Nosideism

A Field Report Aboard Democracy's Red-Eye I discovered 2048 somewhere over the Atlantic. The flight map on the seatback screen showed a glowing line arcing from Dallas to Helsinki, but the progress bar of time-to-destination refused to move. The cabin lights were dimmed to simulate night. Everyone was

Dropping Out of the Dropship Private Hudson doesn't panic because he's a coward. He panics because he's the only one who's done the math. The dropship's crashed, the mission brief was fiction, and command is still insisting everything's

More than four decades after its resurrection in the Reagan era, trickle-down economics continues to terrorize Western economic policy like Jason Voorhees stalking the shores of Crystal Lake. Despite substantial evidence questioning its effectiveness and coinciding with periods of economic carnage, this slasher ideology keeps coming back, seemingly indestructible and

The debate started over flags at protests—whether waving the Stars and Stripes at anti-Trump demonstrations was tactically sound or morally bankrupt. But that exchange, like most political arguments these days, quickly spiraled into bigger questions about purity versus pragmatism, and why one side seems to keep winning while the

The Critic, the Ideological Range Life, and How We Got There A Finnish Bluesky user recently posted about how reading Hitler's Mein Kampf hadn't turned him into a Nazi, questioning the whole "monkey see, monkey do" anxiety that drives so much contemporary cultural criticism.