The Great Reset of 2019: You Just Can’t See the Forest for the Trees

We have become experts on trees. Trump said something. Russia bombed something. China sanctioned something. The market moved, somebody posted something stupid, gas prices suck, and by lunchtime half the country is furious. But zoom out to December 2019 and a different picture emerges: COVID, debt, inflation, war, rearmament, economic fragmentation, broken supply chains and great-power competition. Maybe these aren’t separate crises at all, but chapters in the same historical transition. Call it the Great Reset. Call it World War III. Historians will decide what to name it. Our problem is simpler: we’re standing three feet from an oak tree arguing about the bark while the entire forest behind us is on fire.

The Democrat Party and Its Hangers-on Are a Hive

Joe Sobran (1946–2010), a longtime National Review columnist, essayist, and conservative thinker, portrayed the Left, as manifested by the Democrat Party, from the 1980s onward as a “Hive.” He believed that this metaphor was nearly perfect in characterizing a decentralized but instinctively coordinated politically-driven collective that swarms in the same direction, enforces conformity, and advances the Left’s collectivist goals without needing a formal conspiracy or central command for control purposes.

5th Generation War, Part 5: Who Gets to Decide What Is True?

The ultimate weapon in fifth-generation warfare may not be a missile, a drone, or even propaganda. It may simply be convincing Americans that truth itself no longer exists. Once we believe elections are meaningless, institutions are irredeemably corrupt, rights belong only to our tribe, and our neighbors are enemies, nobody has to conquer us. But the answer cannot be a government Ministry of Truth deciding what citizens are allowed to believe. A free republic survives differently: evidence, transparency, free speech, skeptical citizens, honest institutions, and the freedom to argue—even to be wrong. It’s messy, frustrating, inefficient, and occasionally ridiculous. Good. That’s what freedom looks like. I’ll take the argument.

Democrisy! If the left can accept Tim McBride and Will Thomas as women, why can’t Hannah Gann be accepted as black and ‘Palestinian’?

The credentialed media amuse me greatly , and none of them more than The Philadelphia Inquirer. After an article on Monday attempting to normalize transgenderism, which included a hyperlink to the newspaper spending “several months chronicling the lives of two transgender women making their way in rural Dauphin County,” Tuesday saw the editors tweeting about …

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Game Theory for WW3: When Rational Decisions Create Insane Outcomes

What if the geopolitical insanity of 2026 isn’t actually insane? Game theory suggests something more disturbing: perfectly rational nations, each acting in their own self-interest, can collectively produce disastrous outcomes that nobody actually wanted. Born from Cold War-era work at RAND, the Prisoner’s Dilemma explains everything from arms races to alliances and deterrence. Sometimes nobody has to be crazy for the world to go completely nuts.

Indonesia’s Government is Trying to Censor My “Great Replacement” Speech

Here’s a point to ponder: Why would the Indonesian government want to censor speech about the Great Replacement of Western peoples via suicidal (im)migration policies?

Because it apparently does, and I should know — the Jakarta regime just targeted my content.

5th Generation War, Part 4: Rights, Privileges, and the Fine Art of Leaving Each Other Alone

The hardest rights to defend are usually the rights of people we disagree with. Freedom of speech protects obnoxious opinions. Freedom of religion protects beliefs we may consider ridiculous. Peaceful assembly protects protesters whose signs make our blood pressure rise, and due process protects defendants we may already despise. But liberty is not a license to commit crimes, and every desire, benefit, opportunity, or government service is not automatically a constitutional right. A republic survives when we understand both sides of that equation: I don’t have to agree with you, and I certainly don’t have to like you—but I’ll defend your right to be wrong. Just stay off my lawn.
What exactly are we trying to save?

Bucknell will do it again

If you were one of the 40,125 on Saturday watching the UCLA Bruins turn the Terrapins into turtle soup, in Pittsburgh Bucknell was having an even worse afternoon. UCLA beat Maryland 54–3, which is bad enough, but Bucknell took the full Pittsburgh monte 59–0.