Can the distant past offer answers to the infectious-disease? Even if it did, would those Americans listen? The answer to both questions is yes. terror, Americans find are wondering what’s ahead after COVID and our debacle in Afghanistan. ARTHUR HERMAN: HOW TO THINK LIKE A VIKING IN THE AGE OF COVID In September 2001 I published a book…
So, something’s weird going on. This infectious-disease narrative. As if they are jousting in the park like a low-rent version of Medieval Times. Like it’s something you can bet on with your bookie. Is it real? I mean, we’re Americans, with families, and within families there are disagreements from sports to politics to health. To…
As American forces were pulling out of Afghanistan this summer, Mark Milley, the chairman of the defense, announced a new and highly innovative intelligence partnership. The Pentagon, Milley said, would begin sharing classified information with the Taliban — the bearded religious extremists in man pajamas that for 20 years we’ve been told pose a major threat…
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On September 17, 2011 a band of protestors entered Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan and declared it to be an autonomous zone known as Occupy Wall Street. Over the next two months they would build a strange community, free from the government, in the park and their movement would spread across the country. Ten years…
The pictures from the immigration are shocking, they’re also real, so they can’t be ignored. In the coming days, you’ll hear what’s happening at the border described as a humanitarian crisis. That means the migrants are suffering and they definitely are suffering and that’s sad. But what’s sadder is that Americans are suffering too. Open…
In the next few weeks, Republicans have an opportunity to rebrand the elections as Big Government Socialists. This is the kind of opportunity which may come once in a lifetime. Every Democratic senator and representative has already voted for the outline of Vermont Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders’ $3.5 trillion Big Government Socialist bill. No matter…
In the past month, we’ve witnessed joe-biden” target=”_blank”>President Joe Biden <, we’ve seen the Biden administration display ideological extremism and manifest incompetence, and dodge their responsibility to give the American people answers as to why they failed so catastrophically in Afghanistan. This is exactly what happened when foreign-policytestified this week before the Senate Foreign Relations…