The mousetrap motif plays a major role in tales and literature, from Shakespeare’s Hamlet who set one to find his father’s murderer, to Agatha Cristie’s famous play, The Mousetrap, that opened in London’s West End in 1952 and is still running today 30,000 performances...
Famed for his contributions to the hard sciences—most notably his theory of heliocentricity—the sixteenth-century astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus was also an acute analyst of monetary policy. To that end, Ralph Benko has done us all a great service with this new...
In a speech delivered in the autumn of 2002, as the United States moved inexorably toward war with Iraq, the late Joan Didion delivered an offhand remark that effectively summed up the flaw at the heart of the logic behind that coming war, and of the logic of a number...
It is time to discuss our third horseman of New Zionism, Ben Shapiro, because if we wait too much longer, he might descend into complete irrelevance. In fact, Ben Shapiro is not only a central figure in the Conservative Cinematic Universe, but the poster child of New...
The natural world is often imagined as a system of competition where predators hunt prey, rivals vie for limited resources, and survival turns on relative advantage. At a deeper level, a quieter competition occurs within all living organisms. As the primary units of...
Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) recently lost the most expensive primary race in American history. Why? For some, this remains a grand mystery. It was a mystery, apparently, for The Daily Wire’s Michael Knowles after the primary runoff defeat of Senator John Cornyn...
The Trump administration's May 2026 indictment of former Cuban President Raúl Castro represents the latest escalation in a six-decade campaign of economic warfare that has failed to achieve regime change while inflicting catastrophic harm on the Cuban people. The...
For more than a decade, Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents have plundered passengers at airport security checkpoints on the flimsiest or most shameless pretexts. If you get stopped at an airport security checkpoint with $100 or more in cash, TSA...
The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Keir Starmer, was given a thumping in the recent local elections across the United Kingdom where voters turned out en masse to turf out their Labour councillors and send a strong message to the government that they are...
The increasing arc of instability running across Africa today resembles less a series of isolated crises than a single, widening belt of state collapse, insurgency, proxy war, and foreign intervention stretching from the Atlantic coast to the Red Sea. From Mali and...
Austrian economics gets its name not from a particular connection to the country in technical terms, but rather because it was born there in the 1870s from great minds such as Carl Menger, Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, and Friedrich von Wieser. One generation later, another...
American political successions in recent years happen counterintuitively: implicit hand-offs between two nominally opposing sides. This strange reality is where we derive our notion of “the uniparty” and the media its notion of “partisanship.” Through the “partisan”...
As the U.S. and Israeli governments flirt with peace with Iran while preparing to unleash Armageddon, the struggles within the American Mainland continue to percolate. In March, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were deployed at major U.S airports as...
The Trump administration maintains that the government of Iran can never be allowed to develop a nuclear bomb. The reason? Because the leaders of that land are allegedly lunatics. The primary concern appears to be that dissident factions sponsored by Iran—including...
Americans have been fed a comforting fairy tale about Islamic terrorism. Radical jihadists attack the West simply because they despise freedom, democracy, and the American way of life. This narrative flatters domestic audiences while conveniently obscuring a far more...
On an evening at the end of December 2025, a woman in Switzerland opened a grocery-delivery app on her phone. She filled a basket and typed in a delivery address in Brussels—a flat she had visited many times, whose owner could no longer leave Belgium and could no...
President Donald Trump’s recent two-day summit in Beijing with Chinese President Xi Jinping concluded much as anticipated. In an article written ahead of the trip, I noted that expectations for substantive breakthroughs in the fraught Sino-American relationship were...
Critics of the May 2026 summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, president of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), widely condemned the outcome as being long on pomp and ceremony but short on meaningful substantive results. They noted that most of...
