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Is it the return of woke?

After sweeping the swing states and winning the popular vote in 2024, Donald Trump took office with a sense that he occupied the center and had dealt the cultural left a grave blow. Non-aligned or heterodox voices in the podcasting world and media had gravitated toward him, alienated by the ...

Why the death penalty can be pro-life

The value of something is reflected by the punishment given for destroying it. Two very different death penalty cases have been in the news recently. Each raises a different objection to capital punishment. At the end of last month, Tennessee officials gave Christa Pike what was supposed to ...

Rethink the supply chain

Palmer Luckey, the founder of Anduril, spoke with Joe Rogan a while back and it should be required listening at the Pentagon. America won that war because it designed weapons around what its factories could already build. War planners knew what grades of steel and aluminum General Motors and ...

Readers' Views

Trump has always failed To the editor: In 2016, I went to a pop-up museum in the Mall of America. It was the Museum of Failure. One display was the evolution of viewing movies. First, we could see a movie at a theatre; when it was done showing, no more options to view it. Later, on tv, we could watch it, but only when it was being shown. Then we could rent a VHS movie and watch at home, when we wanted to watch it. There were also laser disc movies. The public chose VHS over laser discs, the laser discs died out. Next came DVDs, we loved them by the millions, doing away with our VHS ...

It's not a christian theocracy people should be worried about

Wall Street Apes is a popular account on X with 1.4 million followers. Among other issues, the author frequently posts about threats to the United States and other Western nations from Islamic migration and uses interviews with Muslims (and ex-Muslims) themselves to bolster his ...

A culture of death

"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”— Voltaire (1694-1778) A government that claims the authority to kill persons after they have been subdued, disarmed, tried, convicted and confined in prison has ...