Todd Hayen We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the constitution says, but everyone made equal… Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 A recurring theme in movies, television, and literature, is the “big lie.” We’ve always heard the adage, “if you tell a lie big enough, and keep repeating it, more people …
Johan Eddebo On January 13, this Saturday, Taiwan’s presidential and parliamentary elections are simultaneously held. There’s a lot at stake. The independence movement is facing off with Koumintang and the reunification agenda, with the former poised to really entrench its influence in a geopolitically volatile situation. The election result will tip the scales in terms …
Daniel Broudy It’s a strange thing about human affairs, our natural need to feel belonging, and how, if given time to pause and parse what we think we know about the world, we can begin to see through the grand illusions made to manage human perception and to maintain a mediated, tightly controlled false sense …
Riley Waggaman As most of you probably know, Russia’s capital city has been fighting a covert shadow war against Unipolar jaywalking, which is one of the top three threats facing BRICS and the Global South. Probably you read about it on ZeroHedge. I’m happy to report that the Multipolar Pedestrian Order has made significant inroads …
So, do you care what The Wall Street Journal says about what “The Science™” says about how to be happy? Yeah, neither do I. No, you shouldn’t care about what others tell you is the key to your own happiness. But what is the pursuit of happiness? Why is it important? And how do an …
If our readers are anything like us then you spent the majority of the weekend taking down Christmas decorations and carefully organizing them, despite the knowledge that they’ll somehow become messy again by next December. That means the new year has officially started, which makes it time for our third-annual special edition of This Week …
John & Nisha Whitehead Figure One: Just stop a few of their machines and radios and telephones and lawn mowers…throw them into darkness for a few hours and then you just sit back and watch the pattern. Figure Two: And this pattern is always the same? Figure One: With few variations. They pick the most …
Rosalie Steward They didn’t have a choice, those infant twins abandoned into the river Tiber. We can only imagine what their Mother went through. What feelings would have washed the womb of the infants, when the Royal Mother knew that her babies would be murdered at birth by her uncle? The Palace servants were ordered …
Edward Curtin “Standing there I wondered how much of what we had felt on the bridge was just hunger. I asked my wife and she said, ‘I don’t know, Tatie. There are so many sorts of hunger. In the spring there are more. But that’s gone now. Memory is hunger.” Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast Now …
Todd Hayen Here’s another weird thing I think is going on. Like most things I observe, you have probably observed this too, and probably way before I first thought about it. This is kind of a no-brainer because in some ways it has been really obvious. But after a while, I started thinking it was …
