This past weekend was a vile and grotesque display of idolatry in the midst of America’s decaying empire. The parade of horribles started on Friday with the crowning of the first paper Trillionaire, Elon Musk, when his company SpaceX went public for $1.75 trillion, in a rushed IPO, with dubious investment rules, which experts say is likely vastly overvalued. The valuation itself is so ludicrous some have even suggested it undermines the overall stock pricing system itself. And all for what?...

Every Child Deserves Books to Escape Into Watch our Zoomchat with Paula Hendry Welcome to the Don't Shop on Tuesday (DSOT) Zoomchat hosted by Jacob Kravetz and Barrie Friedland. Today w'ere joined by Paula Hendry, a retired school teacher and librarian, who has dedicated much of her life to bringing greater access to reading for the children of Maryland. DSOT believes in the transformative and emancipatory power of reading and books, so we are thrilled to discuss all things reading with...

Last week at Harvard’s Class Day speech political commentator and comedian Ronny Chieng proclaimed that the graduating class’s great task would be to destroy AI and the data centers being ​built across the country. This Luddite cry was met with cheers and raucous applause, reflecting the growing, and now majority, sentiment of deep skepticism, distrust and fear at the Advent of AI. Especially when it comes to building large AI data centers in their local communities. The AI data center is...