David Brooks’ Love Affair

By Emile Doak, The American Conservative Conservatism is alive and well. David Brooks is a scorned lover. This refers not to the circumstances surrounding his divorce from his wife of twenty-seven years, finalized in 2014 while he was writing The Road to Character. No, Brooks has instead been […]

Capitol rioter who flew to DC on a private jet says she’s preparing for her 60-day sentence by learning prison slang and meeting consultants

By Sophia Ankel Yahoo News/Business Insider A woman who pleaded guilty in the Capitol riot is preparing for prison. Jenna Ryan told Insider she’d been researching what life was like behind bars. Ryan said she was watching YouTube videos, learning slang, and speaking with prison consultants. A Capitol […]

Springtime of Nations: Tigray

By Charlie Lee Springtime of Nations When Classical Liberalism first gained prominence as a political movement in Europe and the Western Hemisphere in general, the ideology was closely tied to national struggles for independence against large empires. Aside from the liberal nature of the American Revolution, the wars […]

Karen Army Captures Burmese Army Base

By Charlie Lee Pansecession News from AP: While defenseless city dwellers are massacred by the Burmese military dictatorship, the rekindled fight for Karen Independence has born fruit: An important army base was captured near the border with Thailand. The Two freedom fighting factions have began to form a […]

Springtime of Nations: Puerto Rico

By Charlie Lee, Springtime of Nations The face of socialism in America is the fiery Puerto Rican congresswoman, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez. One of her many publicity stunts involved attacking Donald Trump and the Republicans for the lethargic pace of cleanup and aid efforts after Hurricane Maria struck the […]

Springtime of Nations: Bougainville

By Charlie Lee, Springtime of Nations All of our previous entries in this series have discussed current and therefore not yet successful struggles against imperialist states. Today however, we get to talk about a movement that fought for secession and won. This week, Bougainville. You probably haven’t heard […]

Afropessimism and Its Discontents

By Greg Tate, The Nation A guide for the perplexed, the puzzled, and the politically confused. Afropessimism is all the rage among millennial Black academics and activists—most notably among Black feminist critical race theorists, who themselves are now the prime targets of the MAGA crowd. Black intellectuals haven’t […]