Nation, State, and Economy
The Empire Has No Clothes
The Empire Has No Clothes
The most important component of social and political reform is for the general population to know what is actually happening and to see through government propaganda and its extreme nationalistic patriotism. Opinion polling finds an all-time low for trusting the US government—less than 20 percent, compared to nearly 80 percent during the gold standard.
Midterm Massacre: GOP Dealt the Historic Beatdown It Richly Deserved
Midterm Massacre: GOP Dealt the Historic Beatdown It Richly Deserved
No, Mayor Mamdani, Voting on Everything Doesn’t Promote Dignity
No, Mayor Mamdani, Voting on Everything Doesn’t Promote Dignity
Recently I’ve written several articles critical of the socialist fad in America, explaining how “democratic” socialism leads to totalitarian tyranny, pinning down the oft-disputed meaning of the terms “capitalism” and “socialism,” and analyzing why anyone would still take socialism serio
Jefferson, Secession, and “All Men Are Created Equal”
The Inflation Hot Potato
The 2020s have been a crazy decade in American politics.
They began, of course, with one of the most chaotic and intense years in recent American history. After a global pandemic brought almost all aspects of life to a halt, cities erupted in nationwide riots for much of the summer, and a seemingly endless stream of scandals and stunts like the Hunter Biden laptop drove the politically-active public to exhaustion; after all that, Joe Biden won the presidency.