The Gulag Archipelago: Unveiling the Power of Lies in Oppression

In “The Gulag Archipelago,” the iconic literary work by Russian writer and dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the author masterfully uncovers the devastating influence of falsehoods within the context of the Soviet labor camp system, famously known as the “Gulag.”

Twitter is Lying

Twitter is Lying; I know many people think that with Elon Musk owning twitter, then perhaps the rational people had won a round in the fight for the soul of our country. Apparently not: Reading my tweet, in which pointed out (to the Kansas City Star newspaper) the well-known fact of the high level of mental …

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Will We Keep Our Republic?

Benjamin Franklin

Ben Franklin famously said, “You’ve got a republic, if you can keep it.” That warning is particularly haunting now, because we seem on the verge of losing it – not from foreign invasion – not from revolution – but because we stopped caring about it.

A Free Press: RIP

Same paper, same dates, different markets. Is this real or fake? Media sometimes caters to what their audience predominantly wants to hear.  Financial Samurai “A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”  John F. Kennedy Freedom …

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Is Ethical Journalism An Oxymoron?

Last week, in case you missed it, was “Ethics in Journalism Week,” sponsored by the Society of Professional Journalists. As a journalist and a member of the SPJ myself, I naturally visited the SPJ’s website to see how it was commemorating this occasion. As expected, the site was bursting with platitudes about journalism and journalists. …

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Susan Rice: Discrimination against blacks cost the US $16 trillion

Domestic Policy Council Director and former National Security Advisor Susan Rice made an astonishing claim during remarks before Al Sharpton’s racial justice advocacy group National Action Network last Wednesday. She said that between 2000 and 2020, racism against blacks cost the US $16 trillion in lost GDP. That’s quite a statement. She told the audience: …

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How Our Adversaries Think.

Americans need to see what our adversaries read, watch and absorb so we can best understand how to best engage them. A factory worker in Moscow is reading this morning’s Pravda. A Harvard professor is reading the same newspaper. The difference? The man in Moscow knows he’s getting lied to. A cartoon published circa 1990, …

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