A reader critiques Pedro Gonzalez's September column: "Even a cursory review of the results suggests some level of fraud." Gonzalez replies: "Trump was a populist so unpopular that he lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton."
Month: November 2023
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Remembering Grover Cleveland
Grover Cleveland, in all of his offices, from the first day to the last, steadfastly followed the principles of Jeffersonian conservatism.
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Alternate Romantic Realities
In Past Lives, circumstances separate two love-struck tweens but a supernatural fate reunites them. The theme disturbs the western sensibility that favors alternatives and individual autonomy.
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John F. Kennedy Remembered Without Tears
Kennedy mythology will be on full display for the 60th anniversary of JFK's murder. Despite all the adulation, the real JFK was a man who can only be described with a four-letter word: Fake.
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Hate Speech for Thee, But Not for Me
South African courts—and western media—have ripped the mask off hate speech laws. Hate speech is not only acceptable but encouraged for anyone with eternal victim status.
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What We Are Reading: November 2023
Short reviews of John Adams and the Fear of American Oligarchy, by Luke Mayville, and The Crisis of Modernity, by Augusto Del Noce.
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A Mortal Superhero
The Dial of Destiny is a genial meditation on the mortality of its hero, the demise of Europe, and, unfortunately, the mortal decline of its lead actor, Mr. Ford.
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The Fall of Rome All Over Again
The great American Empire is collapsing, like Rome before it, but not for the reasons our academic elites give.
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A Deeper Thing Than Love
A. N. Wilson is extraordinary at discussing the faith of his many friends and acquaintances, and the religious odyssey that he presents is a joyful and hopeful one.
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Prince Harming
Spare is a book of emotional spasms, broken down into bite-sized segments of staccato sentences expressing everything from extravagant griefs to lavish hatreds and saccharine love scenes, with every shade of angst, bathos, and exaltation in between.
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Books in Brief: November 2023
Short reviews of The Disputed Legacy of Sidney Hook, by Gary Bullert, and The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, & Healing in a Toxic Culture, by Gabor Maté.
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The World De-Dollarized
A de-dollarized world, where the U.S. dollar is not the preeminent global currency, approaches quickly but this is nothing new—historically speaking—nor is it bad.
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The Political Roots of America’s Inflation Problem
Americans are paying more for life’s necessities, they have meddling policy makers to blame.
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The Coming Displacement of the Dollar
The American dollar will be displaced as the global reserve currency by 2040, and the unipolar superpower of the United States will be but one player in a multipolar world.
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The Administrative State’s Digital Currency Ruse
The government’s digital currency issued through central banks will concentrate financial activity in the hands of the state and stifle the economic freedom of normal Americans.
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Konstantin Chernenko Lives Here
The last thing Middle America needs is an American Chernenko. America cannot afford a dying leader at this time.
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The Hobbes Horror
Life within late-stage American Empire is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.