Based on various polls, around 90% of Americans have observed a decline in “civility.” Similar numbers believe that civility is necessary for the functioning of American society. Thus the decline in civility can only be harmful to America. Interestingly, even though most people feel that civility is eroding, most…
They like to pretend that it came out of nowhere. We love the bedtime story: Europe was humming along peacefully in its post-historic spa – open borders, cheap energy, NATO as a charity, Russia as a gas station with a flag… and then, one day, for no reason at…
6 Key findings of this investigation: Right up until his arrest for child sex trafficking, Chomsky was advising Epstein on crisis management, sympathizing with the “horrible way you are being treated in the press and public.” On multiple occasions, Chomsky expressed his desire to visit Little St. James Island, site…
Among the consolations of youth is the certainty with which one holds beliefs about the world. There is comfort in the conviction that one’s moral bearings are firmly set, that one’s understanding of complex questions is not only sincere but also correct. The world appears legible; right and wrong seem sharply…
I hadn’t had a drink in three years util last week…I was sober for three years. The days of waking up with shaking hands before I could get a couple shots of Jack into me were over. I thought I was done with that life. Then I started reading the…
“Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.” – GK Chesterton I despise moving and wince whenever I think how many times I’ve done in my adult life. The good news is that I’m done with all that, God-willing. Two…
Transparency, Testimony, and the Reckoning Westminster Tried to Avoid. The commencement of the independent Rape Gang Inquiry in February 2026, spearheaded by Independent MP Rupert Lowe, represents a definitive rupture in the British political and social contract. For decades, the systematic rape of young, predominantly White working-class girls by organised Pakistani gangs was…
Trump said he’d be able to end the Ukraine War in 24 hours. Scott Ritter, the former UN weapons inspector, said in an interview this week that President Donald Trump has largely surrounded himself with Russia hawks — like U.S. Secretary of State/National Security Adviser Marco Rubio — who have…
The current discussion surrounding artificial intelligence has all the hallmarks of a religious awakening. It’s got prophecies of utopia, eschatological warnings of apocalypse, and a priestly class of technologists who speak in tongues about “parameters and tokens,” promising salvation through silicon. We have seen this movie before. The eschatological…
Whatever is on the other side of this, is up to us. We choose. This is our world, not theirs. Time to step up. I didn’t recover from last week’s piece on the Epstein files until this morning, Thursday, and I had to climb a mountain to do it.
