Breaking Points: 4/22/22 Weekly Roundup

Krystal and Saagar talk about Ukraine war developments, Elon’s Twitter bid getting rejected, momentum on the stock trading ban for Congress, 2024 Dems, Amazon Union polling, Libs of TikTok vs Lorenz, and a congressman describing how DC really works! Timestamps: Ukraine: 0:00 – 12:59 Elon: 13:00 – 21:15 […]

Radosh’s Rant Against the Old Right

By Paul Gottfried,  Chronicles A recent posting on neocon-lite website, Quillette, by its go-to authority on foreign affairs, Ronald Radosh, makes unkind references to Pat Buchanan, Pedro Gonzalez, and me: The current issue of Chronicles, meanwhile, includes an article by Pat Buchanan condemning President Biden’s “vilification” of Putin, […]

Point of Compact

A neocon attacks the paleocons. By Ronald Radosh, Quillette The late literary critic and social democrat Irving Howe once quipped that when radicals fail to build a movement, they start a magazine. Howe knew what he was talking about—his own magazine, Dissent, was one of them. The latest […]

The End of the World: Colombia

By Peter Zeihan Globalization peaked at some point in the 2010s, a decade when global populations were in balance, security for transport was a non-concern, and there was sufficient capital to finance anything and everything. But between COVID and a trio of populist American presidents and the Ukraine […]

Marxism vs Postmodernism

I am probably more in the vein of  a “post-postmodernist.” In the latest episode of Marxist Voice, Yola Kipcak combats the ideas of postmodernism, which reject the notion of objective truth or lawfulness in the world. These ideas are at odds with Marxism, which has a rational, materialist […]

Anarchism and Critical Security Studies

By Chris Rossdale My research sits at the intersection between international relations theory and the study of resistance, looking at the ways in which our understandings of international politics shift when we begin from the perspective of radical social movements. My major research programme to-date has looked at […]