Americans are inventive people. This has been a national characteristic as far back as the 18th century, when Founding Father Benjamin Franklin interspersed his time as a printer and ambassador by experimenting with electricity. In his gigantic History of the American People, Paul Johnson noted that ‘from 1790 to 1811 the US…
Japan joins U.S.-driven strategy for China containment The recent diplomatic crisis sparked by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s comments over Taiwan is not an isolated or spontaneous incident. It is a calculated step in a broader, ongoing strategy by the U.S. and its client states toward confrontation with China,…
A straight line from 1961 and 1962, to the Apollo film of 1969 and Shepard’s golf game on the lunar surface in 1971? Introduction: Capricorn One – the movie 3 astronauts train for years for a highly anticipated mission to Mars. Before lift-off they are removed from the payload,…
Was Eve’s transgression a decision to use earth magic? Was the burning of witches justified? When I was a kid I had a young witch as a friend. She had been a child actress, her heritage gypsy from the Bohemian Alps. Her grandmother had smuggled her mother out from…
It has been a month since Elon Musk and Joe Rogan spoke, but, as ‘Camus‘ pointed out this week, this seven-minute exchange, buried in the middle of a three hour conversation, could very well be one of the most important conversations of the decade. Musk laid it out bluntly: AI…
I’ve been writing about the failure of feminism now for nearly ten years. Recently, my work was attacked in the Boston Globe by a Harvard student. Her complaint? I’m too reasonable. In her op-ed, Zoe Yu writes: The genius of Gress’s rhetoric is…
I am friends with a billionaire property developer who left Britain for good this year. He went to live in a European tax haven because he objects to this country’s 40 percent inheritance tax—one of the most punitive rates in the world. He was born and had lived in…
A Cinnabon employee went viral this month when a video surfaced of a verbal altercation she had with a Somali couple. The 43-year-old mall worker in Wisconsin, Crystal Wilsey, is on film giving the couple two middle fingers and calling them “niggers.” The Somalis are heard saying she will…
The Sherrone Moore saga has officially widened. The former Michigan Man head coach of the Wolverines, who is sitting in a county jail awaiting arraignment, is now being accused by OnlyFans model, and legendary Michigan fan Mia Sorety, of being a low down dirty dog during…
People often advise me not to engage in debate with leftists because there’s simply no point: Their beliefs are too dogmatic for their minds to be changed. Although I believe rational debate is like a healthy supply of water for any society, I understand the sentiment. It is incredibly…
