Lenin hasn’t been a favourite of President Vladimir Putin’s. He’s derided him: “Ukraine appeared in 1922…Now the grateful descendants are smashing monuments to Lenin, the founder of Ukraine.” The second last time he mentioned Lenin, in February 2024, Putin blamed him. “For some unknown reasons, he…
“We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission.” — Ayn Rand Call it what it is: a panopticon presidency.
The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts (the Kennedy Center), located on the east bank of the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., opened in 1971 but was actually authorized by the National Cultural Center Act of 1958. Its original name, the National Cultural Center, was…
Germany is bracing for a continued surge in major insolvencies throughout 2025 and even 2026, according to a recent analysis by credit insurer Allianz Trade. This all comes after a disastrous 2024, which saw a record-breaking number of bankruptcies in the country. Allianz Trade forecasts an overall increase of…
Do many Americans understand that it is not only the US federal civil service that works against American citizens in behalf of DEI policies and a Woke agenda? It is also state and local bureaucrats, and perhaps as well your child’s doctor and school teacher. Rights have…
In 2016, a reboot of the Ghostbusters franchise “subverted expectations” by turning up the girlpower: rather than four men, it would be Kristen Wiig and her friends saving NYC from the Marshmallow Man (and presumably battling the Patriarchy at the same time). Audiences were underwhelmed. The film grossed a modest…
Will Rodgers once said, “It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you can lose it in a minute.” One way or another we have all been given this sage advice, and some of us have learned the lesson the hard way. Reputation is everything.
We are finding out that the world built in the shadow of World War II doesn’t work. What’s termed the international rules-based order is a failure. As Cormac McCarthy wrote in No Country for Old Men, “if the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?”…
Home ownership is at the core of our civilization — can it be saved? Home ownership is declining across the West. In America, the rate continues to fall, down 3.5 percentage points since its peak. Australia is down 3 points, Great Britain is down nearly 7 points since, and…
Quality-free education and racial bean counting are still with us. While numerous changes are needed to improve our faltering education system, eliminating the concept of “equity” should perhaps be at the top of the list. Grading for Equity, written by Joe Feldman,…
