Europe has two religions: Symbolism and Someone Else Paying For It. So when Donald Trump waddles onto the world stage and starts yanking the Continue Reading
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California’s Homelessness Money Cannon Still Can’t Hit a Target
California has a special talent. Not Silicon Valley “invent a future” talent. Not Hollywood “manufacture a reality” talent. I mean the rarer gift: the Continue Reading
A Day in the Life of a Coast Guardsman
2014 09 12 Friday The event started late in the afternoon. We received a rather vague notification that a vessel of interest (VOI) may be heading Continue Reading
Florida Cold Snap Triggers Emergency Response for Falling Iguanas
By Untactic Al Florida officials confirmed this week that an unexpected cold snap has caused thousands of iguanas to temporarily lose their grip on Continue Reading
When the Noise Drowns Out the Neighbors
Humans have been trying to figure out how to fly probably since the earliest ones first invented spare time. It was two Americans who finally got that Continue Reading
Useful Idiots Was the Method Not the Insult
The phrase “useful idiots” is often treated as a crude insult, something invented by Cold War critics to smear idealists who supported communist Continue Reading
Socialism Is the Road to Communism
After every account of communist failure, the same objection appears:“That wasn’t socialism. That was communism.” It sounds reasonable. It sounds Continue Reading
After the Revolution Wins, the Revolution Turns
Every revolution promises freedom.That’s the lie that gets people into the streets.What comes after victory is not freedom at all. It’s control. Continue Reading
The West’s Death Spiral of Denial
Editor’s Note: This piece is published anonymously at the author’s request. Given the subject matter and today’s climate around public commentary, we Continue Reading
Nuance Is Dead and the Algorithm Ate the Body
Vincent Vargas’ essay, “The Cost of Inaccuracy,” pulls off a modern miracle: holding two thoughts at once without snapping a moral tendon. He argues Continue Reading
Public Service Should Be a Lifetime Commitment. Public Office Shouldn’t Be.
Why experience matters—but permanent power doesn’t. Public service and public office are often treated as interchangeable terms. They are not. Continue Reading
The Republic on Trial
An imagined interview synthesizing the documented principles, warnings, and recorded views of America’s Founders Introduction: Inviting the Dead to Continue Reading