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October 2024

October 15, 2024

Garbage Time

The metaphor of "garbage time"--when the game is basically over, but you have to play...

July 2024

July 02, 2024

Cold War II–and We Are the Soviets

Niall Ferguson has been arguing that a new cold war is emerging, with the alliance...

November 2023

November 10, 2023

Breaking Through the “Front Lines of Human Thought”

The president of China, Xi Jinping has some rather remarkable things to say about what...

April 2023

April 17, 2023

Monday Miscellany, 4/17/23

India passes China, the progressives' fact-twisting, and the lives saved by overturning Roe v. Wade.

November 2022

November 29, 2022

On China’s COVID Protests

Despite China's harsh controls over its citizens and its draconian "no COVID" lockdowns, unprecedented protests...

September 2022

September 21, 2022

“Lying Flat” and “Letting It Rot”

We blogged about "quiet quitting," in which workers do the least they can get by...

August 2022

August 09, 2022

Rumors of War

Some experts are saying that a war between the United States and China is quite...

February 2022

February 07, 2022

Wars and Rumors of War

World Wars often come as a surprise to the people who get dragged into them....

December 2021

December 16, 2021

Has China Overtaken–or Passed–the U.S.A.?

China is on the rise, while the United States is in decline. China is now...

October 2021

October 01, 2021

China’s Revival of Communism

The Chinese government, having achieved prosperity by emulating Capitalism, has started cracking down on its...

March 2021

March 09, 2021

Where Relativism Survives

Moral relativism has given way to a new absolutism, in which those who disagree with...

October 2019

October 16, 2019

Importing Tyranny

As companies from the NBA to Apple Computer do whatever it takes to placate China,...

January 2019

January 04, 2019

Divided

We now have a divided government (shut down though it be), as Democrats took power...

August 2018

August 09, 2018

What China Is Doing to Religion

It's one thing for a government to ban religion and to persecute religion. That's what...

June 2018

June 20, 2018

Our Escalating Trade Wars

President Trump had announced the imposition of tariffs on $50 billion worth of goods imported...

April 2018

April 27, 2018

The Consequences of Gendercide in China and India

China and India have been practicing gendercide--that is, the systematic abortion of female babies--for decades. ...

April 09, 2018

China’s Weapons in the Trade War

President Trump recently slapped $50 billion worth of tariffs on Chinese goods. Whereupon China slapped...

April 06, 2018

China’s High-Tech Plan to Control Its Citizens Completely

It is now technologically possible for a government to monitor and control its citizens as...

February 2018

February 22, 2018

The Problem of Strippers at Funerals

In China, a large attendance at a funeral is a way to honor the dead. ...

February 06, 2018

Pope Sells Out Persecuted Catholics to Communists?

In effect, the Pope is unifying the Catholic church in China by granting authority to...

October 2017

October 30, 2017

China’s Communists Plan to Replace the U.S. as the World’s Superpower

We have our national elections every two years, with our presidential election every four years. ...

June 2017

June 22, 2017

The Thucydides trap

The White House is full of aficionados of Thucydides, the Greek historian and chronicler of...

January 2017

January 25, 2017

China pushing Communism to replace failing Democracy

China says Western democracy has reached its limits and has started to deteriorate (alluding to...

December 2016

December 06, 2016

Trump’s diplomacy

The diplomatic establishment is all atwitter about Donald Trump's alleged gaffes, such as taking phone...

November 2016

November 08, 2016

How China is buying up Hollywood

During the Cold War, some Americans were worried that Communists were infiltrating the motion picture...

July 2016

July 13, 2016

Brewing crisis with China

China has been extending itself beyond its territorial waters in the South China Sea. Japan...

April 2016

April 29, 2016

Selling brides in China

Under China's one-child policy, girl babies were routinely aborted so that the parents' one child...

January 2016

January 12, 2016

Total driving depravity

Drivers in China who have a traffic accident often back over injured pedestrians in order...

November 2015

November 02, 2015

China replaces one-child policy with two-child policy

The Chinese Communist party announced that it is lifting its one-child policy, which led to...

July 2015

July 21, 2015

The epic cybersecurity fail

A hacker--probably connected to the Chinese government--has hacked into the databases of the Office of...