Does Intellectual Property Exist?

Tom Woods Show Is it possible that we’ve been snookered into believing in a nonsensical concept? Is it possible to “own” an idea? Stephan Kinsella walks us through copyright, patent, trademarks, and trade secrets from a libertarian perspective, and also considers the utilitarian arguments for intellectual property. READ […]

David Goodhart On Overvaluing Smarts

By Andrew Sullivan, Weekly Dish The British writer talks about the moral tensions of the modern economy. David Goodhart is a British journalist. In 1995 he founded Prospect, the center-left political magazine, where he served as editor for 15 years, and then became the director of Demos, the […]

Rising: June 17, 2022 Full Show

Brother of Julian Assange, Gabriel Shipton, discusses the approval of the Wikileaks founder’s extradition to the U.S. Ryan Grim breaks down the widespread disfunction at progressive organizations across the country. Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky react to Governor Ron DeSantis’ decision to not preorder COVID-19 vaccines for young […]

Main Street Conservatism?

The American Conservative National Conservatism: A State of Principles A world of independent nations is the only alternative to universalist ideologies seeking to impose a homogenizing, locality-destroying imperium over the entire globe. Are Sanctions Hurting Russia? Russian businessmen view sanctions as manageable and even a blessing in disguise. […]

The World’s Most Taboo Legal Case

By Matt Taibbi While the media world wept over Amber and Johnny, a lawsuit filed by a feminist group over prison sexual abuse remained earth’s most ignored scandal. On November 17, 2021, the Women’s Liberation Front, or WoLF, filed a class-action lawsuit in California that drew almost no […]

A Man And A Mob

By Andrew Sullivan Weekly Dish Our Constitutional crisis is due to Donald Trump. And Donald Trump alone. “Frankly there is no idea more un-American than the notion that any one person could choose the American president,” – former veep Mike Pence. There is a tendency, and I understand […]

Wokeism – the leftwing of neoliberalism

Daphna Whitmore In this talk philosophy lecturer Hans-Georg Moeller argues that wokeism is a neoliberal movement rather than a left movement. He characterises it as post left, parading identity profiles rather than challenging the state or economic structures. He thinks that Jordan Peterson is wrong to categorise wokeism […]