There is no saying yet whether Donald Trump will succeed in negotiating the end of the Ukraine war, or a new era of détente between Washington and Moscow, or new security relations between Russia and the West, or cooperation in the Arctic, or all the goodies to come…
Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer has called President Trump “the gravest threat to American democracy.” Nonetheless, Schumer wants to erase the Second Amendment. House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries calls Trump a “racial arsonist” and urges supporters to “fight” the Trump administration “in the streets.” Still, Jeffries…
A 23 year old transgender freak fired into a church killing two children and wounding many. The concern expressed by Jacob Frey, mayor of Minneapolis? “The shooting should not be an excuse for people to direct hate at our trans community.” The unexamined question is why did random shootings…
What if Mangione isn’t the gunman, and what if UHC CEO Brian Thompson had announced his intention to speak uncomfortable truths about the U.S. government? Last December 10, I posted an essay on this newsletter titled Did Luigi Mangione Want to Be Caught? As I noted back then, on Monday,…
The Art of Worldly Wisdom. In the 2010s a wave of sophomore Machiavellianism swept through American culture. Robert Greene’s amusingly amoral books (The 48 Laws of Power, The 33 Strategies of War, The Art of Seduction) were teaching corporate strivers and self-help enthusiasts to outmaneuver, deceive, bamboozle, seduce, lie, fool, and…
Zohran Mamdani, “the X Class,” Soros, and Car Apps: A Terrifying Reality. I have not written for a while. I almost never get “writer’s block”, and when I do, something is wrong. So I asked my mom, who happens to be a hypnotist/past life regression therapist, why. She had…
Wyndham Lewis’ Paleface: The Philosophy of the Melting Pot fell from the furnace of 1929, steel stamped with the scars of the Great War, an age when Europe bled into trenches and the White man stumbled, pale flesh shuddering against the weight of conscience. Lewis lifts the mask and declares:…
The only thing still alive is the endless, humiliating upsell and self-service. I’m sure some of you saw that recent op-ed about airport lounges. It was written by David Mack for The New York Times. He laments the decline of airport lounges, recalling a grim experience at Orlando’s Club MCO: long…
I considered using the phrase “the decline we accept without a whimper” but concluded that “decline” was sugarcoating the reality that what we’re experiencing across a wide spectrum is collapse, not mere decay or decline. Those phases have already reached fruition, and now we’re in the collapse phase. Let’s play…
On 23 August 2025, award-winning science journalist Robert Whitaker, founder of the evidence-based Mad in America website, published a very important article: ”Not even the unborn are safe from psychiatric harm: Medical organizations and the media dismiss the large body of research telling of fetal harm from exposure…
