Book Review: Fact-Checking the Fact-Checkers
In his latest book, Matt Palumbo explains the origins and rise to power of the fact-checking industry, the major players in it, and their uniform ideological bend toward the Left.
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Arabella’s “Dark Money” Wants to Silence Free Speech
Enemies of free speech apparently feel right at home in the country’s largest “dark money” lobbying empire. Case-in-point, the Dangerous Speech Project aims to “inoculate” Americans against right-wing “hate” and…
National Lawyers Guild: Origins and Early Years
The National Lawyers Guild is a radical-left association of attorneys, law students, legal workers, and jailhouse lawyers. Since its founding in 1936 or 1937, the Guild has consistently been identified…
National Lawyers Guild: The Second Red Scare
The willingness of Guild members to represent communists in several high-profile investigations and prosecutions during the late 1940s and early 1950s, combined with strong anti-communist sentiments in Congress and among…
National Lawyers Guild: The Civil Rights Movement and the New Left
The National Lawyers Guild was the first racially integrated national bar association in the United States, and actively opposed military segregation during World War II. A number of notable civil rights…
National Lawyers Guild: Consolidation and Internationalism
The year 1973 proved to be pivotal for the National Lawyers Guild and for the consolidation of its radical political ideology. That year’s convention has been described as “the cataclysmic…
National Lawyers Guild: Activities and Positions
The NLG generally espouses a radical-left ideology. Its objective is “to function as an effective force in the service of the people by valuing human rights and ecosystems over property…
National Lawyers Guild: Leadership, Structure, and Financials
The NLG operates as a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization. It lists more than 50 local chapters on its website, some of which also have their own nonprofit tax-exempt statuses. The NLG…
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Communism
In the fourth episode of The Politically Incorrect Guide, Tom Woods & Michael Malice go back in time to the land of Michael's birth: the Soviet Union. Tom & Michael…
The Totalitarian Undertow of Social Distancing
Social distancing, mask mandates, and lockdowns have put civil society on ice. Church congregations either do not meet, “meet” in socially distancing congregations, or try to fellowship over video conferencing.