Politics

Veterans Day grew out of the relief that a devastating war was finally over. Today, politicians use it to praise the kind of sacrifice they continue to demand in wars that do not need to be fought.

Veterans Day grew out of the relief that a devastating war was finally over. Today, politicians use it to praise the kind of sacrifice they continue to demand in wars that do not need to be fought.

Since 9/11, the US surveillance state has grown exponentially. However, the state of US paranoia has grown even more than that. Maybe there is a connection.

Section 8 housing was created as an alternative to the disastrous program of public housing. Naturally, it has turned into a racket.

The recent wave of migration by North Africans into the Spanish exclave of Ceuta has caused a crisis there that will not be easily abated. It is time to take a hard look at what is happening there.

The state is the entity that officially accuses people of committing crimes, but it is the state itself that often is the perpetrator of crimes against humanity. 

Until it deals with a radical and serious reckoning with the broken structure of their modern national governments, supported by compliant central bankers, we should continue to expect the 2020’s to be a crazy decade for politics throughout the West.

While many westerners decry the pullback of US foreign aid, the truth is that aid programs often are just another form of central economic planning with results predictably creating their own sets of problems.

As the midterms helped demonstrate, the post-covid inflation crisis and both parties' disinterest in actually solving it has put incumbents at a tremendous disadvantage. And that has become the defining political dynamic of the 2020s.

History books often connect the Great Awakening to the American Revolution, but the connection remains vague. One overlooked link is how the revival challenged privileged religious establishments and helped fuel later colonial resistance to parliamentary supremacy.