Monthly Archives: January 2017

Social Media and Fake News in the 2016 Election

Social Media and Fake News in the 2016 Election Hunt Allcott, New York University Matthew Gentzkow, Stanford University January 2017 Abstract We present new evidence on the role of false stories circulated on social media prior to the 2016 US presidential … Continue reading

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Oasis – Supersonic (2016)

If you have Amazon Prime, the new documentary on Oasis is available for viewing. It’s well done (though you might need to turn on subtitle captioning to understand some of their cockney). The film depicts their meteoric rise in just … Continue reading

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CBS Reporter on Pizzagate

CBS Atlanta’s Ben Swann has a non-dismissive report on Pizzagate. The Daily Beast points out Swann’s penchant for other conspiracy theories here. Regarding Pizzagate, however, if there’s one rather straightforward objective observation Swann makes, one that presumably everyone could agree … Continue reading

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Politico: Democrats in the Wilderness

From a long Politico piece titled “Democrats in the Wilderness”: As Trump takes over the GOP and starts remaking its new identity as a nationalist, populist party, creating a new political pole in American politics for the first time in … Continue reading

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Strauss & Identitarianism

In a brief post on “Strauss and Identiarianism”, Charles Lyons writes: Leo Strauss is an important 20th century thinker on the American Right, particularly the neoconservative movement. He had a very strong Jewish identity, and viewed his philosophy as a … Continue reading

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White America is Self-Segregating

From a Vox article titled “White America is quietly self-segregating”: Research led by Lichter, the Cornell sociologist, shows that in the past 25 years, the segregation between white people and minorities hasn’t changed much within cities; racial groups are still very separate, though … Continue reading

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Our Vision

From Reuters: MEXICO CITY, Jan 17 (Reuters) – Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim’s cell-phone company, America Movil, said on Tuesday it would launch a television channel in the United States targeting Mexican audiences later this year, putting it into competition with … Continue reading

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NBC: Democrats – Left in the Lurch

From a good, in-depth,  NBC analysis piece (“Democrats: Left in the Lurch”), the byline of which reads “The curious decline and uncertain future of the Democratic Party”: Future demographic changes should eventually put Democrats back in the White House, but … Continue reading

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Jim Goad – The War on Whites Reaches New Heights

Red Ice interview with Jim Goad: We begin by discussing Jim’s background and what inspired him to write The Redneck Manifesto. Jim tells us about his ideological journey, which began with liberalism, but quickly deviated from the status quo. We … Continue reading

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Politico: The Alt-Right Comes to Washington

In Politico, Ben Schreckinger has a long piece titled “The Alt-Right Comes to Washington”. It’s liberal, a bit meandering, and mostly a hit piece, but does lay out some of the infighting (a normal phenomenon in any political movement) taking … Continue reading

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