Americans were forced to sit through one of their biggest cultural events of the year in a language that is not theirs, surrounded by symbols of other, foreign places. he Super Bowl is supposed to be one of the cultural cornerstones in American life that still belongs to Americans.
At the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, President Donald Trump called Republican Congressman Thomas Massie a “moron.” This is not remotely new for Trump. The president has called Massie a “grandstander” for holding up the $2 trillion Covid relief bill in March 2020. Trump has called for Massie to be thrown out…
On January 23, 2026, Adam Presser became CEO of TikTok’s newly formed U.S. joint venture following the forced sale that separated the platform from Chinese ownership. Within 48 hours, censorship reports exploded. Pro-Palestinian creators watched their reach plummet. Gaza journalist Bisan Owda, an Emmy winner with 1.4 million followers, found…
Rome in winter is free of the frenetic chaos of the tourist season—which starts around Palm Sunday and ends in late October—to reveal the Eternal City’s intimate side. Without those ubiquitous foreign multitudes, Rome looks and feels like a normal city inhabited by real people. It can be chilly…
As the Epstein drama truly begins to unfold, it’s time to ask what it all means. What does this say about the world we live in, and specifically about the West? The first question that demands an answer is: “What’s actually happening?” In general terms, we are now confronted…
One has to wonder how and why some people’s victimization is so much more important than others. Why has a tragic event for the family of Nancy Guthrie become a cause célèbre for the nation? For those of us who do not watch NBC’s Today Show, Savannah may be…
A Housewife’s Killing on the Copperbelt (1960) On 8 May 1960, a brutal flashpoint erupted on Northern Rhodesia’s Copperbelt. Lilian Margaret Burton, a 39-year-old white settler and housewife, was driving near Ndola with her two young daughters, Debbie, aged 12, and Rosemary, aged 4, when their car was ambushed by a violent…
It is not for nothing that most of the world both abhors and condemns Israeli behavior, whether it be measured by the never-ending genocide in Gaza or the similarly driven terrorizing and deportation of the Palestinian population on the West Bank. Israel is intent on taking full control of…
A few years ago, when the term “cuck” was enthusiastically embraced by many of my cultural allies, I personally balked at usage of this crude appellation. “Cuck,” short for “cuckold,” denotes a man whose wife has cheated on him. It is a cruel, mocking term, intended for ridicule, and…
It’s all backstage now. This fraught moment, the power centers locked in the coldest cold of the year, the Spanish language lessons of Bad Bunny behind us, all the real action in the battle to save the country is out of sight, moiling and churning in the deep background.
