Ness discusses how far the managerial state will go to stop Trump, why nobody likes Sean P Puff Puffy Diddie Combs and why online retailers like when you steal from Walmart

Ness discusses how middle Americans are the new barbarians the empire seeks to conquer, how the dollar is on borrowed time and how Taylor Swift's Harris endorsement makes fewer people want to vote for Harris

Ness discusses how the adage "better dead than racist" manifests in the real world, how sheriffs are among the most democratic offices in the country, and public sentiments on affirmative action, men in women's sports, and free speech

Ness discusses abortion as a sacrament, the subversion of Middle Earth, why cultural Marxists care about what they do and what Tim Walz' family turning on him might reveal about him

Ness discusses Mark Zuckerberg's public broadside against the security state, what populism wants versus what it's likely to get and how Dollar General's decline evinces a deep sickness in capital markets

Ness discusses how are food and gadgets are killing us, how RFK may have avoided killing his own relevance and why democracy doesn't work

Ness considers a dark possibility for the future, discusses what it means to be a fed, wonders what's going on with Pennsylvania, and looks at the moribund spirit of free speech in America

Ness discusses weird aspects of the 2024 presidential election, who the zeitgeist views as enemies of progress and who is concerned about falling fertility

Ness discusses how biology matters and status matters even more

Ness discusses the 2024 presidential race, Israel and the Palestinians and looks at polling data on the perceived acceptability of violence as a means of affecting political change