Systemantics Turns 50: Gall Was Right, and We’re Still Screwed
It’s been half a century since John Gall published Systemantics: How Systems Work and Especially How They Fail, and guess what? Everything he predicted has come true—spectacularly.
Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
It’s been half a century since John Gall published Systemantics: How Systems Work and Especially How They Fail, and guess what? Everything he predicted has come true—spectacularly.
If you’ve studied history or lived it, you should be able to add the last name and put context into these lines:
“From my cold dead hands….” Heston
“Et tu Brute.” William
Fifty years ago today, I was scrambling aboard a U.S. Marine CH-53 Sea Stallion heavy helicopter along with some 70 or so other terrified people as we were evacuated from a place called Saigon as it fell to invading Communist North Vietnamese troops.
The Nazi regime’s obsession with controlling ideology extended beyond politics and race—it also sought to reshape Christianity to fit its own agenda.
In the long march of human history, soldiers have sworn loyalty to emperors, warlords, kings, and dictators. But in 1787, America broke with that tradition.
To say that the world of newspaper journalism has changed since I began my career at the Chicago Tribune last century would be a demonstrable understatement.
McIlroy Vanquishes The Master’s Jinx That Has Haunted Him Since 2011
Last year in Southport England, after another “British” Muslim murdered children there was a flurry of protests with posters proclaiming “Enough Is Enough.” The UK Government moved quickly to arrest people simply protesting the murders as part of the immigrant invasion and Islam’s barbarism
Across time and culture, human beings have told stories to explain life—stories about brave heroes, dying kings, magical cups, and mysterious journeys that lead to transformation.
For centuries, one mysterious piece of cloth has captivated believers, skeptics, scientists, and historians alike: the Shroud of Turin.
Poets and propagandists have long clung to the ancient Latin phrase: “Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori”—“It is sweet and proper to die for one’s country.” But by the time the industrial slaughterhouses of World War I had chewed through millions of lives, that “old lie,” as poet Wilfred Owen called it, rang hollow.
There were ghosts everywhere. That’s what I kept thinking, while standing on Shiloh battlefield. Ghosts. You could feel them. You could almost hear their fraternal laughter. You could smell their gunpowder.
In an increasingly volatile world, the question isn’t just “Should the United States go to war?” but “When is war justified in service of our vital national interests?”
The year 1934 marked a critical turning point in American history, where the federal government, under the guise of responding to the Great Depression, seized unprecedented control over individual rights, private wealth, and industry.
The motif of the dragon slayer is a recurring theme throughout mythology, The Bible presents Jesus Christ as the true and ultimate dragon slayer, fulfilling this archetype from Genesis to Revelation.
People from all over the world are traveling to this sacred place. Farmers and peasants. Lords and ladies. Rich and poor.
Once upon a time, in the blissful simplicity of Eden, God gave Adam a straightforward task: name the animals. And Adam, being a practical man (and let’s be honest, not yet bogged down by bureaucracy), did exactly that
U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg is, without doubt, pushing the limits of judicial authority in issuing a temporary restraining order halting the government’s deportation of Venezuelan Tren de Aragua members.
I have always wanted to see the Chesapeake. My whole life, actually.
It all started because my dad was a reader. He read books obsessively. You’d see him sitting in his chair, poking through some thick volume.
Fractals—those infinitely repeating geometric structures—exist in nature, history, human behavior, and biblical truth follow similar self-replicating cycles. These are not just coincidences; they reveal a mathematical and spiritual design woven into creation.