Wolin wrote: “One cannot point to any national institution[s] that can accurately be described as democratic, surely not in the highly managed, money-saturated elections, the lobby-infested Congress, the imperial presidency, the class-biased judicial and penal system, or, least of all, the media.”

Taibbi and others respond to On the Media segment about the evils of so-called “free speech absolutism.” Filled with advocates for speech restrictions, and lacking any voices defending traditional speech rights, the program’s goals seemed to range from reminding listeners that John Stuart Mill is not only old and dead but wrong, to redefining “harm” as the central issue in speech debates.

Catherine Austin Fitts conducts a fascinating interview with Whitney Webb regarding Ms. Webb’s writing about transhumanism, but the conversation builds from there—the Great Reset, the takeover of the financial system and solutions that regular people can use now to resist—like Cash Friday.