James Fetzer: Tim Foyle On the Psychology of the Conspiracy Denier

Tim Foyle, On the Psychology of the Conspiracy Denier Why is it that otherwise perfectly intelligent, thoughtful and rationally minded people baulk at the suggestion that sociopaths are conspiring to manipulate and deceive them? And why will they defend this ill-founded position with such vehemence? History catalogues the machinations of liars, thieves, bullies and narcissists …

Stephen E. Arnold: Historical Revisionism: Twitter and Wikipedia

I wish I could recall the name of the slow talking wild-eyed professor who lectured about Mr. Stalin’s desire to have the history of the Soviet Union modified. The tendency was evident early in his career. Ioseb Besarionis dz? Jughashvili became Stalin, so fiddling with received wisdom verified by Ivory Tower types should come as …

“The CEO of Gab drives his picket pin” – Email Received by Ed Jewett

Reader submission: Gab has been banned from five different banks over the course of the past three weeks. We operate a legal US business. We sell a software license to our GabPRO service along with hats, shirts, mugs, and other merchandise. The latest bank told us they are terminating our account because “the media has written bad …

Matt Ehret: Putin’s Vision for an Anti-Fascist/Open System Future and You

Putin’s Vision for an Anti-Fascist/Open System Future and You At the heart of these vital principles is found the moral concept of “win-win cooperation” or as China’s former president Sun Yat-sen called it in his Three Principles of the People, the Principle of “Right makes Might”. Sun Yat-sen understood in 1924, as Presidents Xi and Putin …