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The Man Behind Trump’s VP Pick: Peter Thiel
While J.D. Vance has his own controversies, his close connection to billionaire Peter Thiel, who is poised to have unprecedented influence in a new Trump administration, should deeply unsettle every American who cares about freedom, privacy and reining in the surveillance state.
Deliberate dispossession and our struggle for autonomy
The contemporary left’s love of industrialism seems to have been based on the mistaken belief that, in using machines to exploit the forces of nature, industrialism was not exploiting human beings.
Major News Outlet Urges Media to Bury Iconic Trump Photo
The notion that the publication of such a powerful image could serve as inadvertent promotion overlooks the public’s right to witness and interpret pivotal moments in the political arena.
6 Viral Misconceptions and Clickbait
There are countless psychological campaigns rolling out simultaneously, most of which are done to induce fear and cognitive dissonance while other goals are achieved.
Astronomers Lose, California Wins
The court ruled that satellite launches and deployment, no matter how many, “are deemed individually and cumulatively to have no significant effect on the quality of the human environment and are categorically excluded from environmental processing.”
The Civil War Simulation
If you think this all ends with America Made Great Again, or Palestine Free, or with Elon Musk marching into the White House with a bathroom sink, or some other “revolutionary” fantasy, well, it doesn’t.
Freedom in Time (Chrono-Politics, Part 2)
Leisure is only possible in the assumption that man is not only in harmony with himself but also that he is in agreement with the world and its meaning. Leisure lives on affirmation.
The Supreme Court Takes on the Administrative State
“[W]hen corporate interests have captured a federal agency, then the same interpretive leeway gives the agency even more power to serve their corporate masters at the expense of the public interest.” RFK, Jr.
The Corporate News Media at Work
Large numbers of Palestinians and Ukrainians were killed in missile strikes days apart, writes Jonathan Cook. The differing coverage of these comparable events is the clue to the media’s true function.
The Power of the ‘Safety First’ Ideology
A new form of ‘soft’ authoritarianism has emerged that relies on psychological manipulation and censorship rather than overt oppression or violence.
“The First Amendment is Out of Control”
George Washington University Law School Professor Mary Anne Franks believes that the First Amendment is “aggressively individualistic” and needs to be rewritten to “redo” the work of the Framers.
Total Work (Chrono-Politics, Part 1)
One consequence of viewing the human under the type of the Worker is that education ceases to be cultivation and development (bildung) and becomes merely training.