I have to confess to being a lifelong “denier.” At a very tender age, I recognized that pretty much every authority figure I interacted with was deeply flawed. When you’re a critical thinker, your curiosity being countered with “ours is not to question why, ours is just to do…
Note: In December 2011, I visited South Africa for two weeks to compose a journalistic piece on the state of the Afrikaner people since the end of Apartheid in 1994. That article eventually ran in a journal which is now out of print. But with Afrikaners in the news…
I published an article last week in The Metropolitan Review about art, politics, and the right. It opens with the true story of a barbarian king being cut in half by his rival in a very literal fell swoop because what better way to grab your…
The most realistic best-case scenario for Russia would be that the US seriously tries coercing Ukraine into concessions, Russia doesn’t devastatingly retaliate to any subsequently desperate Ukrainian provocations, and then Ukraine capitulates shortly thereafter once the US cuts it off. The second round of the newly resumed Russian-Ukrainian talks…
The Biden administration was slow to react after the 2023 derailment of a Norfolk Southern freight train hauling carcinogenic chemicals near the small town of East Palestine, Ohio. The air was filled with plumes of dangerous gas during a “controlled release” burn. Despite residents reporting mysterious rashes and headaches following…
In 1976 the French anthropologist Emmanuel Todd predicted the down fall of the Soviet Union. In After The Empire, first published in French in 2001, he predicted the (relative) decline of the United States. In his latest (and last) book, La Défaite de l’Occident (The Defeat of the West), he laments the…
For years, political experts have claimed that Barack Obama left no real legacy. But that’s not true. He did leave one; it’s just not the one anyone wants to talk about. Obama didn’t unify the country. He didn’t heal racial wounds. He absolutely did fundamentally transform America, just not…
“The Caliphate looms; it is inevitable, and the road to its gates is paved with the skulls of English children.” —Peachy Keenan Do you hear those alarm bells ringing? Looks like June is bustin’ out all over, as the old Broadway ditty goes. Bedlam is in the air, and…
In Ed Curtin’s collection of essays that I recently reviewed ( https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/04/27/are-americans-still-americans/ ), he explains in an essay, “Opening the CIA’s Can of Worms,” who created and maintains the fictionalized narrative-controlled world in which Americans live in ignorance of the real operating agendas. Curtin says it is the CIA, not…
With whatever savings DOGE may have achieved about to become a drop of piss in the ocean by the “Big Beautiful Bill” – which codifies exactly zero of DOGE’s cost-saving efforts, raises the debt limit by $5 trillion, and increases the deficit by $2.5 trillion over 10 years (per CRFB)…
