Democratic socialist romantics often justify their views by lifting up the Norwegian system and disregarding socialist-run states like Venezuela, Russia, and Cuba, which have experienced corruption, poor management, poverty, and/or imperialism. Norway, in contrast, is fetishized and exemplified as the…
Human attention is valuable. There are innumerable things happening around us every moment, without letup. Yet wondrously, we are able sift through the chaos and devote our working focus to things that help us, and leave the rest of the…
Pope Francis was admitted to Gemelli Hospital in Rome this afternoon after experiencing respiratory difficulties for several days, reported Vatican News. Earlier this morning, Pope Francis held the weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square, where he spoke about St….
You know by now that Pennsylvania’s junior senator, in every way imaginable save for physical size, is now on the shelf and will spend the next month in the hospital, having been diagnosed with “clinical depression.” John Fetterman collapsed, or…
Insurance companies are causing burnout in healthcare providers and posting record profits in the process. These profit margins are not an achievement of market forces. They are the fruits of crony capitalism. The insurance companies have rigged the game. Before…
Years ago, a well-known Spanish journalist had the habit of telling us over his microphones: “Flattery weakens you.” There is a very extensive doctrine installed within the collective imagination that denigrates praise. The only praise that is dished out generously…
Never did I imagine that I would one day be writing about the intersection between gnosticism and canola oil, but it seems that my hand has been forced, so here we are. Permit me to explain. I was perusing the…
Although I disclosed in my last article in The American Spectator that I had a serious health matter pulling me away from writing regularly — in the meantime, temporarily, just for a limited time only — I chose then not to elaborate….
When I don’t know what to propose for the new school year, I always end up with the same resolution: to do sports. It’s a kind of punishment that we are all gluttons for, as if we were aspiring to…
There’s something terrifying about a government so powerful that it can shut down your business overnight without even bothering to offer substantive arguments. Yet that’s what Food and Drug Administration bureaucrats just did to the e-cigarette company Juul. While Juul…