There’s something poetic perhaps even prophetic about watching the Trump–Musk bromance go up in flames. For those of us paying close attention, this fracture wasn’t a surprise. It was a slow-motion collision between two titans who were never built to…
During the Cold War against the Soviet Union, especially during its final two decades, many liberals became “useful idiots” who believed Soviet leaders had abandoned communism and the goal of global hegemony. These were not the “political pilgrims” (Paul Hollander’s…
On December 11, 2024, The Wall Street Journal published an article by Professor Perry Link of the University of California, Riverside (UCR), revealing his persecution by university leadership for expressing dissenting views. This troubling case sheds light on a broader…
In April 1939, ex-communist underground courier Whittaker Chambers was hired by Time magazine to review books for Henry Luce’s flagship publication. Chambers began his journey into communism in the mid-1920s. In the early 1930s, he joined the underground, accepting and…
Seventy-five years ago China fell to the communists. Revisionist history can be a touchy subject, especially when it attempts to correct an “accepted” version of history that has been passed on to generations of Americans by teachers in high schools…
Solving the Mystery of Europe’s Rise In October 2024, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm announced that the Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to three economists who studied why some countries are rich while others remain poor….
The renowned Spanish author Gómez de la Serna used to say that to be bored is to “kiss death”; by the way, that is also what my friend Tony does before sleeping with his harpy girlfriend. Anyway, sometimes summer is…
Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin sued Temu on June 25 for allegedly using malware to infiltrate sensitive user information violating several state laws. In 2023, the app surpassed Amazon as the most popular shopping app, with 330 million downloads, exposing…
It was during the reign of Emperor Zhenzong of Song, so the story goes, that a maiden from Hangzhou, a certain Lady Li, elegant and lithesome with her dark eyebrows lightly curved like the leaves of a weeping willow, ventured…
