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May 11, 2025
Redcoats to steel deals: How Trump forged a new Anglo-American allianceIn 1773, American colonists hurled crates of British tea into Boston Harbor. In 2025, the United States agreed to export American beef and ethanol duty-free, while British cars will soon glide into American ports under a newly sl...
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May 7, 2025
The land of loathing: When privilege breeds contemptThey sip $18 matcha oat milk lattes in multi-million-dollar coastal fortresses, attend galas guarded by private security, and tweet their grievances about America from iPhones made possible by capitalism. And yet, if you believed the words...
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May 5, 2025
The Pandemic that Never LeftWe often speak of COVID-19 in the past tense. The masks have come off, the Plexiglas dividers are gone, and the nightly case trackers have vanished from our screens. But the virus, less in its biological form than its cultural a...
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May 4, 2025
The Misguided Outrage over Defunding PBS and NPR“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.” — John F. Kennedy When President Trump signed the executive order to cease fe...
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April 5, 2025
Trump’s tariffs aren’t chaos; they’re a course correction after Biden’s driftHistory has a strange rhythm. When nations drift into indecision and self-doubt, they eventually awaken, not gently, but violently, to the cost of forgetting who they were. We are now living in one of those awakenings. President Trump’s...
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March 30, 2025
Bill Gates and the AI DelusionIn a recent appearance on NBC’s The Tonight Show, Bill Gates confidently claimed that artificial intelligence will replace doctors and teachers within the next decade. “Humans won’t be needed for most thing...
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March 28, 2025
The Midwest Twilight Zone and the Death of Common SenseBy any honest reckoning, the American Midwest has long stood as the republic’s last great firewall of common sense -- where decency is currency and a handshake still means something. But lately, the region’s governors have sounded less li...