Over this past week Germany has been up to mischief. The new chancellor of the country, Friedrich Merz, is head of the center-right CDU party—which garnered [...]

When Lara Trump interviewed White House Crypto Czar David Sacks this past week on Fox News, Sacks referred to one of the prevalent paddle signs at Trump’s [...]

One cannot access a major media publication these days without seeing or hearing despair over the “polarization” of America. This is not the whole story, [...]

America’s wars have often preceded good times economically—an “it’s darkest before the dawn” kind of thing. Paul Volcker’s war on inflation in the [...]

If there really is a Chinese curse “may you live in interesting times,” then we truly live under sino-obloquy. Love ’em or hate ’em, the times are [...]

Most moms and pops strive to place their kiddos on a team of some sort. Those who focus on the kids’ abilities rather than trying to relive their own glory [...]

America used to have an extraordinary level of excellence—not just in depth, but in breadth. It just wasn’t hard to find people who were very good at what [...]

While a Cobra gunship pilot in a combat aviation brigade in 1987—stationed near Frankfurt, Germany, and with logistics planning responsibility for wartime [...]

In the movie The Avengers there’s a scene in which the Hulk is fighting the trickster god Loki of Norse mythology fame. Loki takes exception to being [...]

When Adam Smith penned his seminal work An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, he discussed the concept of the “unseen hand” at [...]

The term fixer has come on hard times due to its Hollywood-promoted connotation as a person who cleans up criminal messes of one sort or another. For this [...]

It’s not a simple word to say, and it’s used primarily in fairly informed conversation, but caricature is a massive part of modern life. Dictionary.com [...]