China has hit a rough patch. As it widened its COVID lockdown catchment areas in 2022, the economic ramifications caught up with it, resulting in its second-worst economic growth rate since the 1970s. Late in the year, just as President…

“Can you imagine if someone told you that everything you’ve been taught in school and everything you’ve been doing for the past 20 years is flawed?” Monica Covington-Cradle of the AIM Institute for Learning and Research asked. Her quote appeared…

A few years ago, when hard lockdowns were still in place, I took a road trip along the Ohio side of Lake Erie. I skipped the highway and instead rolled through town after town until I hit Port Clinton, where…

Rewriting history. Controlling the narrative. Gaslighting. Damage control. Going on offense. Whatever you call it, the teachers unions were back at it recently, attempting to wipe clean a whiteboard scribbled with disastrous test-score numbers and evidence of the social and…

Over 100,000 died of drug overdoses in the U.S. during this last 12-month period measured by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s a 30 percent jump from the year before, and, as the Irish Times (of all papers)…

One of the problems of being both a collector and single is not having a wife to firmly if lovingly insist that enough is enough. I will always find room for another acquisition. Just move a couple items around and,…

I want to write this all into a screenplay. An all-seeing, all- knowing surveillance regime, discovered affairs, mixed alliances, dire warnings, and a complete loss of trust in institutional powers could make for a great Netflix limited series on the world’s reaction…

An iconic American brand has just entered Chapter 11. On July 8, the venerable Brooks Brothers enterprise filed for bankruptcy protection, principally a victim of COVID-19, according to the Italian investor that owns the company. Evidently, the company was unable…

When Alex Berenson, the former New York Times reporter, said that people will look back on the coronavirus lockdown as a “colossal mistake,” many scoffed. But with each passing day, as the failures of government at every level become clearer,…