A commentary by Will Tanner in Tablet published last year (“Back in the USSA”) deals exhaustively with the multiple iniquities of the postapartheid South African government. Tanner’s remarks leave no doubt that this black majority regime has unleashed considerable mischief, seen particularly in a spoils…
Could the massive gathering for Charlie Kirk’s funeral become a turning point for the silent majority? I sure hope so but doubt it very much. Let’s look at the problem without our happy glasses, the ones that only see what pleases us. The 200,000-person crowd at his funeral doesn’t…
Average Americans are concerned about the command relationship between the US and Israel. There is a growing awareness of the US funded and armed slaughter in Gaza. In 1967, over 50 years ago, Israelis created an open air concentration camp on the Strip. It held 2.3 million people by…
Political campaign contributions, not voters, elect the president and members of the Senate and House. Consequently, elected representatives represent the private interests that fund their campaigns. Democracy serves as a cloak, a guise, that hides the fact that the government belongs to the private lobbies that purchased it. In every…
In Greek mythology, Hercules succeeded in slaying the Hydra that dwelled in a vast swamp near Lake Lerna, located on the east coast of the Peloponnese, south of Argos. It pains me to discover that, for all of his extraordinary energy and scrappiness, President Trump has shown us that…
We are living in a generation that has forgotten its purpose. We are a people without telos. That is why the modern world looks like a wasteland. We binge watch TV shows, we chase careers, we scroll endlessly, we travel from one artificial amusement to the next. We are…
Putin can live with Trump’s ‘Janus schizophrenia’ – as Russian forces advance on all key battle fronts. The second stage to Trump’s ‘hand-off’ of the Ukraine war to the Europeans was clearly set out in his Truth Social post of 23 September. In the first phase of the…
Forty-two judges take a stand in the dumbest group letter ever. The prosecution of James Comey is the latest End of Democracy panic, so press mania is expected. A group letter signed by 42 retired judges, however, takes a grotesque step, turning Comey into a speech martyr:…
João Martins argues that Donald Trump’s declarations of “hate” in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination reflect an honest rejection of hypocrisy in the political and ideological arena, signalling a return of the healthy mindset needed to reassert the firm principles of nationhood. “I hate my opponents and I…
It would be an interesting exercise if one might view and consider in retrospect the week that began with the United Nations General Assembly speech in New York on September 23rd that included the “Your countries are going to hell” performance by President Donald Trump followed on the 26th by Prime Minister…
