The victory of Zohran Mamdani in the New York mayoral primary swiftly moved Democrats to denial, anger, bargaining, and depression, but not acceptance. From old friend Philip Bump in the Washington Post: Cuomo was a better candidate for the middle-ground, don’t-rock-the-boat national…
By reneging on his earlier pledge to “start no new wars,” Trump has betrayed his own MAGA base. China should be on alert—it is the next target of war. First of all, I think that we have already entered the third world war. This third world war…
Could we be so lucky? Are we on the way out of this hell? Last week, no month, there have been cries from the heights of official culture begging men to come back. I joked on Facebook that they are all at my house, hiding out with…
Active forgetting, tech and nostalgia. There’s a new 4K print of Pulp Fiction showing in the theaters. It’s one of my favorite films and has been ever since I first saw it in the theater in 1994. I was still in high school, had just gotten my first car…
Tech tycoons are reflecting on the common good—but that doesn’t mean their plans would be good for our nation. The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West. Alexander Karp and Nicholas Zamiska. Crown Currency, 2025. 295 pages. It is a striking…
I’ve read C.S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man a few times now, the last three times almost back to back. I found one point so compelling that I had to read the book over and over again to make sure I hadn’t misunderstood, or overlooked something, or got the…
The marriage between Donald Trump and the forces of the so-called Tech Right has been one, primarily, of expediency. MAGA wants nothing short of a new American Golden Age, while tech just wants to be permitted to do things like colonize Mars. Both objectives require dethroning the viciously…
Call it tribalism, ethnocentrism, nationalism, or whatever. It’s natural for a people to prefer and favor their own side. Any people who fail to do so either out of stupidity, decadence, complacency, apathy, or persuasion(by the enemy/rival/competitor-posing-as-friend) will fade from history. That is absolutely guaranteed.
As the clock ticked away on the Donald’s two weeks ultimatum to Iran—-surrender or I will bomb you to smithereens—the bright line between legitimate homeland security, on the one hand, and the pursuit of Empire, on the other, has never been more illuminated. The fact, is there is no basis…
When Fox News abruptly fired Tucker Carlson in April 2023, the timing wasn’t just suspicious; it was glaring. Red flags were waving everywhere. It all started around the time he was airing never-before-seen footage from January 6th, exposing cracks in the official narrative. At the time, many…
