The Return of the Quiet American

By James Carden, The American Conservative Anyone who has spent enough time in Washington or has even a cursory familiarity with the professional functionaries who staff the foreign policy and national security apparatus here will have encountered, at one time or another, well-intentioned, seemingly humble, painfully earnest bureaucrats […]

Pandemic Responses and the Risk of Dictatorship

TELOS Press On The Agenda with Steve Paikin, the discussion about governmental responses to the COVID-19 pandemic turned to Thomas Brussig’s recent editorial “Risk More Dictatorship,” originally published in the Süddeutsche Zeitung and translated into English in TelosScope. Listen to the discussion below (beginning at 15:01), and read […]

FB, Amazon Become TOP LOBBYISTS In DC

As I have predicted, the tech-oligarchs and media oligarchs are starting to eclipse the rest of the capitalist class as the dominant faction in the power elite, although the financial, fossil fuels and armaments industries are still highly significant, of course. The tech-oligarchs and financial industries are primarily […]

Climate Policy: COVID on Steroids?

Joel Kotkin on the eco-fascist wing of totalitarian humanism. By Joel Kotkin For most people around the world, the Covid-19 pandemic seems a great human tragedy, with deaths, bankruptcies, and fractured mental states. Yet for some, especially among the green Twitterati and in some policy shops, the pandemic […]

The COVID Class War Heats Up

Michael Lind nails it again. By Michael Lind, Tablet The bitter debate over lockdowns and mask mandates in America is not just another polarizing culture war between left and right. It also has elements of a class war. But it’s not the class war you might think it […]

Forget the Sinophobia

My view on China is simply that they’re just another province in global capitalism that largely functions as an economic colony for the hegemonic powers. China’s role in the global economy is to provide cheap labor for Western corporations and cheap loans to Western governments. Its “social credit […]

Will GOP EVER Actually Support Unions?

No. The Republicans are and always have been a “business first” bourgeois liberal party ever since they were founded in the 1850s. Some of their politicians may adopt some faux-populist, faux Christian Democratic, or faux Ordoliberal rhetoric for tactical reasons, maybe throw a few crumbs here and there, […]