The Post-Partisan Emporium

They Knew Everything and Did Nothing Revisiting the DOJ efforts to protect Epstein Techno Fog It has been two years since Jeffrey Epstein died. I refuse to say he committed suicide because that would require trust in the DOJ’s investigation into his death. Not that it’s inconceivable that Epstein committed suicide. He was facing serious charges that would have resulted in serious time. He  revised his will  two days before he died. (Indicative of planning his death or being fearful he’d be killed, however you want to look at it.) Rather, it’s that we’ve learned from the Epstein saga that the DOJ, which serves the broader interests of the US government, can’t be trusted. Two years gone and we still have no good answers about Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to intelligence. There are sources telling Vicky Ward of  Rolling Stone  that “Epstein’s dealings in the arms world in the 1980s had led him to work for multiple governments, including the Israelis.” Ward’s sources said that...

Why Don’t They Believe Us? You’re struggling to understand where all this vaccine hesitancy comes from. Let me help you. BY KONSTANTIN KISIN Imagine you’re a normal person. The year is 2016. Rightly or wrongly, you believe most of what you see in the media. You believe polls are broadly reflective of public opinion. You believe doctors and scientists are trustworthy and independent. You’re a decent, reasonable person who follows the rules and trusts the authorities. Imagine your shock, then, when Brexit, which you were assured couldn’t happen because it was a fringe movement led by racists for racists, happens. The polls, which widely predicted it wouldn’t happen, were wrong. The experts and pundits who told you day after day that it wouldn’t happen were also wrong. “Oh well,” you say, “these things happen.” Imagine that soon after Brexit, Donald Trump is running for president. You are told by the most trustworthy media outlets that he is going to lose. Some experts  say  his ...

Four Big Questions for the Counter-Revolution Has liberalism run its course? If so, what comes next? by N.S. Lyons June 25, 2021 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in 1974. (Photo: Bert Verhoeff Anefo / CC0 via Wikimedia Commons) This article originally appeared on N.S. Lyons’s Substack, The Upheaval . It has been republished here and lightly edited for style. In recent weeks my thoughts have been roiled by a series of questions. These questions are, essentially, root questions about the nature and future direction of what I will call, for lack of any better term, the Counter-Revolution—the informal and disorganized, but growing, and already global, network of people thinking about, writi...