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Nexus X HumectressAnarchist 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 […]
Lots of pundits have lots of thoughts and feelings about how to fix the Democrats’ messaging problems. A recent Jacobin study charted one path forward, “Shorism” offers another. This week, Briahna Joy Gray spoke to Professor Ian Haney López, Earl Warren Professor of Public Law at UC Berkeley, […]
Don’t forget that the UAE has a lot of foreign workers who do all the hard work in very harsh conditions. Universal income should be a thing if automation becomes a threat for more basic jobs. Citizen’s dividends for using the natural resources of a country sounds like […]
To be clear: not because he actually gives a damn about Palestinians, Israelis, or human rights…but because it made his fragile ego look bad. A narcissist is as a narcissist does.
Eric Levitz, New York Mag/Intelligency In a recent column for The American Conservative, Helen Andrews argues that Reconstruction — that brief slice of the 19th century during which Black Southerners enjoyed extensive political rights under the aegis of Northern Republicans — was “objectively bad.” Further, she insists that […]
Prof Wolff explains all the ways the U.S. and China depend on one another for production, finance and economic access. This is one of the major differences between the Cold War politics between the U.S. and Soviet Union and what is happening today.
By Scott Schieman The Conversation A record share of American workers are quitting their jobs, thanks in part to a strong economy and a labor shortage. Does that mean Americans are unhappy with where they work? The answer would seem to be yes, according to many economists and […]
IFLScience.Com New Zealand has announced plans to make it legally impossible for the next generation of adults to purchase tobacco products as part of a drive to create a smoke-free country by 2025. Expected to come into force next year, the new legislation will see the legal smoking age […]
By Brendan O’Neill, Spiked Mandatory vaccination spells the violent end of European liberalism. Europe is on a precipice. It has marched, blindly, towards something very much resembling tyranny. Austria will shortly criminalise those who refuse the Covid vaccine. Germany looks set to follow. Ursula von der Leyen, president […]
By Dean Kuipers, The Nation What will it take for an emerging patchwork of co-ops, food hubs, and farming collectives to challenge Big Ag? Starting any farm is a crapshoot, but Reginaldo and Amy Haslett-Marroquin went the hard way right from the start. In the fall of 2020, […]
By Molly Crabapple, The Nation The 45 days of fierce protest, shrewd organizing, and ferocious solidarity that ended the debt nightmare that had engulfed the taxi industry. On September 19, a group of cab drivers organized by the New York Taxi Workers Alliance rolled up to the corner of […]
By Lesley Wroughton Washington Post CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Omicron appears to cause less severe illness than earlier variants of the coronavirus but is more resistant to the two-dose Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine widely used in South Africa, according to a major private study of the variant. The study […]
By Sarah Kaplan Washington Post The ice shelf was cracking up. Surveys showed warm ocean water eroding its underbelly. Satellite imagery revealed long, parallel fissures in the frozen expanse, like scratches from some clawed monster. One fracture grew so big, so fast, scientists took to calling it “the […]
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By Brigid Kennedy The Week The Jan. 6 House select committee made waves Monday night after revealing a slew of text messages sent to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows during the Capitol riot, urging him to convince then-President Donald Trump to denounce the attack. Everyone […]
By Joel Mathis The Week The decline of American Christianity is continuing apace. The Pew Research Center reports today that the number of self-identified Christians has declined by 12 percentage points since 2012, while religious “nones” have grown by 10 points during that time. (Other surveys have shown […]
By Damon Linker Listening to the right describe American reality today is a little like overhearing a mid-level military commander preparing a battalion for an upcoming fight to the death with a ruthless enemy: The stakes are enormous. The other side is incredibly powerful. They seek nothing less […]
Telos Press In today’s episode of the Telos Press Podcast, David Pan talks with Linus Recht about his article “After Desire: Foucault’s Ethical Critique of Psychological Man and the Foucauldian Ethos of the Internet Age,” from Telos 196 (Fall 2021). An excerpt of the article appears below. In their […]
On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX poll reveals Vice President Kamala Harris’ approval numbers are underwater but steady, at 43 percent support.
Krystal and Saagar weigh in on the Biden administration’s decision to resume collecting student loan payments early in 2022 despite the difficult economic conditions for recent college grads
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave react to reporting that before a tornado destroyed their factory, Mayfield candle factory workers were told they would be fired if they left work.
Krystal responds to a Fox News host who was gleeful over mass layoffs of employees via zoom at a fintech company run by a CEO with a history of abusive, fraudulent behavior
Kim Iversen breaks down liberal hypocrisy and the housing market.
Krystal and Saagar deliver the gruesome details of the indictment of a CNN producer for child sex crimes as the mainstream media downplays the issue of child sex trafficking
Briahna Joy Gray shares her reaction to the viral teacher ‘cash grab’ video out of South Dakota, as well as President Biden’s decision to not cancel student debt.
Krystal and Saagar welcome Lucas Kunce back to the show to discuss his populist Senate campaign in Missouri as a Democrat and the issues he is running on
Team Rising weighs in on Mark Meadows’ contempt charges in relation to the House investigation into January 6.
Krystal and Saagar provide an update on the congressional battles around the Build Back Better legislation now that Manchin has renewed concerns about the bill and progressives have no leverage
Ryan Grim breaks down more evidence of the bipartisan, bureaucratic effort to privatize Medicare.
Krystal and Saagar take an in depth look at the bipartisan corruption in congress as many politicians and staffers have made millions in illegal stock trades
Robby Soave makes the case against overreaction to the Omicron variant.
Saagar previews the streaming wars between independent media and mainstream media like CNN that will come to define the media landscape in the next few years
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss whether the Build Back Better bill will pass the Senate before Christmas, as well as the latest Supreme Court ruling on vaccine mandates.
Krystal and Saagar detail the physical and mental health crisis among young adults in America as record amounts are obese and depressed in response to generational challenges
Recorded on September 5, 2019. Peter Robinson opens the show by asking Thiel’s views on his own essay “The Straussian Moment.” (Essay link: https://www.evernote.com/shard/s542/c… responds by saying that people today believe in the power of the will but no longer trust the power of the intellect, the mind, […]
The Atlas Network’s Antonella Marty on the bad ideas that have undermined wealth and stability in the region.
Krystal and Saagar cover widespread corruption in Congress, Build Back Better legislation, health crisis in America, student debt payments returning, CNN producer pedophilia, Fox News cheering mass layoffs, streaming wars against mainstream media, Lucas Kunce’s populist Senate campaign, and more! Merch: https://breaking-points.myshopify.com/ Lucas Kunce’s Campaign: https://lucaskunce.com/ Corruption: https://www.businessinsider.com/finan… […]
By Greg Lukianoff Reason The P.C. culture of the ’80s and ’90s didn’t decline and fall. It just went underground. Now it’s back. The 1994 movie PCU, about a rebellious fraternity resisting its politically correct university, was a milestone. Not because the movie was especially good—it wasn’t. It […]
By Park MacDougald New York Magazine Earlier this week, the Washington, D.C., Ritz-Carlton hosted the National Conservatism Conference. Organized by Yoram Hazony, the Israeli conservative and author of The Virtue of Nationalism, the three-day gathering was intended to bring together leading right-wingers — Peter Thiel, Tucker Carlson, and […]
Futurism “I don’t mean to suggest chaos, but rather that you’re not under anyone’s thumb.” Tesla CEO Elon Musk isn’t one to follow rules, particularly when he thinks they’re bogus. The billionaire likes to envision a world, or perhaps a much smaller society on Mars, in which everybody […]
John McWhorter is an author, a member of the Persuasion Board of Advisors, a Columbia University linguist, and a columnist for The New York Times. His latest book, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America, argues that we must understand wokeness, quite literally, as a […]
By William S. Lind, Traditional Right Rightly, American parents are up in arms over the teaching of “Critical Race Theory” to their children in public schools. When the left denies this is happening, they are lying. In fact, the situation is much worse than most parents know. Public […]
By Guilherme Falleiros and Katiuscia M Galhera ‘The Fordist baggage of anarcho-syndicalism’, by Ben Debney (see Anarchist Studies Blog), argues that anarcho-syndicalism was unable to keep pace with mutations in the labor sphere due to an assumed Fordist paradigm. This article takes as a starting point the fact […]
By Pierre Lemieux On the Versailles Palace, transformed into a museum in the 1830s by the “King-Citizen” Louis Philippe, stands the inscription À toutes les gloires de la France (“To All the Glories of France”). Many rulers in history have illustrated, some more savagely than others, a truth that […]
By David Cole, Taki’s Throughout my life, I’ve often been accused of lacking empathy. It’s a critique that goes back to high school, when I was a compassionless bully. And I’ll admit, I do have an empathy problem, but only when it comes to imbeciles. I just can’t […]
By Ruth Milkman Dissent The 1960s effort to end discriminatory quotas sowed the seeds of the political conflicts over immigration that are still with us today. The Walls Within: The Politics of Immigration in Modern America by Sarah R. Coleman Princeton University Press, 2021, 272 pp. I vividly […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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