Author Archives: Richard Fernandez

President Trump announces a future battleship class in the navy. “Battleship!!” is in ways a marketing strategy. It appears to fill a role formerly met by retiring USN cruisers, the “arsenal ship” and the DD-21 “Zumwalt” land attack destroyer.

New at the Belmont Club. In New South Wales the main police database was built when Windows 95 was new and Netscape Navigator was king. It failed to link up different suspicious facts about the Bondi Beach shooters. If the Nationals and Liberal parties want a good solid public policy alternative to the reflexive gun …

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New at the Belmont Club: The Bondi Beach massacre. It’s not just what happened, but what might happen next.

Four rushed the Bondi shooters, only one made it. A married couple about to celebrate their 35th anniversary and a 62 year old man didn’t quite.

The way in which people react to the defeat, death or misfortune of their foes is largely determined by who they are rather than what their enemies deserve. Should you gloat when a foe falls? You don’t have to be magnanimous, but you could be if you are. Shakespeare said it best:

New at PJMedia VIP. “The personal is political” principle means that all our failures, even our unhappiness, is somebody else’s fault. Everyone would be fulfilled but for the malignance of cruel devils we call Nazis who undermine all we do.

New at the Belmont Club. If people won’t take responsibility for their lives then ensure they get unlimited quantities of everything they should want whether they like it or not.

New at PJMedia VIP. Have you ever wondered why so many Gen-Z revolutions are breaking out in the 2020s? It’s no coincidence. Financial technology and computers have made corruption and crime in the 3rd World monstrously big.

New at the Belmont Club: the day of retrofitting the facts to the story, of “accurate but true” are over.

New at PJMedia VIP. All through human history from the first Neolithic raider to Willy Sutton the marauders have always gone where the loot is.

New at the Belmont Club. Is the last prophet Marx or Mohammed? This question will be postponed pending the defeat of MAGA.

New at PJMedia VIP. Massacre in Sudan: the tragedy of people living in a treasurehouse where the least valuable thing is lives.

New at the Belmont Club: Why militant protesters dress the way they do. It’s not just style.

New at PJMedia VIP: Modern colonialism looks different from its popular stereotype. Consider the Indian Ocean and Africa.

There’s nothing better because politicians and educators represent a class of occupations where competence is not a qualification.

New at PJMedia VIP. Hybrid war is conflict in disguise. Would you recognize it if it hit you?

New at the Belmont Club: The contest for the soul of the West has broken out in the open after simmering under the surface for some time. Maybe it’s for the best.

New at PJMedia VIP. Arthur Clarke once observed that a sufficiently advanced technology would be indistinguishable from magic. Now the spellbook lies mysterious and promising on the table.

New at the Belmont Club. How do you guard against an assassin that can be anybody? Simply an ordinary man driven by a deadly compulsion?

New at PJMedia VIP. How the Kremlin tried to conquer in the West — and surrendered in the East.