In 2018, Cuba welcomed 4.7 million visitors to the island.

Anyone wondering why the Republicans are facing historic losses in this week’s midterm elections should consider these two numbers: 3.7 percent and 0.6 precent. The first is the latest one year increase in prices from the Consumer Price Index (CPI). The second is how much wages and salaries for private industry workers are reported to have fallen in the last year when adjusted to account for the rise in prices. Even Americans with increasing incomes are struggling with inflation.

Javier Milei did not mince words at the United Nations. Speaking before the General Assembly, Argentina’s president called the UN a “useless organization” and attacked what he regards as an entrenched international bureaucracy. The language is characteristically Milei, but behind the rhetoric lies a more fundamental economic problem: the problem of economic calculation.

When does academic philosophy become a criminal enterprise? The academic philosopher Dr. Nathan Cofnas has been threatened with prosecution by the Belgian anti-discrimination watchdog. They believe that his philosophical defense of free scientific inquiry, and his argument that it is morally permissible to investigate possible genetic causes of racial differences in intelligence, amounts to illegal “racial discrimination.”

The core dynamic of this era is the notion that controlling the narrative controls the world, as persuading the populace to believe something is true controls their convictions which then control their behaviors. Centralized powers discovered the potential for narrative control to control the world in the 20th century, as mass communications enabled centralized control of what is presented as true and important.

“The increase in IMF money for the regime reflects ... investors’ concerns about whether Milei’s administration will be able to meet its external debt payments next year.”