Author Archives: Richard Fernandez

My latest at PJMedia VIP. The new Cold War against China will be fought in the labs much as the epic struggle against the USSR was.

New at the Belmont Club: We don’t usually learn math or science from our families but perhaps as important, we do often learn our values.

My latest at PJMedia VIP. The shadow war at sea. The ghosts vs the ghostbusters. Who ya gonna call?

New at the Belmont Club: “To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield” is what the baddies did. The entire progressive cultural agenda boils down to extirpating this unwholesome desire. And they are close to doing it.

My latest at PJMedia VIP. If nothing is inherently sacred then anything you can get away with is permissible. The only thing that superior people have to fear is lacking the nerve to squash the bugs. Or is it?

New at the Belmont Club. For now at least, the incentive to create a stable and prosperous Syria may outweigh the impulse to war.

At PJMedia VIP. The rule of authority has temporarily been weakened by the rise of the Internet and the opening of limitless frontiers. But among the ruins of fact-checking a new dark power is stirring.

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.