The Trump Show vs. the Governing Machine
How and why Republicans may “oversell” Trump’s personal agency in public while relying on institutional option-menus behind the scenes Image: Evan El-Amin / Shutterstock.com American...
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Cartel de los Soles: What we can responsibly say about a “state-embedded” trafficking network in Venezuela
The phrase Cartel de los Soles (Cartel of the Suns) sits in an awkward category: it is widely used, politically explosive, and partly “real” in...
Theoretical “pie in the sky” socialism vs. the real socialist regime
The Council in the Sky and the State on the Ground 1) Two different things called “socialism” People argue past each other because the word...
The Five Gimmicks: How Modern Ideologies Sell Simple Keys to Complicated Locks
Prologue: The age of easy answers Every big-tent ideology pretends to be a scientific master concept of salvation. Academics spend their lives on these concepts...
Fractured Standards: The Biggest Disagreements Inside the American Right and How These Fights Weakened Conservatism
Image: Shutterstock.com The Democrats have been in a panic survival mode ever since Joe Biden faded into a vegetative state, Kamala Harris seemed like the...
How the Heritage Foundation Has Shaped Republican Agendas Since 1973 — and Where “Project 2025” Fits on the Spectrum
Introduction: From Pamphlets to Playbooks When the Heritage Foundation opened its doors in 1973, the conservative intellectual project already had magazines, donors, and a few...
Socialists played the antisemitic conspiracy game first
The early socialists It was typical for post-serfdom countries with sluggish or simply weak industries to try to build up a flourishing banking industry, because...
How general opposition to fascism differs from Marxist‑Leninist “Antifascism” and how the laws apply
The buzzword “antifascism” The Trump administration wants to combat leftwing extremism significantly more in the wake of the Charlie Kirk shooting. The term that is...
Today’s influencers in the age of modern psychometrics and outdated ideologies
Image: Gage Skidmore/CC BY SA 2.0 Introduction Influence in politics has never been spontaneous. The voices that dominate public discourse are rarely the result of...
Friends & Enemies: The AI subversion matrix forms our thoughts
Episode published on August 3rd 2025 Alex Benesch and Jeff Nyquist explain how the internet and influencer landscape is fundamentally broken. There are 3 archetype...