chariton show Generation Z kids feeling bleak about their futures in America, a new play […]

Democrats Threaten Journalists With Prison

Democrats Threaten Journalists With Prison PLUS: Twitter Sneetches :: Blinken, Conspiracy Theorist :: Golden Age Of Substack Michael Shellenberger and Leighton Woodhouse Apr 21, 2023 ∙ Paid Democrats Threaten Journalists Last month, Matt Taibbi and I testified to Congress about the existence of a Censorship Industrial Complex. The […]

Those Scary and Dangerous Russkies

FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 2023 Our supplies of natural resources are not finite in any economic sense. Nor does past experience give reason to expect natural resources to become more scarce. Rather, if history is any guide, natural resources will progressively become less costly, hence less scarce, and will […]

House Democrats Have Lost Their Minds

Representative Stacey Plaskett, who called Michael Shellenberger and me “direct threats to people who oppose them,” is now threatening me with prison – over Mehdi Hasan’s uncorrected error Matt Taibbi Apr 20, 2023 Wow. When I think this iteration of the Democratic Party can’t sink any lower, it […]

RFK, Jr., drops bomb

By Tom Woods Yesterday Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., officially announced his bid for president. And his speech had some great bits in it. Have I gone soft, and love politicians now? Don’t worry about that. What I do genuinely respect is a disruptor. Because if anything deserves to […]

4/20/23: Trump Humiliates DeSantis w/ Florida Endorsements, Republicans Reveal Debt Ceiling Demands, Abortion Pill SCOTUS, Big Business Pushes Child Labor, New UFO, Fox Sticks Taxpayers with Dominion Bill, Is Elon Right About AI?, Desantis Disney Fail, Saudis Secretly Buying NFL Team

Krystal and Saagar discuss Trump humiliating DeSantis in number of Florida endorsements, RFJ Jr Stuns in strong 14% poll after his announcement, Republicans reveal demands in debt ceiling fight, the Abortion Pill is in jeopardy, Democratic Congressman Dean Phillips trashes his colleagues for lying about their feelings on […]

Those Scary and Dangerous Russkies

THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 2023 Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. – James Bovard, Attention Deficit Democracy [2006] HORNBERGER’S BLOG April 20, 2023 Those Scary and Dangerous Russkies It was always inevitable that the Pentagon’s and the […]

Dark side of therapy apps

April 20, 2023 Hello, Insiders. Matt Turner, editor in chief of business, here. Depression is a massive challenge that conventional mental-health care has struggled to tackle. Today’s big story centers on the dark side of the startups that believe tech can solve the world’s most complex problems — […]

The Mega-Prison of El Salvador

by Peter Zeihan on April 20, 2023 Coming to you from just above Glendhu Bay at Lake Wanaka in Southern New Zealand. Today we’re talking about El Salvador’s new ‘mega-prison’ that will be filled with gang leaders, drug traffickers and the worst of the worst. In theory, this […]