A Yale University professor of law and history, Samuel Moyn, has resurrected and redefined Marxian class conflict. In the old Marxism, the capitalists exploited the workers. In Moyn’s version, elderly Americans exploit the young. Moyn’s solution, espoused, of course, in the New York Times (April 21), is for the old to…
Globalism is the philosophy of liars. Irish farmers and truckers are blocking major thoroughfares as part of growing protests against their government’s mass immigration policies, “green energy” regulations, and “climate change” taxes. Miles-long convoys of German drivers have blockaded the streets surrounding Chancellor Merz’s…
Decoding the Palantir Manifesto. Radio Sputnik, Escalation Show Host: Let’s start with a rather unusual topic concerning the West’s new ideology—or, to be precise, how to interpret it, which is something we still need to figure out. Let’s analyze the Palantir Manifesto released by the United States.
From the 1994 F-16 deal to the 2026 battlefield, the hidden story of how two unlikely partners found common cause against Iran. The recent conflict between the United States, Israel, and Iran has stripped away many illusions about the Middle East’s true alignments. When Iranian missiles and…
Former Israeli intelligence officer Ella Kenan was seen at a recent pro-Israel conference saying she runs an online influence operation that works with “communities of over sixty thousand people around the world that make our content viral” to manipulate public discourse and “serve the narrative” of Israel. I’ve…
The California governor has spent nearly $1 billion on nonprofits that want to dismantle the border, “abolish ICE,” and help immigrants “living with HIV.” Former President Joe Biden’s administration oversaw an unprecedented wave of migration across the southwestern border of the United States. Migrants convoyed in “caravans”…
Nike removed this ad after uproar over “pace shaming” lol. Let me explain why this is so uniquely ironic. Nike began in running. Phil Knight’s Blue Ribbon Sports was an importer of Onitsuka running shoes from Japan. In the early 1960s, running as exercise was a small…
The open borders enthusiasts at the Cato Institute made a shocking discovery last week: The Trump administration has apparently cut legal immigration even more than it’s reduced illegal immigration. That seems incredible, considering there is virtually no new illegal immigration. But Cato’s immigration studies director David J.
The Clash Between Anthropic and Open AI Sees Trump Side With the Accelerationists. The Iran War can be read as the ultimate ‘accelerationist’ adventure. Unless the Israeli military contains a sufficiently powerful block of pragmatic realists to face down Netanyahu and his mad-as-a-box-of-frogs coalition partners, and to…
The news this morning—the Wednesday after TACO Tuesday—is that Iran has seized two tankers that were trying to evade Iran’s blockade of Hormuz. Where was the USN when these ships needed protection to take advantage of Trump’s “un-blockade”? Hundreds of miles away—and don’t count on them venturing any…
