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Nexus X HumectressIt’s interesting how the critique of totalitarian humanism, or at least components of it, that I developed in the 2000s is now finding its way into mainstream discourse as well, and not just on the “far-right” or among ordinary conservatives, but also among centrists (James Lindsay), liberals ( […]
Todd Lewis is joined by Keith Preston, Terminal Philosophy and Swithun Dobson to discuss the current lack of new and creative ideas to deal with the problems of modern 21st century America.
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Something truly terrifying is happening at the Capitol this January. Something deeply deadly to what passes for democracy in this stagnant empire. Something far more severe than the QAnon Shamen and Proudboy lunkheads who garnered so much media […]
From 2020. By Tom Tague, The Atlantic Other countries are used to loathing America, admiring America, and fearing America (sometimes all at once). But pitying America? That one is new. “He hated America very deeply,” John le Carré wrote of his fictional Soviet mole, Bill Haydon, in Tinker […]
This is an interesting piece by two centrist neocons who discuss the infiltration of Trumpism by right-neocons. There seems to have been a genuine split in neocon circles over how to respond to Trumpism. There are those like Kristol, French, Will, Brooks, Frum, the Kagans, Goldberg, and Hayes […]
By Graham Colton | Fox News The Missouri senator blasted Dems’ attempt to keep conservatives off ballots. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., claimed Democrats “want a one-party state” on Thursday during an interview on “Fox News Primetime.” Fox host Lawrence Jones began the interview highlighting a tweet from former […]
Clashing ideologies about the meaning of democracy in America are no less harrowing than the events of January 6. Journalist Bill Moyers, a 30-time Emmy Award winner, shares his views and concerns in the new PBS documentary “Preserving Democracy,” airing tomorrow. Moyers speaks with Hari Sreenivasan alongside historian […]
By Zack Beauchamp Vox Americans have long believed our country to be exceptional. That is true today in perhaps the worst possible sense: No other established Western democracy is at such risk of democratic collapse. January 6, 2021, should have been a pivot point. The Capitol riot was […]
Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley sees January 6, 2021 as part of a history of fascist impulses in American politics. This is the focus of his book “How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them.” His latest article in The Guardian is titled “America is now in […]
Is a “second civil war” possible? On the latest “Reality Check with John Avlon,” historian Professor Edna Greene Medford and CNN’s Elle Reeve talk about the American history of violent struggles to hold onto power – from Reconstruction to January 6.
Author Barbara F. Walter warns in her new book that the country is closer to a civil war than it has been for more than 100 years. She joins Mehdi to discuss what should be an unthinkable question: Is America one step closer to civil war?
If we could defend ourselves with whistles, they’d be banning whistles.
I am for every political, cultural, ideological, economic, identity, or issue-based group there is forming “sanctuaries” of their own. By JENNIFER BAILEY JBAILEY@DANCOMNEWS.COM A group of local citizens called the Vermilion County Constitutionalists have been trying since last year to have Vermilion County become Illinois’ 68th Second Amendment […]
I have no problem with the idea of New York City being a sanctuary city for crime. By all means, turn NYC into a Stirnerite homeland where theft is just another economic activity. By Charles Fain Lehman, Wall Street Journal Manhattan’s new district attorney undercuts Mayor Adams’s initiative […]
By Antonia Hitchens The Atlantic In rural Oregon, voters fed up with their state’s leftward turn have embraced a simple and outlandish idea: What if we were just Idaho? In the summer of 2015, a chimney sweep in Elgin, Oregon, redrew the map of the American West. “Imagine […]
By Stephen Marche, Washington Post When Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) talks about a “National Divorce,” as she did again in a tweet on Wednesday, she may be advancing the cause of secession or she may just be seeking attention. Either way, she knows what she’s doing — […]
By Stephen Marche, The Guardian The right has recognized that the system is in collapse, and it has a plan: violence and solidarity with treasonous far-right factions. Nobody wants what’s coming, so nobody wants to see what’s coming. On the eve of the first civil war, the most […]
By Holly McCall, Tennessee Lookout Tennessee’s leaders have already shown an eagerness to bend to Donald Trump at the sacrifice of American democracy. The day Joe Biden was declared winner of the 2020 presidential election, my husband asked me why I wasn’t happier: He thought I’d be in […]
By David Remnick New Yorker A year after the attack on the Capitol, America is suspended between democracy and autocracy. The edifice of American exceptionalism has always wobbled on a shoddy foundation of self-delusion, and yet most Americans have readily accepted the commonplace that the United States is […]
By Peter T. Coleman Newsweek Coleman, PhD, is a Professor at Columbia University who studies intractable conflict and sustainable peace. His latest book is The Way Out: How to Overcome Toxic Polarization. An astonishing moment occurred at the apex of the horrifying violence that erupted on the steps […]
By JOHN F. HARRIS Politico For most of my reporting career, to refer to some dispute or another — over a judicial nomination, perhaps, or an uproar over a proposed shopping mall near a battlefield — as “a new Civil War” was to reach for a metaphor. On […]
By Peter Ramjug Northeastern University Civil War is coming,” a New Jersey woman posted on social media days after participating in last year’s storming of the U.S. Capitol. Indeed, America had not experienced a disruption in the peaceful transfer of power like what happened a year ago since the […]
By Amanda Foreman, Sunday Times Experts on conflict predict unrest, but America has a long way to go before it is as divided as it was in 1861. iolence is in the air. No one who saw the shocking scenes during the Capitol riot in Washington on January […]
By Konrad Yakabuski Toronto Globe and Mail It will be up to future historians to determine whether the Jan. 6 Capitol riot marked the beginning of the end of American democracy. But that has not stopped countless observers from marking the first anniversary of a day that will […]
By Carlos Lozada Washington Post Journalist Stephen Marche envisions multiple scenarios propelling the country into conflict. THE NEXT CIVIL WAR: Dispatches from the American Future By Stephen Marche. Avid Reader Press. 238 pp. $27. To glimpse the coming dismemberment of the United States of America, just stop by […]
By Paul Brandus, Market Watch America’s heavily armed far-right extremists fit the mold of those who’ve started insurrections in other countries. When I was writing my first book, a history of the White House and the presidency, I came across a quote from John Adams. “Remember,” he wrote […]
By Michelle Goldberg New York Times Barbara F. Walter, a political scientist at the University of California, San Diego, has interviewed many people who’ve lived through civil wars, and she told me they all say they didn’t see it coming. “They’re all surprised,” she said. “Even when, to […]
By Catherine Garcia The Week It’s been a dire winter in Afghanistan, with 23 million people facing extreme levels of hunger amid the brutal cold. Shelley Thakral, spokeswoman for the World Food Program in Afghanistan, told NPR that there are several reasons why so many Afghans don’t have […]
By Peter Weber The Week The large, oil-rich Central Asian republic of Kazakhstan began Friday — Christmas for the country’s Orthodox Christians — with at least 26 protesters killed over six days of mass protests, 18 dead security force members, burned presidential residences and government buildings, and more than 2,500 […]
By Catherine Garcia, The Week In 2021, five people in the United States died of rabies — the highest number in a decade. Rabies is a viral disease that infects the central nervous system of mammals. It is most often transmitted via the bite of a rabid animal […]
By Brigid Kennedy The Week Kazakhstan was suddenly awash in anti-government protests this week after a revolt over the price of fuel turned into something far more potent and powerful. Here’s everything you need to know: What’s going on? Thousands of Kazakhs across the oil-rich nation have been […]
Well, this is some real comedy. Unfortunately, this is what I predicted would happen under a Bidenist regime. By Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large (CNN)Dick Cheney is nobody’s RINO (Republican in name only). The former vice president — and member of Congress — has long been an unapologetic conservative. […]
By J.D. Tuccille Reason The bumbling TSA and performative mask requirements are ineffective air-travel hassles. “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard,” H.L. Mencken once wrote. It’s a wonderfully cynical sentiment that rings true when […]
By Brandon Smith, Activist Post Despite a growing resurgence of interest in the science and psychology of narcissistic sociopaths and psychopaths it seems as though society today has lost track of how these people can sabotage the core fabric of a civilization or nation. It is very easy […]
By Andrew Sullivan The Israeli journalist brings empathy to an intractable issue. Hey, why not start the new year with solving the Israel-Palestinian problem? Yossi is an American-born Israeli journalist and his latest book is Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor. Following our episode with Peter Beinart last summer, […]
–Anti-vaccine Deputy District Attorney Kelly Ernby, a Republican who ran for California State Assembly, has died of COVID-19 at age 46
It’s been a year since the Capitol riot. The Democrats are fangirling over Dick Cheney and listening to Hamilton, so it’s hard to say what we’ve learned or improved upon as a society. Around this time last year, Thomas Frank joined us for a thoughtful conversation about who […]
By Matt Taibbi The appearance of Dick Cheney in the House of Representatives on the anniversary of January 6th helped identify the true villain on the scene. Former Vice President Dick Cheney visited the House of Representatives yesterday. He and his daughter Liz were the only two Republicans […]
By Andrew Sullivan, The Weekly Dish The plague, the web, and our predicament. “The lesson for man is that personal happiness has very little to do with all this. It is possible to be unhappy and very adaptive,” – E.O. Wilson, RIP. The last weeks of 2021 were […]
By Brigid Kennedy, The Week Typically marked by a widespread return to professional form, the first work week of the new year has instead been marred by the effects of the latest Omicron-led COVID-19 spike, The Wall Street Journal reports, as employers contend with an ongoing onslaught of coronavirus-related […]
By Catherine Garcia, The Week Vice President Kamala Harris was at the Democratic National Committee headquarters on Jan. 6, 2021, when a pipe bomb was found outside the building, four people familiar with the matter told Politico. At the time, Harris was the vice president-elect, and this raises […]
Florida Man. By Catherine Garcia, The Week One year after the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, Florida has had more residents arrested in connection with the riot than any other state. Since last January, 76 Floridians have been charged with participating in the assault on the Capitol, and at […]
By Helen Andrews, The American Conservative had Covid over Christmas break, after my triple-vaxxed husband brought it home from a conference, which means two things: I now have natural immunity, and you will never persuade me that vaccinated people don’t spread the virus to others. That was supposed […]
By Peter R Quinones In January of 2020 I was happy to keep trudging along in my podcasting and theorizing about a fantasyland that will never exist: Ancapistan. A magical place where all property is private and the currency is what you want it to be. Reality finally […]
The Intercept’s Sharon Lerner details her reporting on the dangerous and possibly unnecessary practice of tracking down and exterminating wildlife in order to prevent the spread of disease.
Team Rising discusses the wealth gap.
David Sirota details reporting on the conflict of interest for some consultants hired by President Biden
Team Rising debate the real-life threat of the growing number of Americans who say violence against the government can be justified,
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss 2021’s home buying boom and how the pandemic may further affect the housing market in 2022.
Ryan Grim, Robby Soave, and Kim Iversen react to Tim Green, NASA’s retiring top scientist, claims that we can terraform Mars and maybe Venus.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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