by Joseph Schuster On a small hill just north of the Cincinnati city limits sits a sprawling academic campus that, at first glance, you could be forgiven for mistaking for a small college. St. Xavier High School is one of the oldest high schools in the country and one…
by Robert Gore In 1904, Sir Halford Mackinder, director of the London School of Economics, gave a presentation at the Royal Geographical Society that proved to be influential. “The Geographical Pivot of History” posited a World-Island: Africa Asia, and Europe, the “heartland” of which stretched from the Persian Gulf…
by Mark Harris Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker last May delivered a commencement speech that some, mostly the anti-conservative crowd, found offensive and controversial. Despite the highly discussed moment coming nearly a full year ago, some in the media still aren’t over it, which…
by Z Man The most surprising and most consequential event of the President Trump sequel has been the USAID scandal. No one thought that part of his revenge tour would be a direct assault on one of the main centers of the foreign policy hive. Until now, few…
In what is a carbon copy of Trump’s tariff-delaying deal with Mexico, moments ago Canada’s outgoing PM, Justin Trudeau, said that he too had bent the knee, i.e. had a “good call” with Trump, and that US tariffs on Canada would be paused for 30 days after Canada –…
by Steve Watson Trump obsessed neocon Bill Kristol fired off a tweet declaring that he’d rather see the Deep State running America than President Trump, and thanks to respondents on X it quickly became apparent why he feels that’s the case. https://modernity.news/2025/02/03/bill-kristol-the-deep-state-is-far-preferable-to-the-trump-state…
by Charles Hugh Smith AI programs parrot content and techniques generated by humans. Since they use natural language, we’re fooled by equivalence into thinking, “hey, the program is as smart as we are, because only we use natural language.” The same conceptual trap opens in every purported equivalence. If an AI program can…
by Paul Craig Roberts U.S. Corporations, Universities, and government have driven America so deep into third world existence that Washington is incapable of rescuing its astronauts trapped in space for 200 days. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams made what was supposed to be an eight day trip to the…
About one day after the US Agency for International Development’s website went dark and its official X account disappeared, President Donald Trump addressed reporters Sunday night, declaring, “It’s been run by a bunch of radical lunatics. And we’re getting them out.” By midnight, Elon Musk—who oversees the government efficiency initiative “DOGE”—provided taxpayers with an…
by Jennifer Kabbany New research has found the number of University of Michigan employees who work either full-time or part-time on diversity, equity, and inclusion-related efforts now tops 1,100. The findings come as the U.S. Department of Education under President Donald Trump has eliminated all its DEI initiatives, including placing…
