Failure to do so risks another “forever war”, an Afghan-like debacle for the US, or World War III. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s recent reaffirmation of his country’s goals in the Ukrainian Conflict signal that the Kremlin regards the US’ reportedly finalized peace plan as unacceptable. Ukraine must withdraw from the…
NPR is a small piece of a vast subsidized groupthink bureaucracy, which needs to be cut. After reading Madame Bovary in college I bought the unfinished novel Bouvard and Pécuchet, one of the last things Flaubert wrote. It’s a furious satire about two bourgeois clerks with no ideas of their own who…
As a result of recency bias, where we assume the recent past is a permanent state of affairs, many believe near-zero interest rates are “normal.” They aren’t. As the chart of 10-year US Treasury yields–a proxy for interest rates throughout the economy–illustrates, rates in the 3% or lower were an anomaly…
The Canadian left, which self-identifies as workers of-the-world-wobblies-ready-to-storm-any-barricade, last week elected a central banker whose activities over the past twenty years have systematically crushed the class they claim to support. Turns out that pretending to be a fierce fighter for the working class has cashed the liberals out nicely…
The Western intellectual tradition maintained a coherent structure for centuries. It unified scholars across disciplines within a shared framework of truth-seeking. The Enlightenment reinforced this unity by embedding within universities the assumption that both the sciences and the humanities pursued a common goal: the discovery of the true, the good,…
Palantir and the Language of Creation: A Review of “The Technological Republic.” In the beginning, and recurrently, the Earth is a formless void. God declares, “Let there be light,” and the world starts to articulate. Light is separated from darkness, sky from water, land from sea. Plants appear on…
During my time at Southern Methodist University, I had the privilege of studying under Herbert Simon, the polymath whose work on decision theory shaped Cold War strategic thinking. Simon critiqued idealized rational actor models and emphasized prudence over ideology. That education remains urgently relevant today as voices in Washington…
In order to understand the magnitude of the position in which we find ourselves, we must first understand the magnitude of the deception and the machinery. We must look back at all of the components and contributing factors that may have seemed unrelated, but which we can see today…
My Dear Friends, It’s a hard time to be a liberal. I know, because I used to be one. Or rather, I still am one, but a true liberal, unlike the many fake liberals out there. Allow me to explain. Long ago, as an idealistic college student, I valued my high…
Being an American citizen used to mean something; now, not so much. We are on the decline, lacking focus and unable to answer the most important question that matters: what is an American? By 1800, America was largely an established and cohesive nation. We had an almost industrialized process…
