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On Private Justice

For eighty years, Superman’s motto was “Truth, Justice, and the American Way!” In 2020, at the apogee of unchallenged Left power, it changed to...

Holy Rus’: The Rebirth of Orthodoxy in the New Russia (John P. Burgess)

Americans don’t understand the Russians. Americans don’t even try to understand the Russians, for the most part. I don’t understand the Russians, even if...

On the 1956 Hungarian Revolution

In these latter days, we are told man should be made new, and if that fails, we can replace him with thinking machines. The...

On the Left as Scorpion: Election and Post-Election Predictions

Anyone who predicts the future risks beclowning and humiliating himself, usually for little return. Better to offer Nostradamus-like pronouncements, susceptible to many interpretations, so...

Recent Appearances (October 2024)

I was honored to appear in the past three months in nine different venues. Programs where I appeared, in order, have been (with links...

To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism (Sean McMeekin)

Unlike the cats grilled by the illegals invited by our rulers to invade once-decent towns all over America, Communism has nine lives, or more....

Days of Rage: America’s Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence (Bryan Burrough)

Never in history has targeted violence by individuals or small groups, killings and bombings, what the Russians once called “propaganda of the deed,” ever...

The Habsburg Way: Seven Rules for Turbulent Times (Eduard Habsburg)

Mirrors for princes, books of advice aimed at those who rule, have fallen out of style in our modern, supposedly democratic age. Books of...

On Cancellation and the Use of Power

At the risk of being viewed as a Boomer, which I am not, let us ponder the immortal lyrics of the band Kansas, from...

The Total State: How Liberal Democracies Become Tyrannies (Auron MacIntyre)

For many Americans, the Constitution is their spirit animal, which protects and guides them. Never mind that how we are ruled bears very little...

Life, on the Line: A Chef’s Story of Chasing Greatness, Facing Death, and Redefining the Way We Eat (Grant Achatz)

What we see as history is always downstream from the actions of great men, working with the challenges given them. Such men are very...

Against Nostalgia

Do you want your teddy bear? If you are on the Right, you probably do. All around your enemies celebrate their endless triumphs over...