Another Neo-Conservative Bites the Dust: The Life and Legacy of Michael Ledeen

Michael Ledeen, the man who urged America to “to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall” every decade,  met an end that many of his critics would call overdue. On May 17, 2025, Ledeen died at the age of 83. marking the passing of one…

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War in Our Time

Friedrich Merz has been in office as Germany’s new chancellor a matter of weeks, and already he has the German capital aflutter with worry about the increasing danger of a third world war. More to the point, while Germans are fearful of such a prospect, the Russians are…

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The Camp of the Saints

Austria once possessed a European empire.  Today Austria exists only as a geographical location.  Immigrant-invaders from the third world have taken over the cities.   In Vienna more than 75% of students in Vienna’s middle schools do not speak German at home.  In some of  Vienna’s districts more than 80% of residents do…

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The Killing Joke

It was the year 522 BC when the mad Persian King Cambyses II assassinated his half-brother Bardiya. Cambyses perceived Bardiya as a rival threat to the throne and his murder was successfully hidden from Bardiya’s family, harem, and royal court through an elaborate subterfuge enacted by loyal lieutenant-slaves. But…

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‘Putin Wants All of Ukraine’

Alexander Dugin interprets Trump’s outburst as the reflex of a man trapped between globalist hawks and his own instincts, glimpsing – yet resisting – Russia’s sacred imperative to liberate all of Ukraine. Trump’s statement that Putin “is playing with fire” is rather unpleasant. But the issue isn’t even that…

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AI: Savior, Satan or Both?

Generative AI is a wonderful font of drama, for it offers up equally compelling visions of Utopia or a descent into Satan’s lair.Savior or Satan, or both? Let’s start with the fact that AI is amoral; it has no intrinsic moral compass. A compass of some sort might be included…

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By Appeasing Rogue Judges, Trump Legitimizes Their Coup

The leftist-backed effort to effectively nullify the results of the 2024 presidential election via a judicial coup is destroying the country’s constitutional order. But according to the White House, President Trump doesn’t have any actual plans to stop it. During Thursday’s White House press briefing, Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway…

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My Dad, a ‘Good’ Death, and the Unforgivable Covid Era

We all have to die, but not everyone gets a good death. If there even is such a thing, it’s all up to interpretation. Some would call dying bravely in battle the best ‘good death,’ or religious martyrdom, or a death that somehow furthers an important cause. Others may…

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Keeping the Pressure on Woke Retailers Like Target  

Dr. Jamal Bryant, a liberal black preacher at a Baptist megachurch in Georgia, is angry that Target stores have dropped the secular left’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiative. And so, along with Al Sharpton, he has urged black people to boycott Target.  Bryant is leading a deceitful political…

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‘Bad Things’ Happen in Washington

There were quite a lot of what Donald Trump might describe as “bad things” taking place in Washington over the past week, to include the worsening of relations with China shortly after what appeared to be an agreement had been reached over tariffs; the arrival at an apparent impasse…

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