As a teenager, I was quite a fan of Lin Carter’s Thongor books: sword and sorcery novels mashing together the Conan and Barsoom mythos in the lost continent of Lemuria. In the first book the titular barbarian hero faces off against the vampire-king Xothun. The vampire-king is a disgusting,
As I’ve written before, the timeline of the Watergate scandal was drawn out far further than popular memory would have it. In all, it was two years from the burglary to Nixon’s resignation. And that was with the media actively pursuing the scandal. By contrast, the media have
Strange things can happen when a moribund government seems to be facing its reckoning. In 1990, the Australian Labor Party fully expected to be wiped out at the next election: the result was Labor In Power, an extraordinary documentary where a raft of Labor pollies who figured they had nothing
Dan Sanchez Liam McCollum fee.org Dan Sanchez is the Director of Content at the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) and the editor-in chief of FEE.org. Liam McCollum is a student at the University of Montana studying philosophy and journalism. He is the host of The Liam McCollum Show
I recently wrote about The Dumbest Things Said about Ukraine. So Far. Unsurprisingly, world-class bozo John Kerry was one of the first out of the blocks, fretting about how the war would affect the climate. But Kerry is far from the dumbest stump in the Biden White House. So it
Jeffrey Clark newsbusters.org Jeffrey Clark currently serves as a staff writer and researcher for the Media Research Center’s Business Division. Billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk slammed woke corporate policies as “the Devil Incarnate” on Twitter. Is the world’s richest man, worth $298 billion according to Forbes,
Jeffrey A. Tucker brownstone.org Jeffrey A. Tucker is Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and ten books in 5 languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of The Best of
Dan Sanchez fee.org Dan Sanchez is the Director of Content at the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) and the editor-in chief of FEE.org. I don’t know about you, but I’ve been experiencing some serious “apocalypse fatigue.” For the past two years the news has been dominated
Robert Bridge rt.com Robert Bridge is an American writer and journalist. He is the author of Midnight in the American Empire: How Corporations and Their Political Servants are Destroying the American Dream. The spectacle of comedian Chris Rock being assaulted at the Academy Awards by Will Smith reveals something
JM White Information Opinion During the Cold War America defined standards of ‘rationality’ and then concluded the Soviets would not use nuclear weapons because rational leaders would not do it; otherwise they would be irrational. Using this standard of rationality gives us an idea of why the leaders of western
Paul Driessen cfact.org Paul Driessen is senior policy advisor for CFACT and author of Cracking Big Green and Eco-Imperialism: Green Power – Black Death. Presidential candidate Joe Biden repeatedly promised to end fossil fuels in America. There’ll be “no more drilling, including offshore,” he said. “No ability for the
Bill Kocacs cfact.org The apocalyptic talk about climate change is nothing more than a diversion tactic by the government, the radical Left, and their mainstream press. The many laws, the trillions in federal appropriations and tax credits, and the unworkable proposals to address climate change will not slow the
Remember Hunter Biden’s laptop? If you only got your news from Twitter, Facebook, or the legacy media, you almost certainly don’t. Big Tech banned users from even sharing the story. At most, you might be aware that it was all Russian disinformation. Lies, “illusion”, a “farcical retread” of
As journalist Abby Martin recently observed, “For my entire life I’ve watched the corporate media sell us war after war… every single time it turns out they lied”. What unwarranted cynicism! I mean, it’s not like they lied about Weapons of Mass Destruction, or Iraqi soldiers throwing Kuwaiti
Maori tribes scrapping over ownership of the foreshore is not what William Hobson, James Freeman and James Busby envisaged when they thrashed out the Treaty of Waitangi entitling Maori to the privileges of British citizenship and protection from death, slavery and cannibalism by warring tribes. And yet here we are
Aaron Kheriaty brownstone.org Aaron Kheriaty, former Professor of Psychiatry at the UCI School of Medicine and Director, Medical Ethics at UCI Health, is a Senior Scholar of the Brownstone Institute. California has been the tip of the spear for novel pandemic policies. My home state’s failures are legion,
