Early last month, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)sponsored a panel on the family at the organization’s Socialism Conference 2025. The organization described the topic this way: “How should the left relate to the family? Socialist analysis makes clear that the nuclear family form is an inherently repressive, racist, and hetero-sexist institution that functionally reinforces and reproduces capitalism.”

In The Struggle for Liberty, Ralph Raico presents a stirring and revisionist interpretation of European history that challenges both progressive disdain for the West and idealizations of its aristocratic past. At the heart of his narrative is a powerful thesis: Europe’s prosperity and preeminence—its “miracle”—was not the inevitable result of geography, imperialism, colonialism, or race but of its distinctive political architecture.

“According to federal data, 57% of workers’ pay grew faster than inflation in June, up from a monthly low of 44% during the height of inflation.”

There is much gnashing of teeth and pulling of hair by just about every leader in the West, especially by an almost apoplectic President Trump, over a so-called “sinister threat” by the BRICS nations to form a new world trade settlement mechanism that bypasses the almighty dollar. President Trump may invoke sanctions and asset confiscations similar to those invoked against Russia, the “R” in “BRICS,” in addition to his current favorite weapon, the tariff.