Pulling their weight: At the height of this week’s NATO summit, China’s ambassador to Nepal lashed out at the European “ass kissers” who made nice with Donald Trump. “His anger is well founded,” writes the Hudson Institute’s Mike Watson. “Between the bombing raid on Iran’s nuclear program and the summit’s results, the last few days […]

In their book Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery, Robert W. Fogel and Stanley L. Engermen analyzed various elements of the slave economy including the role of slave traders from New England in the trans-Atlantic slave trade, the profitability of slave labor, and material conditions on Southern plantations including the health, […]

Ricardo Duchesne’s Greatness and Ruin is an ambitious, confrontational, and deeply contrarian work. Framed as a sweeping civilizational analysis, it seeks to explain the unprecedented intellectual, cultural, and technological achievements of the West alongside what Duchesne views as its current self-destructive liberal pluralism. This is a book that refuses to bow to academic orthodoxy, rejecting […]

Guests have been gathering in Venice over the past few days for what some in the press have dubbed the ‘wedding of the century’, between Amazon owner Jeff Bezos and journalist Lauren Sánchez. The 200-plus attendees at Friday’s actual ceremony included the likes of Oprah Winfrey, Katy Perry, Leonardo DiCaprio and Kim Kardashian. It’s a […]

Justice Jackson got a rhetorical beat-down by her colleagues. The Supreme Court handed down a landmark ruling – on its last day before breaking for summer – in Trump v. CASA. The case involved a preliminary injunction that blocked Donald Trump’s January 20 executive order on birthright citizenship. While the action on birthright citizenship was […]