Cornell University channels Faber College

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My good friend Robert Stacy McCain wrote: No national controversy is complete until Amanda Marcotte has made a fool of herself about it, and the feminist writer has gotten a good head start on the so-called “Cornell 7” case. The sordid tale of an Ivy League orgy that devolved into accusations of sexual assault prompted …

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Eisenhower, NATO: When Does Temporary Become Permanent?

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Eisenhower helped build NATO, but he never intended American taxpayers to carry Europe’s defense indefinitely. By 1959, Ike was already frustrated that Europeans hadn’t assumed greater responsibility. Nearly seven decades later, we’re still having the same conversation. Perhaps it’s time to revisit what the general actually envisioned—and why his expectations remain so relevant today.

Fifth Columns Are Operating in America, Part II

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This is Part II of an article that is analyzing five proto-fifth-column cluster categories in the U.S. that conform to the broader definition. Part I examined foreign influence and intelligence operations, mass immigration and sanctuary policy advocates, and Islamist networks tied to the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR. This part looks at far-left militant and propaganda networks and other fifth column candidates, as well as examines where the interests among the categories align and concludes the series with monitoring recommendations for the future.

Uruk: Humanity Invented Cities, Beer, Taxes and Paperwork—in That Order

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About 5,500 years ago, humanity built one of its first great cities at Uruk—and immediately discovered bureaucracy. Farmers grew barley, workers got paid in beer, priests managed enormous institutions, merchants worried about supply chains, and somebody invented writing largely because somebody else needed to keep track of the inventory. We hadn’t figured out indoor plumbing, but apparently the quarterly barley report was already overdue. Five thousand years later, we have smartphones, nuclear weapons and artificial intelligence, but the basic operating system hasn’t changed much. Civilization arrived when we built cities, invented government, created taxes—and then invented paperwork to keep track of all three.

Leaderless Jihad: The War That No Longer Needs An Army

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A term coined in 2003 keeps becoming more of a reality

In 2003, I first coined the phrase “Leaderless Jihad” to describe how highly structured terrorist organizations would give way to loosely aligned groups and individuals motivated by ideology and directed only by the desire to attack any target they could, to create as much death and destruction as possible.

9 Big Banks, One Yuge Problem

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Their association with the Southern Poverty Law Center may make them a deep pocket

Reuters reported, “A ​top U.S. bank regulator issued a report on Wednesday finding some of the country’s largest banks unfairly denied services to ‌some clients on political, religious or other grounds, but stopped short of imposing penalties.

Kosovo 3: The Road to Ukraine Crossed the Sava River

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In December 1995, an American armored column crossed the Sava River into Bosnia to enforce a peace agreement. Nobody in those tanks was starting a war with Russia—but they were crossing into a new post-Cold War world. Over the next few years NATO would expand eastward, bomb Yugoslavia, and move into Kosovo while Moscow watched the strategic map change. The road to Ukraine didn’t begin in 2022. Trace the tracks backward far enough, and eventually you arrive at a muddy floating bridge across the Sava.