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Nexus X Humectress–Chris Smalls, former Amazon employee who has become a leader of the e-commerce labor rights movement, joins David to discuss his activism, time working at Amazon, and much more
From what I can gather “wokesters” come in at least five basic categories: ruling class elements seeking to incorporate progressive movements from recent decades into their self-legitimating ideology; professional class ladder-climbers engaged in virtue-signaling; quasi-religious zealots bent on moral purity akin to the Mormons and their “words of […]
A comment on social media sums up US politics perfectly, both mainstream and marginal. “Watching people shift from arguing about the merits of pop-punk to which strain of Marxism they like the best without changing tone or argumentation method is a real headfuck.” Says another commenter: “I’ve compared […]
Ironically, Donald Trump was the first US president to formally recognize an anarchist polity. By Matthew Singer, Williamette Week Portland, it’s finally safe to come out from your panic bunker: There is no more anarchy in PDX. Not officially, anyway. On Wednesday, President Joe Biden issued an executive order repealing several actions implemented by […]
I don’t think this is entirely implausible.
Saagar Enjeti explains why those who control semiconductor production run the present and the future.
Imagine that. President and founder of The Center for the Studies of Partisanship and Ideology, Richard Hanania, explains where we are in the process of withdrawing US troops from Afghanistan.
Team Rising discusses what’s wrong with journalism today and who is to blame.
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss new Echelon Insights polling on voter priorities.
Investigative reporter at The Intercept, Ken Klippenstein, discusses the constitutionality of the FBI investigation into the Capitol riots.
Fracture, fracture, fracture… Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to Rep. Liz Cheney’s comments on Trump speaking at CPAC.
This is good. Host of The Bad Faith podcast, Briahna Joy Gray, discusses how the Biden White House is using identity politics to support their agenda.
As I’ve said before, some Republicans will increasingly embrace Christian Democrat or national-populist rhetoric as class divisions continue to widen. Team Rising discusses Republican plans for raising the minimum wage.
This is some important commentary. This is how Chinese or Saudi levels of censorship could make its way to the Western countries. Saagar Enjeti reacts to reports that Democratic members of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce wrote to Comcast, AT&T, Spectrum, Dish, Verizon, Cox and more […]
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss Biden’s failures in the first month of his presidency.
Interesting if true.
The SJW version of when the Falwellites were claiming the Teletubbies were turning kids gay.
I’ve noticed this change of terminology as well.
By Caitlin Johnstone The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that Arkansas’ anti-BDS law violates the First Amendment of the US Constitution, because it plainly does. “The Arkansas Times has successfully challenged a law that prohibits the state from doing business with companies that boycott Israel,” Mondoweiss reports. […]
By Peter R. Quinones This was my introduction at a fundraiser for Ross Ulbricht. Lyn, his mom, was sitting right in front of me as I delivered it. My good friend Vin Armani was there as well. I was just trying not to lose it. I did when […]
This debate was a reminder of why I prefer elite theory and institutional/behavioral economics rather than Marxism or Austrianism.
It’s funny how left and right are respectively blaming capitalism and socialism for the Texas blackout.
By Matt Purple, The American Conservative Before the current realignment but after the one Karl Rove tried to engineer, there was yet another attempt to realign American politics. A small crew of antiwar Republicans wanted to push the neoconservatives out of the party and maybe even over to […]
By Micah Meadowcroft, The American Conservative When a Washington Post reporter came digitally knocking looking for comment at Tesla CEO and sometimes-world’s-richest-man Elon Musk’s door, he did the only right thing you can. He blew them off. There are exceptions, of course, and I hope you would consider […]
By William S. Lind, Traditional Right For millions of Americans, perhaps as many as one-third of the population, the results of the popular vote contest in the 2020 election of the President remain in doubt. Because the Electoral College, not the voters, elects the President, there is no […]
By Stella Chan and Leah Asmelash, CNN A 30-year-old Northern California man undergoing a mental health episode died days after police officers kneeled on the back of his neck for nearly five minutes to subdue him, lawyers for his family said. Angelo Quinto had been “suffering from anxiety, […]
It’s funny how “both sides” are constantly trying to flagrantly rig the game in their favor.
I knew this guy was a total conman the first time I ever heard him over 30 years ago.
This segment is a perfect illustration of the unfortunate nature of mainstream discourse concerning economics, where the arguments are framed as pitting plutocratic apologists vs statist regulators and bureaucrats, i.e. the nobles vs the monarchs. And, unfortunately, the few people who understand this usually double as “culture war” […]
Research shows that political junkies are less than 15-20% of the US population. They’re just the most vocal, and often concentrated in sectors with a larger than average platform. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss new Suffolk University polls showing the public view on QAnon.
The US public: “If Fauci and the media are for the vaccine, there must be something wrong with it.” Saagar Enjeti explains why there is hope for COVID herd immunity by April and argues the case for getting vaccinated.
Today’s news in the McCarthyism/Satanic Panic of the 2020s. Team Rising discusses the suspension of Mike Pesca’s podcast, The Gist, over comments he made on Slack.
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to reports that Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen are doing podcast together.
Assuming this polling data is accurate, this is the highest level of support for this idea to date. Keep in mind that during the past half-century public opinion has shifted wildly on a wide range of issues: civil rights, interracial marriage, military conscription, gender roles, gay rights, gay […]
By David Flood, Sapiens Anarchists have been an easy scapegoat for violent events in recent months. But anarchism, as a political philosophy, is fundamentally about collective deliberation and responsibility. Two hours into a weekly planning session, the 15 or so black-clothed, tattooed, and pierced activists were getting cranky. […]
By Amory Starr and Jason Adams Abstract This paper examines one of the less-discussed modes of anti-globalization, relocalization, or local autonomy. It describes a range of autonomous movements, summarizes their political-economic ideas, and discusses some common social critiques raised in regard to local autonomy. Apologists for the costly […]
TELOS In the Spring issue of American Affairs, Blake Smith writes at length about Carl Schmitt’s “The Tyranny of Values,” the title essay of the collection The Tyranny of Values and Other Texts, published by Telos Press. Edited by Russell A. Berman and Samuel Garrett Zeitlin, translated by […]
Tucker and Naomi discuss the totalitarian state we are facing.
The former chief of the U.S. Capitol Police Department is set to testify before a Senate committee on Tuesday about the events that unfolded on January 6. It comes as the FBI said it has identified over 500 suspects in the federal investigation into the deadly riot, and […]
Of course.
Not exactly surprising.
Libertarian YouTuber Keith Knight (https://twitter.com/an_capitalist) (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8ew…) hosts Ben Burgis for a discussion on the merits of democratic socialism versus the merits of libertarianism.
By Christopher Caldwell, Mises Institute American society today is divided by party and by ideology in a way it has perhaps not been since the Civil War. I have just published a book that, among other things, suggests why this is. It is called The Age of Entitlement: […]
By Nico Armin In the summer of 2018 I was at a movie night event with newly acquainted classmates from grad school. We were all still getting to know each other and one of them asked me something about my personal beliefs. I don’t remember the details but […]
Anti-imperialism is a means of attacking concentrated power generally, breaking up empires, and attacking the largest states, which are usually the worst states in terms of their overall level of predation. The proliferation of more countries is a stepping stone toward abolishing states generally. However, is that sometimes […]
Keith, Emma, and RJ “Hidden homeless crisis”: more people are living in cars and RVs and it’s getting worse, verification of homelessness, homeless numbers are higher than that, you’re homeless, eviction protection and the verge of being homeless, small towns of homeless people, different levels of homelessness, why […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Is it just me or has Black History Month become kind of a gross corporate circus lately? Just another banal commercial grab bag of Hallmark moments to peddle the superiority of the American experience. I feel like shit […]
The only real disagreement that I would have with this image is that my own perspective is broad and eclectic enough to include all of the viewpoints on the spectrum that is presented, and then some.
The best US Presidents were arguably the ones nobody has ever heard of like Martin van Buren. By Michael Lind, Tablet Martin Van Buren created the machinery of mass political parties in America, opening the way for ordinary people to be heard—until so-called ‘reformers’ weakened the parties, inadvertently […]
Talk about an understatement.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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