In 2025, Palantir CEO Alex Karp released his first book, The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West. The work was co-authored by fellow Palantirian (as they fondly refer to themselves) Nicholas W. Zamiska, who serves as the firm’s...
Tucker Carlson, who has recently been identified in The New York Times as “arguably at this point the most significant media figure on the American right,” gave a telling account of his political priorities in his speech at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest in late...
Apart from a few details, I never saw much difference between Trump's America First shtick and MAGA's chief foe, the neconservatives. It appeared to be merely a squabble over details, such as whether democracy or strongman rule abroad best served the so-called...
From trade frictions to security flashpoints, the new year ahead promises a mix of continuity and potential volatility in U.S.-China relations. While Beijing’s growth in relative power—economic, technological, and military—continues, it is not aimed at “taking over...
On November 16, 2025, Ecuadorian voters delivered a decisive rebuke to Washington's expansionist ambitions in Latin America, rejecting a proposal to overturn the country's constitutional ban on foreign military bases by a commanding 60.56%-39.44% margin. The...
Modern wars have a peculiar discipline: they are carefully organized to happen far from the capitals that authorize them. Decision-making remains insulated, prosperity remains intact, and political life continues uninterrupted—while destruction, instability, and...
In early 2024, Rick Doblin—the man whose work launched one of the biggest social and cultural movements of our time, “the Psychedelic Renaissance”—was expecting to see the crowning achievement of his life’s mission. The non-profit he led and founded, the...
President Donald Trump’s January kidnapping and deposition of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and the subsequent “government-by-coercion” in the name of economic “development” is arguably America’s most dramatic imperial action in Latin America in history. But it...
At 4:21 in the morning of January 3, U.S. President Donald Trump posted, “The United States of America has successfully carried out a large scale strike against Venezuela and its leader, President Nicolas Maduro, who has been, along with his wife, captured and flown...
On January 3, 2026, the world watched in shock as American bombers, warships, and helicopters executed a lightning strike on Caracas, disabled Venezuelan air defenses, and whisked President Nicolás Maduro and his wife away to the United States. The Manhattan U.S....
Newly inaugurated New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani promises to "replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism." Funny that he chose those words. In Europe, where collectivist anti-fossil-fuels "green" policies have been enacted in the...
As 2025 draws to a close, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)—the much-hyped initiative led initially by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy—has quietly disbanded, eight months ahead of its scheduled sunset in July 2026. What began with bold promises of $1-2...
Congress’s newly minted Epstein Files Transparency Act—a bipartisan law co‑authored by Representatives Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna—was supposed to leave no room for discretion. It required Attorney General Pam Bondi, who serves President Donald Trump, to release all...
The starting point of praxeology, i.e., the logic of human action, is a self-evident truth. As economist Ludwig von Mises noted, this truth is “the cognition of the fact that there is such a thing as consciously aiming at ends.” Praxeology describes the invariant...
Libertarian advocates of minimal government, such as the late Robert Nozick (Anarchy, State, and Utopia, 1974), have feared that individuals in a stateless libertarian society would face corrupt or careless protection firms that used "risky" rights-enforcement...
The most politically prescient movie when it comes to the networks infiltrating our government these last forty years must be Power, director Sidney Lumet’s 1986 vehicle for exploring America’s mechanisms of political control, his informal sequel to the much more...
When President Donald Trump celebrated Kazakhstan’s decision to join the Abraham Accords, he spoke of peace and partnership in the familiar language of statesmen. The announcement sounded like a diplomatic victory in a region marked by instability. In reality, it...
It is often said that good educators teach students how to think, not what to think. This is indeed a profound notion. Sadly, we have witnessed a great deal of hypocrisy in attaining this aspiration. Moreover, despite an obsessive focus on constructing “safe spaces”...
