When my German immigrant ancestors arrived in the United States in the 18th and 19th centuries, they were refugees fleeing a homeland devastated by war. They were also drawn by the promise of opportunity in the newly formed territories of the American Midwest. They were poor, spoke limited English,…
It’s time to pull the plug on the matrix. The alternative in a digitized world is to let your humanity be swallowed up. And once you lose it, there’s no guarantee you’ll get it back. I hoped that 2025 would be the year people woke up and realized they…
End-of-year wrap-ups take three forms: autopsy, obituary, or eulogy. If the year is particularly bad, it is dissected like a corpse and forgotten in a morgue freezer. If it had its moments, a few biographical flourishes are relived. And, occasionally, a year is filled with enough memorable events to deserve a grand…
Newly obtained group messages, and a posthumous admission from a close ally, show that in the 48 hours before he died Charlie Kirk was openly severing the ties that had for years tethered him to the pro-Israel donor class. Those private revelations, when read against the public record and…
Tensions risk spiraling out of control if Trump isn’t disabused of the CIA’s false narrative that Ukraine’s recent large-scale drone attack against Novgorod Region wasn’t an attempt to assassinate Putin. Trump retweeted an editorial from the New York Post on New Year’s Eve about how “Putin ‘attack’ bluster shows Russia is…
Alexander Dugin summarizes 2025 as a major turning point in the confrontation between sovereignty and liberal globalism, suggesting that 2026 will be a year of great upheaval and conflict. What happened in the European Union in 2025? Here we see a further distancing from the US. The EU continues…
Even white public school teachers don’t celebrate it, anymore Now that my triumph over Kwanzaa is nearly complete, I’m continuing the tradition of writing about it this time of year, merely to dance on its grave. According to Google N-gram, book mentions of “Kwanzaa” got off to a roaring…
Looking toward 2026, Mexicans and foreigners residing in Mexico are preparing to navigate an uncertain future regarding new laws that require biometric identification for certain services. In July 2025, several new laws took effect in Mexico that greatly increase opportunities for government surveillance and coerce the population into registering…
A corrupt Brazilian court has neutralized the former president Jair Bolsonaro. his summer, the Trump family ally and former president of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro was sentenced to 27 years in prison for his role in the January 8 protests by a modified Brazilian Supreme Court panel, handpicked to ensure…
Long before she ran a newsroom, Bari Weiss was already running a campaign. The target was anyone she perceived as a threat to Israel. In the mid-2000s, at Columbia University, she helped found a student effort that marketed itself as a defense of Jewish students and Zionist speech in…
