Has Conservatism Outlived Its Usefulness?

In April 2025, Tucker Carlson invited Matt Walsh onto his podcast. The conversation covered everything from same-sex adoption and surrogacy to foreign policy isolationism. It is well worth listening to. But beyond the substance of the conversation, there was simply something powerful about a discussion between two men…

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Tribalism: A Way of Life Whose Time Has Come

It seems likely that various forms of collapse are in our near future—nuclear war, global overheating, ocean flooding, political dysfunction, civil war, pandemics, the “Great Unraveling”—and that behooves us to contemplate ways of surviving, whether as individuals, families, or groups.  Survival, of course, may not be possible, but…

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Empire of Chaos Takes War on BRICS to Next Level

And then they set the stage to control the narrative via a massive P.R. operation. POTUS hailed the “spectacular” victory of B-2s flying from the US to West Asia to release MOPs (“Massive Ordnance Penetrators) over Fordow in the middle of the night of June 22 (significantly, the…

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After Nukes, the Digital Revolution is Humanity’s Most Stupid Mistake

Billions of login credentials have been leaked and compiled into datasets online, giving criminals “unprecedented access” to accounts consumers use each day. https://apnews.com/article/large-login-leak-cybernews-google-apple-meta-2a758a40c398b0a68fb2371a522f70ed  The Internet and digital systems are insecure and cannot be made secure.  To operate in the digital world becomes increasingly risky by the day and…

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The Potent Charm of Weapons and Vaccines

The mesmerizing dramas of war against foreigners and war against infectious diseases are rooted in the same psychology. The second stanza of the Iliad lets the reader know that this is going to be a story about humans fighting each other. Surprisingly, the primary conflict isn’t the war between…

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Iran Shows Us Why the U.S. and Israel Should Not Be Allowed to Have Nukes

Well it’s been a crazy couple of days. Trump bombed Iran’s civilian nuclear energy facilities in an attack that CNN reports did no lasting damage, and Iran exercised extraordinary restraint with symbolic retaliatory strikes on US military bases coordinated to avoid American casualties — a move many are comparing to Iran’s non-lethal response to…

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The SPAC is Back!

The Private Equity deal machine is in trouble, so of course it’s time to bring back perhaps the most idiotic product Wall Street has ever produced. Bloomberg News reported last week that Goldman Sachs, after a 2022 self-imposed ban, is getting back in the SPAC underwriting game.

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The End and Continuing Rage of World War Three

The Third World War has ended, yet it continues – such is the paradox confronting us today. The situation regarding the ceasefire in the Middle East remains deeply unclear due to a flood of contradictory information. On one side, Donald Trump rushed to announce that an agreement had…

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This War Isn’t Over

Last night President Donald Trump announced a “Complete and Total CEASEFIRE” between Israel and Iran. Trump seemed exuberant. “This is the end of the war,” he told Axios’s Barak Ravid. “It is a great and wonderful thing for Israel and the world.” Asked how long the ceasefire would hold,…

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Mass Deportation Means Self-Deportation

For the first time in more than 50 years, more immigrants may leave the United States than enter. The economy is slowing, but the unemployment rate is steady because the number of foreign-born workers is declining. According to data from the Department of Labor, there are a million …

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