On April 22, 2025, militants opened fire near the Pahalgam area of Indian-administered Kashmir, killing twenty-six people—mostly Indian tourists. It was the deadliest attack on civilians in the region in over two decades. Within hours, New Delhi accused Pakistan of...
U.S. President Donald Trump’s unexpected answer on Sunday to an interviewer’s question has thrown his administration’s nuclear negotiations with Iran into confusion. Trump has consistently said that negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program are limited to...
The talent of Louis Theroux is his ability to ask the most obvious questions with a disarming innocence. To draw out truth is a forgotten or less than celebrated trait in modern journalism. In his latest documentary, The Settlers, Theroux is not a mouthpiece for the...
Over the next decade, the US government plans to spend nearly $1 trillion on its nuclear arsenal—with the actual cost certain to run even higher than that. The huge outlay is driven in part by the sheer size of America’s doomsday-weapon collection, which comprises an...
To live is to act. To act is to choose. To choose is to prefer. To prefer is to pursue values—that is, to value. That's logic-guided observation. Ego sum, ergo aestimo: I am, therefore I value. (HT: Aristotle, Ayn Rand, and Ludwig von Mises.) Next: to think is to act....
The existence of Klaus Schwab became known to much of the thinking world during the Coronapocalypse, when so-called conspiracy theories began to flourish about the use of the novel COVID-19 virus as a pretext for reconfiguring the world. The “Great Reset” and the “New...
In Let Colleges Fail: The Power of Creative Destruction in Higher Education, Richard K. Vedder delivers a timely, incisive, and much-needed diagnosis of America’s bloated and increasingly dysfunctional university system. Published by the Independent Institute,...
Today, April 30, 2025 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the final, definitive defeat of the U.S. military crusade in Vietnam. The images of U.S. helicopters desperately flying American diplomats and Washington’s high-level South Vietnamese collaborators from the roof...
