In 2019, I read an article about Larry Summers and Harvard that changed the way I look at the world. The author, writing under the pseudonym “J. Stone,” argued that the day Larry Summers resigned as president of Harvard University marked a turning point in our culture. The entire “woke”…
The quiet corridors of libertarian academia echoed with a familiar tension. Beneath the polished language of universal principles, old loyalties and invisible borders stirred once more. What seemed like an argument over ideas was, at its core, a reckoning of identities no theory could contain. The recent…
When governments run out of money, they don’t tighten belts – they borrow and print. That’s called “debasement,” and it quietly drains value from every dollar we earn and save. Here’s how the “debasement trade” is changing the investing landscape… What does the average person do when they run…
The Democratic Party’s dark-money NGO network, bankrolled by left-wing billionaires, unleashed a highly coordinated, color-revolution-style mobilization nationwide on Saturday; the same tactics U.S. intelligence agencies have used overseas for years in regime-change operations. Yet the turnout wasn’t dominated by unhinged young leftists or gender-confused woke warriors, but rather by…
The West already turned Ukraine, Armenia, and Moldova into anti-Russian states while stirring trouble in its ties with Azerbaijan and eagerly eyeing Central Asian leader Kazakhstan so the loss of Belarus would practically complete Russia’s strategic encirclement. The Guardian published a piece about the aims of the West’s incipient…
Thoughts on Beautiful Losers by Sam Francis. You’ve heard the old stories of some powerful king who becomes troubled by prophecies that his newborn son (or grandson) would overthrow him and assume his throne. So the king orders an execution. But inevitably the officer in charge cannot go through…
A forthcoming memoir by the late Virginia Giuffre, one of Jeffrey Epstein’s most well-known victims, has made headlines with explosive new allegations implicating a prominent world leader in sexual abuse and violence. As excerpts of Giuffre’s “Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice” circulate ahead…
There’s a subtle, little-discussed but very bizarre political phenomenon that has interested me ever since I started blogging and paying serious attention to politics. I first noticed it during Covid. Back in those dark days, virus understanders sold measures like lockdowns and masking to the public first as a…
The outrage by Senators Blackburn, Graham and others connected to the ‘Arctic Frost’ spy revelations ring a little thin. When it was reported this week that former President Joe Biden’s FBI may have targeted the cellphones of eight Republican senators in the “Arctic Frost” investigation related to…
The recent trend of adding words such as broughtupsy and carry-go-bring-come—terms originating from Jamaican dialect into the Oxford English Dictionary represents a significant degradation of the English language. While dictionaries are, by their nature, descriptive rather than prescriptive, the deliberate inclusion of colloquialisms over abstract, sophisticated, and idea-laden words signals…
