In 2019, we had known for a cool century that governments are run by incompetent leaders, willing to frivolously demolish the lives of their own people, to protect their own status. Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
The mainstream media, to distract from the link between COVID vaccines and heart attacks, has published a series of absurd explanations for the demise of young people. Since 2021, the media has blamed the rise in heart attacks on: The media carries Big Pharma’s water because the drug industry’s direct-to-consumer advertising accounts for about 10%…
Last week, like thousands of his fans, I was shocked to learn that political blogger and podcaster Zman died suddenly, apparently from natural causes, at age 59. “Gutted” was the word that many of his followers used. When you read someone’s thoughts every weekday morning, and listen to his voice for an hour or two…
My two older kids recently finished summer jobs as camp counselors. They worked in separate states but remarked on the same situation: a significant number of kids around age eight are behaving strangely. My kids felt that 2 in every 10 of their campers could be diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. I have observed the…
I’m reading a book called The Savage Continent which describes the conditions in Europe in the aftermath of World War II. One short passage illustrates how fragile morality always is. In 1929, world powers proudly adopted the Third Geneva Convention, which ensured the humane treatment of prisoners of war. Within a decade, the treaty had…
My mother-in-law was born in San Cristobal, Venezuela in the early 1950s. The city is located in the mountains of western Venezuela, about 35 miles from the Colombian border. The area prospered in the 1950s due to extensive trade with Colombia consisting mostly of agricultural products and textiles. My mother-in-law didn’t go to college,…