We needed another Russell Kirk for the Age of Globalization. What we got instead was a series of amateur entertainers performing cartoon antics on their YouTube Channel to “own the libs.” We got the class and character of conservative leadership that the market was prepared to reward.
From Filter: Portugal’s experiment with drug decriminalization From QZ: Amazon plans to enter the affordable grocery market From Gizmodo: China’s social credit system is blocking millions of train and air tickets. From Eurekalert: Climate change is already impacting fisheries. From Wikipedia, our Historical Event of the Week: The English Civil …
Trump’s personal repulsiveness, criminality, and incompetence deliver a second chance not offered to Italians and Germans in the 30’s.
A political orphan’s guide to current events.
A political orphan’s guide to current events.
Trading their hoods for bright red hats, Trump voters are fighting to bring racism back into the daylight. They don’t realize how much power they have already lost, or the scale of the backlash they have triggered.
After you slither down the Capitol steps, a dream of public service mangled and stained by seedy compromise, what do you do next with your life? Join the speakers’ circuit, of course. For a modest and rapidly declining fee, your organization can be treated to the wit and wisdom of …
There’s no point hedging. It has been a remarkably bad year with the promise of worse to come. Events have unfolded at a furious pace with almost incomprehensible absurdity, frustrating any effort to settle on a narrative or summary. Then, a gift arrived in the form of a tweet from …
We live in interesting times. For a few days, the pace of public events will likely (hopefully) slow. There will be opportunities to spend time with friends and family, to disconnect from the chaos. If you’re among those fortunate enough to have downtime this holiday season, I hope you’ll seize …
There is a sick symmetry to Kolfage’s scam. Fourteen years ago he was literally blown to pieces in a war that was, itself, a trillion-dollar con.
