For three decades they told us if we just pulled the lever harder, emptied our pockets deeper, and bent our knees a little lower, we could keep the America our fathers built. They flew our flag at their donor retreats, sang our hymns at their campaign rallies, and…
Don’t bother to fight it, chickens. It’s going to happen. And it’s going to be fun destroying your trillion dollar propaganda war machine the bitter end of which is global ruin. When I was 22, I dated a philosophy professor, an Indian, from the Untouchable class, his…
Israel has begun negotiations with the United States on an expanded security pact at a moment when political pressure around the relationship between the two countries is rising in Washington. Axios, breaking the story on Thursday, reports “growing frustrations with Israel, including within Trump’s MAGA…
Have you ever been sexually propositioned by a Rolling Stone via the internet? If not, then these days, you’re one of the very few. A 60-year-old madwoman in Sweden has been charged with abusing her position as a civil servant to con her employers out of…
Jenin Younes of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee sits down with The American Conservative to talk censorship, the Israel lobby, and life in the West Bank. When President Donald Trump announced earlier this year that he would “restore free speech,” many civil liberties advocates believed the government’s censorship apparatus constructed…
A big number of so-called fellow citizens would cheer if you or I died tomorrow, which leads to only one conclusion: We’re playing for keeps. The reactions to last Tuesday’s elections can be broadly divided into two camps. “Why is everyone losing their minds over leftists winning…
By now, most people can see that the American entertainment industry is in terminal decline. Last month marked a new record in low box-office returns, and the year as a whole will likely set a similar record for financial losses. We are long past the COVID…
According to a discussion on technology regulations at the World Economic Forum (WEF), humanoid robots will walk and talk among us within four or five years. The joint WEF annual meetings of the Global Future Councils and Cybersecurity concluded on October 16 with discussions on topics ranging from neurotechnology…
Should America’s constitutional republic ever fall, the most likely cause of death will be its corrupt institutions. When citizens lose faith in the “system” and have exhausted all available remedies to “fix” that “system,” they will feel wholly disconnected from the government that rules over them. A cascade…
I’m cautiously pessimistic about the near-term survival of this institution, even as its coffers have surged. As it actively seeks war in the Pacific, the Caribbean, the Arctic, the North Atlantic, with an energized expansion in the Middle East, the Pentagon brings to mind not American security, but…
