The Collectivist, Evolutionary Religion of the UN
by Bruce W. Davidson at Brownstone Institute
As a teenager, Arthur C. Clarke was one of my favorite science fiction writers. Among his novels, Childhood’s End is one of the most acclaimed. The …
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The Collectivist, Evolutionary Religion of the UN
by Bruce W. Davidson at Brownstone Institute
As a teenager, Arthur C. Clarke was one of my favorite science fiction writers. Among his novels, Childhood’s End is one of the most acclaimed. The …
Napoleon: Then and Now
by Thomas Harrington at Brownstone Institute
As someone who sees Napoleon as one of history’s more prodigious and transformative figures (notice I didn’t say angelic or deeply moral), I was pleased to hear that Ridley Scott …
Nationalism and Globalism Revisited
by Robert Malone at Brownstone Institute
“The Westphalian peace reflected …
Amid all the hand-wringing about Donald Trump Making Greenland Great Again, it’s worth noting that #47 was hardly the first president to envision America as one great swath of global real estate, rightfully his. For as it turns out, imagining …
If America’s 45th presidency was founded on the promise of Making America Great Again, Donald Trump’s priorities appear to have shifted for its 47th. Now, in part, it’s about Making McKinley Great Again.
It’s been more than 120 years since …
When the Solution Is Tyranny, Be a Problem
by Richard Kelly at Brownstone Institute
Another brick in the wall of totalitarianism in Australia was laid this week, with the mortar of hand-ringing faux concern for the ‘safety’ of our children …
Trump’s Populism in Historical Context
by Robert Malone at Brownstone Institute
Let’s take a moment to recalibrate expectations.
Not to be negative, but the history of …
Can DOGE Handle the Bureaucratic Imperative?
by Thomas Buckley at Brownstone Institute
Bureaucracies are fascinating creatures – and, at all levels, government, corporate, academic, institutional, creatures they are.
They are living things interconnected – either internally, when, for example, seven …
The Limits of Transactionalism
by Thomas Harrington at Brownstone Institute
“We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.”
-C.S. Lewis “Men Without Chests”…
Expect bloodshed. The opening salvos have been fired between India and China in Asia’s bizarre Historikerstreit. Its instigators, strangely enough, are two British historians — Peter Frankopan and William Dalrymple — who substantively agree with one another. Not that this …
The foreign busybodies in the State Department, Foreign Office and the French foreign ministry, who are already now pressing for the reconstruction of a unitary Syrian state, should reflect on the country’s history. Syria was never meant to function as …
Witches, Covid, and Our Dictatorial Democracy
by James Bovard at Brownstone Institute
On December 1, President Joe Biden announced that he was pardoning his son Hunter for all the crimes he committed from January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024. …
Bowling Alone on Christmas in Bedford Falls
by Daniel Nuccio at Brownstone Institute
Growing up, Christmas was not a holiday in my family but a season. Every year on Black Friday Eve, following a bountiful feast at my mother’s family …
Empowered by the State, Condemned by the Crisis: The Purdue Paradox
by Randall Bock at Brownstone Institute
Purdue Pharma’s story unfolds as a Shakespearean tragedy. Like Julius Caesar, whose ascent was made possible by those who later betrayed him, Purdue …
Twee tea towels; tubby Toby jugs; cigar-puffing cosplayers. Churchill’s apotheosis surely ranks among the most odd developments in British cultural life. He has grown so larger-than-life that one in five teens thinks he’s a fictional character. And for some, moist-eyed …