As it would undermine their moral standing.
Author Archives: Richard Fernandez
Don’t beg
Canceling people in Woke outrage is a big fad now. Often the canceled — their careers gone, exile affirmed — complain it isn’t fair. But fair’s got nothing to do with it. It isn’t reasonable to expect ‘fairness’, ‘reciprocity’ or ‘tolerance’ from left wing or Woke media outlets or platform. One cannot count on the …
WHO comes to the conclusion it agreed to reach
Probe ground rules stipulated in advance China would not be blamed. Imported frozen food or wildlife or undetected previous disease may be to blame.
We all mistakes, or so we once believed
“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” Mark Twain
“This is Sparta” but not in a good way, helot.
The rise of the global China class.
Electric cars will double world power consumption
Member of Facebook independent oversight board member joins Biden admin
The riddle of the sands
China is waging a subtle war against an island neighbour, deploying a rather unusual tactic as it looks to expand its regional empire. Its latest weapon? Sand…
China’s feet of clay and sword of gold
Although China is a formidable geopolitical rival it is not ten feet tall. It’s birthrate continues to fall to record levels despite the Party’s reversal of the One Child policy. Compared to the Quad alliance …
Interview with Steve Bannon
I was interviewed by Steve Bannon on War Room on my recent piece Bandwagon of Perdition. My segment starts at about 26:50
Our sickening simplicity
Charles de Gaulle when asked by a journalist if ‘he was happy’ retorted “What do you take me for, an idiot?” For some people neighborliness is just plain irksome. Do you really want to help people or just enjoy sitting in judgment of others? This is the dilemma of the virtuous. Nothing is more ensnaring …
Is the old war habit coming back?
Is war making a comeback in the Middle East? What about the Pacific? One of the two things the pandemic did was weaken great powers across the board. The other was it destabilized countries and power blocs internally. The former lessens the danger of deliberate conflict; the latter increases it. The question is whether and …
Climate activists say China must stop producing to save planet
“China’s record aluminium output last year emitted more C02 than some entire countries, including Indonesia and Brazil,” says Reuters. Maybe the West should shut more of their economies down in order to shame China into compliance. Or it could develop cheap nuclear power and outcompete their “inefficient coal plants”.
The better political people weren’t
Politics ought to be decided on policy and performance. Virtue signaling was always a pretty phoney basis for choosing public positions.
Go on and laugh at the groupthink of others
New at the Belmont Club
The Left’s Vaccine Problem – The New York Times
The NYT asks why the caring left is far behind the cruel conservatives in vaccination rollouts. Tis witchcraft. Or more jab jab and less jaw jaw.
Look straight ahead 2713 Bumstead J
It’s amazing how much slavery you can impose in the guise of ‘safety’ and ‘justice’. In the last few years humanity has given away its birthright for a mess of digital pottage. And we want seconds.
Now it can be told. Time describes virtuous conspiracy
Democracy in action from the pages of Time. Rejoice.
Myanmar’s hi-technology repression
No longer the regime agent watching from across the street but the cell phone tracking you from your pocket. Who needs the Stasi when the regime has social media?
Biden restoration
If the Biden Restoration just tries to restore Washington and foreign affairs to the way it was in November 2016 it will fail comprehensively. The old system was collapsing even as Hillary strode confidently toward her accession. It was the Deplorable’s awareness of the ancien regime’s impending collapse of which the aristocracy was blissfully unaware …