In November, I was visiting Bratislava, and had dinner with my friends Vladimir Palko (pictured above), a mathematician and retired statesman, and Jaroslav Daniška, editor of the conservative magazine...
Culture
A City Where Socrates Need Not Die Jan Patocka’s study of Plato can inform our own political philosophy.
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News from Rome on this, the last day of the year, that Pope Benedict XVI has died. In one sense, I am grateful that his physical suffering has ended. But oh, what a loss! What a loss. The man was a giant...
Fiery, But Mostly Peaceful In Glass Onion, Rian Johnson delivers a gripping murder mystery.
From TAC’s Bookshelf: The Road to Triumph Looking back at a year of reading with the staff of The American Conservative.
Foreign Affairs
Rising Sum Will Japan’s defense spending be enough to overcome the postwar and allow Tokyo to break free of its reliance on...
That image above is of my father on his deathbed in August 2015. Jesus was watching him.
A friend back in the US forwarded to me yesterday a Twitter thread in which a leftist journalist uncovered...
Living in the X-Files With daily revelations about Twitter and long holiday evenings, perhaps now is a good time to revisit The X-Files.
Wrap it Up and Knock it Off Some reflections on 2022, and advice for 2023.
You know the movie Groundhog Day, the classic comedy in which Bill Murray’s character wakes up in the same day, over and over? I swear, I felt like Bill Murray this week, watching all the neocon bigs...
Better Late Than Never Perhaps Japan will become America’s first true security partner.
‘The Most Dangerous Show on Netflix’? Progressives criticized Ancient Apocalypse because it challenged their most basic assumptions.
See the man above? He’s a Canadian who is too poor to pay his bills. So he’s seeking out government-provided assisted suicide. This TV report tells his story. It is a moral outrage.
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Politics
‘Dark Money’ Backing the Latest ‘Zuck Bucks’ Push A largely unknown group of institutes, centers, and funds are invested in...
A Simple Choice The great division in this world will be between the bitter and the lonely, who serve only themselves, and the family...
That’s a photo of Samantha Beach Kiley, a pastor in North Carolina. This is eye-opening:
Did you know The Holy Post podcast has platformed queer-affirming guests? Samantha Beach Kiley (Episode...
You’ll Own Nothing, and Hate It As property ownership becomes a pipe dream, many young people are turning to socialism.
Are States Leaking Voters’ Data? A new lawsuit alleges the Electronic Registration Information Center is sharing sensitive voter data...
A couple of weeks ago I posted a critique of the principle of “No Enemies To The Right”. It was in response to a tweet by Charles Haywood in which he dunned me for criticizing Thomas Achord, the former...
The Faces of January 6 These aren’t saints. They’re Americans. We should treat them like it.
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