The Trump administration has reached the one-hundred-day point, an historically important point in every presidency. For Trump it is uniquely important as his second term is something of a do-over of his first term. Trump 2.0 is supposed to be a better, improved version of the original, having had…
News this week that Elon Musk will soon be departing his “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) is a grim reminder of what happens when you challenge big spending DC. Unfortunately, the lesson once again is that when you challenge the empire, the empire eventually strikes back. President Trump rode…
“Being mean or telling the truth is indistinguishable to far too many people.” —Mike Thompson on X Woke liberalism is exactly what Christopher Lasch predicted in The Revolt of the Elites, published in 1995 the year after his early death at 61. Lasch saw how the juvenile idealism of Boomer…
Political warfare in Washington is endemic. But the body count at the Pentagon has started to rise precipitously. Three of Secretary of Defence Hegseth’s top advisors were placed on leave, and then fired. The war continues, with the Secretary now in the firing line. Why this…
Putin’s 3 day ceasefire, which begins in 8 days, is unrelated to the Ukrainian negotiations. The ceasefire is in memory of the 80th Anniversary of Russia’s defeat of Germany in World War II, a defeat in which the US, Britain, and France played a minor role as the casualty…
Postmodern feminism has reached a dead end. Since Judith Butler led feminists to their demise, diluting what it means to be a woman and making it so even any man can be one, feminism has been mired in constant contradiction. This has all unfolded in an era of singular…
Statistical games can be played to mask the realities of our neofeudal economy and society. But narrative control by the well-paid apologist-punditry class–everyone’s doing great because I’m doing great–can’t obscure the facts or the banquet of consequences that these realities have set. Not everyone in America gained ground as a result of…
Violence and suicide in punk rock and gangsta rap. Continued from “Hip Hop as Anti-White Kulturkampf” The flirtation with violence which is a large part of rap’s appeal to whites is tied up with a flirtation with nihilism. In its worldview gangsta rap has affinity with early punk rock…
The elites of the Third Polish Republic have proven incapable of recognizing the key changes that are bringing concepts such as the concert of powers, power projection, or spheres of influence back into favor. Their intellectual and mental horizon extends no further than anchoring Poland within the institutions of…
More than two-thirds of Guard and Reserve troops are overweight, potentially limiting their readiness and ability to deploy in support of national security, according to a new study released by the American Security Project this week. “With the diminished size of the [active-duty] force and increasing demands on the National…
