Baby Boomers have bankrupted almost all of America’s public institutions, indebted future generations at levels impossible to repay, and delivered us all into the post-COVID dystopia of frayed social fabric and a total loss of public trust.
Month: February 2025
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Post-Boomer Conservatism
Baby Boomer conservatism arose during the salad days of American capitalism, the apex of American military might, and the drama of the Cold War. That's all gone and the young right stands at a crossroads.
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The Boomer Truth Regime
Baby Boomers have safeguarded and perpetuated a grand myth through which they interpret past and present events, and derive motivations. Myth is one hell of a drug.
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Up in Smoke
As so much of California lies in ruin many wonder whether the Golden State has finally had enough of the ideological incontinence that has brought it so low. Anything is possible in the Trump era!
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Trump and Musk Move Europe to the Right
President Trump and Elon Musk use their platforms to support and sway the ever-dwindling opposition to monolithic woke leftist control in a Western Europe.
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Will Fox News Outlive the Boomers?
Fox News continues occupying the right-center in American politics, but the rising generation of American rightists are miles further off to starboard.
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Remembering Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift deployed satire in defending traditional order and dissecting the pretensions of his enemies.
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What We Are Reading: February 2025
Short reviews of 'The Anatomy of Melancholy' by Robert Burton, and 'Working' by Robert A. Caro.
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The Last Acceptable Prejudice
'White Rural Rage' alleges hatred, bigotry, and utter depravity of white, rural, Christians with no real evidence. Of course, there is not a forthcoming 'Black Urban Rage.'
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Some Honesty From the Left About Guns
In 'Gun Curious,' a liberal academic who is also a gun owner attempts to locate common ground between left and right and create an area for genuine discussion.
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Deconstructing the Colonial Guilt Trip
'On Settler Colonialism' questions whether settler-colonial ideology is just the latest product of the demoralization of the Western world that has gone on since 1914 or whether it is an especially vicious and dangerous development.
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Books in Brief: February 2025
Short reviews of How to Lose a War: The Story of America’s Intervention in Afghanistan by Amin Saikal, and Entrances and Exits, by Michael Richards.
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Dramatizing Dietrich
Angel Studios has lionized Dietrich Bonhoeffer into a spy and assassin. That's about as historically accurate as making Mahatma Gandhi into Rambo.
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How Nations Die
England's invaders face less resistance than ever as they settle among an unarmed public led by self-hating flaccid clerks. This is how it ends.
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The People’s Republic of California
One-party rule in California means fiscal lunacy, hazardous living conditions, and dubious elections, among other bad things.
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About Islam: A Letter to President Trump
Mr. President, the danger of radical Islam is still with us, and while that danger cannot be completely eradicated, it is both possible and necessary to act decisively to reduce it as much as possible.
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Replacement Theory Meets Replacement Fact
Trump's tech-titan friends clash with the MAGA base over high-skilled foreign labor. In truth, this clash was inevitable. The MAGA honeymoon was over before it began.
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Where Have the Great Men of Diplomacy Gone?
Western nations could use a few Metternichs now. Instead we have midgets.
