What Do They Care?
Todd Hayen Think for a moment about what you really care about. Let’s say you are an average working Joe or a partnered mother with three kids. You have...
Paranoia: Is it Always a Bad Thing?
Todd Hayen “Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.” Kurt Cobain What is paranoia? Usually the condition is coupled with another mental malady: schizophrenia, due to...
The Day the Music Died
Todd Hayen “You’ll own nothing, and be happy.” Ha ha. I wonder if Schwab regrets saying that. Actually the phrase originated in 2016 from Danish MP Ida Auken’s essay...
This Week in the New Normal #25
Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the...
Endless Wars Are the Enemy of Freedom
John Whitehead at the Rutherford Institute “Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of...
The Sexual Passion of Winston Smith
There is a vast literature analyzing the political prophecy of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. Big Brother, double-speak, telescreens, crimestop, etc. – all applied to our current political situation....
Death by Droning: the World isn’t changing, it is changed
Yesterday David Cameron admitted to murder. He did it loudly, in public, with self-justications primed and a self-important look plastered across his quivering jowls.
Politics, Bullshit, and Ukraine
by Vladimir Golstein at Antiwar.com Once in a while a book appears that forces us to rethink the previous cognitive patterns. To use the celebrated phrase from Thomas S....
