Every society has pressure points, and when violence is justified, crimes are excused, or political institutions fail to maintain legitimacy, those pressure points begin to crack. With recent high-profile tragedies quickly exploited, celebrated, or minimized by bad actors, we’re witnessing more than isolated incidents. These events signal…
Dear Europeans, In the international prints I see that you are outraged and upset and have your innards in an uproar because, in that Davos meeting where billionaires decide how to mismanage the world, Mr. Trump was all contemptuous of you and you can’t figure out why.
Neo-Caligula continues to bet in what could be defined as The Strategy of the Weaponized Debtor. We’ve got a thing, and that’s a-called radar loveWe’ve got a wave in the air Radar love Golden Earring, Radar Love Neo-Caligula continues to bet in what could be…
When Europeans defend the EU, they often point to the same achievement: eighty years without war between member states. No French-German conflict since 1945. Peace through integration. It’s a powerful argument. It’s also historically illiterate. The century before World War I — from the Congress of…
By shutting down the government for a minimum of ten days supposedly over funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Wile E. Coyote Democratic Party is about to blow up another Acme bomb in its mangy muzzle. I will tell you why. First, this DHS business…
A chance encounter in a Taco Bell parking lot helped revive my spirit by reminding me what my priorities are. Shortly after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, on December 7, 1941, the famous Hollywood Director, Frank Capra (“Mr. Smith Goes to Hollywood”, “It’s a Wonderful Life”) enlisted…
Today it is not a matter of conserving the present or returning to a recent past that has failed, but rather of regaining possession of our most archaic roots, which is to say those most suited to the victorious life. — Guillaume Faye…
The so-called Ukrainian peace talks have puzzled me for sometime. For the conflict to be resolved requires Trump and Putin to work out an agreement between themselves, but this necessary meeting has not occurred. Trump has said repeatedly that he wants the issue resolved, but his terms…
Think back to February 2020. If you were paying close attention, you might have noticed a few people talking about a virus spreading overseas. But most of us weren’t paying close attention. The stock market was doing great, your kids were in school, you were going to…
British music producer Alex Grant was living in an under-construction mega-mansion in Los Angeles when, one morning shortly after 9 a.m., an armed intruder burst into the home. “He came in and we had a tussle,” recalled Grant, formerly known as Alex Da Kid. Grant managed to…
