America As The Next Northern Ireland

From 2018. Before the pandemic, the lockdown-induced recession, the BLM protests, the anti-lockdown protests, the 2020 election, and J6. By Mike Critelli On Sunday, October 21, I visited Belfast, Northern Ireland, for the first time, in advance of my Board meeting in Dublin, which began two days later.  […]

We’re all snowflakes now

By William Falk The Week Let’s be honest with ourselves: A censor lurks in all of us. When we encounter ideas and arguments that we believe are morally and factually wrong, we instinctively want them banned. When a speaker triggers our visceral disgust, we want him or her […]

Today’s Nationwide Anti-War Protests

Primo Radical Today a coalition of anti-war and anti-imperialist organizations will be staging nationwide protests against the Biden Administration’s dangerous march to war with Russia. Please stand up and be counted! Make clear that the American people do not support placing more US troops in Eastern Europe, and […]

Norman Mailer Wasn’t Canceled

By David Klion, The Nation What’s most striking about the Mailer contretemps is how it embodies so many aspects of the current discourse around cancel culture and free speech. The first “cancel culture” episode of 2022 began just three days into the new year, when the journalist Michael […]