Wars are windows opened onto history. It is striking to observe, for example, that the West behaves today with Russia as it behaved in the past toward Byzantium. Laurent Guyénot is not wrong in this regard to write that the “American-British geostrategy of the Great Game, which has aimed…
According to both the mainstream media and social media, the forces that will shape the future are 1) AI (i.e. technology’s impact on jobs and growth), 2) geopolitical competition for AI dominance, energy, resources, trade, military and financial power, and 3) finance, which includes cryptocurrencies, stablecoins, Modern Monetary Theory (MMT),…
The older I get, the more suspiciously I look at the causes of war. This is natural. Young people — especially young men — are incapable of properly evaluating risk. Though they are rebellious, they also follow orders from authority figures. There is a reason why eighteen-year-olds are sent over embankments to cross…
It’s actually never legitimate to withhold aid from starving civilians. It was never legitimate at any time. That’s one of the annoying things about having to discuss Israel’s ridiculous claim that Hamas is hoarding hostage corpses in order to achieve some kind of goal, and therefore justifies …
After 10 years and nearly $1 billion in total project costs, the Barack Obama Presidential Center is finally nearing completion and has been opened for limited public tours. The facility is set to officially go into operation in the spring of 2026, however, at least $230 million in construction…
The warlike “Us vs. Them” mentality that is now endemic to American political culture has yielded a lot of ugly fruits. Because the U.S. government is apparently addicted to war, I often ponder a profound and eloquent reflection written by James Madison, author of the U.S. Constitution.
Alexander Dugin envisions a world at the breaking point: Israel’s grip on America slipping, Trump gambling at nuclear poker, and the West decaying like a rotting corpse as Eurasia gathers for its resurrection. Conversation with Alexander Dugin on the Sputnik TV program Escalation. Host Alexander Bukarev: Let’s begin with the most…
The true enemy of modern libertarians isn’t the state. It’s their neighbors. I got quite the response to my “Fuck You, I Got Mine” article. A lot of people on the Right really hate it when you defend property taxes. Many of the responses were ill-informed, with some…
Charlie Kirk’s assassination in Utah should prompt an examination of the large number of Mormons in the Bureau, their leadership, and their attachments. Back in 2002 I briefly lived in Arlington, Virginia and dated a woman who worked for the FBI. She wasn’t at liberty to tell me about…
GDP is like collecting data on passenger satisfaction with the dessert cart on the Titanic and declaring everyone is delighted as the great ship settles into the icy waters of the Atlantic. That Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is an outdated and misleading metric of the economy is widely accepted. The…
