Upon crossing the Danube by car into Bratislava’s central business district, one of the most conspicuous sights is political graffiti adorning a line of construction barrier walls. The messages are unambiguous. Fico wants Russia here. Fico = dark times. Death…
PBS’s The Incomparable Mr. Buckley is in many ways a favorable treatment of the founding father of modern conservatism, William F. Buckley Jr. The program explores Buckley’s many fine personal qualities and professional talents and tells the story of his…
Critics of House Speaker Mike Johnson’s recent $1.2 trillion funding package have compared Congress to a drunken sailor, which is an insult to intoxicated swabbies everywhere. After all, they stop spending once they burn through their earnings. The U.S. government…
If you are a novelist, you may abandon inconvenient reality for richly imagined fiction. Consider Evelyn Waugh, who converted to Roman Catholicism in 1930. Rather than embrace the low-born majority of his new fellow congregants, he wove the richly tragic…
Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince, which was first published in 1532 and still remains in print, is known for its unsentimental and amoral advice to leaders and would-be leaders about attaining and using power. Machiavelli wrote the book to gain favor…
Boy, this has been some week! Since Thanksgiving, I’ve lost count of the radio shows, podcasts, and other media hits I’ve done in promoting Racism, Revenge and Ruin: It’s All Obama, the outstanding must-read which you’re all inevitably going to…
A long time ago, when comic books were fun and meant to be grown out of, before they went dark and woke yet infantile, they served a vital purpose. They introduced kids to science-fiction concepts that first stimulated their imagination….
American populism’s rise is directly connected to the failures of our self-styled elites. American elites have in numerous instances missed the coming of important crises, some of which they have caused. Average Americans have borne the brunt of these crises. …
SACRAMENTO — Conservatives used to be united in their understanding that free markets are the best way to ensure prosperity and freedom. Perhaps it’s outmoded — in a time when right-wing populists are promoting tariffs, complaining about capitalism, and supporting…
