Archive - The Globoscope (Carl Raschke)

A failed assassination exposes the abysmal depths of our poisonous politics

But it also compels us to read the new book by the very author who coined the phrase "culture wars"

Jul 18 •

Populism in on the rise worldwide

But it's not the Friday the 13th-style horror spectacle our fear-mongering progressive neoliberal elites want you to fantasize about

Jul 5 •

June 2024

"To tell the truth", or will the real fascist please stand up?

How your tweedy academic colleague down the hall suddenly morphed into the "brown shirt" he routinely accuses your Roto-Rooter guy of becoming

Jun 15 •

The "meaning of meaning" has become downright mean-spirited these days

Just ask Martha Alito and her mean-girl menace Maureen Dowd

Jun 5 •

May 2024

Justice Samuel Alito's "upside-down" flag is now revealed as a secret shill for George Washington's Pine Tree flag which secretly shills for…

Or so says The New York Times, since Matthew Taylor says it

May 23 •

The "visionary disease" that stalks our anti-Israel academic encampments

Or when cosplay collides with real human history

May 15 •

The unholy alliance of certain academics and Christian pseudo-moralists with Jew-haters over the Gaza war isn't going to make the Jews go…

If you're dubious, I refer you to something called "the Bible"

May 3 •

April 2024

Despite facile similarities there is no real comparison between pro-Palestinian protests among college students and those of the Vietnam era

Hamas' extensive and shadowy global network of funding and influence might possibly be a factor also

Apr 24 •

Recent investigative news reports about "Havana syndrome" stir up older controversies about "psychotronic" weaponry

But this time the issue may not simply fade away

Apr 4 •

March 2024

American higher education is now the epicenter of global antisemitism

And it's not simply an aberration but a flashing red alert about the deep corruption of our most valuable social institutions against which we need to…

Mar 8 •

February 2024

Sorry, Heidi, but last week's Alabama court decision that embryos are "children" has absolutely nothing to do with "Christian nationalism"

But it does force us to think seriously about the religious underpinning of those cherished "human rights" we increasingly take for granted

Feb 28 •

The grand academic con job that brands Israelis as "settler colonialists"

Or how California is considering aligning its K-12 curriculum with the pedagogy of the Third Reich

Feb 20 •

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