A Year That Will Live in Infamy
America’s enemies are gathering and will inevitably strike at it directly. Every day wasted beyond this year of infamy will need to be repaid in more blood.
History
The Mirage of Honest Government
Trying to end misgovernment merely by changing the party in charge is like an alcoholic solving his problems by switching from whiskey to rum. Trusting politicians is a luxury that Americans can no longer afford.
The Greatest Human Failings
Overy concluded that if warfare has a very long human history, it also has a future. If that’s true, then if the wasted application of so much human resources into warfare technology continues then humanity may itself prove to have no future.
The Right to Speak Evil
The major pogroms and mass murders of the past century were nearly all under the guidance of governments who controlled narratives, not undirected mobs. History is clear where the greater risk lies.
We Are in Dire Need of Restructuring
America is falling apart. No wonder US infrastructure received a C- on the Infrastructure Report Card. The American Empire is approaching a breaking point.
Washing Machines Are Good, Actually
Technological advancement has made our world immensely better.
They Don’t Want Your Life to Be Better
Capitalism developed cheap appliances that literally save lives – the green-left hate them.
This Is What the Long March Looks Like
How the National Museum of Australia became a dull showcase of wokeism.
Trump Landslide Predictions Start to Emerge
The parallels to a memorable election decades ago are unmistakable.
Alexis de Tocqueville on Enlightened Self Interest
Tocqueville was generous, both with his biting criticisms and his reverent praises, whereby as a matter of necessity due to one social system springing out of the other – like Athena from the head of Zeus – the democratic experiment was compared most obviously with its aristocratic parent.
What Have Jews Ever Done for Australia?
The quiet over-achievers of Australian history.
What Kind of PM Would Dutton Make?
How passionately the Dutton opposition fights such Thought Police legislation – or otherwise – may be a harbinger of what to expect from an increasingly likely Dutton government.
When Climate Change Nearly Did Take Us Out
Spoiler alert: it wasn’t warming that was to blame.
The Miracle on Tap in Your House
Clean, safe water on tap is something our ancestors could only dream of.
Who Has Consented to War?
In the past, the kings and rulers who declared war rode into it at the head of their troops. There was no question of whether or not they believed in what they were doing when their own lives were first in the firing line.
