Politics

Post-Brexit Britain’s Collapse Is So Extreme, It’s Genuinely Unprecedented — I know I’ve discussed it a bit recently, but it needs discussing. In this little essay, I want to tie up some of the loose threads, with a simple observation. The scale and speed of British collapse is staggering. I mean that. …

The Last Two Years Proved a Different America’s Possible — But the GOP’s Destroying it All Over Again — It’s scarcely been a few days since the GOP took control of America’s House of Representatives — and the chaos, lunacy, and fanaticism’s already begun. There they are, pushing for Trump’s impeachment to be…expunged from the record, in a twist that’d make Orwell proud. And there they are pushing for…

We Need to Think a Lot Bigger About a Better World If We Want to Save Our Civilization From Collapse — When I look around the globe these days, at the state of ideas, politics, economics, there’s a question going unasked. But it’s perhaps the most crucial one of all. It’s as daunting as it simple to say: what kind of world, future, planet should we want? “We” just means sane…

Exposing the lies of the good doctor — Jordan Peterson is a pretty interesting figure shall we say. He first got his big break in the spotlight after he lied about bill C-16 in Canada which brought legal protections into Canadian law for trans people. …

They will ALWAYS find something. — Hamburgers, M&Ms, and now, of course, we’ve reached gas stoves. The list of the most random, bizarre things that the conservative political and pundit class are willing to manufacture outrage about seems endless, doesn’t it? …

Once again, Republicans have elected a loser to high office. To explain, after 15 votes Republicans elected Kevin McCarthy (R-California) US speaker of the House after midnight. McCarthy could only win by promising to give the craziest and stupidest Republicans everything they want. Even as Republicans were getting into fights…