Sources of Power
Geopolitica is fueled by thriving economies as well as military strength, and the West has neutered itself.
Keeping the Lights On
If the U.S. power grid is taken off line for weeks or months, people will die. Many people.
It’s an Unraveling, Not a Reset
The hubris of our transnational “elites” isn’t remaking the world—it’s unraveling it faster and faster.
Covenant and the Law
Pretending things are basically fine and making nice won’t cut it.
The Inevitable Unraveling of Our Post-World War II Institutions
The days of the Davos crowd as transnational power wielders are shrinking. And it’s not Trump who’s caused that.
All Your Data Are Belong to Us
Unless there is a substantial international rejection of Huawei as the 5G provider of many countries, the United States will find itself suffering from our own lack of urgency in developing this and other tech.
Espionage, Chinese Style
China has been siphoning off basic research funded by U.S. taxpayers—research that is already helping Beijing leapfrog the West both technically and militarily.
Blame the Impeachment Flop on Botox
“Every man over 40 is responsible for his face,” Lincoln reportedly said. Our faces naturally reflect years of characteristic expressions as we age. But what happens when your facial muscles can’t mimic the expressions of others, or even fully express your own feelings?
Data Disrupts The Deep State Narrative
The deep state, secure in its power for a long time and inherently bureaucratic, collected the text messages and emails and reports that ironically will expose what appears to be their attempted coup against the power of voters under our constitutional mechanisms to select the national chief executive and key national policies.
Shakespeare at the Pentagon
Scene: A conference room on the 5th floor. Mark Antony rises and moves to the front where a PowerPoint slide displayed on the video wall […]
Chemotherapy for the Republic
If you’re like me, you know someone—a friend, a loved one, perhaps you yourself—who has battled cancer. Nasty stuff. Cancer is insidious. It starts with […]
Don’t Just Resist—Insist!
It takes clarity and consistency to face down an extinction burst successfully. “An extinction what,” you ask? “Extinction burst” is the term behavioral scientists use […]
Has the Intel Community Become a Danger to Our Republic?
As Americans learn about Foreign Intelligence Security Act abuses and the misuse of national security data for political purposes—executed by contractors until then NSA Director […]
Manipulating Science in the Data Age
Who are you going to believe—my academic paper/editorial/meme or your lying eyes? It’s a pressing question in today’s world of artificial intelligence, machine learning, faked […]
Truth and Hand Washing in the Mueller Report
What is truth?” shrugged the ambitious official, stuck for the moment in flyover country but with ambitions to return to Rome and higher office. He […]
Horse Tribes, Bee Hives, and the American Dream
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What Trump Understands That Kevin Williamson Doesn’t
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Our Elites Have Lost the ‘Mandate of Heaven’
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