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Nexus X HumectressOne of the neocons’ intellectual godfathers. Know your enemy. By Grant Haver The political theorist Leo Strauss (1899-1973) is perhaps an unlikely subject for Chronicles’ “Remembering the Right” series. Although no one can deny the extensive influence of his ideas on the conservative (and later, neoconservative) movement in […]
Trumpism is dividing the evangelicals. By D.G. Hart, The American Conservatism Since Ronald Reagan’s defeat of Jimmy Carter in 1980, evangelical Protestants have been a seemingly solid segment within American conservatism. “Seemingly” is important, because conservatives often scratch their heads at evangelical habits of mind. Some of the […]
Now that “woke capitalism” is becoming hegemonic, the right-wing is developing anti-capitalist ideas. Hilarious. By Curt Mills, The American Conservative Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Justice Clarence Thomas signaled camaraderie Monday with those who would check corporate power. Two events came to pass Monday that, for now, […]
The fact that this legislation could not pass even in Arkansas, with a governor who is a former head of the DEA, indicates that the “cultural left” (or at least cultural liberalism) is now almost completely hegemonic, with the exception of peripheral institutional, socioeconomic, subcultural, and geographical sectors. […]
This article contains a fairly interesting critique of the police/carceral state from a “culturally conservative” perspective. If we can get the Left and Right hating the prison-industrial complex with equal fervor, then we’ve got something. By Stephen Baskerville, Chronicles The left’s new monopoly cannot be resisted without breaking […]
By Eric Kolenich, Richmond Times Dispatch In the first 10 months of the pandemic, 2.8 million people died in the United States, a 23% increase over a typical timespan, according to a Virginia Commonwealth University study published Friday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The number […]
By Colin Jenkins Anarchy is synonymous with chaos and disorder. It is a term that stands in direct contrast to the archetype of society we have become accustomed to: hierarchical, highly structured, and authoritative. Because of this, it carries negative connotations. Merriam-Webster, the consensus source of meaning within […]
Krystal Ball explains why the housing market is booming for those in the upper middle class and breaks down what it means for costs of homes in the future.
Anthony Ince, Kulturgeografiska Institutionen, Stockholms Universitet Forthcoming (2014) in Levy C and Newman S (eds.) The Anarchist Imagination: Anarchism Encounters the Humanities and Social Sciences. London: Routledge. I first realized that I wanted to become a geographer when I read Tearing Down the Streets , by the anarchist Jeff […]
By Matt Taibbi “Meet the Censored” will now come out in sets of left and right bans, in the (probably vain) hope that fewer people will cheer news of deletions and suspensions. For roughly half a year, I’ve been running a series of interviews here on TK called […]
By Peter R. Quinones As I was coming out of the grocery store today I saw one of the blue, “will not provide protection against COVID” masks on the ground. I see them discarded on the ground all the time and I ask myself, if this virus is […]
A review of: Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Postcolonial World (1870-1940): The Praxis of National Liberation, Internationalism, and Social LiberationEdited by Steven Hirsch and Lucien van der Walt; with a Foreword by Benedict Anderson Abstract: The volume under review is a very informative and, an immenselythought-provoking […]
Team Rising reacts to DNC Chair Jaime Harrison’s comment on the future of the Democratic Party.
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti break down the latest updates in the Gaetz scandal, including statements from accused extorter.
Let’s be clear..we’ve all seen the video by now. It’s obvious that these police officers killed George Floyd. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner, and the independent medical examiner hired by the family of George Floyd, Dr. Michael Baden, have concluded that his death was a homicide….but their opinion […]
The murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin began its second week, following five days of raw and emotional testimony. Chauvin, who was seen in disturbing videos kneeling on Floyd’s neck, is charged with second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. He has pleaded not guilty. […]
In the trial of Derek Chauvin, a use-of-force instructor said the neck restraint used on George Floyd would not have been authorized.
https://media.urmedium.com/video//2021/04/06/637533095099479720video.mp4 An informed source tells Press TV that the only way the United States could see Iran stop its countermeasures under the 2015 nuclear deal is for Washington to lift all the sanctions it imposed on the Islamic Republic in the aftermath of its withdrawal from the agreement […]
Michael Lind, author of The New Class War: Saving Democracy from the Managerial Elite, returns to The Realignment to discuss the end of the Trump administration, and the start of the Biden presidency. He also expands on his formulation that “neoliberalism is the disease, populism is the symptom, […]
By Claire Boine, Michael Siegel, Craig Ross, Eric W. Fleegler & Ted Alcorn We developed empirical methods to identify variations in elements of gun culture across states. Using these methods, we then analyzed the prominence of these subcultures between states and over time from 1998 through 2016. Using state-level […]
An interview with Michael Lind from January. In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Michael Lind, the author of “The New Class War”, to discuss the recent riots in the nation’s capital and to examine how it is that America arrived at such a violent […]
By George Petras, Karina Zaiets and Veronica Bravo, USA TODAY Nearly 20 months after the Sept. 11 attacks, President George W. Bush stood on an aircraft carrier under a giant “Mission Accomplished” banner and declared “major combat operations in Iraq have ended.” Nearly 18 years later, the U.S. is […]
The right thinks she’s the next Che Guevara and the corporate Dems think she’s a Twitch streamer.
The Minneapolis police chief, Medaria Arradondo rebuked Derek Chauvin’s use of force in the arrest of George Floyd.
Police Chief Arradondo testified on the unusual custodial arrest of George Floyd who had been accused of using a counterfeit $20 bill.
Minneapolis Police Chief Arradondo testified on the use of force policy at the trial of Derek Chauvin.
The emergency room doctor who pronounced George Floyd dead said oxygen deficiency was the likely cause of death
Homer, The Minotaur, 300 spartans, Greek theatre, Parthenon, democracy — everything that you once knew, but forgot.
Caesar, The Colosseum, Republic, Nero, geese, plebeians, legions – everything that you once knew, but forgot.
Team Rising reacts to Hunter Biden’s comments on his laptop controversy.
By Andrew Sullivan, The Spectator When I finally head back to church this weekend, after a year of Covid-avoidance, it is going to feel a little strange. These past 12 months constitute the longest stretch of time I’ve been away since I was born. And I’m not going […]
I agree that the USSR was not state-capitalist. What we have in the USA is state capitalism. I consider Soviet-type economies to be party/military/state/bureaucratic dictatorships but not “capitalist.” If anything, I would compare them to ancient tyrannies like Egypt and Babylon.
Team Rising discusses AOC’s donations to Democratic colleagues facing reelection this midterm cycle.
American mathematician, cultural critic, and founder of New Discourses, James Lindsay joins Michael this week for a discussion on critical race theory and its warning signs, the theory’s parallels to Soviet logic, which philosophers were merely rationalizing their own pathologies, how language is often used as code to […]
By Jon Mitimore, Foundation for Economic Education Nearly 3 million Americans are being vaccinated against COVID-19 each day, but the “return to normal” may not be as close as many hope. A new survey shows many Americans have concerns about interacting with others once the pandemic is over. […]
By Paul Bedard, Washington Secrets Columnist For the second time in three months, the FBI broke its record for gun sales, concealed carry, and other firearms background checks in March. The National Instant Criminal Background Check System conducted 4,691,738 checks, an all-time high. It broke the record set […]
Journalist, Zaid Jilani, discusses the recent attack at the Capitol that left one Capitol Police officer dead, another injured.
I suspect the breakup of the US will not be nearly as neat and tidy as that author hopes. This is not 1860. The divisions are not regional or even urban/rural. Instead, it’s going to be a matter of block by block, street by street, neighbor by neighbor, […]
Krystal Ball outlines Donald Trump’s history of fraud, from Trump University to ‘Stop the Steal’.
Dr. Bret Weinstein, visiting fellow at the James Madison Program at Princeton, discusses the possibility of COVID leaking from a lab.
Assistant editor at American Greatness, Pedro Gonzalez, discusses how Trump is misusing money donated to his PAC, Trump’s Save America.
By Stephanie Pagones, FOX News He might be the most hated man in the room depending on where he goes, but Andy Ngô has undoubtedly amassed a tremendous following for his experience covering the ins and outs of Antifa. The born-and-raised Portlander and second-generation Vietnamese American, a conservative journalist who […]
Saagar Enjeti breaks down the controversy surrounding the new Georgia voter laws.
By Jamie Watters, The Guardian Asexual representation is becoming more common – but the orientation is still widely misunderstood. Not wanting sex is not the same as not wanting romance or intimacy – something, its advocates say, the rest of us would benefit from learning Yasmin Benoit realised […]
By J.D. Tuccille, Reason It’s good fun to mock politicians’ inability to keep their pants on and to wage culture war against those awful people on the other side of the political divide, but at some point we’re going to have to pay some attention to a growing […]
By Thomas L. Knapp, Garrison Center Derek Chauvin’s current defenses: 1) I didn’t do what you saw me do. 2) If I did do what you saw me do, what you saw me do did not kill George Floyd. 3) If I did do what you saw me […]
By Zoe Corbyn, The Observer The professor of environmental medicine explains how chemicals in plastics are causing our fertility to decline – and what we can do about it. Shanna Swan is a professor of environmental medicine and public health at Mount Sinai school of medicine in New […]
By Hannah Beech, New York Times Myanmar’s security forces have killed more than 40 children since February. Here is the story of one, Aye Myat Thu. She was 10. In the swelter of the hot season, U Soe Oo cracked open the coconut with practiced blows of his […]
By Stephen Johnson, Big Think Scientists printed a 3D replica of the vocal tract of Nesyamun, an Egyptian priest whose mummified corpse has been on display in the UK for two centuries. With the help of an electronic device, the reproduced voice is able to “speak” a vowel […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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