First They Came a poem by Jett Black, LCSW
First they came for those who spoke out against the covid vaccination. They wouldn’t let them travel overseas. They wouldn’t let small groups of them gather for Easter in open […]
Book of the Month: Feminism Against Progress by Mary Harrington
Review by Paula Weiss Image by Freepik We are not meat Legos I have been out-dystopianed. I was prepared to read a conventional screed against the impact of second-wave feminism […]
Luigi Mangione’s America by Mark Malvasi
The resort to violence has become the characteristic American response to a world that seems to many to lie beyond their control. Almost from the beginning, violence wrote itself into […]
Vance Takes the MAGA Message to Europe and Gets a Frosty Reception by David Shephard
European and American Elites Take Offense to Claim That Europe is a Weakling on Free Speech and Democracy. Vice President J.D. Vance went to Europe, specifically Germany, last week and […]
Mine, Baby, Mine by Paul Driessen
Western and Alaskan mineral exploration is key to American defense, security and resurgence. President Trump is determined to make America not just energy self-sufficient, but energy dominant. The USA already […]
President Donald J. Trump’s inaugural address, 20 January 2025
“Thank you. Thank you very much everybody. Well, thank you very, very much. Vice President Vance, Speaker Johnson, Senator Thune, Chief Justice Roberts, justices of the United States Supreme Court, […]
Cowboys and Indians: A Bad Look for MAGA by Paula Weiss
A Hindu family in New Jersey celebrates the festival of Janmashtami (from ISKCON of New Jersey, 2020, reprinted by Migration Policy Institute)
Book of the Month: The Parasitic Mind by Gad Saad
Review by Paula Weiss We’re not out of the woods yet, but we never are. When Donald Trump was re-elected in November, I was reading this book, and wondering whether […]
A Trump Victory is Not the End Point of a Populist Revolution by Daniel Jupp
Having been ill over the Christmas period my regular readers have experienced a bit of a gap in my articles here, for which I apologise. Four or five days can […]
A Conservatism of Place: My Neighborhood by Paula Weiss
“Your history lies beneath your feet.” A few years ago, my husband and I decided to finally pull up the broadloom carpet on our house’s main level. Imagine our pleasure […]