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Fear Factor. America has a fully functioning First Amendment, much to Prince Harry’s astonishment, so Rogan is perfectly free to stay stupid stuff for profit. The problem is that his 200 million listeners take him seriously, and politicians of all stripes are eager to capitalize on his platform. Rogan started out as a typical frat boy stand-up comic in the late 1980s before acting in the mid-to-late 1990s on sitcoms like Hardball and   NewsRadio. He was also a color commentator for the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Rogan’s breakthrough came 20 years ago as the host of NBC’s gross-o...

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

Save this story for later. Peter Thiel appeared at a Zoom event one evening this past April in a familiar pose: his face sat tense and almost twitchy, and yet his voice radiated authority and calm. Even by Thiel’s rarefied standards, his main interviewer that evening, in a conversation hosted by the Nixon Foundation, was impressive: Mike Pompeo, Trump’s former Secretary of State and a potential Presidential contender, who was treating the billionaire with deference while asking him the broadest of questions about the future of the U.S. and China. “You spend a lot of time thinking and wr...

In the pre-pandemic era, rabbis would worry about finding a matching tie or an appropriate outfit before rushing out of the door to the next class they were teaching. These preparations were shelved during the pandemic as Zoom calls took the place of in-person gatherings and interactions, but they came with new logistical headaches: proper lighting, phone tripods and decent backdrops. In recent months, a new audio-only chat app called Clubhouse, currently available only on iPhones, removed those hurdles. The networking app, which allows users to open “rooms” for conversations on topics of...

How Yang charmed the right on his road to political stardom 03/15/2021 09:54 PM EDT Updated Andrew Yang’s road to fame was paved with right-wing podcasts. Before he joined the New York City mayor’s race in January or even appeared on a presidential debate stage during the Democratic primary, Yang reached an audience of millions through an unconventional venue: shows that promoted a strongly anti-progressive point of view. During one interview last May, Yang said, “There are many elements of Trump voters that I completely get and empathize with” before describing people who had become...