Jews around the world, particularly outside the fortress of Israel, are threatened in a way not seen since the 1940s. A fundamentally unstable world, with rising class and racial animus, creates a perilous environment for history’s favourite target, as seen previously in such periods as the fall of Rome, the Crusades, the Black Death and the Great Depression of the 1930s. read more »
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There Are Dark Days Ahead for the Jewish Diaspora
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Can Space Save Earth?
The world economy is in the doldrums, pessimism is rife around the world, and most young people, according to one survey, believe climate change means the end of human life on Earth. read more »
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Electric Car Mandates Latest Frontier of Elites' War on Middle Class
California is working overtime to prove something that is obvious to most middle-class Americans: electric vehicle mandates are something of a scam. read more »
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Gavin Newsom's Presidential Prospects
Conservatives often see prospective presidential contender Gavin Newsom as a tool of the far Left—and, as such, politically doomed by the seemingly endless crises afflicting California. read more »
America Has An Oedipus Complex
As in Sophocles’s tragedy Oedipus Rex, we are witnessing a generational drama in which inheritors kill their proverbial father to marry their mother, in this case Mother Earth. The psychology behind this pattern is above my pay grade, but many of the richest people on the planet, and their heirs, now seem anxious to disparage the economic system that created their fortunes. read more »
The Democrats' New Climate BIll Abandons Green Zealotry
The Senate has passed the Democrats' mega climate, health care and taxation bill along party lines and after much griping from Republicans. read more »
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Why Suburbia Will Decide the Future
Welcome to the future of American politics. The US population is changing in major ways that will likely alter the balance in politics and economics to the advantage of Republican-leaning red states, as well as suburbs and exurbs across the country. read more »
The Biggest Threat to the CHIPS Act? The Green Left
The recent passage of the CHIPS act, a $280 billion dollar subsidy, may prove a giant boondoggle. But it also reflects a critical shift in US economic policy away from neoliberal free trade policies to a more nationalistic industrial policy. read more »
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Joe Manchin: Climate Hawk
The clean energy spending in the recently unveiled Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) marks a victory for the sort of bottom-up, incrementalist, behind-the-scenes climate policy that progressive climate advocates have decried as inadequate for over a decade. read more »
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Free Trade's Heavy Cost
Free trade and open markets are great ideals. These principles, over the last few centuries, but especially since World War II, have created tremendous wealth, particularly in the developing world. But free markets were made for human society, not the other way around. read more »