The Great Filter

My latest at the Belmont Club. Are there better and worse ways to live? Does it matter what the foundation stones of civilization are? How can we tell?

Get the Number of that Truck

My latest at PJMedia VIP. Why did the punditry fail to see the oncoming 2024 train?

Countdown to Tuesday

My latest at the Belmont Club. The Hall has stood set in its ways above its vast root network of support for many decades, beyond any hope of reform. Can these outsiders mount a challenge where so many have failed?

Do You Love Me No Matter What?

New at PJMedia VIP. Is dismay at being let down the same thing as sowing chaos? Why trust is treated as a test of relationship loyalty instead of the outcome of customer experience.

Lions and Donkeys

My latest at the Belmont Club. Elon is simultaneously a principal source of the U.S. bureaucracy’s greatness and locus of rebellion against the venality, dysfunction and stupidity of the status quo. How does the establishment contain yet exploit him?

Failure as a Formula for Success

My latest at PJMedia VIP. How it became bad to succeed and victimhood became synonymous with virtue.

Let Me Go Back To Sleep

New at the Belmont Club. The cruel disappointment you feel when you view the world through the window rather than the TV screen.

The Modern World Vs Hezbollah

New at PJMedia VIP. Hezbollah learns that you can’t live in someone else’s civilization with impunity. But will the West realize that when the world one makes determines survival, the culture which defines it is supremely important?

Referendum on Civilization

My latest at the Belmont Club. After the USSR collapsed in 1989, the progressives turned their efforts to taking over the institutions of the West. To their surprise resistance to their coup has emerged. Who and what is forcing a showdown?

“We’re Not Going Back”

My latest at PJMedia VIP. Is today the “hinge of history” where activists have a right, indeed a duty to do extraordinary things, act with unlimited license, attempt unprecedented transformations because the future depends specially on them?

Can We Handle the Truth?

My latest at the Belmont Club. When fantasy has a price. How pretending to be Green made Europe vulnerable to red, red war.

The Black Gate Opens

My latest on PJMedia VIP. The credibility of the media is a function of the credibility of the system, whose spokesmen they are. So the fundamental credibility problem is not with the Mouth of Sauron, but Sauron himself.

The Elements Clash

My latest at the Belmont Club. A ringside seat to drama. Miraculous misfortune versus miraculous fortune.

Big Brother Vs Goldstein

My latest at PJMedia VIP. The rise of virtual politics. No human candidates are required for an election between two ideas, both characterized by the same media outlets.

The Old Order Fadeth

New at the Belmont Club. All over the Western world the status quo is being challenged. A countdown clock has started. We must adapt or face disaster.

Vanished

My latest at PJMedia VIP. Suddenly the public has discovered that the President is missing, substantively speaking. With the chief missing, the race between those who would replace him and foes who would seize their chance is on.

Regulating the Future

My latest at PJMedia VIP. The way of the frontier. First come the explorers. Then comes the sheriff.

The Slow Collapse of Hamas’ Plan A

My latest at the Belmont Club. Hiding hostages behind layers of civilian human shields doesn’t always work. When the raiders have information superiority you will need a Plan B.

Getting Fixed, Not Even

My latest at PJMedia VIP. Why accountability is not the same as revenge and why “moving on” doesn’t take you to the future but mostly to a repeat the past.