Rising: April 18, 2022 Full Show

Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss gun violence and rising crime in light of multiple mass shootings over the weekend. Ryan Grim explains the growing influence of Big Crypto in politics and campaigning. Robby Soave describes the latest developments in Elon Musk’s attempted purchase of Twitter. Kim Iversen […]

Breaking Points: 4/18/22 FULL UNCUT SHOW

Krystal and Saagar cover Biden’s escalating rhetoric towards Putin, Ukraine war updates, Elon vs Twitter board, Elon vs Saudis, media’s free speech meltdown, Biden’s midterm landscape, bipartisan movement on stock ban, CNN+ numbers, Christian Smalls on Tucker, history of online speech, and Jordan Chariton reporting on Amazon worker […]

What is Russia losing in Ukraine?

The Signal What is Russia losing in Ukraine? Chris Miller on the unplanned consequences of a brutal war of choice. Pixabay “The battle for Donbas will remind you of the Second World War,” Ukraine’s foreign minister told NATO earlier this month. Now Ukrainian and Russian forces are gearing up […]

The End of Progressive Intellectual Life

By Michael Lind, Tablet How the foundation-NGO complex quashed innovative thinking and open debate, first on the American right and now on the center-left. I have never liked the term “public intellectual,” but like its 19th-century predecessor, “publicist,” it describes a social type that plays a useful role […]

The Nihilism of the Left

By Victor Davis Hanson Independent Institute In pursuit of its utopian omelet, the Left cares little about the millions of middle-class Americans it must break to make it. The last 14 months have offered one of the rare occasions in recent American history when the hard Left has operated all […]

The Populist Delusion

By Neema Parvini, Imperium Press The 2016 presidential campaign of Donald Trump unleashed a wave of populism not seen in America since the Nixon era, which carried him into the presidency. Seen widely as a vindication of the people over elites, his failure to bring about any meaningful […]