After 10 years and nearly $1 billion in total project costs, the Barack Obama Presidential Center is finally nearing completion and has been opened for limited public tours. The facility is set to officially go into operation in the spring of 2026, however, at least $230 million in construction…
The warlike “Us vs. Them” mentality that is now endemic to American political culture has yielded a lot of ugly fruits. Because the U.S. government is apparently addicted to war, I often ponder a profound and eloquent reflection written by James Madison, author of the U.S. Constitution.
Alexander Dugin envisions a world at the breaking point: Israel’s grip on America slipping, Trump gambling at nuclear poker, and the West decaying like a rotting corpse as Eurasia gathers for its resurrection. Conversation with Alexander Dugin on the Sputnik TV program Escalation. Host Alexander Bukarev: Let’s begin with the most…
The true enemy of modern libertarians isn’t the state. It’s their neighbors. I got quite the response to my “Fuck You, I Got Mine” article. A lot of people on the Right really hate it when you defend property taxes. Many of the responses were ill-informed, with some…
Charlie Kirk’s assassination in Utah should prompt an examination of the large number of Mormons in the Bureau, their leadership, and their attachments. Back in 2002 I briefly lived in Arlington, Virginia and dated a woman who worked for the FBI. She wasn’t at liberty to tell me about…
GDP is like collecting data on passenger satisfaction with the dessert cart on the Titanic and declaring everyone is delighted as the great ship settles into the icy waters of the Atlantic. That Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is an outdated and misleading metric of the economy is widely accepted. The…
When Donald Trump came down that escalator in 2016, just like The Simpsons foretold, I just kind of shrugged. A billionaire running for president. I’ve seen that movie before. But his rhetoric became increasingly radical, even revolutionary. He lashed out at immigration, bad trade deals, “globalists,” and the “senseless wars.” I…
European leaders are trying to convince their people that it is Moscow that wants a conflict, not them. This particular moment in history will be remembered, among other things—whether in entire books, individual chapters, or (if we’re lucky) forgotten footnotes—as the Great European Drone Panic. For…
The foreign-born population in the United States declined by an unprecedented 2.2 million in the first half of 2025. It was not long ago that Washington’s establishment experts announced that the crisis on the U.S. southern border was unfixable. They claimed illegal mass immigration was a historic phenomenon, an…
In the 20th century, the difference between Republicans and Democrats was between a party that wants citizens rewarded on merit and a party that wants citizens rewarded based on needs. It was Democrats who gave the needy property rights, sometimes called entitlements, via taxation, rent control, and other redistributive methods…
