If you appreciate my work and want to contribute to independent media, consider becoming a monthly Patron, or visit our Support Page. Must Reads Why Even Nazis Deserve Free Speech (Politico) Beware the “The Cultural Civil War” Narrative: You’re Being Played (Excellent, Of Two Minds) Should Protesters Be Classified as Terrorists? (Terrible title, really good article, The Hill) The Coming … Read more
If you appreciate my work and want to contribute to independent media, consider becoming a monthly Patron, or visit our Support Page. Must Reads Bannon: ‘The Trump Presidency That We Fought For, and Won, Is Over.’ (Yes it is, The Weekly Standard) The White House is Now Run Entirely by Hucksters, Democrats, and Generals (Possibly the best title ever written, … Read more
I don’t live in an echo chamber, partly because there aren’t enough people out there who think like me, but also because I constantly and intentionally attempt to challenge my worldview by reading stuff from all over the political map. I ingest as much as I can from a wide variety of intelligent sources, picking … Read more
If you appreciate my work and want to contribute to independent media, consider becoming a monthly Patron, or visit our Support Page. Must Reads Why I Was Fired by Google (James Demore op-ed in The Wall Street Journal) A New Report Raises Big Questions About Last Year’s DNC Hack (Massively important story, The Nation) From College Indoctrination to Corporate … Read more
If you appreciate my work and want to contribute to independent media, consider becoming a monthly Patron, or visit our Support Page. Must Reads Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? (The Atlantic) Seymour Hersh Discussing Wikileaks, DNC Leaks, Seth Rich & FBI Report (YouTube) Wells Fargo May Have Forced 570,000 Customers Into Unneeded Auto Insurance (No one will go to … Read more
If you appreciate my work and want to contribute to independent media, consider becoming a monthly Patron, or visit our Support Page. Trump Tells Police to Be More Violent (The guy is a goon, YouTube) Intercepted Podcast: Glenn Greenwald on the New Cold War (Excellent, The Intercept) Facebook Worker Living in Garage to Zuckerberg: Challenges Are Right Outside Your Door … Read more
If you appreciate my work and want to contribute to independent media, consider becoming a monthly Patron, or visit our Support Page. Must Reads Facial Recognition Surveillance is Here — But Privacy Protections Are Not (Huge issue not getting the attention it deserves, The Hill) Our Relationship with Saudi Arabia Is an Embarrassment (Excellent, National Review) Pentagon Study Declares … Read more
If you appreciate my work and want to contribute to independent media, consider becoming a monthly Patron, or visit our Support Page. Must Reads Pentagon Secretly Tested Chemical Weapons on US troops. Vets Demand to Know the Cost (I have no words to describe how despicable this is, McClatchy DC) US and UK Acting Above the Law to Support … Read more
Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard. It steels itself to attain the absolute and authority; it wants to transfigure the world before having exhausted it, to set it to rights before having understood it. Whatever it may say, our era is deserting this world. – … Read more
The first two posts in this series focused on what the current political environment looks like, and why it provides a perfect opportunity for experimentation and decentralization. Today’s post will examine what it will take to get there. While I think the future can be a very bright one, this is by no means written … Read more