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Nexus X HumectressIt’s interesting to compare this piece by Williamson likening the J6ers to the Bolshies with Michael Lind’s piece at Tablet comparing the BLM/Antifa/whoever with the Jacobins. Both of these analogies may work on a remote or peripheral level, but those who are always looking to foreign examples to […]
Tulsi Gabbard continues to speak out in defense of Julian Assange. This is a mashup of her statement today plus previous statements the past few years. To my knowledge, Bernie and the squad remain silent.
On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX poll shows President Joe Biden’s approval rating has slightly improved.
Kim Iversen breaks down New Zealand’s newest public health policy.
Is football the next target of totalitarian humanism? By Joel Mathis The Week In April, Phillip Adams killed six people — including two children, ages 9 and 5 — then turned the gun on himself, dying at the age of 32. On Tuesday, we learned a likely reason […]
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave discuss whether public health officials should spend more time seeking effective treatments for COVID, not just preventatives.
By Damon Linker, The Week So now we know: Although Fox News’ primetime message for much of the past year has been that Democrats are wildly exaggerating the seriousness of the insurrection that took place on Capitol Hill last Jan. 6, major figures at the network — including […]
By Brigid Kennedy The Week Celebrated author, professor, critic, and feminist bell hooks died Wednesday at her home in Kentucky, the Lexington Herald-Leader confirms. She was 69. According to a press release from her niece Ebony Motley, hooks had been ill, and died surrounded by friends and family. […]
Julian Assange’s brother, Gabriel Shipton, details how the Wikileaks founder is faring after his stroke.
By Brendan Morrow The Week Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted for the murder of George Floyd, has now also pleaded guilty to violating Floyd’s civil rights. Chauvin on Wednesday pleaded guilty to the federal charges, changing his previous plea of not guilty, NBC News reports. […]
Team Rising debates whether pro-Trump Republicans will be able to take down Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Robby Soave looks back on the 2018 net neutrality debate.
Ryan Grim breaks down his ideas for how to salvage the CMMI’s direct contracting model.
By Bonnie Kristian, The Week The war in Afghanistan was the longest in U.S. history. The war in Iraq has killed perhaps as many as a million people. U.S. support for the Saudi-led coalition intervention in Yemen’s civil war contributed to the most acute humanitarian crisis on the […]
Hillary reminds me of a queen from medieval times who would rather let the whole kingdom burn down if she can’t have it all. At this point it’s charitable to assume bad faith. I really think she is just that crazy.
By Damon Linker, The Week It didn’t take long following the shocking events of Jan. 6 for journalists to begin referring to what transpired on Capitol Hill that afternoon as an “insurrection.” Some on the right dissented from the term, insisting it was merely a popular protest against […]
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave weigh in on the Senate debt ceiling vote, as well as Pfizer’s efforts to earn FDA approval for their antiviral Covid treatment.
By Samuel Goldman The Week It’s getting worse. While the basic storyline holds true, new information revealed by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot deepens our understanding of the final weeks of the Trump presidency. In its report recommending contempt of Congress charges against Chief of […]
Krystal and Saagar look at how Sarah Silverman responded to the backlash she received after calling out Joy Reid’s misleading coverage on her primetime MSNBC show
We’ve said it before when Chinese officials warn the public about something, it means that the problem can no longer be contained. After the Chinese government released the economic data for the third quarter of 2021, the official Chinese media warned the public to be careful about the […]
By Michael Lind, Tablet The iconoclastic gestures of the woke left bear an alarming resemblance to the excesses of the French Revolution. I spent the first third of my career among conservatives and the next two-thirds among progressives. At first, I thought both parties were equally cynical and […]
This is what I thought would happen in response to “defund the police.” I suspected there would be a decrease in policing in predominantly lower-income urban areas, followed by rising crime rates (which are fueled by pandemic and economic conditions as well), followed by renewed calls for law […]
By Andrew Curry, Science Stories of Sparta aside, analysis questions idea that infirm infants were abandoned to die. In his biography Life of Lycurgus, written around 100 C.E., Greek philosopher Plutarch recounted how the ancient Spartans submitted newborns to a council of elders for inspection. “Fit and strong” […]
By Harrison Abbott Newsweek Prominent streamer Hasan Piker has been banned from Twitch, after reportedly violating the platform’s code of conduct. If you are not familiar with Piker — alternatively known by his username HasanAbi — he is a left-wing commentator and former journalist for both The Young […]
By Shane Trotter, Quillette When people lose the connection between their actions and their consequences, they lose their hold on reality and the further this goes the more it looks like madness. ~Robert Greene A recent study conducted at the Naval Academy showed that students learn less from […]
Back in the late eighties/early nineties, all these bands constantly championed freedom of speech, free expression and hated the idea of censorship. It was all about freedom and ‘f**k you to the man. That attitude suited them when they were considered ‘fringe’ back in the day. The conservatives […]
By Kyle Lawson, Staten Island Advance, N.Y. A provocative Instagram video from 2019 shows Staten Island House of Representatives candidate Brittany Ramos DeBarros stripping and twerking at a 2019 anti-war, pro-veteran event. The video depicts DeBarros, a Democratic Socialist and former Army officer, at one point pulling off […]
By Phillip Magness & Graham Walker, Independent Institute This Lighthouse Briefing video features Independent Institute Executive Director Dr. Graham H. Walker and Independent Research Fellow Dr. Phillip W. Magness discussing Dr. Magness’s article, “Case for Mask Mandate Rests on Bad Data,” including the politicization of science, the folly […]
By Graham Walker and Christopher Coyne, Independent Institute “Infectious Diseases and Government Growth,” by Christopher J. Coyne, Nathan P. Goodman, and Abigail Deveraux (The Independent Review, Spring 2021) In early 2020, COVID-19 emerged from China. In response, and at the urging of the World Health Organization (WHO), governments […]
By Mary L. G. Theroux and Graham H. Walker, Independent Institute In response to 400 known cases and 5 deaths from coronavirus in the San Francisco Bay Area, on March 16th Bay Area city and county governments panicked and overreacted by ordering a “Shelter in Place” mandate that […]
By AMY FORLITI, Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal charges of violating George Floyd’s civil rights, averting a trial but likely extending the time he is already spending behind bars on a state conviction. Chauvin, who […]
Whatever the relationship between the policies of these “progressive prosecutors” and crime rates, it needs to be pointed out that the present surge in crime rates began during the same period as the pandemic and its related social and economic effects. Whatever one’s positions on criminal justice or […]
Tom Woods Show Anne Hendershott, a professor of sociology at the University of Steubenville, discusses the academic and cultural efforts to normalize pedophilia. LISTEN HERE
These kinds of lawsuits are essentially a means of getting around the First Amendment. Government cannot legally ban political organizations, so they simply try to sue them into oblivion instead. By Andy Sullivan Washington DC WASHINGTON, Dec 14 (Reuters) – The city of Washington, D.C., sued right-wing groups […]
If you’re looking to verify a claim, you ought to research and check supporting statistics. In this video, Andrew shares twenty reasons why the USA is no longer the number one country in the world.
For quite some time, we’ve been saying that governments will be looking for more ways to take away your passport(s) and freedom. In this video, Andrew shares just another example of it.
By Dani Alexis Ryskamp The Atlantic The most famous dysfunctional family of 1990s television enjoyed, by today’s standards, an almost dreamily secure existence. The most famous dysfunctional family of 1990s television enjoyed, by today’s standards, an almost dreamily secure existence that now seems out of reach for all […]
By Bernadette Hogan, Reuven Fenton and Bruce Golding New York Post County officials statewide opposed to Gov. Kathy Hochul’s mask mandate called it “silly,” “misguided” and “unenforceable” on Tuesday — with one rejecting it as “Gestapo tactics” and another saying “we’re not going to become the mask police.” […]
By Kenneth Garger New York Post A Putnam County police officer was arrested Tuesday for allegedly providing protection to a Queens-based sex trafficking ring in exchange for sexual favors, prosecutors said. Wayne Peiffer, a Village of Brewster police officer, was among six suspects indicted in Brooklyn federal court […]
People are usually either annoying or forgettable. Hillary Clinton manages to pull off both at once.
Imagine needing a coup to save yourself from Sleepy Joe…
By Monique Beals, The Hill A Pew Research Center poll published Tuesday indicates that the number of people in the U.S. who describe themselves as religiously unaffiliated increased by 6 points in the last five years and 10 points in the last decade. When asked about their religious identity, […]
The latest neocon front project. By Josh Hammer, Newsweek In the 2016 Republican Party presidential primary, decades of dissonance between the party’s aggrieved grassroots and its blinkered elite spilled out into the open. For years, the chasm widened between the GOP’s heartland base, the river valley-dwelling “Somewheres” from […]
Kyle Strickland, Deputy Director, Race and Democracy at the Roosevelt Institute joins The Realignment to build upon last week’s episode with John McWhorter.
By Caroline Mimbs Nyce The Atlantic “He’s got to condemn this shit ASAP,” Donald Trump Jr. purportedly texted about his father to then–Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, as rioters smashed their way into the U.S. Capitol building on January 6, 2020. But in the months that followed, Republicans […]
Anarchist News from Libertarian Labyrinth Embracing Anarchy — Becoming Anarchists, Constructing Anarchisms Introduction: We become anarchists by embracing and internalizing anarchy. We express that internalized anarchy by constructing anarchisms. I take this to be a kind of general formula, describing the relations between three key concepts — anarchy, […]
Anarchist News Mutual aid has been in the spotlight recently in light of the current crisis, but what exactly does it mean? And what makes it a powerful form of anarchist praxis unique from charity and volunteering? Well, ‘mutual aid’ is essentially the very radical notion that co-operation, rather […]
Father Steven Allen(Orthodox Truth) Recently, while in Serbia to visit family, I had the pleasure of giving two lectures to an association of young people dedicated to Orthodoxy, monarchism, and Serbian patriotism. As are we here in the States, they also are facing the prospect of persecution by […]
Anarchist News What are the consequences of becoming an anarchist earlier in life vs. later? Which of these options better describes your path? How can diverse entryways influence new forms of anarchy? Motivations for wanting to rebel can differ with age. A younger person might seek to escape […]
By Bryan Caplan, EconoLib A few weeks ago, Robin Hanson posed a lunchtime challenge: What is the difference between Left and Right? The point of the question, of course, is not to explain how every self-styled leftist differs from every self-styled rightist. The point is to identify unifying […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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