Washington finally completed its dirty war in Syria. What started as a CIA covert operation to smuggle weapons and jihadists from Libya to Syria has resulted in leader Bashar al-Assad being deposed and replaced by Abu Mohammad al-Julani. Julani found his way to...
After spending twenty-five years as a columnist for The New York Times, Paul Krugman is finally retiring from that position—twenty-five years too late, if one wishes to be honest. It is hard to measure the influence he had from that perch, but his columns surely were...
"Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production." —Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776 "In the market economy the consumers are supreme. Their buying and their abstention from buying ultimately determine what the entrepreneurs produce and in what...
From a federal government operating far beyond the bounds of the Constitution to law enforcement agencies routinely entering private property without warrants, tyranny takes many forms in the United States. However, few are as shocking to the sensibilities as civil...
On November 21, the International Criminal Court (ICC), after months of delay, finally issued arrest warrants as requested by the ICC Prosecutor for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. Both men are charged with being...
The recent meeting between outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Lima, Peru offered a stark illustration of the divergent priorities and perspectives shaping the fraught U.S.-China relationship. While the Biden administration’s...
The claim that Donald Trump is a fascist was an essential feature of the Democratic Party's electoral strategy in 2024. Despite its massive failure, the left continues to beat this dead horse and will no doubt continue. And while Trump has abundant negative qualities,...
Approximately eighty million Americans were expected to hop in their motor vehicles and hit our nation’s roads for Thanksgiving last week. Despite the immediate “lived experience” of abysmal transportation infrastructure, most people will not level criticism at the...
