In October 2018, I had a panic attack during a screening of the film First Man, a movie about astronaut Neil Armstrong. It was triggered when the lights were about to go down and a young woman I didn’t know came into my row and sat just a couple seats…
To quote the timeless words of America’s 35th president, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, “There is nothing, I think, more unfortunate than to have soft, chubby, fat-looking children who go to watch their school play basketball every Saturday and regard that as their week’s exercise.” Needless to say, if President Kennedy were…
Anyone who has spent a few years in Silicon Valley will realize its sudden status at the beginning of the 2020s as a powerful accomplice to regime censorship was incompatible with the core values of the people running these companies. It lasted as long as it did because the…
What is more important — wealth or health? Do you prefer to be loved by adoring strangers or by close members of your family? When you depart this world, would you rather be remembered for your political power or moral courage? Is the cultivation of a virtuous character more valuable than the…
Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin have spoken by telephone numerous times since the former reassumed office seven months ago. Not much appears to have been accomplished by way of these exchanges, some of which have been lengthy, according to the accounts Washington and Moscow have provided afterward.
For many years I reported monthly on the jobs reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Over the years the new jobs were consistently in health and social assistance, waitresses and bartenders, and government employment. Manufacturing jobs making things that could be exported to pay for imports simply were not…
The Department of Justice and the White House knows that there are millions of Epstein-related documents that are still in existence. Part of the response so far has been to characterize the remaining documents as all being related to child porn. And the alleged child porn that Epstein had on his personal devices…
Steve Bannon: We don’t control DOJ, CIA, FBI, or the Pentagon. The same deep state took out Kennedy and Nixon. They see everyone as a passing figure. Victory isn’t real until we dismantle them for good. If we fail now, we’ll deserve the consequences.
O Jewish man or woman, does your heart swell with pride when you contemplate the Gaza genocide? Do you make excuses like “It’s a complicated situation” or “Israel has a right to defend itself” or “The Palestinians are not really a people”? Do you follow the MAGA crowd, supporting…
Do you wince when you hear someone rip “capitalism” for some alleged evil, then propose a new government program to correct it? Are you frustrated when hearing people demand the soaking of the rich to relieve the poor? Are you frustrated further when realizing the poor are still poor…
