This morning I saw an essay (“Was It Something I Said?”) authored by the “Third Way” think tank in Washington D.C., advising Democrats to ditch what George Orwell called “Newsspeak”—that is, abstract vocabulary formulated to obscure reality, limit critical thinking, and impose ideological conformity. Channeling the ghost of…
Late Saturday night, a pair of migrants on the Dresden tram (line 7) chose to amuse themselves by harassing two women, when a 21 year-old American man stepped in to stop them. The harassers tussled with and struck the good Samaritan; they left briefly, but one of them returned…
From Ezra Klein in the New York Times: I seem to be having a very different experience with GPT-5, the newest iteration of OpenAI’s flagship model… GPT-5 is the first A.I. system that feels like an actual assistant… This is the first A.I. model where…
Quantifying the savagery of a major U.S. city. Listening to the overfed Governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker, talk tough about “defending Chicago” from President Trump’s national guard initiative made me wonder about how the number of murders per annum in Chicago—a city of 2.72 million—compares to the number of murders per…
Did you happen to bother reading the transcript of Ghislaine Maxwell’s interview? It’s tough sledding at times — both Ms. Maxwell and Deputy AG Todd Blanche tend to speak in choppy, incomplete sentences (as does, you might have noticed, President Trump) — but altogether the confab reveals that just…
In England, a popular saying has always gone, “If you want to know the time, ask a policeman.” The aphorism has today been extended to further read, “Because a policeman is the only one safe from getting his watch stolen in the country right now.” Shian Johnson is a…
Britain’s liberal excesses have garnered the spotlight recently, as both President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance have criticized the country’s approach to thoughtcrime, leaving Prime Minister Keir Starmer flummoxed. Britannia’s future is indeed unenviable, as liberalism has wrought its familiar economic and demographic destruction. British societal resistance is firmly established,…
Gideon’s Spies: The Secret History of the MossadGordon ThomasSt. Martin’s Griffin, 1999 I am wholly unqualified to assess Gordon Thomas’ 1999 work Gideon’s Spies as a history of Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad. Not only did I know little about the topic going in, but, given the murky…
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Sunday that the US is seeking an “obedient” Iran and that the issues with the US cannot be “resolved” through negotiations. “They want Iran, with its great history, and its people, with all their honor and glory, to obey the US,” Khamenei…
America’s food supply isn’t broken by accident—it’s engineered for profit, with banned chemicals, sugar addiction, and corporate capture keeping us sick, weak, and controlled. You don’t have to look far to realize something is deeply wrong in America. Our shelves are lined with food and products that 30 other…
