What Can We Learn from Utopians of the Past?

By Adam Gopnick, New Yorker Michael Robertson’s “The Last Utopians: Four Late Nineteenth-Century Visionaries and Their Legacy” (Princeton) is instructive and touching, if sometimes inadvertently funny. The instructive parts rise from Robertson’s evocation and analysis of a series of authors who aren’t likely to be well known to […]

White Nationalism as a Deracinated Subculture

This is a pretty interesting academic presentation on the “white nationalist” subculture. Ironically, the anarchist and “white power” subcultures mirror each other in many ways, however much they may hate each other. This video is dedicated to all post-alt-righters, and for those who still think anti-liberalism, and the […]

Don’t call Israel an apartheid state

I would agree with this only in the sense that the occupied territories are less like the former South African apartheid and more like the Warsaw Ghetto. By Giles Fraser, The Unherd Arnold Schwarzenegger meant well, but there was nonetheless something ill-judged about his borrowing the term Kristallnacht to […]

Eldridge Cleaver: The Mormon Years

By Jesse Walker, Reason When Eldridge Cleaver ascended the Marriott Center stage on June 28, 1981, the Black Panther Party wasn’t quite dead. The organization’s last remnants were running an alternative school in Oakland, California, and that final Panther project didn’t peter out until 1982. But Cleaver, who […]

Farewell, Jeff Bezos

By Dan Hitchens, The American Conservative In October 1994, a husband-and-wife startup in Washington state hired its first employee, a computer programmer called Shel Kaphan. Kaphan wasn’t sure about the startup’s business model—selling books on the “worldwide web”—or its name, Cadabra, which sounded a bit too much like […]

Black, Brown and extremist: Across the far-right spectrum, people of color play a more visible role

The social science evidence is overwhelming that ideologies, political and economic interest groups, subcultures,  personality types, and psychological frameworks are replacing traditional categories (race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, religion, etc) as the basis of conflict in the US. The traditional categories still exist, and they are still an […]

Attack the System S2: E15

Thursdays the 13th, origins of Friday the 13th, significance of the number 12 in astrotheology, the biblical character Judas, Derek Chauvin and his co-defendants are indicted on federal civil rights charges, legal meaning of double jeopardy, the Rodney King case from 1991/92, LA riots in 1992, the attack […]

Down with Woke Imperialism!

By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I am a transwoman of no color. I am an agoraphobic welfare queen. I am a genderqueer millennial who has been diagnosed with virtually every mental illness in the DSM. I am intersectional but my existence is not […]