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 […]

What’s Happening in Palestine?

Update on the evening of Day 4 of #Gaza escalation:— 950 injured and 126 killed (including 31 children and 20 women) since Israel’s ‘Operation Guardian of the Walls’ started in Gaza Israel intensifies attacks, — ‘worse than 2014 war’ —, continuing aerial bombardment using ‘insane force,’ flattening buildings. […]

The Spanish Civil War

By James Michael Yeoman The Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939 was one of the most significant moments in the history of anarchism. The outbreak of the conflict sparked a revolution, in which women and men inspired by anarchist ideas took control of the streets of Barcelona and the […]

Caught between Internationalism, Transnationalism and Immigration: A Brief Account of the History of Anarchism in Egypt until 1945

By Laura Galián, Costantino Paonessa Anarchism first appeared in the Southern Mediterranean countries at the end of the nineteenth century with the immigration of European workers and political exiles. Despite the important role anarchists played in introducing radical and revolutionary political thought in Egypt, only historians Anthony Gorman […]

Here Comes the ’70s

By Matthew Walter, The American Conservative It is somehow absurdly fitting that Joe Biden, who entered the United States Senate in 1973 at the age of 30 as an opponent of racial busing, is presiding over a return to the 1970s. The Seventies are one of the few […]