Conservative thinkers, ideologues announce creation of ‘fiercely independent’ University of Austin alternative college

Most of the people associated with this project are not conservatives. They’re mostly liberals, centrists, and center-right types. This is not Liberty University, Brigham Young, or even Hillsdale College. Although I am skeptical of the viability of this project, I’m for as much diversity of education as possible. […]

The once and future idiot king

The article inadvertently explains why Trump is a useful barrier to the return of the Bush/Cheney/neocon regime of the early 2000s. By Damon Linker, The Week Donald Trump is many things, but he is first and foremost a moron. This doesn’t mean he isn’t other things as well […]

Florida will consider removing itself from OSHA, banning employer vaccine mandates in special legislative session

Florida removing itself from OSHA is an interesting example of moderate, intermediary-level pan-secessionism. By Jim Turner, Orlando Weekly The Florida House and Senate on Monday rolled out proposals for a special legislative session next week that will focus on opposing COVID-19 vaccine and mask mandates. A series of […]

A Bungle of Boomers

By Peter Zeihan Today, the United States faces its tightest-ever labor force. It is about to get substantially worse. Every country has its own demographic profile, a balance across its entire population structure from children all the way up to retirees. Learn to read that profile and you […]

David Graeber’s Possible Worlds

By Molly Fischer, Intelligencer The Dawn of Everything author left behind countless fans and a belief society could still change for the better. Lately it has seemed possible that everything must change. Basic fixtures of American life, rules and institutions that had come to feel inevitable — in […]

Breaking Points: 11/9/21 Full UNCUT Show

Krystal and Saagar talk about the grim new polling for Biden, Elon Musk’s tax avoidance, Travis Scott’s role in the Astroworld tragedy, a new Pete Buttigieg documentary, IDW University launching in Austin, the upcoming Winter heating crisis, woke racism after Virginia, Russiagate fraud with Glenn Greenwald, and more! […]

How (Not) to Abolish The Police

Crimethinc There has been lot of talk about police abolition over the past year and a half. But very different proposals coincide under this language. The coming years could see the phasing out of police departments—and in their place, an array of other agencies, activists, psychiatrists, and neighborhood […]