The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Charlie Kirk: What Really Happened? The usual anomalies and questions Donald Jeffries Charlie Kirk was a popular radio host, and the founder of Turning Point USA. He was shot and killed on September 10, at Utah Valley University, during one of his “Prove me Wrong” appearances before often hostile college students. Immediately, his death became the biggest story in the country, and the response says a great deal about us. Kirk was hardly the biggest name in the alt media, or the right-wing world. He wasn’t Alex Jones. He wasn’t a household name. He is now. Fox News treated his death like the JFK assassination, and devoted their entire evening schedule to over the top tributes. Kirk became an instant martyr to the Right. President Trump lowered the flags to half staff. Now that sounds outlandish, but remember that President Obama did the same thing for singer Whitney Houston, so the the bar had been set pretty low in recent years. Meanwhile, the Left figuratively danced on his grav...

  American Pravda: Political Conspiracies and the French Revolution  Ron Unz   Audio Player A few weeks ago I published  a long article  on the  Protocols of the Elders of Zion , reviewing the available evidence on that notorious document of the very early twentieth century and attempting to evaluate its credibility and provenance. My ultimate verdict was rather hum-drum. I concluded that the work was likely fictional, but probably reflected a widespread quiet understanding of the enormous hidden influence of Jewish groups across Europe, whether as bankers, political advisors, or revolutionaries. A couple of generations earlier, the popular novels of  Benjamin Disraeli , the very influential Jewish-born British Prime Minister, had made exactly that sort of claim, with a character representing  Lord Rothschild  explaining that a network of Jews operating from behind the scenes secretly dominated most of Europe’s major governments. These notion...