For a decade, conservative voices were erased by tech giants — yet the media now pretends censorship began only when comedians faced suspension. For every conservative in America who is delighted that at least some of the purveyors of hate speech and misinformation on the woke left are at…
Once again, it feels as if we’re tiptoeing toward an official war between the United States and Russia — as opposed to the proxy war that has endured for three and half years between Russia and NATO-backed Ukraine. Although President Trump has downplayed the “rare and urgent”…
The knives are out for Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), and his political survival could prove whether Congress still answers to American voters or to a foreign lobby with limitless cash. Pro-Israel Republican megadonors recently set up the MAGA Kentucky super PAC with $2 million specifically to oust Massie.
The news has been filled with reports of assassinations, attempted assassinations, and shootings targeted against law enforcement. The spate of political violence has seriously eroded America’s legitimacy as a moral and decent state. How did we get here? U.S. state violence on the world stage may help explain the…
All human societies are led by a confined group of especially influential people. These are the elites, and like them or not, they are unavoidable because humans are hierarchical chimps and they build the same social structures over and over again wherever they flourish. The elites are not necessarily…
Defense Secretary Hegseth addresses 800 (!) Generals and Admirals. Back in 2020, I was stunned to see a report that “the Army as more four-star generals serving on active duty than the Army and Air Force combined had during World War II.” Army Col. Christopher Coglianese, the chief of…
John Helmer thinks that the Russian response to the ever-widening war that Putin has conducted will be the Oreshnik missile, which means good-bye to several European capitals, if not all of them. https://johnhelmer.net/when-tomahawk-meets-bear-the-hazel-tree-oreshnik-wins/ Washington giving missiles to Ukraine that can reach Moscow and St. Petersburg does not “normalize relations.”…
In the 2010s a wave of sophomore Machiavellianism swept through American culture. Robert Greene’s amusingly amoral books (The 48 Laws of Power, The 33 Strategies of War, The Art of Seduction) were teaching corporate strivers and self-help enthusiasts to outmaneuver, deceive, bamboozle, seduce, lie, fool, and manipulate their way to the…
The American Dream has become prohibitively expensive, with home affordability at historic lows and the traditional middle-class lifestyle now out of reach for most ordinary people. But no demographic has taken it more on the chin than young Americans. You can see it in stark terms in this week’s…
There are plenty of minority constituencies that are relatively small in number but can still point to one or more elected officials who champion their interests and act as a public face for their cause. Libertarians, for instance, have Rand Paul in the Senate and Thomas Massie in the…
