Breaking Points: Christmas Special Full UNCUT Show

Krystal and Saagar talk about the Don’t Look Up Netflix film, warmongering on Tucker Carlson’s show, Bill Burr roasting cable news, Fed involvement in Whitmer kidnapping plot, and more! Merch: https://breaking-points.myshopify.com/ Warrior Met Fund: https://umwa.org/umwa2021strikefund/ Daily Poster: https://www.dailyposter.com/ Timestamps: Don’t Look Up: 0:00 – 11:47 Tucker: 11:48 – […]

The Shock of Victory

This is a 2009 article from the late anarchist anthropologist David Graeber, who died last year,  and who was probably as influential as any anarchist in the 21st century so far. I am posting this because the third section of this piece, the discussion of anarchism in the […]

Is 2022 a lost year for the Democrats?

By W. James Antle III, The Week Democrats find themselves wishing for a happy New Year after 2021 sputtered to a disappointing conclusion with their sprawling climate and social welfare proposal not keeping up the legislative momentum by also reaching President Biden’s desk. But it’s not clear things will get […]

The Black Core of the Culture War

By Joshua Adams, The Nation Something happened to Black discourse on the way to the backlash—and that’s no joke. US politics has been deluged by heated debates surrounding cancel culture, “wokeness,” and critical race theory. What do these three topics have in common? Some would say that they […]

The New Dark Ages

By Joel Kotkin If ignorance is bliss, the Western world should be ecstatic. Even as colleges churn out degrees and collect fees, and technology makes information instantly accessible, the basic level of literacy, as measured by such things as reading books and acquainting oneself with the past, is […]

Our Neo-Feudal Future

By Joel Kotkin America has only a limited feudal past, the plantation aristocracy of the antebellum South and the enormous class chasms of the Gilded Age being pretty much our only examples. Yet today—after decades of social mobility, a digital revolution that was supposed to empower individuals everywhere, […]

Joe Manchin for President

By Ryan Grim, The Intercept Lyndon B. Johnson, a giant of American politics, recognized a political opportunity and reoriented. Manchin would rather be the man riding the bomb to the ground. When Lyndon B. Johnson took over leadership of the Senate Democratic caucus in the early 1950s, anybody […]