The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Message received How cultural messaging is distorting our perception of reality PETER FROST American Airlines  advertisement (1968). In addition to selling a product or service, advertising can serve a broader purpose, such as changing our culture. Dutch people underestimate the crime rate of dark-skinned immigrants while overestimating the crime rate of light-skinned immigrants, including Roma, Turks, and Chinese. Our perception of crime, and reality itself, is being distorted by the messaging of modern culture. The crime news is unfair to Negroes, on the one hand, in that it emphasizes individual cases instead of statistical proportions ... and, on the other hand, in that all other aspects of Negro life are neglected in the white press which gives the unfavorable crime news an undue weight. Sometimes the white press "creates" a Negro crime wave where none actually exists. (Myrdal, 1944, pp. 655-656) Gunnar Myrdal wrote  An American Dilemma  at the dawn of the civ...

  The United States of Freier-dom Sorry Americans, our "greatest ally" just isn't all that into us DANIEL D The United States of Freier-dom, where simping for Israel is a way of life … Why are we Americans such schlemiels, suckers, and simps for Israel? As the (apparently)  Mossad honeypot operation known as Jefrey Epstein  showed, our oligarchs and politicians are getting some play out of the deal, at least. But what’s in it for the rest of us? Before we consider this question further, a couple of quick caveats are in order. First, anti-Zionism does  not  equal antisemitism:  not all Jews are Zionists , and not all Zionists are Jews. In America,  MOST  Zionists are  NOT  Jews, but are instead the kind of evangelical  Christians whom Israelis like to spit on . Second, ditching Israel as a “greatest ally” doesn’t mean we have to go and immediately run into the arms of the  pro-Palestinian camp . In spite of the popular saying th...

  The Long Sordid Career of Creepy Joe Biden Hail to the Sniffer in Chief DONALD JEFFRIES I get complaints from people that I concentrate too much on Donald Trump. Basically, the message is, “But what about Biden?” I do write more about Trump, because he’s the face of the perceived opposition. The only Emmanuel Goldstein in town. I assume everyone reading me understands just who and what Joe Biden is. But people might not remember quite everything about Joe Biden’s lengthy career as a beloved resident of the Washington, D.C. swamp that Trump promised to drain. Biden was first elected as a U.S. Senator from Delaware in 1973. Even I was very young then. In 1981, the great “liberal” senator strongly supported the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, passed in the wake of CIA whistleblower Philip Agee’s disclosures about the Agency is his best-selling book  Inside the Company.  Biden declared that “I do not think anybody has any doubt about Mr. Agee. We should lock him awa...

  90 Minutes That Shook the Liberals Awake PATRICK LAWRENCE Give me a sec to think. I need to make a list. Two. The genocide in Gaza, the Middle East tinderbox, Bezalel Smotrich, the lost proxy war in Ukraine, relations with Russia, the danger of nuclear war, the fate of NATO, China, the threat of war with Iran, the emergence of a new world order, Europe’s turn toward populism, third world debt, global inequality, the sharply worsening climate crisis: It is a start on the foreign side, in no particular order. Inter  the endless  alia  in these United States, I’ve got social and economic inequality, money in politics, our drift toward late-imperial bankruptcy, the corruption of the judiciary, the housing crisis from hell, Julian Assange and press freedom, the creeping censorship regime, widespread drug addiction, immigration, the price of eggs, the Pentagon budget: I will leave out Taylor Swift and stop here. So, a brief précis of the imposing problems defining the ta...