What happens to crypto now?

April 15, 2023   A NOTE FROM OUR EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ALYSON SHONTELL It has definitely been the year from hell for crypto. It begs a lot of questions about what the future of the industry holds.   Is blockchain technology still as transformational as many once thought it was? […]

Inside the Pentagon leak

April 15, 2023 Hello, Insiders. I sent a memo to the Insider newsroom this week about artificial intelligence and journalism. You can read it here. The TL;DR: AI — specifically, ChatGPT — can be useful for research and brainstorming, but it’s not a journalist. It often gets facts […]

Absolutist and Anarchistic Ontology

The medievalist response to anarchism. by Chris B An anarchistic ontology is an intellectual system which takes the individual as anterior to society and which rejects the formative and definitive role of authority. Anarchistic ontologies necessarily have to assume a great deal of conditions to which there have […]

4/14/23: Krystal Reacts To Leaker Arrest, Jen Psaki Insists She’s A Real Journalist, VA Teacher Shot By Student, Krystal and Kyle Interview Norman Finkelstein

This week Krystal reacts in the moment to the Pentagon leaker being arrested, Jen Psaki makes the argument that she’s a real journalist, a Teacher recovers from being shot by her 6 year old student, and Krystal and Kyle do a full length interview with writer and American […]

Behind the movement to ban kids from social media

Rafi Schwartz Fox News faces an existential challenge Theara Coleman Did J.K. Rowling survive her anti-trans controversy? Joel Mathis Behind the movement to ban kids from social media Becca Stanek Which states have no income tax? Theara Coleman The doctor strike that’s crippling England’s health-care system Brendan Morrow Which Nintendo games could become movies […]

How Shakespeare Changed Everything

  (Illustration: National Review)   “In 1623, two of Shakespeare’s former theatrical colleagues, John Heminges and Henry Condell, produced what is surely the greatest compilation in human history.” As Daniel Hannan writes in “How Shakespeare Changed Everything,” the new cover story of NATIONAL REVIEW, Heminges and Condell “gathered […]

The Crackdown Cometh

Leaks for me, not for thee Matt Taibbi Apr 13, 2023 On a flight, reading about the FBI’s arrest of Jack Texiera, already dubbed the “Pentagon Leaker.” A quick review reveals multiple media portraits already out depicting him as a dangerous incel who shared his wares on Discord, […]

4/13/23: Media Hunts Down Pentagon Leaker, Ro Khanna Tells Feinstein To Resign, US Boots On Ground In Ukraine, Tim Scott Speechless On Trump, Fox News Rebuked In Defamation Trial, Elon Fights With BBC, NPR Leaves Twitter, Biden’s Insane Electric Car Rules, Cancer Drug Shortage, Exposing Disinformation Industrial Complex

Krystal and Saagar discuss Ro Khanna telling Dianne Feinstein to resign, the Media hunting down the Pentagon leaker for the FBI, the Pentagon planning widespread spying on Chat Rooms after the leak, US Boots on ground confirmed in Ukraine, Russia’s terrifying new draft law, Tim Scott speechless when […]

Meet the Censored: Me?

The Elon Musk portion of the Twitter Files story meets its M. Night Shyamalan ending. On the WTF week to end all WTF weeks Matt Taibbi Apr 12, 2023 Nearly five months ago I was presented with a rare opportunity, to look through internal correspondence at Twitter. A […]

Narratives of Belonging

David Pan Beginning with Rousseau, a tradition of political thought has assumed that the people can demonstrate its will directly, without representation. By contrast, a Hobbesian approach to political identity has insisted that a people cannot coalesce into a political unity without a representative who would represent the […]

The problem America cannot fix

Wednesday, April 12, 2023 Isabel Fattal Senior editor A 2022 Supreme Court ruling changed the boundaries of America’s fight over guns. The latest mass-shooting tragedies raise the question: Where does gun reform go next? First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic: Clarence Thomas’s billionaire friend is […]

Marx Was Not Woke

By Paul Gottfried Wokeism arises out of the failure of liberalism, not out of the theory of Marxism. Yoram Hazony provides what is perhaps the best exposition of how the woke left represents an “updated” form of traditional Marxism. His argument, which is ably presented in his book […]

Dire Straits: Energy in Europe

by Peter Zeihan on April 13, 2023 Horrible views today up on the Isthmus Peak Trail in New Zealand. Europe’s energy situation looked pretty dire last year as concerns began to mount over the impending winter season. Thankfully they dodged a bullet this year, but how many more […]

Israel’s Deferred Democracy

Sponsored by Lionel Gelber Prize Joshua Leifer Whose Constitution, Whose Democracy? Many opponents of Netanyahu’s judicial overhaul have called for Israel to finally draft a constitution, but any serious attempt will mean choosing between a democratic state and one that privileges Jewish citizens above all others. Alizeh Kohari Flipping […]

Moving scams are on the rise

April 13, 2023 Hello, Insiders! This is Joe Ciolli, a deputy executive editor in Insider’s business division. We got the newest batch of inflation data yesterday, which showed a sharp decline. It offered an encouraging sign that the Fed’s rate hikes are working.   But it wasn’t all […]