When a monster military like the US circles its prey for possible attack, very little can go wrong. Painful lessons of past wars have taught state leadership how to avoid mistakes that can drag the country into interminable conflict. If the order to pounce is given, the outcome will soon be decided and the winner never in doubt. The foregoing is offered as the naive view of US foreign policy.
Ever since people began warning about the threat from Cultural Marxism, the Marxists’ main line of defense has been to deny everything. They claim that their critics are hallucinating and fighting with shadows.
The Marxists in control of universities insist that academic freedom is alive and well. No one has been excluded from the academy for being a conservative. No teachers are indoctrinating their students—they merely teach them true history.
We’re supposed to believe that medical licensing exists to protect healthcare consumers from “quacks” and “charlatans.” The purpose, we’re told, is to improve the quality of healthcare, yet this system has manifestly failed to produce good patient outcomes.
“77 percent of [Republicans] support the war, on average. But that’s exactly what we’d expect for almost any Trump policy.”
Argumentation theorists in the pragma-dialectical tradition start from a simple requirement for any reasonable dispute-resolution: the parties must be free to advance standpoints and call standpoints into question.
“Wright’s use of the word “unlikely” was a veiled concession that a spike to $200 was possible, though he repeated that the price jump would be weeks not months.”
Growth in gross domestic product was down sharply from 4.4% in last year’s Q3 and 3.8% in Q2. The fourth-quarter number was half the govt’s first estimate of 1.4%
[Deleting the State: Requiem for an Illusion by Aeon J. Skoble (Independent Institute, 2026; xiii +134pp.)]
