Marking the unofficial end of summer, Labor Day has long been highlighted by parades, backyard barbecues, and leisurely pursuits. However, the national holiday’s origins reflect a darker time for workers and include unrest over oppressive working conditions and a strike that turned violent. During the Industrial Revolution, after the Civil…
President Donald J. Trump has finally signaled a reversal on Operation Warp Speed. In a new statement, he revealed that Pfizer and other drug makers showed him “extraordinary” internal numbers on their Covid products — yet never released them to the public. Trump is now demanding that Big Pharma hand…
Imagine you are a foreign tractor-trailer driver — let’s say you are German — working in the United States. You make a flagrantly illegal U-turn on a path meant for official use only. You have to crawl across four lanes of traffic to do it, and not surprisingly, a…
“. . . this time the story has escaped the narrative guardrails and some real reckoning looms.” —Jeff Childers Unwittingly, that New York Times headline is a wondrous case of the self-solving mystery. You come here to understand the many social and political mysteries of the day. I will attempt to unravel…
There is no saying yet whether Donald Trump will succeed in negotiating the end of the Ukraine war, or a new era of détente between Washington and Moscow, or new security relations between Russia and the West, or cooperation in the Arctic, or all the goodies to come…
Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer has called President Trump “the gravest threat to American democracy.” Nonetheless, Schumer wants to erase the Second Amendment. House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries calls Trump a “racial arsonist” and urges supporters to “fight” the Trump administration “in the streets.” Still, Jeffries…
A 23 year old transgender freak fired into a church killing two children and wounding many. The concern expressed by Jacob Frey, mayor of Minneapolis? “The shooting should not be an excuse for people to direct hate at our trans community.” The unexamined question is why did random shootings…
What if Mangione isn’t the gunman, and what if UHC CEO Brian Thompson had announced his intention to speak uncomfortable truths about the U.S. government? Last December 10, I posted an essay on this newsletter titled Did Luigi Mangione Want to Be Caught? As I noted back then, on Monday,…
The Art of Worldly Wisdom. In the 2010s a wave of sophomore Machiavellianism swept through American culture. Robert Greene’s amusingly amoral books (The 48 Laws of Power, The 33 Strategies of War, The Art of Seduction) were teaching corporate strivers and self-help enthusiasts to outmaneuver, deceive, bamboozle, seduce, lie, fool, and…
Zohran Mamdani, “the X Class,” Soros, and Car Apps: A Terrifying Reality. I have not written for a while. I almost never get “writer’s block”, and when I do, something is wrong. So I asked my mom, who happens to be a hypnotist/past life regression therapist, why. She had…
