When the Covid lockdown started, five years ago, many in the laptop classes leaned into the glorious social dislocation. They embraced Zoom. They took in home deliveries and forgot to care about the carbon footprint. And they pretended to stay …
The new dystopian space race
This week, two NASA astronauts stranded in space since June returned to Earth thanks to a craft from Elon Musk’s SpaceX. As the Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency shutters NASA offices, billionaire space privateers like Musk and Amazon boss Jeff …
The ‘repressive tolerance’ of Trump
Last year marked the 60th anniversary of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, the point of origin for the type of campus activism Americans have since come to take for granted and which saw a dramatic resurgence amid the Gaza war. …
Disney is lying to your kids
At the 11th Academy Awards in 1939, Shirley Temple presented Walt Disney with an honorary Oscar — a statuette accompanied by seven miniatures. It was, of course, a nod to his animation Snow White, which the Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein …
The paradox of free thinkers
Everyone wants to be a free thinker, or at least to be seen by others as thinking freely. Sometimes we imagine even our most embarrassing acts of conformism as daring ventures of freedom.
The terms we use to express this …
Michelle Obama podcasts for the rich
While listening to former First Lady Michelle Obama’s new advice podcast, IMO, co-hosted with her brother, Craig Robinson, a single thought kept hammering me: what advice would Michelle’s and Craig’s parents have given to young Americans struggling to make it …
Interview 1936 – James Discusses REPORTAGE on Press For Truth
In this video Dan Dicks of Press For Truth speaks with James Corbett of corbettreport.com about the long anticipated release of his first book!
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The gender vibe shift and its discontents
Twenty-six-year-old Miles Yardley — formerly known in downtown New York City as a musician, influencer, and model named Salomé — publicly renounced his trans identity this year, sold his women’s clothing online, and began posting grim details to his 20,000 …
What did #MeToo accomplish?
On Sunday, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo formally announced his long-anticipated bid to become the next mayor of the Big Apple. Speaking at a carpenters’-union event, the 67-year-old touted his record managing the pandemic while flanked by his daughters, …
Meet Brazil’s art cannibals
One could chew over the Western canon heavies, the Brazilian cultural critic Oswald de Andrade believed, and still spew out something singularly Brazilian — a sensible enough proposition, you might think at first blush. After all, creativity is a parasitic …
Interview 1933 – News, REPORTAGE and a Life-Changing Documentary with Keith Knight
James Corbett appears on Keith Knight’s podcast at The Libertarian Institute to discuss news, conspiracy realism, James’ new book, REPORTAGE: Essays on the New World Order, and a life-changing documentary called “Children Full of Life.”
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Rick Owens: fashion’s fetish king
Bold silhouettes; black ropes against smooth torsos; soft, dark leathers; fabric torn delicately, low slung, against Brutalist structures. The Rick Owens Paris show was a scene of distorted forms pacing concrete, a stripped-back dark minimalism that somehow felt new and …
The Brutalist’s fatal flaw
For seven centuries, travellers would marvel at the scattered verdigris fragments of the Colossus of Rhodes. The shortest-lived of the Ancient Wonders, the Sun God statue stood for just over half a century before being felled by an earthquake in …
How the woke Right stole normality
Perhaps you remember the Great Dr. Seuss Controversy, which took place almost exactly four years ago amid the annual “Read Across America” campaign — and which goes surprisingly far to explain the relentless whiplash of American politics. Four years ago, …
The paradox of Millennial perfection
Yoga mats, brushed-steel kettles, Scandinavian armchairs, avocado slices, marble-top pastry tables — this peculiar subclass of objects, and the life that is organised around them, is the subject of Vincenzo Latronico’s novel Perfection (Fitzcarraldo). That life involves: working from home …