Theory, that is. The funny thing about the ubiquity of conspiracy theories is that some of them are true. The trouble is figuring out which ones they might be, because the majority are not. Now that the Epstein death conspiracy … Continue reading →
…and China seems to me to hold the cards. I remember that, in the late 1990s when I heard that Hong Kong would ultimately be turned over to China, I got a chill of foreboding. Hong Kong was being sacrificed, … Continue reading →
I notice it constantly, even at times on conservative sites: white supremacist groups are routinely referred to as “far right.” Maybe I’ve even carelessly referred to them that way at times in the past. I actually don’t know. But at … Continue reading →
Steven Hayward gives us a history lesson on how vicious political discourse has long been in this country. Please read the whole thing.
Continue reading →On this blog we’ve talked many times about the Gramscian march, the slow and steady and dedicated work of the left on the hearts and minds of Americans. This work has borne tremendous fruit, and may have reached a critical … Continue reading →
I recently went into some depth on the history of the citizenship question in the US Census: I’ve done some genealogical research online about my family, and looked at quite a few census pages in many different years. Questions about … Continue reading →
A good take on the topic is this National Review article by Jonah Goldberg, from which I’ll quote liberally: Nike was all set to release a line of sneakers for the Fourth of July featuring the original Betsy Ross American … Continue reading →
Not that AOC actually cares about history. AOC is a rabble rouser and a demagogue. She may be ignorant about a particular fact or she may actually know the truth and be blatantly lying about it. But either way, she … Continue reading →
Online you can easily find many clips from documentaries and newsreels about D-Day. If you do (as I did today), you may almost immediately notice—as I did—the narration. The voices used back then had an utterly different tone from anything … Continue reading →
Law professor Ilya Somin makes a very poor analogy between Trump’s Mexican tariffs and the Berlin Wall in this article entitled and subtitled, “Trump’s Plan to Force Mexico to Lock In its Own People: The President’s effort to coerce Mexico … Continue reading →
There’s been a brouhaha in Germany over the wearing of the skullcap by traditional Jews: At the weekend, Felix Klein, the country’s commissioner on anti-Semitism sparked uproar when he said in an interview with the Funke regional press group that … Continue reading →
This doesn’t appear to be some sort of spoof: A cotton plant growing at Campbell Elementary School [in Arlington, Virginia] drew criticism online today, but Arlington Public Schools said allegations that staff were going to make kids “pick cotton” was … Continue reading →