The Double Standard
Nolan Higdon Substack How the Establishment Neutralizes Economic Populism “Democratic Socialists Occupy Wall Street 2011 Shankbone” by david_shankbone is licensed under CC BY 2.0. “I’ll just make it clear, there’s…
The Attention Engine
Media Manipulation, Institutional Decay, and the Strategy Behind Trump’s Grip on Power Nolan Higdon Substack “I don’t think there was an Iranian cyberattack. I think Minnesota ought to get its…
Artificial Hype, Authentic Resistance: Gen Z Calls Out the Big Tech Hype
Nolan Higdon Substack When a speaker at the University of Central Florida’s May 8, 2026 commencement declared, “The rise of artificial intelligence is the next Industrial Revolution,” it triggered boos…
How Corporatism Paved the Way For The MAGAcademy Takeover of Higher Education
How Corporatism Paved the Way for the Hostile Takeover of Higher Ed Nolan Higdon Note: The following is an excerpt from the book MAGAcademy. By purchasing the book through Project…
The Age of Generative Warfare:
Why the 2026 Middle East Crisis Demands Critical AI Literacy Nolan Higdon Substack “Tel Aviv, stripped of illusion, as you have never witnessed it,” read the caption above a viral…
The Real State of the Union: Epstein’s Shadow Network and the Illusion of American Democracy
The newly released Epstein files don’t just implicate a handful of powerful men—they expose an entire architecture of American power built on impunity, secrecy, and the quiet expectation that the…
Techno-Fascism Exposed: The Epstein Files and the Naked Ruling Class
Welcome to Scheer Intelligence, in this episode, Robert Scheer sits down with media scholar Nolan Higdon to dissect the explosive revelations emerging from the Epstein Files — newly exposed documents…
Inside the New Epstein Files: What the Unredacted Names Reveal About America’s Ruling Class
In this second installment of our weekly deep dive into the Epstein files, Robert Scheer and media scholar Nolan Higdon unpack a wave of newly unredacted documents that expose the…
Caligula in the 21st Century: What the Epstein Files Reveal About U.S. Power
In this conversation, Robert Scheer and Nolan Higdon dig into the contradictions at the heart of America’s elite class — the philanthropists, technocrats and political leaders who publicly preach democracy,…
The Epstein Ledger
By Nolan Higdon / Substack This essay reviews the documents released over the past month. All previous reporting on this topic can be found in my Decoding Epstein. “I didn’t…
From Blue Books to Chatbots
By Nolan Higdon Substack “Many professors cite the rising impact of AI and the speech of some prominent politicians as reasons to inoculate students against propaganda and falsehoods being mass…
The Nuzzi-Lizza-RFK Scandal: A Symptom of Corporate Media’s Deep Ethical Crisis
By: Nolan Higdon for his Substack the Gaslight Gazette “Can we pause this, I’m sorry,” mumbled a sobbing Olivia Nuzzi during her December 2, 2025 interview with Tim Miller of…
Ro Khanna, AI, and the Pentagon: When the Progressive Brand Fuels the Military-Industrial Machine
By Joshua Scheer Since we just had Nolan on ScheerPost today with our latest podcast about Epstein and the media, you can listen to it here: I thought it would…
Unraveling the Epstein Scandal: A Deep Dive into Power, Corruption, and Media Complicity
Join Robert Scheer in this gripping episode of Scheer Intelligence as he delves into the complex web of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal — a story that transcends mere gossip and…
The Militarization and Weaponization of Media Literacy
NATO Invades the Classroom.