The Spotify playlist was called “Priestess” and the mood of it was if Persephone embraced Queen of the Underworld. Press play. What about Persephone? Maybe that’s what she should’ve done. Instead of the damsel-in-distress story, what if the story is her just facing the dark and saying, “Fuck, bring it!” …

My dad was an Afghan refugee and my mom is Pakistani, but they both escaped from Afghanistan when the coup happened in the 1970s, and they had to get smuggled out. So it was it was a very similar experience in a lot of ways to what’s going on now…

Most people aren’t using this term correctly. Here’s why…. A lot of terms are thrown around today to describe extremist movements. One that keeps coming up is “cultural Marxism.” …

Pakistani cleric cites Islam, offering rare theological justification for Jewish sovereignty. Breaking news out of Pakistan signals a possible new layer for peace in the Middle East, as a senior cleric goes on the record to acknowledge that Israel belongs to the Jews. How are we to understand this news? First, the conversation draws on history, specifically the history of the…

If grievance is a form of addiction, then “your brain on grievances looks a lot like your brain on drugs.” That’s the argument laid out by violence researcher James Kimmel, Jr. If the argument holds water, an expanded understanding of grievance retention (and possibly the victimhood culture that severe grievances…

In a recent PragerU book club review of George Orwell’s masterful book 1984, Michael Knowles and Dave Rubin discuss the parallels between one of the most iconic dystopian novels and present reality. …

A UK-based Muslim police organization proposes dropping the term “Islamist terrorism” and “jihadis.” The proposal offers alternative language including “faith-claimed terrorism,” “terrorists abusing religious motivations,” and “adherents of Osama bin Laden’s ideology,” when describing attacks by those who identify as Muslims. Pushing aside the narrative that scrubbing the word Islamism would make it vastly more difficult to challenge lawful Islamism, there are three other significant detriments in softening the language to be more palatable to those for whom truth is uncomfortable.

The quarantine is a cultural and political experiment: We’re seeing just how quickly the U.S. can be dissolved. #GovernmentOverreach 2. If Americans stand down, the U.S. openly becomes a surveillance state overnight. …