The key to the success of America in the 20th century was pretty simple: we were a high trust society. Robert Putnam wrote a great book about this called Bowling Alone. The thesis of the book, which sadly has proven to be true, is that America’s success economically and socially has been largely driven by […]

Dylan Mulvaney is back and he’s apparently both saddened and angry about the way other women have been treating him. In his latest TikTok, he attempts to have a heart-to-heart with the ladies but can’t seem to stop himself from calling them transphobic and then issuing an ominous warning at the end. Let’s do a […]

(Credit: Jim Thompson) One of the uglier aspects of politics is that hacks like Biden weigh short-term optics over long-term consequences. Biden chose a photo-op over what will almost certainly be long-term consequences leading to dead Americans and thousands more dead across the globe. The more I read about the prisoner swap exchanging Viktor Bout […]

Have we begun to play “Let’s Make a Deal” through the media? Or has the White House begun leaking its negotiations for the release of Paul Whelan because it got surprised yesterday by criticism from both Republicans and Democrats over their last trade? It is interesting to see the rapidity and comprehensiveness in which “US […]

New Twitter owner Elon Musk gave reporter Matt Taibbi of Substack access to internal Twitter documents about the social media platform’s decision to spike the Hunter Biden laptop story and about how “the Biden team” had a direct pipeline to Twitter executives. Taibbi tweeted: “By 2020, requests from connected actors to delete tweets were routine. […]

Joe Biden approved a one-for-one swap with Russia: Brittney Griner, an American basketball player convicted for having vape cartridges and cannabis oil, for Viktor Bout, the man known as the “Merchant of Death.” There were a lot of questions about the lopsided nature of the deal, including leaving out other people who were detained like […]