For two generations, Bob’s family didn’t just work for FedEx; they were a part of the Collierville community that the company built. His father, a Collierville native, retired as a respected FedEx pilot. Bob followed him into the company, securing a white-collar technical role and the promise of…
If your business model involves marginalizing people by calling them names—and requires you to terrorize your funders with the specter of an exponentially-growing number of “antisemites” who need to be marginalized and insulted, leading you to deliberately set about pissing off more and more people—you will eventually…
According to several recent news reports, the two major Trump foreign policy shifts last week are the handiwork of Marco Rubio, the President’s Secretary of State and (acting) National Security Advisor. As with all neocon plans, they will be big on promises and small on delivery. First…
Do you remember when we were told that the “Reagan deficit” was going to destroy the economy? In the past two and one-third months ending October 15 the US national debt increased by $1 trillion. That is five times greater in a mere 71 days than David Stockman’s exaggerated “$200…
At some point capitalism lost the ability to give us new things that we need and started giving us new things we don’t need, and now it’s giving us new things we never needed and don’t even really want. Nobody needs all this generative AI crap. We…
It might succeed in terms of optics, but this won’t make any substantive difference in reality. The US’ latest sanctions against Russia, the first under the second Trump Administration, are intended less as a weapon against the Russian economy and more as a means of weaponizing energy geopolitics in…
Russia’s gradual advance in the Donbass region appears to be forming an operational encirclement of Ukraine’s last major defensive line—its “fortress belt”—a development that could decide not only the fate of the war but also the shape of the emerging global order. Russian forces in recent weeks…
The new left movement in America is taking off mostly with the very wealthy, which isn’t an accident. I almost died laughing when I read that Graham Platner, the “progressive warrior poet” running for Senate in Maine, went to school at Hotchkiss, one of a handful…
Joakim Andersen explores the fury and logic behind the latest Irish protests against the Great Replacement, suggesting that the need for accurate and compelling metapolitical vocabulary will prove decisive to framing the new struggles for popular sovereignty across the West. Over the past week, Dublin has been…
Modern rebellion has become performance art—rage without risk, protest without purpose, and revolution safely contained within the comforts of conformity. ne of the most popular and unintentionally hilarious bands in rock’s post-grunge, nu-metal era (the mid-to-late 1990s) was Rage Against the Machine, a Los Angeles-based quartet that…
