There’s a growing call across the US, loud, unapologetic, and long overdue: End all third-world immigration. Legal or illegal. Just shut it down. What used to be whispered is now shouted by millions. Why is that? Because people are watching their communities fall apart in real time. Thanks to…
There is some confusion over Russia’s response to the June 1/2 attacks on railway infrastructure and its strategic nuclear forces. To recap: On Saturday/Sunday Ukrainian diversion groups used explosives to destroy two Russian railroad bridges in the Kursk and Bryansk region. These bridges were located some…
The Global Digital Forum last week in delightful Nizhny Novgorod represented a landmark in the quest for a more equitable media landscape across the whole Global South. Pride of place was taken by a new ambitious association, the Global Fact-Checking Network (GFCN). The last session of…
Our culture glorifies competition and extremes in every sphere. This plays out in fitness, which has been folded into extreme sports, as if fitness is by its very nature a competition in which the “winner” is more fit than everyone else.Fitness is just fitness. Yes, we can improve or backslide,…
Almost exactly five years ago, on June 6th, 2020, protests erupted in Britain after the killing of George Floyd. Thousands hit the streets in London, Manchester, Nottingham, Wolverhampton, and Bristol, in demonstrations that included toppling statues, blocking the M6 freeway, and in London, hurling flares and rolling bicycles at…
“But we had forgotten that alongside Orwell’s dark vision, there was another—slightly older, slightly less well known, equally chilling: Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Contrary to common belief even among the educated, Huxley and Orwell did not prophesy the same thing. Orwell warns that we will be overcome by…
Tech elites are now replacing another class of American workers; instead of offshoring factories, they are onshoring low-wage Indian immigrants. “Tamil power in the White House!” Alok Sama, ex-Softbank president, gushed with ethnic triumphalism when Sriram Krishnan was named AI policy advisor to President Trump. Krishnan is a Silicon Valley…
“Call me crazy, but I think Dem politicians in LA publicly encouraging riots helps explain why they’re also incapable of issuing building permits for the fires months ago.” —Mark Hemingway And pretty soon, expect action in a dozen other states, you can be sure, because just as it was…
What better way to advance the president’s agenda than rioters flying the Mexican flag? Los Angeles continues to witness clashes between Hispanics and law enforcement. Since the weekend, agitators have torched cars, looted, and caused general mayhem in response to ICE arresting illegal alien felons. The rioters proudly waved…
Trump, Musk, and the $152 billion question: Can populism survive elite defection? The spectacle that unfolded late this week between Donald Trump and Elon Musk represents more than a collision of egos. What we saw emerge from their respective social media platforms on Thursday was a seismic fracture in…
