The United States is about to plunge into recession, pulling much of the world down with it. The tariffs announced by President Donald Trump on April 2 will reverse decades of rising wealth based on specialization and exchange, based on little more than his unfocused feelings. Announcing his new rates, the president claimed they were […]
There is an endless audience for the art of influence grifting, and influencer Paige Connell has found her niche: giving relationship “equity” advice. Truly, Connell’s antics reveal that she is just as unsatisfied with culture as the rest of us. A five-minute video filmed on Connell’s kitchen counter and titled “Why I considered divorcing my […]
“Sex is for fun. Embryo screening is for babies.” That’s one motto of industrial eugenicist Noor Siddiqui, whose company makes babies in a lab, investigates their genes, eliminates the undesirable ones, and implants the desirable ones. If you make babies the old-fashioned way, Siddiqui warned, you could curse your child with mental illness, obesity, brown […]
The Star Wars franchise has fizzled as a cultural phenomenon thanks to the contempt Disney has for the franchise and its fans. Actor John Boyega, who played Finn in the latest trilogy, has almost come around to this position. In 2020, Boyega voiced his frustrations with Disney for hyping up his character just to make […]
In 1759, British Adm. John Byng was executed by firing squad for “failing to do his utmost” to relieve Minorca, a Mediterranean island besieged by the French navy. This minor episode in the Seven Years’ War, known in these parts as the French and Indian War, inspired a scene in Voltaire’s satirical novel Candide. When the naif Candide […]
If President Donald Trump’s goal was to stimulate the economy of Washington, D.C., or to maximize the number of CEOs, lobbyists, and foreign leaders who come begging for his favor, he could hardly have done better than creating a massive tariff regime. Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs on every country were made to be negotiated. The president can […]
To be honest, I had never heard of Chappell Roan until clips of her talking on Alex Cooper‘s Call Her Daddy podcast started appearing in my X feed. “A lot of them are married with children, and they have their own houses,” Roan said of her childhood friends who still live in southeast Missouri. “To […]
President Trump reportedly fired National Security Agency Director Gen. Timothy Haugh, who also commanded U.S. Cyber Command, and reassigned civilian Deputy Director Wendy Noble.