A verdict by the Paris Criminal Court on March 31 drew strong reactions across the French political arena. Marine Le Pen, a prominent figure on the nationalist right and a three-time presidential contender, was convicted in a long-running case involving her party’s use of European Parliament funds to pay assistants.
The Free, The Fighting, and The Broken Nations. I see that I am writing to you about more and less ruined, formerly free societies, these days. I am seeing a new map of the world, that bears little relation to the tendentious, propagandistic Freedom. House’s famous ranking of free…
In recent decades, the US government has been doing its best to find a way to limit the ability of its people to bear arms. And, in turn, the people respond vehemently that their Constitution guarantees them the right to bear arms. Regardless of which side of the argument…
US President Donald Trump has reiterated his call for Canada to become the 51st state of the US. While some, including the Trump administration’s nominee as ambassador to Canada, former Michigan Congressman Pete Hoekstra, contend that Trump is joking, an anonymous White House official has insisted that the 51st-state…
Michael Lewis’ Moneyball isn’t really a book about baseball. Ostensibly, the work chronicles the unlikely pennant run of the Oakland Athletics in 2002—how a small-market squad (payroll $40M) stayed competitive with big-market Goliaths like the New York Yankees (payroll $125M). Lewis argues that the A’s accomplished their feat through an innovative…
Alexander Dugin warns that only the creation of a Union State between Russia and Iran — modeled on the Russia-Belarus alliance — can serve as a salvational measure to prevent an unwinnable U.S.-Iran war fueled by neocon and pro-Israel interests. The escalation of the conflict between the United States…
NPR’s advice to parents concerned their children may become incel murderers? Keep them away from jokes. NPR, during a 23-minute piece about “What to Tell Your Kids About Online Extremism,” on learning “the signs of radicalization”: It’s really important to know when your kid might…
It is not a full quarter as his inauguration was 20 days into it, but it is the first quarter of 2025. How does it look? Perhaps I can put it this way: a lot of good initiatives undertaken in a haphazard way that could limit their effectiveness or even result…
Maybe President Trump’s tariffs will cause a prolonged trade war and a Great Depression in the United States the likes of which we’ve never seen before, sending the nation into a spiral of chaos and hell on earth. But walking around outside today, three days after the tariffs were…
The Trump administration is demanding that Iran give up its strategic missile program as part of any nuclear deal. But Iran’s ballistic missiles do not violate international law nor is there any global treaty under which they are banned. Article 51 of the UN Charter clearly states that countries…
