Week of December 18, 2017
Intrepid Report Newsletter Wishing you a joyous holiday season! Monday It’s Ayn Rand’s America now: How the GOP stripped the country of its last shred of morality By Neal Gabler If you have any doubts that the phenomenon of Donald Trump was a long time a’coming, you have only to read a piece that Gore Vidal wrote for Esquire magazine in July 1961, when the conservative movement was just beginning and even Barry Goldwater was hardly a glint in Republicans’ eyes. US conservatism metamorphosing into shameful schism By Ben Tanosborn For some of us who had an upbringing in traditional, conservative homes, and who first registered to vote as members of the Republican Party, conservatism is a sad memory of old: arcane economic-sociopolitical liturgy, just like that of the Latin Mass. Towards a new Palestinian beginning By Ramzy Baroud Now that the American mask has completely fallen, Palestinians require an urgent rethink in their own pol...