Every personal exchange between Putin and Trump represents a very important step toward clarifying the new architecture of the world. But, of course, the issue of Ukraine cannot be resolved either in yesterday’s phone conversation or in any upcoming potential meetings between our presidents. One crucial element is missing…
Trump made progress against the civil rights regime, but much remains to be done. Donald Trump is the first president to successfully roll back elements of the civil rights regime. Most presidents since the 1950s, including Republicans, expanded these practices. Ronald Reagan was the only one to try to…
There are, roughly speaking, three schools of doctrine on nuclear defense. The first and dominant is the line of thought emanating from John von Neumann, father of the computer: “Mutual assured destruction” (MAD), the certainty of catastrophic nuclear reprisal, will deter wars between nuclear-armed powers. This has in practice…
Clerical abuse is a term we’ve all, sadly, become acquainted with over the last two decades or so. As a practice, it revolves around the grievous misuse of power, of leveraging an authority rooted in a supposedly special relationship to transcendent forces to commit soul-destroying violence against those who…
Imagine your banker installed a new accounting system. It has all sorts of bells and whistles, syncs up with a handy app on your phone, and makes financial transactions much more transparent and convenient. There’s just one tiny glitch written into the code: However much you deposit or transfer,…
France has seen an incredible 86 percent increase in sexual violence in the last 10 years, with mass immigration fueling this trend. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/80-french-women-want-army-deployed-french-cities-protect-them It is the same in Sweden, Norway, Germany, all over Europe. The French women will not receive the French army’s protection. The French government, like…
Three hundred years ago, the remarkable satirist Jonathan Swift wrote, “When a true Genius appears in the World, you may know him by this infallible Sign; that the Dunces are all in Confederacy against him.” Now, you might not be President Trump’s biggest fan. Perhaps you are…
Generational politics is one of the cruder forms of politics as it generally reduces to members of one age cohort hurling slurs at other cohorts. Ironically, the origin of this form of politics is the baby boomer generation, who were the first group of Americans to form an identity…
A meteor in the media. That’s what the proud Black woman Lydia Mugambe will be. The story of her conviction has flashed through the headlines and will shortly disappear forever. There will be no agonized analysis of her shocking crimes, no solemn intoning of stern conclusions. Not by…
David Horowitz’s death on April 29, 2025 closes the chapter on a figure who embodied the neoconservative phenomenon: a Jewish intellectual who, like many of his generation, abandoned the Left when he perceived its ideals as incompatible with Jewish interests and American security. Horowitz was born on January…
