Author Archives: Richard Fernandez

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?

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

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?

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.

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?

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

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

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?

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?

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?

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

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.

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

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.

My latest at The Pipeline. We know what we can eat from a 100 thousand years of human trials. Suddenly we’ll replace all that hard won knowledge with …

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.

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.

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

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.

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.