Bibi, other members of the Israeli government, and anti-Iranian hawks within Trump’s own convinced him that a window of opportunity has opened up to knock Iran out of the geopolitical game for good. Trump’s decision to bomb several nuclear sites in Iran is the due to him letting Israel shape…
“This time is different,” the interventionists argue. They may be right. But given the pattern of recent history—and the stakes of the decision—we should hold them to the highest standard of proof. So far, they are failing the test. First, many of the people arguing for the United States…
In Gordon Bowker’s 2003 biography of George Orwell, we read of Orwell’s investigations among the Depression-stricken coal miners of 1930s northern England: He remained at the tripe shop for almost two weeks, during which he attended large gatherings of “sheeplike” miners, concluding,…
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard accused the media of misrepresenting her statement in March that Iran was not building a nuclear weapon. The shift followed attacks on America’s top intelligence official by President Donald Trump. On Friday, Gabbard posted a clip of her March Senate testimony to X, claiming,…
The Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meets this week and is expected to keep its target policy interest rate (the federal funds rate) unchanged at 4.5 percent. This is unlikely to please Donald Trump who has repeatedly pushed Fed Chairman Jerome Powell and the FOMC to adopt…
War creates a waking nightmare which any sensible person would want to avoid except in the direst necessity. And yet we are ruled by people who actively seek it out. War is the worst thing in the world. It is the single craziest behavior exhibited by humans. The most…
She might be the She-Wolf of Wall Street. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-California) raked in between $7.8 and $42.5 million in 2024 — meaning her estimated net worth with venture capitalist hubby Paul Pelosi could now top out at $413 million, new financial disclosures showed. The staggering sum is an eye-popping…
The Supreme Court drives a stake in the transgender controversy, and neither party says much. Is this chapter in American politics headed for the dustbin of history? From the New York Times, on the Supreme Court ruling affirming a Tennessee ban on surgeries or the prescription of puberty blockers…
In such deranged times as ours, it’s hard to blame anyone who looks back with wonderment on the simpler days of the 1980s, 1990s, and even the 2000s—when Gillette ads celebrated high-T Chads, when it was normal to see waitresses at Chili’s who looked like Sydney Sweeney, when pot was…
I may be early on this, but I don’t think so. If I am, I don’t care. I watch the people who matter, and that’s not the reductionist, mercenary, upper-middle-class and the imbecile media who take third-tier public intellectual‘s words as gospel. I watch normals, and they are done.
