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There is, to put it baldly, no right not to be offended. To be sure, that doesn’t mean that deliberately offending people for its own sake is morally acceptable, or that people should be entitled to use speech to incite violence, harass, or threaten. Rather, it means that the impulse to punish people who offend is a regressive urge, one that necess... See more

Stephen Johnson • Speech Is Violence? Not if We Want a Liberal, Intellectual Society

William F. Buckley had spent the previous decades decreeing what conservatism meant—and purging entire classes of dissenters who argued to the contrary.

Michael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics

Progressives Against Progress

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As a base case, I don’t expect tariff-related turmoil of a magnitude that was experienced in April of this year, but I do think it could pick up a bit relative to the past month or two.

When the stock market is selling off and the bond market is experiencing high volatility, the administration has a strong incentive to put out the fire. However, whe

Tariff Tantrum Scenario

Challengers like Meta’s Threads don’t seem like drop-in replacements for Twitter — especially since Threads head Adam Mosseri keeps saying his team will not “encourage” news on the platform. That makes Threads a comparatively tamer experience than the chaos that drove Twitter to its height. “Threads is to Twitter as methadone is to heroin,” says Kl... See more

It seems to me that if this conservatism is so foul that many of my peers are embarrassed to be working at the same magazine, then I have no idea what version of conservatism could ever be tolerated.

Andrew Sullivan • Andrew Sullivan: See You Next Friday

The man that the Times article reported as being both “sadder” and “wiser” than when he was first imprisoned went on to construct one of humanity’s darkest regimes, ignited a war that killed tens of millions of people, and engineered the world’s first program of mechanized genocide, making him the last person a reader of the Times should think “was

Ashley Rindsberg • The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History

For years, the New Right has had little political representation and been treated as beneath notice by the mainstream press. This is no longer an option, especially in a social media world. Its members are smart, they are organized, and, most importantly, they do have a very coherent worldview. Illiterately tweeting “YOUR RACIST” over and over at o

Michael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics

Red Pill, Blue Pill: The Crisis in Political Theory

Joshua Mitchell clunyjournal.com