What the “legacy” media is trying to present as a brand-new authoritarian crackdown on the press is only a more visible version of how the federal government has attempted to control public opinion for nearly a century.
On this episode of Power and Market, the group discusses the fallout from Musk's fight with Trump, recent reporting on Palantir contracts, and how the courts are not interested in protecting rights.
The so-called White House “coverup” of former President Joe Biden‘s dementia was really a coverup by the legacy media, which worked with White House officials to ensure Americans would not know the truth.
On Power & Market, the group looks at the political legacy of Elon Musk, the moral costs of Keynesianism, and the absurdity of Harvard and NPR as public goods.
Ours in an age when people panic, sometimes for good reasons but often for bad. Governments benefit from panicked citizenry, which is why we always should question those political decisions that can turn our lives upside down.
The transatlantic slave trade from Africa is a well-known chapter in the history of slavery in the Western Hemisphere, but much lesser known is the enslavement of Native Americans. Many of them were shipped to plantations in the Caribbean where they were worked to death.
We know what happened on November 22, 1963, at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, but there is a lot about that terrible day we don‘t know. But we also know that President Kennedy challenged the National Security State. Did it cost him his life?
We know what happened on November 22, 1963, at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, but there is a lot about that terrible day we don't know.
Thanks to the endless “War Against Terror,” the US Government promoted methods of torture, including some borrowed from the sadistic torturers of the former Soviet Union. Congress stood by and let it happen.
Thanks to the endless “War Against Terror,” the US Government promoted methods of torture. Congress stood by and let it happen.
