Following Charlie Kirk’s murder, there’s been a lot of media discussion about ‘the right way’ of talking about politics, which I find hard to connect with Kirk’s career. It’s not just that I disagree with his view of the world, but that I disagree with his way of doing politics, prioritising the pursuit of victory... Continue Reading →
Obama-Trump voters are a counter-intuitive phenomenon, given that, on a superficial level at least, the two presidents have very different styles. Obama had the positive vibe ("Yes we can"), whereas Trump spent a lot of time on the paranoid, racist fantasy that Obama was born in Kenya. Speaking in October 2016, Noam Chomsky pointed out that... Continue Reading →
Karl Marx's central theory was that in modern capitalism there exists two main groups of people (or classes) and there exists a 'class struggle' between these groups when their interests overlap. The proletariat are the group who have nothing to sustain themselves but their labours, while the bourgeoisie are the group who own the 'means... Continue Reading →
Earlier today stories emerged that, in addition to the possible unexploded bomb that was intercepted en-route to Democratic party donor George Soros, similar suspect packages were posted to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton’s homes. It appears that similar devices were also sent to former Attorney General Eric Holder, possible presidential candidate Kamala Harris, and Debbie... Continue Reading →
Elizabeth Warren has spoken about how tales of the family’s Native American heritage played a part in her childhood, saying that "Being Native American has been part of my story, I guess, since the day I was born." The evidence suggests that Warren always saw her Native American history as part of her identity, not... Continue Reading →
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