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New at PJMedia VIP. Once the public didn’t have official truth. Then they had nothing but. Now what can we trust? How does society cope with authority that may either be dishonest or uncertain?

While I shall express no opinion on the subject of his innocence or guilt, here are a few thoughts on Rodrigo Duterte’s arrest on a warrant by the ICC for allegedly summarily executing thousands of criminal suspects during his war on drugs. Typically “salvage” victims are the disposable poor, though not always. Perhaps the most …

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New at the Belmont Club. Does time flow like a river to the sea? What does your GPS app have to say?

My latest at the Belmont Club. How data science and AI have made it possible for the public to see things never seen before.

My latest at PJMedia VIP. What are the ways forward for the West in the war? Is peace possible at all? What are the incentives to reach agreement? Could it become a quagmire?

Kash Patel has been confirmed as FBI director. The New York Times says many Democrats are uneasy about Kash Patel. “Mr. Patel will now oversee the vast surveillance and investigative powers of the F.B.I.” This fearsome apparatus, formerly in Democrat hands, is now controlled by their enemies. …

New at PJMedia VIP. Politics, after being mostly show, has become serious again. The fight is among the foundations, they’re not just changing the color of the curtains.

New at the Belmont Club: Whoever is cooking up AI, be it China, Silicon Valley or anyone in between, you are the secret ingredient.

My latest at PJMedia VIP. DEI was once the future of Washington and indeed the world. Now historians and journalists are stumbling through its ruins like a lost city, haunted but still full of traps.

New at the Belmont Club: An oligarch is defined as a billionaire who’s on the other side. But there are also the Mandarins and as Mandarin Gavin once said: just remember who made you.

New at PJMedia VIP. A spectre is haunting Europe. The spectre of MAGA. All the powers of old Europe have entered into an unholy alliance to exorcise this spectre …

New at the Belmont Club: Two kinds of threat make it through a protective defensive ring. Those who are helped through and those the defensive ring doesn’t recognize as threats.

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?