The Monthly Review — May 2025
All of New Outlook's topics, stories, and opinions you missed this past month.
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➊ NEW ON THE TUCKER CARLSON SHOW
★★★★★
New Outlook Recommends
Podcast: The Tucker Carlson Show
Episode: “Glenn Greenwald: The Truth About Epstein, Jake Tapper's Humiliation, & Insane New Push to Nuke Gaza”
Published: May 30, 2025
Independent journalist Glenn Greenwald appeared for the third time on The Tucker Carlson Show this past Friday. They discussed CNN’s Jake Tapper and his attempt at cosplaying as a journalist with his latest book and “exposé” on Joe Biden’s cognitive decline. They also cover the latest development and apparent coverup of the Epstein story by Trump’s cabinet (namely Kash Patel, Director of FBI, and Dan Bongino, Deputy Director of the FBI), attacks on free speech, corruption of corporate media, and much more.
➋ NO JOURNALISTIC INTEGRITY TO BE FOUND
Instead of directly engaging in a substantive conversation with specific people in powerful positions on the Right, Liberals in the legacy media space would rather hem and haw about what they’ve heard some random people say about specific figures on the Right.
You would think these so-called journalists would have the wherewithal to seek out answers for themselves. But no, they’d rather allow hear-say to dictate their entire worldview.
➌ MEDIA LORDS NO MORE
Legacy media is frustrated that it’s losing its power to platform politicians running for office. It’s quickly losing its gatekeeper status.
Every politician is now flocking to comedy podcasts and every alternative outlet out there. (That’s a discussion for another day because the clout-chasing trend this has produced for podcasters who have no business talking politics is actually a problem in and of itself.)
Now legacy media is engaging in a new type of tactic: shaming independent outlets and comedy podcasters, who are newly rising as the new media, for making politicians “look cool” and relevant. Legacy media outlets now put on a pretense and warn comedy podcasters that these politicians “might use podcasters for their own ends.” As if legacy media platforms have not been subserviently prostrating themselves before politicians to peddle their propaganda. (All of this can be found in CNN’s recent interview with Tim Dillon)
The legacy media is losing its specialty. And they’re bitter that the tables are being turned right before their eyes. Their role as kingmaker is quickly slipping away. And they’re desperately rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic before the ship has fully sunk.
It’s a pleasure to watch in slow motion.
➍ WHY THE WORLD HATES LEGACY MEDIA
CNN recently invited a comedian—Tim Dillon—on to basically teach them about the fundamentals of journalistic integrity and building a media platform that people actually want to watch. Essentially, Dillon was there to inform them on how to suck less.
In the interview, the interviewer Elle Reeve represents everything wrong with journalists in mainstream media (if you can even call them that). And these are the types that will continue to have high-paying, lucrative jobs in the business.
Reeve’s questions did not seem at all genuine. Instead, they seem like super scripted questions meant to build the narrative they’ll probably end up running as a hit-piece online.
Reeve is the type whose entire ideology is obvious before she’s even uttered a word about her beliefs. There’s no complexity to their thinking or line of questioning. There is no curiosity. There is no quest to discover what they did not know before. There is no real search for truth. Her conclusions were already drawn up prior to the sit-down, and nothing—absolutely nothing Dillon said in the span of the hour-long interview—was going to change her mind.
She was evidently out of her depths and not cut out for the type of hit-piece that the interview was supposed to kickstart against comics and new media voices such as Dillon, Rogan, etc. But what CNN journalist really needs depth when they have propagandistic narratives?
➎ ON THE MODERN ACTIVIST ETHOS
Somehow, modern activists have managed to convince people that the phrases “people of color” and “colored people” hold completely different meanings.
I will never get over this. I will never get over how modern activists tamper with language or employ euphemistic terms to create a new world based on a newly concocted worldview.
This same tactic—the manipulation of language—can be observed across various other identity politics positions. While its proponents claim the tampering of language is “for the greater good,” the only results we ever see is chaos, confusion, coercion to adopt new “inclusive” terminologies, indoctrination, and ultimately, a decimated culture.
Simply put: the modern activist ethos is as follows: “If it isn’t broken, destroy it.”
➏ DELUSIONS OF THE DUOPOLY
On both the Left and Right, the excuse for their favorite politicians elected into office is the delusional reasoning that says:
“Just give them time, they’re eventually going to do what they promised.” ➐ VICTIMHOOD AS A POWER TACTIC
The Left, even while it disproportionately holds majority of all institutional power, believes itself powerless.
➑ SORTING CRITICAL THINKERS FROM IDEOLOGUES
Uttering the words “Joe Rogan” in a crowded room can quickly help you sort through the critical, independent thinkers from the group-think ideologues.
I urge you to try it.
➒ WHAT DO YOU VALUE?
The simple act of pulling at the thread of a single narrative can unspool entire networks of propaganda.
Incessant curiosity will often shatter false narratives. But it may also shatter the bond you have with peers who are wholly tethered to false narratives.
You must choose what you value most.
➓ CULT OR NOT?
If you cannot question it, it’s not an honest movement or ideology. It’s a cult that uses propagandistic tactics to drown out dissident voices.
(Apply this to any movement or ideology you’ve been told not to question.)
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