The greater goal of Israel’s legal apparatus is to fend off charges of genocide and war-crimes in international courts of law. Article by Ilana Mercer.

Europe’s economy has grown by a modest 0.2% in the third quarter, according to official figures released Thursday. 

Pat Buchanan’s recent birthday leads me to speculate: how much better would we be today if he had been elected President in 1992 rather than George H.W. Bush? He would have avoided “Operation Desert Storm” against Iraq, with all its disastrous consequences for us ever since. He was wrong about tariffs, but, as Murray Rothbard always said, war is the most important issue, and Pat Buchanan was a strong non-interventionist. That’s why he supported Buchanan.

New York City, December 31, 2027: As the crowds gather in Times Square to celebrate the start of another new year, the city leadership settles in for an evening of celebration and reflection. Since taking office about two years ago, Zohran Mamdani has implemented a series of sweeping reforms. They would have worked, too, if only those damn capitalists hadn’t sabotaged everything once again. But a new year is dawning, and surely this time, we will get it right.

Thomas Hobbes is often regarded as one of the intellectual founders of the modern, secular nation-state in his 1651 book Leviathan. In Creveld’s The Rise and Decline of the State (p.