The Monthly Review — April 2026
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➊ DRAWING LINES IN THE SAND
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Why I’m Not Replying to My Old Socialist Friend
Written by: Adam B. Coleman
Published: April 17, 2026
I feel like I could’ve written this article today because it literally aligns with my own experience, down to the part about not wanting to reply to a recent message from an old Leftist friend, with whom our last conversation revolved around their belief in the urgency of the George Floyd riots during COVID.
For some of us who think critically and independently about politics and culture, and as a result learn to adapt our perspectives based on the pursuit of the truth, returning to spaces or friendships that were primarily anchored by impenetrable, woke/identity politics is just an exercise in futility.
We want to have enlightening conversations with free thinkers who can open up our minds to new ideas and perspectives we’ve yet to discover, even if we don’t fully agree. We don’t want to be stuck inside cyclical, cult-like activist conversations that demand we view every happening from the lens of victimhood and oppression — it’s quite draining, and uninspiring.
➋ “RACE” IS AN INDUSTRY — ONCE YOU SEE IT, YOU CAN’T UNSEE IT
I wrote this in May 2024, for a much longer piece I’ve been meaning to release. It captures everything we’re seeing today in organizations such as the Southern Poverty Law Center.
For the pharmaceutical industry to maintain its monopoly on the market, it must not only be willing to regulate and prevent the takeover of natural remedies to ailments, it must also be willing to be distribute then eventually recall products that may be known to be harmful to its customers.
The Strategy:
1. Create the problem
2. Create/Prescribe the solution
3. Create lifetime customers
Think of RACE as an industry. For institutions, organizations, and individuals whose entire ethos is built upon racial advocacy, they must be willing to do whatever it takes to keep the industry going, even if it means keeping people wrongfully obsessed with their identity rather than their intrinsic values. These institutions MUST be willing to push narratives that may not be in the betterment and wellness of their support base, but that serve the interest of the “movement,” at large — advancing the idea that racism is more pernicious today than it ever was.
By default, the same strategy applies:
1. Create the problem (Say anything and everything is the result of RACISM — see individuals and activists in the limelight such as Jemele Hill, Amanda Seales, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Ibram X Kendi, the women in the WNBA league, etc.)
2. Create/Prescribe the solution (Advance the “solutions” that your organizations have developed such as forced DEI Trainings, discriminatory hiring quotas, etc)
3. Create lifetime customers (Cultivate new generations of people who embody victimhood and are primed to search for AND *manufacture* racially based events — see Jussie Smolett etc.) ➌ DON’T SAY HIS NAME…
I think the Left have a visceral reaction to the mention of Joe Rogan’s name because, historically, his platform is where echo chambers go to die. Ideas and opinions are poked around and pushed to their limits, to test their veracity throughout the course of 2+ hours.
If you are committed to believing that your perspective is the one and only way of understanding the world, and you’ve carefully crafted an impenetrable echo chamber around that belief, it would make sense that what Rogan represents would be perceived as an assault on your entire being.
People fear having to face new information that shatters their entire worldview and what they once believed to be true. And if they can avoid it at all costs, they will do so. That, I believe, is the underlying reason why many huff and puff about how much they hate Joe Rogan or other such figures — they do not want to face the illusion-shattering truths that could be exposed at any given moment by an expert or well-knowledgeable individual on the show.
And yes, I’m well aware that Rogan, in recent years, has unintentionally allowed his platform to be molded into a PR pitstop by the leading tech magnates and political figures in DC. This recent overview (see below) reveals that much. That aside, the point above still stands.
➍ IS IT A FILM OR REALITY? THE ABSTRACTION OF WAR
As much as we may write about it, I don’t think we can truly come to grips with what it’s like to have entire neighborhoods leveled, in an instant, by blood-thirsty maniacs in both Israel and the U.S.
You get so used to watching people’s lives erased or displaced on screen that you can’t truly know what that degree of destruction and despair must feel like.
Sycophants — be they MAGA-ites or Israel loyalists — who continue to support these deplorable acts of war do nothing but show where their priorities are. At a certain point, you’re not only telling the world about your political alignment and worldview, you’re simply broadcasting your lack of humanity, or the ability to think about the dangerous, longterm ramifications of these harrowing events.
➎ GOVERNING IN THE AGE OF SOCIAL MEDIA
The age of presidents posting and tweeting consequential policies and wartime actions on social media platforms really needs to come to an end.
➏ THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO… HMMM
Is it not alarmingly odd that Trump spent the entire first year of his second term not remotely fazed about getting to the bottom of how he was almost assasinated, and what entities or governmental bodies may have been responsible? How has that managed to escape being one of the top focal points of this administration?
Makes you think…
➐ SEEING THINGS FOR WHAT THEY ARE
If this administration truly valued peace, it wouldn’t have appointed some of the most psychotic, power-hungry, establishment figures in the world into key leadership positions.
A successful administration is only as great as the principles of those it chooses to give the reins of power to.
➑ TRUST THE EXPERTS?
People will tell you to trust the experts until they encounter experts whose findings debunk their entire worldview.
➒ POLITICS AS RELIGION
When politics becomes your religion, you live and die by the destruction of your political opponents.
➓ THE DEMORALIZED CITIZEN
Some people are searching for any reason to believe in the narratives that validate their ideology. These are the types that are most easily manipulated by propaganda.
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