Gilbert Doctorow is a thoughtful and well-informed commentator on the challenges with which the West confronts Putin. In his most recent postings, he asks and answers the questions, “What do the Russians think of Putin? Does his war of attrition strategy today enjoy support? Or do Russians want to end the War…
The egregore of far-left radicalism is wounded – but what will take it’s place? Today’s post is excerpted from the October edition of The Bitcoin Capitalist Letter – get a special deal for Bombthrower readers here » “At the physical level, we are witnessing a war…
The conservative online pop culture women’s magazine Evie (think Elle, but for red-state ladies) recently excitedly broadcast the news: Taylor Swift has entered her “tradwife” era! Now very publicly engaged to Kansas City Chief tight end (and recent Pfizer spokesman, how soon we forget!) Travis Kelce— following a long and seemingly endless…
President Trump announced that he supports Ukraine’s goals of returning to their 1991 borders with Russia. He believes he is helping Ukraine. All he has done is insure the destruction of a nation. With one stunning social media post, President Donald Trump ended all pretense at being a broker…
It’s a small group, and MAGA’s not in it. In a sense, almost everything that has happened since Donald Trump began his second term in January has been a distraction. From what are we being distracted? While a few members of the alternative media have supplied the answers, by…
Something odd and totally unexpected happened to me this month: I slowly but assuredly came to respect and, dare I say, support the Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg. Aboard a floating vessel headed for one of the bleakest outposts the world over, Thunberg has animated the plight of the…
Everything is coming together for Larry Ellison. The billionaire co-founder of tech giant Oracle, on-and-off-again the richest man in the world and a staunch supporter of Israel, is set to take a lead role in reshaping TikTok in the United States. His son, David Ellison, is moving to take over…
Yves here . This is a devastating, indispensable article by Servaas Storm on how AI fails to live up to its repeatedly hyped performance promises, and never will, no matter how much money and computing power is poured into it. Yet AI, which Storm calls “Artificial Information,” continues to receive ratings…
In political discourse, acts of assassination and violent crime rarely occur in isolation. They reverberate across society, shaping perceptions of public safety, government priorities, and community cohesion around principles of stability, fairness, and authority. Assassination shocks the political imagination precisely because it violates the implicit promise that the political…
Cornell University, once a place of discussion and learning, is seeking to remove a tenured Jewish professor, Eric Cheyfitz, who permits Israel to be discussed instead of simply praised. The professor’s daughter and granddaughter live in Israel. But this doesn’t save him from being charged with discrimination against a Jewish…
