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Nexus X HumectressBest comment from the thread: “Both candidates finally got their drug dosages right.” Krystal and Saagar dig in on the final presidential Debate, a substantive turn from the prior presidential debate.
The Third Reich were actually pioneers in modern therapeutic totalitarianism.
I can’t say I really have a problem with canceling Kant. If religion is the opium of the masses, then philosophical idealism, moral realism, and deontological ethics are the opium of the intellectuals. By Norbert Bolz, TELOS The art of scandalizing is inexhaustible. In Kant’s Anthropology, there are […]
Sometimes a movement’s entire ethos can be summarized in a single paragraph. Have you taken Social Justice as your lord and savior, brother? To be anticlerical in today’s world is not to be a critic of traditional organized religion in the vein of Bertrand Russell or Richard Dawkins. […]
Poor lost souls. This is pathetic. “If I die tomorrow, I did my duty.” Washington Post Long before Election Day, voters across the country have been lining up to cast their ballots. We sent teams of reporters and photographers to six cities — Houston, Albuquerque, Chattanooga, Sarasota, Atlanta […]
More cosplaying at protests might actually make protests more interesting. Although there is already plenty of cosplaying anyway between the Weimar reenactors, Civil War reenactors, and Rambo fetishists, and Red Guard wannabes.
By Russell Maroon Shoats/z Long before the founding of the country, Africans were transported to what later became known as the United States of America. Some came as free individuals and companions of the Europeans from Spain and elsewhere. They were ship guides, sailors, soldiers, explorers, and adventurers. […]
Sound familiar? Reminds me of Russell Means’ observation that the government’s objective is to turn the entire country into one big reservation. Time to brush up on the long history of colonizers controlling indigenous populations on reservations and through apartheid pass systems. Rockefeller Foundation and WEF’s Common Pass […]
Interestingly, Carson may despise me personally but he seems to agree with me on most substantive topics. I could have written this myself. Most of what Carson says in this essay from 2015 directly contradicts his public embrace of the totalitarian humanist paradigm. By Kevin Carson, Center for […]
Most people are not idiots, says the New York Times. By Yanna Krupnikov and John Barry Ryan, New York Times The common view of American politics today is of a clamorous divide between Democrats and Republicans, an unyielding, inevitable clash of harsh partisan polarization. But that focus obscures […]
Shelby Steele’s documentary has been banned from Amazon, and I saw where a Wall Street Journal article criticizing Amazon for this has been taken down as well.
First, the Coronavirus has so far killed no more people than a seasonal influenza. Bearing in mind the use of statistical methods bordering on the fraudulent, it may have killed fewer than seasonal flu. For this reason, the Lockdown and the obsessive social distancing have been grossly disproportionate […]
An interesting theoretical approach. By Brian D. Williams How can societies maximize equal liberty in the context of the modern sovereign state? While liberal democracy is widely recognized as the type of political regime most conducive to this goal, it fails to offer a vision of life beyond […]
By Norbert Bolz, TELOS Nietzsche once said that culture was only a thin apple peel over a glowing hot chaos. That is probably to say that even a small shock suffices to confront us anew with barbarism and dizzying stupidity. And now we are actually dealing with a […]
By Ruth Kinna There is a curious paradox at the heart of contemporary debates about the relationship between utopian and anarchist studies. While anarchistic ideas have gained some purchase in utopian studies, there is a strong anti-utopian trend in modern anarchism. What is puzzling about this paradox is […]
By Mark G.E. Kelly, TELOS In this article, I argue against the prevalent tendency, both in popular and scholarly discourse, to understand the Trump presidency as representing an incipient American fascism. I point out that Trump’s actual administration has shown no features distinctive of fascism, and that all […]
Uri Gordon Forthcoming In The Brill Companion to Anarchism and Philosophy, ed. N. Jun. Leiden: Brill (2017) Anarchists are against nationalism; everyone knows that. Instead of solidarity across borders and anti-hierarchical antagonism within them, nationalism engenders loyalty to the state with its armed forces and public symbols, encourages […]
Municipalism.Org The definition of “municipalism” is still up for grabs. If you Google the word you’ll be given a snippet from Wikipedia about “libertarian municipalism”, a compelling but very specific utopian political philosophy of Murray Bookchin. Surely “municipalism” can and should mean something more. Over the last fifty years, the percentage of people around the globe living […]
I’m not that big on the welfare statism of “Rising” but their critiques of the “let them eat cake” attitude of the ruling class are usually fairly accurate. Saagar Enjeti explains why he believes a stimulus won’t get passed.
A ruling class unity regime that squeezes out “radicals” from the Left and Right. Krystal Ball weighs in on reporting that alleges Joe Biden is vetting Republicans to serve on his cabinet.
Watch out for this guy. Contra Emma, he’s not a literal fascist but he is a right-wing plutocratic, militarist, Zionist flunkie. He represents the very worst elements of the Republicans.
What a turd.
Poor Chick-fil-A. Hated by Left and Right alike. And neither one pays much attention to the fact that Chick-fil-A is just another fast-food plantation. “Sometimes this was literal: showing that critical race theory had conquered him, the head of Chick-fil-a said every white man should shine a black […]
It must be awfully frustrating to be someone who actually believes in this stuff and engages in these torturous debates. “Should we vote for the guy who hates our guts and openly says he won’t do anything for us because the other guy bad, bad, bad…?”
A debate between Ibram X. Kendi and Coleman Hughes would be interesting.
James Lindsay is probably the best critic of totalitarian humanism that I know of in terms of dissecting its intellectual roots and orientation. Lindsay is not a “conservative” but a Dawkinsesque atheist and a standard-issue progressive who considers the Scandinavian countries to be model societies. The main difference […]
It’s hard to believe the guy who wrote “Manufacturing Consent” and “Necessary Illusions” could be so blinkered. This is a completely clueless conversation that was painful to listen to. It basically amounts to Chomsky, Sam Sedar, and Nomiki Konst claiming that PC culture is merely about being nice […]
The fellow being profiled in this, historian Fred Siegel, is fairly insightful when he describes the present political conflict as pitting the tech-oligarch/financier/”new clerisy alliance” against the “old bourgeoisie.” Although he’s obviously clueless on certain other things, such as the wider geopolitical and socioeconomic context in which all […]
A friend on my page asked an important question. “A while ago you were dismissive of the hype around a pending civil war, and you argued persuasively that the USA was one of the most stable countries, and even if it became more unstable, it would still be […]
Author, David Goodhart, discusses his new book, “Head, Hand and Heart: Why Intelligence Is Over-Rewarded, Manual Workers Matter, and Caregivers Deserve More Respect.” He also discusses the hardships many blue collar workers are facing.
The social democratic “party” pretends anyone gives a damn about their perspective. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to a recent bi-partisan letter sent to both chambers of Congress expressing concerns about having corporate leaders and campaign donors hold Senate confirmed offices in a Joe Biden administration.
Do Orange Man’s henchmen see the writing on the wall? Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss Donald Trump’s re-election chances, and scrutinize recent polling comparisons between Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton.
The right-wing of neoliberalism vs the Trumpian faux populists. Saagar Enjeti gives his thoughts on how Republicans are repeating history by distancing themselves from President Trump in case of a presidential defeat. He also explains how this may hurt the GOP in the future, despite a Joe Biden […]
This is a great takedown of the latte liberals. Krystal Ball debunks the return to normal narrative Democrats are promising under a Joe Biden administration.
As one who wrote about the civil war in El Salvador, this sounds an awful lot like the extra-judicial death squad killings that would take place in that country.
By Andrew Sullivan, The Weekly Dish A question I’ve wrestled with this past year or so is a pretty basic one: if critical race/gender/queer theory is unfalsifiable postmodern claptrap, as I have long contended, how has it conquered so many institutions so swiftly? It’s been a staggering achievement, […]
By Bill Kauffman, Reason Break It Up: Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America’s Imperfect Union, by Richard Kreitner, Little, Brown and Co., 496 pages, $30 The late Thomas Naylor, gentle godfather of the modern Vermont independence movement, used to sign off with “God bless the Disunited […]
When wrestling fans get pissed because heel/babyface characters break kayfabe. Alex Swoyer, The Washington Times Liberal groups erupted in anger after Sen. Dianne Feinstein praised the way Republicans ran last week’s confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett and demanded that the senator be ousted as […]
https://media.urmedium.com/ConvertedVideo/2020/10/19/637387032644845778video.mp4 Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who the FBI says was targeted in a foiled kidnapping plot, on Sunday accused President Donald Trump of fanning the flames of domestic terrorism when he didn’t put a stop to chants of “lock her up!” that erupted the day before during a […]
A good discussion of the present situation by fourth-generation warfare theorist Bill Lind. As the discussion thread following this article indicates, more and more I am seeing people on “both sides” (although there are actually dozens of “sides”) saying of their opponents, “But they want to kill us!” […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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