Venezuelan roulette

William Rudolph This week What are 10,000 U.S. troops and Tomahawk-capable submarines doing off the South American coast? Is Donald Trump really deconstructing democracy in the United States? Steve Hanson on the American consolidation of patrimonial rule. The Kremlin and Syria’s Islamist rulers were at war for years. […]

Pentagon orders aircraft carrier to Caribbean

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25 LARGEST US AIRCRAFT CARRIER DEPLOYED TO CARIBBEAN  The Pentagon is ordering the USS Gerald R. Ford — the world’s largest aircraft carrier — to the Caribbean as the Trump administration escalates its campaign against drug traffickers. The carrier’s deployment reportedly suggests the administration may expand its […]

Boo!

Sponsored by Bloomsbury Writing about H.P. Lovecraft in the Review’s October 31, 1996, issue, Joyce Carol Oates took a brief digression to discuss “the first American novelist of substance, Charles Brockden Brown,” whose “major novel Wieland; or The Transformation (1798) is…a nightmare expression of the fulfillment of repressed desire, anticipating Edgar Allan […]

The Goonverse, The Failure-to-Date of The Russian Sanctions Regime, China Squeezes Europe on Rare Earth Minerals, Canada’s New Racial Hierarchies, Australia vs. Science

Niccolo Soldo Oct 25, 2025 Every weekend (almost) I share five articles/essays/reports with you. I select these over the course of the week because they are either insightful, informative, interesting, important, or a combination of the above. Share Please hit the like and re-stack buttons at the top […]

Gaza’s Future

Sponsored by Hirmer Publishers Today in The New York Review of Books: Sarah Roy looks at Gaza’s future; Josephine Quinn studies St. Augustine’s African theology; Geoffrey O’Brien reviews the Met opera’s adaptation of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay; Wyatt Mason writes to Guy Davenport; a poem by April Bernard; and, from the archives, the not-so-sublime […]

“Cold-blooded murder”

Over the past two months, Donald Trump has killed 46 civilians in 10 separate airstrikes against what he claims, without evidence, to be “narcoterrorist” drug boats.1 It’s “cold-blooded murder,” in the words of Professor David Cole from the Georgetown University Law Center.2 Then on Friday, Trump escalated his […]

Why I Talk About Agorism

Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Why I Talk About Agorism The Corbett Report Oct 26 READ IN APP by James Corbett corbettreport.com October 26, 2025 The always provocative (and thought-provoking) Larken Rose recently posted a video, “Why I Don’t Talk About Agorism.” If you haven’t seen […]

2 pm Eastern 10/25/25: Round-Table #139: Should Mastery of Civics be tied to Voting Rights?

I will be joined by Keith Preston, Florian, and Alek to discuss whether or not a mastery of civics should be a prerequisite for voting rights. My Contact Info: Locals: https://praiseoffolly.locals.com/ X:   / pofpodcast   Telegram: t.me/PraiseOfFolly_1511 Facebook:   / praiseoffollypodcast   BuyMeACoffe: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/PraiseOf… Subscribe Star: https://www.subscribestar.com/PraiseO… Substack: https://substack.com/profile/40985862… Email: tertullian155@protonmail.com Co-Host Contact […]

The Future of Philosophical Anarchism: Subgenres, Integration, and the Evolution of Political Consciousness

Troy Keith Preston Oct 25, 2025 Philosophical Anarchism and Its Global Implications Philosophical anarchism, as articulated by thinkers such as William Godwin, Robert Paul Wolff, Roderick Long, and Carole Pateman, holds that no state or government possesses legitimate moral authority over the individual. Unlike revolutionary or insurrectionary anarchism, […]

Two killed in Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon; 41 patients in critical condition evacuated from Gaza; U.S. considers implementing a “Gaza Humanitarian Belt”

Drop Site Daily: October 24, 2025 Drop Site News Oct 24, 2025 41 critical patients evacuated from Gaza on Wednesday—the first medical evacuations since the ceasefire went into effect on October 10. Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud reports that no aid trucks have reached northern Gaza in 10 days. […]

Libertarian campaign

By Cake Boy The Libertarian Party in this country campaigns on an anti-bureaucracy slogan. They want to get a saw through the government and cut costs. Some things to say about this. Often, libertarians say they are against the government, but in reality, they don’t really act like […]

The Best Kind of Amnesia

The Best Kind of Amnesia Plus: Canal St. raids, Baumol effect, gun safety makes lefties angry, and more… LIZ WOLFE I’m forgetting we ever had a government: Isn’t it wild how the government shutdown keeps going on and on and yet it’s barely driving the news? To be […]

Dozens of unidentified bodies returned by Israel buried in a mass grave in Gaza; Trump seeks $230 million compensation for past federal investigations

Drop Site Daily: October 22, 2025 Drop Site News Oct 22, 2025 Gaza authorities bury 54 unidentified bodies handed over by Israel, some bearing signs of abuse and torture. The number of food trucks allowed into Gaza remains far below the required minimum as outlined in the ceasefire […]