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Happy northern-hemisphere midsummer! First to the followers of Radio Free Pizza , of course, and next to humanity in general. As we find ourselves in the midst of the year’s journey, with the summer solstice marking the peak of daylight in the northern hemisphere, it seems like a perfect moment to pause and reflect on how it’s all been going. For this mid-year dispatch, let’s delve into the signif...

Julian Assange walked free on Monday from Belmarsh prison after more than a decade of confinement or imprisonment for exposing government war crimes through WikiLeaks, had agreed to a plea deal with the U.S. allowing him to plead guilty to one felony charge of illegally obtaining and disclosing national security material. Assange soon landed in the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. territory, to fo...

Hunter Biden was convicted yesterday on three felony charges related to his 2018 purchase of a revolver, where he falsely claimed on a federal gun form that he was not using drugs. The prosecution’s case included testimonies from Hunter’s ex-wife, ex-girlfriend, and Hallie Biden, who testified that she discarded the gun due to safety concerns. The defense called witnesses, including Hunter’s daugh...

Surely you know by now that former President Donald Trump was convicted last week of 34 felony charges in a New York state court centering around bookkeeping issues related to payments to Stormy Daniels, thereby becoming the first former U.S. president to receive a criminal conviction after leaving office. Trump now awaits his sentencing, scheduled for 11 July. Commentary from The Telegraph last F...

Our March dispatch outlined a political philosophy that we (cheekily) called Libertarian Communism: a socialism with American characteristics aiming to maximize individual liberty while fostering communal ownership and control over the means of production for basic goods and necessities. The embedded contradiction in the name is designed to (hopefully) capture attention across the left- and right-...

Happy Bitcoin Pizza Day to all the crypto enthusiasts tuning in to Radio Free Pizza! While I’d like to keep the faith in our usual programming of full-length dispatches, today’s edition of our irregular bulletins doesn’t just mark the latest recurrence of Bitcoin Pizza Day, but also serves up a slice of intrigue: is Bitcoin (BTC) merely a machination of the American deep state? I don’t know! But i...

Happy May Day to all you Radio Free Pizza fanatics! Though my last dispatch claimed that you wouldn’t hear from me for a few more weeks, it looks now like I just can’t quit—at least not while I keep finding such fresh and interesting ingredients out there in the marketplace of ideas. So, for the sake of keeping my word, this release isn’t a Sunday dispatch, but instead, the first of Radio Free Piz...

Happy anniversary, beloved customers! Now, technically I’m two days early, if you check the date on my first dispatch , but I just couldn’t wait: not if I wanted to keep up my biweekly-on-Sundays release schedule, anyway—the demands of which inspire me, in fact, to tell you all now that I’m taking a month off, and without that pair of slices, I’m afraid you’ll just have to go hungry. But I won’t l...

In charting a course towards a more participatory society that ensures all citizens receive a fair share of its economic prosperity, the people of the United States of America ought to adopt a “socialism with American characteristics” attuned to our unique cultural and historical context: for the sake of discussion, let’s call it Libertarian Communism . Rooted in the principles of individual liber...

One of last month’s slices profiled Collective Action Comics ’ season-long critique of Mark Millar’s The Ultimates (2002–’04). In that season’s final episode, host Nat Yonce addresses the question of collective action, advocating for mass resistance and sustained momentum against oppressive forces. That dispatch’s conclusion intertwined this call to action with my own argument affirming the cultur...

Our last slice of Radio Free Pizza detailed (in part) the catastrophic failure of mRNA injections deployed in response to the 2020–’23 coronavirus pandemic, but we got through it without mentioning one of the U.S. pandemic response’s most visible mainstream dissidents: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whom I maintained at the start of this year would make a fine Antichrist, if I were in charge of casting. S...

Let’s talk about what it seems like some would rather forget : the 2020–’23 public health emergency of the coronavirus pandemic , and the global response to the same. Since 12 December 2019 —when treatment began on the first patients in Wuhan, China, for what was later identified as the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), following what the U.S. Senate concluded in...

In a heterogeneous culture comprising a variety of communities with different traditions, languages, and histories, shared symbols and iconography in the narratives available in public entertainment encourage social cohesion and shared identity. Our narratives act as a universal language, allowing individuals from various cultural backgrounds to communicate and understand each other with reference...

In late May of 2020, protests following the death of George Floyd turned to riots, resulting in the burning of Minneapolis’ 3rd Precinct, with personnel stationed there ordered to abandon their posts before rioters set it ablaze. In all, more than a thousand properties were damaged , with 35 families displaced and one man killed in his business as it burned. City officials estimated in 2020 that i...

Happy (Gregorian) new year! First to the followers of Radio Free Pizza , of course, and next to humanity in general. (Or, to Orthodox Christians in particular, merry Christmas Day.) For our first dispatch of 2024—seven days after the Gregorian calendar turned, eight days before we hit New Year’s Day on the Julian calendar, and thirty-four days before it appears on the Chinese one—let’s address any...

Happy (Western) holidays! First to the followers of Radio Free Pizza , of course, and next to humanity in general. For our last dispatch of 2023, wedged between two high holy days—just before Christmas where it lands in the Gregorian calendar, and just after the modern Festivus with its instantly beloved traditions—it seems fitting to address now any developments to those ongoing stories we’ve cov...

In today’s dystopian clown show, the World Economic Forum (WEF) annually convenes in the picturesque town of Davos, Switzerland. Here, an international sampling of business, political, academic, and cultural personalities gather to shape global agendas and foster public-private cooperation surrounding today’s pressing issues—ranging from economic development and environmental sustainability to tec...

Last time on Radio Free Pizza , we talked about U.S. imperialism in Latin America as it relates to the history of social engineering. Today, let’s turn our attention to the same geopolitical phenomenon, but this time, in the context of global trade. You’re familiar, I’m sure, with the Panama Canal: the artificial waterway spanning 65 kilometers (shoreline to shoreline) of the Isthmus of Panama in...

More than a few dispatches now from Radio Free Pizza have made some hay over the idea of “social engineering.” In political science, the term refers to the deliberate manipulation of societal structures, norms, and institutions by governments or political actors to achieve specific policy objectives. This can involve strategies aimed at changing public opinion, shaping cultural narratives, or enac...

Do you think the United States has a Nazi problem? I mean, if you’re reading this, then odds are pretty good you’ve heard of Operation Paperclip, so you’re probably inclined to say yes. If not, don’t feel bad: I just think it’s uncommon knowledge, and I think of my readers as uncommon people. For those unaware, Operation Paperclip was a covert program conducted by the U.S. after World War II to re...

In a recent dispatch , we explored the historic background to the announced expansion of BRICS—Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, now admitting Saudi Arabia, Iran, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Ethiopia, and Argentina to (what they’ve apparently decided to call) BRICS-11 in 2024—and contrasted it against the post-WWII (unipolar) capital order. If you’re not familiar with BRICS, The...

Superheroes have undoubtedly demonstrated their potential for organic contribution of positive cultural value in contemporary society as a secular equivalent to the fables, myths, fairytales, parables, folklore, and other traditional narratives that, in historical societies, served a similar function of contributing to personal and societal development. Just as those traditional narratives conveye...

Late last month, the 15th annual BRICS summit convened in Johannesburg, South Africa, between the chief executives of participating countries—except of course Vladimir Putin, precluded from attending physically due to a warrant by the International Criminal Court—at which President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa announced that Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Em...

Our last two (free) slices of Radio Free Pizza explored a phenomenon we named cultural austerity: the manipulation (systemic or deliberate) of cultural expressions, entertainment, and communication platforms to shape public perceptions, values, and behaviors to preserve and reinforce the existing power dynamics, political structures, and socioeconomic hierarchies of the prevailing system. By promo...

Last time on Radio Free Pizza , I coined the term “cultural austerity” while in production on that dispatch . Or, in truth, I only thought I coined it. I’m glad I didn’t try to take credit for it, because I’ve since found out my predecessors were numerous. Fortunately for my ego, my brief research so far hasn’t revealed any authors who used the term in quite the same sense. Following after the res...