Category: Culture Wars/Current Controversies

Venezuela Sets Its Sights on Guyana?, Only Newsom Can Go To China, Two Challenges to American Nationalism, Going Cashless is a “Bad Idea”, RIP Shane MacGowan

Niccolo Soldo Dec 2, 2023 Every weekend (almost) I share five articles/essays/reports with you. I select these over the course of the week because they are either insightful, informative, interesting, important, or a combination of the above. Request: Please hit the like button at the top of the […]

Werner Herzog’s Feats

Sponsored by MIT Press Mark O’Connell Shooting Werner Herzog The director’s memoir, packed with unlikely incident, suggests that Herzog has always been his own greatest creation. John Banville Back to the State of Nature John Gray argues in The New Leviathans that only Thomas Hobbes can explain how a liberal […]

The Week | Henry Kissinger

NATIONAL REVIEW DECEMBER 01, 2023 ◼ We’re not huge fans of Evita, but we’re optimistic about the sequel. ◼ Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley are sniping at each other. It would be productive if they focused on their actual policy differences. Instead, DeSantis is pretending that Haley is […]

National Association for Gun Rights Publishes Statement Concerning Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing On Gun Violence, and more

Jose Nino’s Digest Here are my most recent articles for you National Association for Gun Rights Publishes Statement Concerning Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing On Gun Violence In a press release that NAGR published, it noted several of the topics covered at the hearing: *** “Red Flag” Gun Confiscation […]

The Great Unlearning

NATIONAL REVIEW DECEMBER 2023 ( “You don’t need a doctorate to understand that declaring your city a ‘sanctuary’ for illegal immigrants will attract more illegal immigrants,” Noah Rothman writes in the new cover story of NATIONAL REVIEW magazine.   You need not be Milton Friedman to understand that […]

The Phonies Will Be Revealed

by Kenneth Schmidt Arktos Journal Nov 28, 2023 Kenneth Schmidt discusses the current political shift toward national-conservative governments and the challenges they face in maintaining their agendas. Back in the nineties, I was giving speeches and writing articles claiming that nationalism, in some form, would become a major […]

Can Europe Become Western Again?

November 29 2023 Can Europe Become Western Again? COMMENTARY By Victor Davis Hanson Perhaps as war clouds gather and enemies multiply, Europe will rediscover its heritage and reawaken to its historical role. More The Left Is Bleeding Hispanic Support—and They Know It COMMENTARY By Mike Gonzalez Leftist Latino […]

An Excellent JFK Conference

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2023 A democratic government that respects no limits on its own power is a ticking time bomb, waiting to destroy the rights it was created to protect. – James Bovard, Attention Deficit Democracy [2006] HORNBERGER’S BLOG November 27, 2023 An Excellent JFK Conference Two weeks […]

Argentina’s Libertarian Revolution?, Anti-Migrant Dublin Riots, Michael Anton vs. Con Inc. (Round Two), Botswana’s Impressive Political Stability, Disappearing Cockneys

Niccolo Soldo Nov 27, 2023 Every weekend (almost) I share five articles/essays/reports with you. I select these over the course of the week because they are either insightful, informative, interesting, important, or a combination of the above. Share Around the turn of the previous century, Italians seeking a […]

UNHINGED: Former Obama Adviser Claims Killing 4,000 Palestinian Children “Wasn’t Enough”, and more

Jose Nino’s Digest Here are my most recent articles for you UNHINGED: Former Obama Adviser Claims Killing 4,000 Palestinian Children “Wasn’t Enough” Stuart Seldowitz was recently fired from his position as foreign affairs chair for Gotham Government Relations for videos showing him making anti-Palestinian comments and threats to […]

Zionism needs anti-Semitism

John Hagee’s turn as a key speaker caused much liberal consternation – he is, after all, a notorious anti‑Semite. Daniel Lazare comments on the aftermath of the huge pro-Israel demonstration in Washington DC By Daniel Lazare, Weekly Worker Zionism says it is laying waste to Gaza and killing […]

The Populist Moment Never Happened

Bronze Age Pervent The election this year in Argentina has elevated to international stardom Javier Milei. His theatrical performances and comic passion, energy on camera remind people of Trump, Bolsonaro and other anti-establishment manic-charismatic champions in recent years. These rose up mostly as a result of people’s justified […]