Source: The Peaceful Revolutionist
by David S D’Amato

“Although anarchism is usually treated as an outlier political philosophy, structurally it describes the conditions under which most human groups have actually governed themselves before the formation of the state. Many human communities still of course live beyond the reaches of the murdering, pathological state. … Whatever we think of the way these societies are structured and governed, it is clear that there are elements of intentional power-preemption, centrifugal mechanisms for maintaining a deliberately headless politics.” (11/22/25)

https://dsdamato.substack.com/p/headless-politics

Source: Inequality.org
by Jenny Ricks & Deepak Xavier

“This year’s G20 Leaders Summit is taking place in Johannesburg, a short distance from Constitution Hill, a former prison complex that once held Nelson Mandela and other South African democracy fighters. As the world’s most powerful leaders meet behind closed doors, this former apartheid prison turned museum will publicly write another page in the history of global economic emancipation. Movements, workers, activists, thinkers, creatives, artists, and communities from across South Africa, Africa, Asia, and Latin America are gathering for a three-day People’s Summit for Economic Justice — a counter to the G20 — to build the power of the 99 percent.” (11/22/25)

https://inequality.org/article/g20-peoples-summit/

Source: The UnPopulist
by William Galston

“After moderate Republican candidates lost twice to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton became the favorite to succeed him, the revolt that had begun with the Tea Party during the Great Recession shattered the GOP’s “let us continue as usual” faction and led to Donald Trump’s improbable nomination as the Republican standard-bearer. His longstanding opposition to free trade, international commitments, and mass immigration soon came to dominate a radically changed party. Nobody could accuse Trump of having a well-developed conservative philosophy, but his iconoclastic impulses opened the door to restless intellectuals vying to systematize his impulses into a New Right.” (11/23/25)

https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-neo-rights-multi-front-revolt

Source: Law & Liberty
by Nadya Williams

“Wendell Berry’s Port William novels invite reflection on whether the meek might not, after all, inherit the Earth.” (11/21/25)

https://lawliberty.org/wendell-berrys-epilogue/

Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff

“Each approaching winter since 2022, besieged Ukrainians have braced for more Russian attacks on the energy installations they rely on to survive the harsh cold of the Eurasian steppe. This year, they are confronting two additional jolts: Anti-corruption agencies have revealed high-level graft, with the equivalent of $100 million siphoned off from funds intended to defend this very same energy infrastructure. And many Ukrainians are discomfited by reports of a U.S.-Russia ‘peace plan’ – negotiated without Ukraine’s involvement. Some Ukrainian officials believe the timing is designed by the United States to use the corruption crisis to pressure the president into concessions.” (11/21/25)

https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2025/1121/Ukraine-s-fronts-are-not-only-in-the-war