President Trump delivered the commencement address at the University of Alabama last week. “You’re the first graduating class of the golden age of America,” he told the assembled seniors. His speech, besides talking about his record in office, mostly focused on sports and business. He knew the right topics…
From 2011. It’s been 20 years since Nirvana’s Nevermind album and its breakthrough single, “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” were released. The scrawny corpse of Kurt Cobain, the Man Who Refused to Be Marketed, is being repackaged and remarketed, with Nevermind now reissued in multiple commemorative editions of escalating cost and pointlessness. As with…
Macron visited the Masonic Grand Lodge of France (Scottish Rite). In his speech, he attacked the Dark Enlightenment theory of Curtis Yarvin and Nick Land, as if he were fighting Trump himself. Until yesterday, mentioning the word “mason” was seen as a clear sign of conspiracy theory. Now, Macron…
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…
