Di Kevin carson. Articolo originale: Yes, Politics is a Zero-Sum Game, del 14 novembre 2024. Traduzione italiana di Enrico Sanna. Trovo spunti per un commento nei posti più strani. Ho trovato un video (“Politics is NOT a zero-sum game”) pubblicato su Amazon Mechanical Turk da Shai Davidai. Si tratta di uno studio accademico in cui…

I find fodder for op-eds in some of the strangest places. I came across this video (“Politics is NOT a zero-sum game,” by Shai Davidai) in a HIT posted on Amazon Mechanical Turk by Davidai — an academic study in which he gauged viewers’ reactions to it. (For those who don’t know, Mechanical Turk is…

Di Kevin Carson. Originale pubblicato il 14 dicembre 2023 con il titolo Netanyahu’s Chickens Come Home to Roost. Traduzione di Enrico Sanna. Ovvero, Come gli stati si creano i nemici Probabilmente conoscete l’espressione “darsi la zappa ai piedi”. In un certo contesto significa che molte delle minacce esterne che gli stati nazionali si trovano ad…

Di Kevin Carson. Originale pubblicato il 30 novembre 2023 con il titolo How and How Not to Question the “Mainstream Narrative”. Traduzione italiana di Enrico Sanna. Per quei pochi che non lo sanno, Russel Brand, un tempo più o meno di sinistra, è uno di quelli che, come Naomi Wolf, ad un certo punto è…

Or, How States Create Their Own Enemies You may or may not be familiar with the concept of “blowback.” Basically, it’s the idea that most foreign policy threats faced by nation-states are the unintended consequences of their own past foreign interventions and exercises of power. The October 7 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel is a…

In the unlikely event that anyone reading this is unfamiliar with him, Russell Brand is a one time more-or-less leftist who, like Naomi Wolf, has gone down the rabbit hole of batshittery (he endorses the “Great Reset” conspiracy, among other things). Rape accusations against Brand have provoked howls all over the nuttier right-wing websites and…

On the 21st installment of The Enragés, host Eric Fleischmann was joined by Cathy Reisenwitz (@CathyReisenwitz) to discuss her 2014 article Know Thine Enemy: Political Ignorance and Libertarianism (https://c4ss.org/content/28154).  Cathy Reisenwitz runs the Sex and the State newsletter on Substack and has bylines in TechCrunch, The Week, VICE, Daily Beast, and other fine publications. Support…

In this episode of Mutual Exchange Radio, Elizabeth Nolan Brown discusses abortion, sex work, moral panics, conspiracies, feminism, libertarianism, and more.  Elizabeth Nolan Brown is a senior editor at Reason magazine, a co-founder of Feminists for Liberty, and a journalism lecturer at the University of Cincinnati. You can follow her on Twitter at @ENBrown.

Darian Worden on Alex Hundert’s draconian bail conditions.