History tells us that civilizations and societies boom, bust and rise anew to repeat the pattern – a pattern that demographer Neil Howe says is surprisingly predictable in both its timing and trajectory. Howe refers to these “seasons” of societal change as “turnings”, and has famously has declared America is now well…
In one of my trips back home after college, I remember my mother telling me, between half-embarrassed chuckles, how in high school she had caught herself genuflecting as she entered the row leading to her seat at the movie theater. My father, who was also there, confessed sheepishly to…
Why dost thou behold the mote in thy brother’s eye, and behold not the beam that is in thine own?Matthew 7:3 *** The psychopathology of the left is a significant factor in the decline of the West, and yet we don’t fully understand it. In fact, we don’t understand…
The new online environment undermines the Left’s ability to punish “offensive” behavior. A white mother called two Somalis harassing her kid at a Minnesota playground the n-word last week. The act was caught on camera by one of the Somalis. The woman, Shiloh Hendrix, was quickly doxed and police, …
Western countries largely came into being after the Second World War in that their political and economic systems were formed up after the war. There was the aftermath of the war and the Cold War that shaped the political economy of the West. We still talk about “The West”…
Without foresight, your correspondent was in Hanoi on the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, traveling after to the countryside bordering Laos. Herewith an unscientific reflection on Vietnam, the war, and its aftermath. For anyone of my generation, Vietnam was not a war. It was the war: polarizing, divisive, the first American…
Some Russian journalists, such as the astute Ekaterina Blinova, are wondering about the reality of the Ukraine “peace negotiations.” Trump’s promised peace in 24 hours has been replaced with Trump sending more weapons to Ukraine and more threats to the Kremlin. Journalist Blinova notes that two US Patriot air defense…
In the latest indicator of President Trump’s determination to close America’s biggest-ever land acquisition by whatever means necessary, US intelligence agencies have been directed to step up their efforts to gather information about Greenland, Denmark and their internal political dynamics, according to two people “familiar with the effort” who leaked the…
In 1791, the first Secretary of the Treasury of the US, Alexander Hamilton, convinced then-new president George Washington to create a central bank for the country. Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson opposed the idea, as he felt that it would lead to speculation, financial manipulation, and corruption. He was…
One of the most effective thought-terminating clichés is “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” It is particularly effective because it works on both people who are, let’s say, not extraordinarily intelligent, and on more intelligent people, people who you wouldn’t expect to fall for such simplistic tricks.
