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Baffling, Baffling, Baffled
December 29, 2017
“It won’t hurt much longer,” promises Javier Bardem’s character in the 2017 movie Mother! With this utter trainwreck of a year careening to a close, we guess you could say the same of 2017, although who knows what we have to look forward to as the second year of the ...

It’s a THAAD, THAAD, THAAD World
December 21, 2017
War hawks have a long history of pitching the illusion of a survivable nuclear war to an American public that tends to be unenthusiastic about dying in a holocaust of fire and radiation. If the prospect of nuclear war is downplayed, public opinion may be more open to ...

Fresh Hell
December 15, 2017
“The following racial slurs are allowed and advisable.” The Daily Stormer’s style guide leaked to the public this week and includes helpful hints to keep the blatant racism light and playful: “dehumanization is extremely important, but it must be done within the ...

The Forgotten Man
December 15, 2017
The racist libertarian "philosophy" of Murray Rothbard now holds sway over the alt-right, two decades after his death.

Hypocrisy Rules
December 12, 2017
The freedom elites seek to reclaim is their own freedom from the rule of law, which is something which they have been trained as a class to feel above.

A Liberal Comity Show
December 11, 2017
Our leading political savants last week settled the sort of controversy that’s the NPR equivalent of an opioid rush—the proposition that “liberals hold the moral high ground.”