Mearsheimer: Optimist Or Pessimist? Mearsheimer finishes on a pessimistic note. He calls up the example of Vietnam. When Johnson bowed out it was clear that he knew he had lost the war. But Nixon and Kissinger spent years trying to find some clever way to win the war. It didn’t work, but it does look […]
Arktos: The Swedish Syndrome: How Elites Commit National Self-Destruction (Amazon) Karl-Olov Arnstberg Arktos Media, 2025. In 1973 a bungled bank robbery in the Swedish capital led to an extended hostage situation. Over time the hostages, four bank employees, came to sympathize with their captors, felons who were putting their lives at risk. The phenomenon where […]
Homo symbolicus. I like that term. I like it a lot. Yes, not Homo sapiens, “Knowing Man,” but Homo symbolicus, “Symbolic Man.” That was a concise and clever suggestion by the Jewish philosopher Ernst Cassirer (1874–1945). We humans shouldn’t classify ourselves as sapients, but as symbolizers. After all, without symbols we lose sapience and sink […]
History has often framed the presence of the Jewish people in Europe as an anomaly, yet their interactions with the ancient world reveal that the tensions defining their existence did not arise in a vacuum. In the marble halls and provincial outposts of Rome, the seeds of a profound geopolitical and cultural divide were sown, […]
Everyone was ready for a grand signing ceremony to mark the historic moment when President Trump put his name on the bipartisan bill, The 21st Century Road to Housing Act. It was to be a celebration of unity, a brief respite from the nation’s bitter divisions, Shangri-la in the capital city. Then, suddenly, the president decided […]
When a significant portion of society loses trust in the police then that society is in serious trouble. In that direction lies the rise of protection rackets and the collapse of a unified society. This is precisely what has happened in the UK since 1999 and the MacPherson Report which accused the police of “institutional […]
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