If you are a Twitter user, one of the things you may have noticed is that the site is increasingly difficult to use as intended. The “slop accounts” fill the site with posts intended to game the payment system. It is also infested with “influencers” who, like the slop…
Probably just a coincidence… Just days after Germany’s ‘Alternative fur Deutschland’ (AfD) party topped the polls… Germany’s domestic intelligence agency has formally classified the party as a right-wing extremist movement, granting authorities enhanced powers to monitor the party as a potential threat to democracy, due to the “extremist character of…
A cashless society truly is a scary world. Picture everything that you’ve read about in history books within other totalitarian regimes, and you’ll get a taste of what is to come.) Cash is one of the last man-made means of protection that he or she has against governments that…
About a month or so ago on March 23 I posted on this website my memoir of my time in the Reagan administration which had just been published in The Independent Review, a readable quarterly. I expected to hear more than I did in response to my memoir, because I spelled…
The Republican-majority United States House of Representatives demonstrated this week, through votes on several relatively modest bills, that it will just keep demanding more US government spending and control. Republican representatives often claim to support limited government and frugality, but mostly they, and their Democratic Party colleagues, keep acting…
Ahnaf Ibn Qais argues that the Canadian Elections mark a turning point, away from Populist, Patriotic, & Nationalistic forces across the West, & back to their Technocratic & Managerial opponents; ‘Elites’ who are successfully outlasting said Revolutionary foes. Mark Carney is but a harbinger of things to come… Carney…
A virtue worth maximizing. Let’s do a little Screwtapian moral theology. If I were the enemy of the Faith and of human flourishing, I’d seek to confuse the faithful about the place of aspiration and achievement within the Christian life—aiming to disillusion the spirited young men especially. I’d want…
Russia can expect nothing in return from the EU if Putin concedes to allow their troops and aircraft to deploy in and patrol over Western Ukraine. Russia has long warned that any unconditional ceasefire in Ukraine of the 30-day sort that Zelensky has proposed could create an opening for NATO…
Declarations of hostilities from both sides have grown more frank, and it may be we’re past the point of return to a Queensberry Rules politics. On Sunday, April 27th, Donald J. Trump, Jr. joined an event in Bulgaria, hosted by controversial crypto firm Nexo. Nexo in 2023 was fined…
There was a time when Jim Jordan looked like the future of the America First movement. This guy had the energy, the fight, and the guts to go toe-to-toe with the establishment and say what needed to be said. He rose to power not by playing the game but…
