I’m filled with admiration for Ukraine’s daring and imaginative strike this weekend at high-value targets across the length and breadth of Russia. I don’t for a moment believe that, by itself, this one strategic blow will change the outcome of…
Many Americans, unlike Europeans, have had more than enough of the current avant-garde twisting of intellectualism that’s produced pregnant men, erased borders, and a 101 genders. They’ve turned their backs on an entire panoply of collective cultural suicide peddled by…
Last week Breitbart had an article covering a pair of interesting developments centered on the fashion industry and how market conditions are affecting international trade in that realm. Specifically, that President Trump’s heavy tariffs on China are very bad news…
It is probable that most Americans have never heard of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), which bills itself as “the United Nations specialized agency with responsibility for safety and security of shipping and the prevention of marine and atmospheric pollution…
It began not in Malmö, but in Massachusetts. In a quiet courtroom, under the cold fluorescence of due process, a series of decisions were made that now define the fault line in America’s immigration debate. Local authorities, bound by Massachusetts’s…
The headline over in NPR back there in the stone age of early February was this: “Elon Musk is barreling into government with DOGE, raising unusual legal questions.” The story reports: Elon Musk has launched a campaign from inside the…
Yesterday marked the 10 anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo massacre. For those who’ve forgotten, and for the increasing number too young to have a genuinely active memory, the events were as follows. Charlie Hebdo was a famously outrageous — and…
COP29, the global U.N. climate conference, is underway in Azerbaijan. Attendees at the conference (other than the host delegates and hundreds of fossil fuel lobbyists) have been bemoaning the fact that the world is way off target to keep warming…
The probability that the human race will be drastically reduced in magnitude has risen meaningfully in modern times. As an economic historian, I have always been fascinated by big changes occurring over time. The ultimate change, over the longest possible…
