Book Review

The Last Man Has an iPhone: Fukuyama’s Warning Finally Makes Sense

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Francis Fukuyama never said wars would end. He argued that humanity might have finally run out of better ideas for organizing civilization. Three decades later, liberal democracy still has plenty of enemies—but no obvious ideological replacement. The more interesting part of Fukuyama’s warning was what might happen after we won: comfortable, prosperous people would still crave purpose, struggle and recognition. Give Nietzsche’s “Last Man” an iPhone, social media and unlimited free time, and apparently he’ll manufacture tribes, enemies and outrage just to feel alive. Maybe Fukuyama wasn’t wrong about the End of History. Maybe we got there—and got bored.

The Authoritarianism of Ordinary Times: Rise of the New Normal Reich

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C. J. Hopkins didn’t write *The Rise of the New Normal Reich* from some comfortable American think tank. He wrote it from Berlin, watching a country that should understand the dangers of authoritarianism better than almost anyone rediscover just how quickly fear can make extraordinary government power seem perfectly ordinary. His warning isn’t that COVID Germany became Nazi Germany. It’s more uncomfortable than that: authoritarianism rarely arrives announcing itself as tyranny. It arrives promising safety, demanding obedience, marginalizing dissent, and assuring everyone that the emergency is temporary. Then Hopkins criticized that system, was prosecuted in Germany, had his home searched, and watched his own book become part of the story he was trying to tell.

BioWar: We’ve Built the Weapon… Without Rules

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Annie Jacobsen’s Biological War: A Scenario asks a terrifyingly simple question: what happens when mankind’s ability to engineer biology outruns our wisdom to control it? Nuclear weapons destroy cities and infrastructure. A biological weapon can leave the buildings standing while turning human beings into the delivery system. Jacobsen isn’t predicting doomsday—she’s war-gaming it. And after reading this book, the scariest conclusion may be that we built the toolbox before we wrote the rules. Buy it…

The Last Stand

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The Last Stand: Christ or Chaos: The War for the West.” is an uncompromising book and documentary written and narrated by Seth Gruber that is less entertainment and more wake-up call. It challenges one to confront the difficult questions about culture, morality and the value of human life grounded in reality rather than some abstract philosophy.

Review: “Language of God”

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Review: “Language of God,” By J Marsolo There are many books and articles on evolution but the best book I have read for clarity and conciseness is “Language of God,” by Francis S. Collins, Simon & Schuster, 2006. Darwin argued that all life forms share a common ancestor so there is a descent through evolution. The …

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‘Communion’ by J D Vance

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I will admit that it’s truly baffling to me that the northeast, the most politically liberal area of our country, is also our most heavily Catholic region, yet our good friends on the left love to spend their time bashing Catholics. It kind of makes me wonder just how actually Catholic they are. Our 46th …

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Elite, Exhausted, and Exposed: Inside the Fort Bragg “Cartel”

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Seth Harp’s The Fort Bragg Cartel is built around a real, unsettling case that anchors the entire narrative: the December 2020 deaths of two soldiers at Fort Bragg—Master Sgt. William “Billy” Lavigne, a Delta Force operator, and Chief Warrant Officer Timothy Dumas, a logistics (quartermaster) officer tied to Special Forces units. Both were found shot in a remote training area. The pairing alone raises eyebrows inside the military: one man from the most elite operational tier, the other from the supply and accountability side of the house. Those lanes don’t normally intersect socially, much less end together in a homicide scene.

Unoffendable and the Warrior: Reconciling Patton with the Sermon on the Mount

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When my church announced that our next Bible study would be based on “Unoffendable” by Brant Hansen, I’ll admit it — I was irritated (slightly offended). The title alone sounded like something designed to sand the edges off men. “Unoffendable” feels like the spiritual equivalent of bubble wrap. And if you’ve spent decades in uniform, leading soldiers, planning operations, and living inside a culture where decisiveness matters and hesitation kills, your instinct is to bristle.

Covering Their Own Asses

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It has been a few days since journolists Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson published their book Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, blaming everybody in Mr Biden’s administration for the elderly President’s decision to run for re-election despite his failing mental status. Former Representative Beta Beto O’Rourke …

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