(Last week, Jason Richwine resigned from the Heritage Foundation after, among other things, it was revealed he wrote for a white supremacy publication called AlternativeRight, edited by Richard Spencer, above. Arthur Goldwag reported from a 2011 conference in which Spencer’s National Policies Institute released a report entitled “The Majority Strategy: Why the GOP Must Win White […]

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(Ta-Nehisi Coates, a writer for The Atlantic, wants his blackness both ways, the author says.) There are certain black folk in the media whose roles have roots in history going back to Booker T. Washington. These folk are profoundly damaging to the sensibilities of the black masses, particularly the black poor. That person is the […]

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Roger Nicholson shamed an Infowars “reporter” for believing the FBI caused the Boston Marathon bombing. That might be the best we can do with people who don’t believe in facts. Journalists face a tough choice when it comes to covering conspiracy theorists. Give them attention and risk encouraging their delusions of grandeur, or ignore them […]

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(If Friedrich Nietzsche made “You are what you eat” the cornerstone of his thinking, what would he have thought of reports of horse meat being found in European ground beef?: shardcore.org) All of us have heard an age-old piece of wisdom, “I am what I eat.” As late as the 19th century, Friedrich Nietzsche took […]

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Between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter lies the asteroid belt, which consists of the pieces of a potential planet that never formed because gravitational forces tore its components apart. What remains are chunks of rock and metal that occasionally flame out in the earth’s atmosphere as falling stars. In Rule and Ruin: The Downfall […]

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