The Infantilization of Western Culture

By Simon Gottschalk, Professor of Sociology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas If you regularly watch TV, you’ve probably seen a cartoon bear pitching you toilet paper, a gecko with a British accent selling you auto insurance and a bunny in sunglasses promoting batteries. This has always struck me […]

GENUINE DECOLONIZATION

An interesting piece from a Canadian anarchist named Larry Gambone. It’s rare that you find anyone from the Left who recognizes that colonialism began not with the Age of Exploration but with the Roman conquest of the indigenous peoples of Eurasia. Early modern era colonialism was just the […]

The American Right Hits Its Hippie Phase

By Kevin Williamson, National Review As Democrats embrace authority and Republicans push countercultural revolution, we’re reenacting the 1960s with the roles reversed. The Republicans are having a Dionysian moment. Who’d’ve thunk? In ye olden days when American intellectuals wrote provocative books that people read and sometimes fought over […]

Sen. Morrissey, small-business owners gather in Richmond to highlight negative impact of skill games ban on their businesses

An interesting article that illustrates how capitalism works in the real world. As Virginia has expanded large gambling operations, the state has moved to shut down their smaller competitors. By Colbi Edmonds  Richmond Times-Dispatch Around 100 small-business owners from Virginia joined Sen. Joe Morrissey, D-Richmond, for a news […]

THOUGHTS ON THE ‘ABOLITION OF WORK’

Obviously, work can’t merely be “abolished.” No matter how much automation, driverless trucks, robots, etc we use to eliminate “work,” somebody still has to design, build, and maintain the technology behind all that. And in the present system, the more automation we have, the more unemployment we’re going […]

TYT Echoes Katzenberg on Anti-Camping Law

The Young Turks have revealed themselves to be total con artists who are functioning as Katzenberg mouthpieces. Last month, TYT-investor Jeffrey Katzenberg successfully lobbied the Los Angeles City Council to pass an anti-camping ordinance targeting LA’s homeless community. Less than 3 weeks prior to the ordinance being passed, […]

The Status of America’s Global Influence

Geopolitical expert, Peter Zeihan, author of Disunited Nations: The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World, joins hosts Dennis McCuistion and Jim Falk for lively and very “counterintuitive arguments about the future of a world where trade agreements are coming apart and international institutions are losing their power.” […]