The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Modernity, Not Hollow and empty progressive conceits (a gonzo reprieve from gardening) WILLIAM HUNTER DUNCAN One of the most hollow and empty ideas of the religion of progress is the electric automobile. If we take progressives to be the primary adherents of the religion of progress, of sheer faith in progress, then we might assume, as progressives care so much about the poors, then they will want all the (minority) poors to have electric vehicles. Without going into a long study on the technological fallacy that is changing out the gas powered fleet for electric, when was the last time you heard a progressive talk about the fact that most poors buy old, used vehicles, but that an old, used electric vehicle is going to need a new $10,000+ battery, and what kind of fool is going to put a ten thousand dollar battery in a ten year old vehicle? Not a poor one, said no progressive ever. But then this is all surely a moot point as flying cars must be just around the progressive arc of ...

The ultimate lesson from the Trump indictment: No More Pretenses There is the Uniparty and their Praetorian Guard, and then there's everybody else. JORDAN SCHACHTEL If you haven’t heard the news yet, the Biden Administration’s Justice Department announced Friday afternoon that they were  indicting President Trump, listing 37 felony allegations  against the former president. I’ll spare you the outrage or celebrations that you’re probably seeing proliferating through the media industry, depending on which side you stand on, because none of that is particularly consequential to the issue at hand. I surveyed some followers on social media to get a sense of what people were thinking, and the reactions varied from “I’m so sick of Donald Trump dominating the news for every day of my existence!” to “this is a witch hunt!” Tyler Cardon, the CEO of Blaze Media, added some insightful commentary too. “Everyone’s stuck in an endless cycle of whataboutism,” Cardon  replied . “There are...