Latin America’s youth are on the march, if a recent survey is any indication — but we won’t like where they’re headed. As the Economist pointed out on July 20, 2023, the latest Latinobarómetro contains several troubling indicators for the…
As unbelievable and unforeseen events unfold right in front of our eyes in Russia, more people begin to ask: What’s the end game? How will this bloodiest war in Europe since World War II end? What will the future of…
Sir Arthur Salter was a shipping agent who served briefly in Churchill’s last wartime cabinet. He was elected as an independent to Parliament in Labour’s landslide victory that stunned the world by turning Churchill out of office immediately on his…
A recent Fareed Zakaria Washington Post op-ed nicely summarized our new reality: There is a debate within the Republican Party. Some senior figures, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and former vice president Mike Pence, are vigorously making the case for an active and…
The national debate over gender ideology, and specifically medically transitioning children, has shown no signs of slowing down. But it seems the first round of the debate is over. That round occurred in state legislatures, and states have staked out…
At least as far back as the inauguration of President Donald Trump in January 2017 and the “Women’s March” that followed the next day, Democrats and left-wing activists have invariably complained about the imminent perils threatening “our democracy.” Time and…
“Even by today’s low standards, this is shockingly delusional,” I thought after reading Kati Marton’s diatribe against the current Polish and Hungarian governments in the Los Angeles Times last week. Most such pieces are relatively standard and don’t warrant a…
The people with those little blue-and-yellow flag logos on their social media profiles won’t like this very much at all, but what Tucker Carlson lets loose in the latest episode of his Twitter show is pretty hard to assail. Here’s…
Democracy is something, isn’t it? Hard to believe that the whole world does not readily embrace democracy. Herschel Walker and John Fetterman both democratically won legitimately contested primaries for the United States Senate — democracy fair and square. One even…