Opinion
The Blight of the Binary
It’s no secret that American society has a rigid gender binary, one that valorizes masculinity and looks down upon femininity, one that rewards those who fit neatly into that binary and terrorizes those who don’t adhere to it, and one that reinforces the existing social, political, and economic power structures.
America’s Political Picasso: Hunter Biden
Biden will have to choose: to be a genuine artist or a political chess piece who happens to like watercolors.
The Anatomy of the Perpetual Petrodollar Machine
Saudi oil politics, tenuous alliances in the Middle East, and the erosion of the Bretton Woods system firmly ensnared the United States in the trap of the petrodollar. Can the U.S. escape before the climate crisis worsens?
When We Shrink Our Tent, We Leave Allies in the Cold
Nevertheless, the fact that our brand of progressive criticism, which denounces Israel’s violence but does not wish to see it wiped off the map, feels far outside the mainstream points toward a growing trend across almost every facet of our political discourse: political tribalism.
Schooling and Status
Our education system has, in effect, reinforced America’s existing aristocracy.
Different Markets and New Solutions: Are Amateur Investors Spared from the Effects of HFT?
ransforming time from a continuous variable to a system where frequent auctions are held and processed with groups of orders would eliminate the millisecond race that High-frequency traders are after while spurring competition.
The Serendipity of Historical Societies
They are the product of a series of coincidences: a group of people simultaneously interested in history, that group’s competence in archiving, community members willing to donate their records.
Charlotte Hughes: On the Retrospective and the Rise of Reactionary Literature
These stories and poems [in Terror House Magazine] mean exactly what they depict: the darkness and violence, desecration, addiction, and afflictions of late capitalism. They offer no analysis or interpretation, which renders the litany of horrors utterly meaningless. There are no hermeneutics or erotics; they offer nothing to see, touch, or feel, consigning the website to the red-pilled universe of suffering.