A new Manhattan Institute survey analysis claims the future of the right lies with traditional Republicans, not the new forces brought forth by Donald Trump or the “Online Right.” It shouldn’t count as a revelation that the average Republican isn’t a based social media poster. It’s obvious and…
For decades, support for Israel functioned as one of Washington’s few unchallenged orthodoxies. That consensus is now cracking, and the fracture line runs straight through the American youth electorate. The latest findings from the Yale Youth Poll confirm that a generational realignment is well underway, one that cuts across…
The question is whether the Jew as such, that is, the Jew who himself admits that he is compelled by his true nature to live permanently in separation from other men, is capable of receiving the universal rights of man and of conceding them to others.—Karl Marx, …
Those who have lived in Ireland for any length of time will have noticed that the political consensus here is extremely left-wing. First and most obviously, Ireland has no large right-wing populist party. There is not one elected member of parliament who could really be described as…
Just try to imagine this utterly unbearable, dystopian future: 1. We’re reaching a point where corporations have become so large and so incredibly wealthy that politicians can no longer afford to obstruct them by creating laws that curb their power. The corporations are simply too big to…
An extinction event is a rapid, sweeping collapse — something so disruptive that what emerges afterward is unrecognizable from what came before. Volcano eruptions or meteor strikes can trigger such events in the natural world. Washington, D.C. may be approaching a political version of the same phenomenon,…
I sat with a theologian who is unwilling to be blinded by distractions in his field of expertise. It is beautiful talking with him about such matters. But when he strays off-target, he is easily deceived. It takes every person time to realize: “If there is fraud…
Virginia, formerly a proud and distinguished state, is the home of many of the founding fathers of the United States–George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, George Mason–has fallen into the hands of people ashamed of Virginia’s proud heritage. The state of Virginia was destroyed by…
Politics didn’t just get louder over the last decade; it got uglier, meaner, and way more personal. But when Trump came down that escalator, he didn’t start the fire; he exposed it. Let’s get into it. Trump didn’t invent political rage; it’s always been simmering beneath the…
Never has humanity expended so much on an endeavor for which it will receive so little as the Artificial Intelligence (AI) project. Its design rests on the assumption that the human intelligence (HI) it is attempting to mimic and surpass is analogous to its own operating protocols. In…
