Got Milk?
Globalism leads to a leveling of the entire world by facilitating convergence to a single economic level.
Forever War Revisited
American support for Ukraine is chasing an elusive, vaguely defined victory similar to the fruitless 20-year American commitment in Afghanistan.
Is the GOP Still the Party of Big Business?
Ron DeSantis’ fight with Disney is morally correct—and good politics too.
A Broken Political System Unites Over Ukraine
Democrats and Republicans are nearly lockstep on the question of foreign military intervention during Democratic presidencies, including our current extensive assistance to Ukraine. Why?
Who Really Committed War Crimes in Bucha?
Lurid and false atrocity stories have been used before to encourage Western involvement in unnecessary wars.
Albright’s Malign Legacy Is Everywhere
As the nation’s top diplomat, Madeleine Albright did not really do diplomacy. She proclaimed America’s power and right to do as it pleased.
We’re All Philosophers Now
We can never be sure that those who conflate men and women or children and adults will ever know the difference between right and wrong.
Not Another Versailles
If Vladimir Putin and Russia are further humiliated in the post-war settlement of the current Ukraine conflict, what comes next could be very bad, indeed.
Was the U.S. Making Biological Weapons in Ukraine?
Ukraine may be a place where Western governments outsourced other activities that were too dangerous or too illegal to conduct at home.
Do We Want Small Wars or World Wars?
People of goodwill should be thinking about how to let Russia and Ukraine both save face, end the war, and reach an agreement that accommodates each side’s core interests.
Russian Roulette in Ukraine
We only remain in NATO and have involved ourselves in the current Ukraine mess because of our quixotic goal of remaining the sole superpower, which is rather ironically making us weaker.
Canada Tightens the Screw
Hard cash, low debt, modest habits, independent employment, and financial anonymity can insulate the dissident Right from the regime’s preferred mechanisms of control.
Five Rings or Fifth Columnists
When Olympic athletes can pick and choose country affiliations it undermines the nation’s political principles and reveals a more consequential disloyalty.
Blinkmanship
The talk of sanctions and crushing defeats from Antony Blinken and Joe Biden has an air of unreality, like Baghdad Bob’s claims of the Iraqi Army’s victories during the U.S. assault on Iraq in 2003.
The Needle and the Damage Done
Neil Young is a perfect exemplar of the Baby Boomers: He made some great music, but his politics and self-absorption are a danger to us all.
The Repeat Offenders of Criminal Stupidity
Leftist indifference to violent crime renders them moral imbeciles, and the blood of innocents is on their hands
OSHA Ruling is Too Little, Too Late
The Right must not merely remove the barriers to human flourishing that already exist, but must also use the power of the state to reverse the damage.
What Are Elections Supposed to Do?
Biden and his supporters would benefit from reflecting on the function of elections.
2022: Not More of the Same
Rather than a continuation of the trends of 2020-2021, it's likely something entirely new and different will emerge, and its source will come from outside the system, its leaders, and their plans.
An Airborne Vaccine?
Will Omicron crowd out the Beta and Delta variants and act like an airborne vaccine, albeit a naturally occurring one?