How Crisis Pregnancy Centers Use Misinformation, Loopholes, and Taxpayer Dollars to Undermine Reproductive Rights
In early 2024, Willow walked into what she thought was a free women’s health clinic in Idaho. She left weeks later, emotionally drained and further along in her pregnancy than she’d planned—delayed just long enough that she nearly missed her…
The Philosopher of the Algorithm Lords: Curtis Yarvin and the Tech-Elite’s Pet Reactionary
It started, as these things often do, on a forum. I was reading a thread about why democracy was failing: some long, snarky manifesto that blended tech optimism with weird medieval nostalgia. Someone was waxing poetic about Singapore as a…
The Godfather of Hypercapitalist Rebellion: Rothbard, the Market, and the Illusion of Liberation
I first encountered Murray Rothbard the way you stumble across a bad idea dressed up as brilliance: through an overconfident college libertarian insisting that taxation was theft and democracy a scam. We were in a political theory seminar. The guy,…
More Dangerous Alive: Fred Hampton and the Revolution They Tried to Bury
One day, I saw a tweet about Fred Hampton’s death on my timeline—just a quote card: his birth year, his death year, and one of those gut-punching lines that echo in your head long after you scroll past. I don’t…
Profits vs. People: How Veolia Used ISDS to Challenge Egypt’s Sovereignty
In the aftermath of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, the country’s new government faced the daunting task of rebuilding its economy while addressing long-standing demands for economic justice. One of its first meaningful steps was raising the national minimum wage—a modest…