The Post-Partisan Emporium

  A Game of Musical Chairs John Michael Greer Some turning points in history are impossible to miss. They involve battle-cries and the clash of weapons, gatherings making decisions that can never be undone, and equally obvious events. Then there are the turning points that slip past unnoticed by most of the people whose lives they will overturn. I’ve come to think that one of those latter is taking place around us right now. One of the very few announcements I’ve seen so far didn’t involve bugles or proclamations.    It appeared in a news story covered in a few corners of the tech industry press last month. The story’s simple enough.  Ryan Breslow, founder and returning CEO of hotshot financial-tech company Bolt, laid off the company’s entire human resources department and replaced it with a smaller and more focused team with much more limited responsibilities. His explanation for the change? “We had an HR team, and that HR team was creating problems that didn’t exist,” he was quo...

  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...