Pope Leo XIV has signaled his intention to focus his social teaching on what is an emerging opportunity, and threat, to humanity: the development of artificial intelligence (AI).
Month: June 2025
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Zionism Should Not Be a Conservative Sine Qua Non
The Zionist litmus test that the conservative establishment imposes on its members is improper and harmful. It's time the right end its Israel obsession.
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What Trump Means for Europe
Donald Trump has prevailed by drawing his sword and confronting the mainstream media, the woke universities, and the the entire ideological edifice of the 20th century. European rightists should cheer him.
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Rethinking Absolute Judicial Independence
Trump’s fight with the courts exposes a defect in our Constitution: a lack of judicial accountability. It's time we hold these Solons in black robes accountable.
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Remembering Joseph de Maistre
Joseph de Maistre was a hardened realist, a counterrevolutionary, a Catholic, a defender of papal power, but most importantly, an illiberal theorist worth remembering.
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What We Are Reading: June-July 2025
Short reviews of 'The Evolution of Human Sexuality' by Donald Symons, and 'Fool or Physician' by Anthony Daniels.
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More Hysteria from Douglas Murray
'On Democracies and Death Cults' serves up neoconservative hysterics that are typical of its author. In Douglas Murray's narrow thinking, you either stand with Israel and democratic values or you belong to a death cult.
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From the Finland Station
Sean McMeekin's 'To Overthrow the World' deftly traces the entire history of communism as both idea and governing policy—a feat not seen since Edmund Wilson's 'To the Finland Station.'
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War Is With Us Forever
Richard Overy argues in 'Why War?' that war is an inevitable effect of causes deeply embedded within human nature.
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Books in Brief: June-July 2025
Short reviews of 'Last Call for Bud Light: The Fall and Future of America’s Favorite Beer' by Anson Frericks, and 'The Cultured Thug Handbook: A Guide to Radical Right-Wing Thought' by Mike Maxwell.
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War Is Hell, but ‘Warfare’ Tells It Like It Is
'Warfare' shows the brutal, on-the-ground reality of the Iraq War, which its author experienced firsthand.
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The Second Indochina War Revisited
Its time to cut through all of the confusion and misinformation clouding the so-called Vietnam War.
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Dispossessing America, Again
The outsourcing of American science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is happening on U.S. soil thanks to the tech CEOs and their allies.
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Soldier and Scribe of the Old West
James Warner Bellah was a wild risk-taking airman in both World Wars who went on to shape Hollywood's Golden Era with iconic Westerns.
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The Mark Carney Paradox
Mark Carney fights with nothing but vague words and emoting but, somehow, he gets the best of Trump. This is a strange paradox.
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Turbulent Times
Localized backlash over immigrant misconduct in Britain may be the prelude to nationwide turbulence—even civil war.
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Patent Law Is All That Stands Between Us and Techno Babylon
Tech titans seek the abolition of intellectual property laws in order to turn all human creativity into bricks in the foundation of their competing Babelian towers.
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I Was Victimized by a Trans Woman!
I once lost to a he / she / it while at the peak of my tennis prowess!