The Sound of One Tough Guy Not Tweeting

The Sound of One Tough Guy Not Tweeting

The Silence of JD Vance – Not A Peep! Gather round, children, and I will tell you the story of when J.D. Vance wrote op-eds about how Donald Trump “started no wars.” It was 2023. The story was convincing. The populist winds were blowing. And Vance, newly...
Trump Tariffs and the Magical Thinking of Economic Nationalism

Trump Tariffs and the Magical Thinking of Economic Nationalism

The Folly of Trump’s Tariffs If you were to distill logical international trade into a single sentence, it might be this: economics is not a wrestling match. It is not won by shouting, flexing, or threatening the referee. It is a system of interdependence...
Bondi, The Face of the Cover-Up

Bondi, The Face of the Cover-Up

She Turns Her Back on The Victims to Protect the Perpetrators Ah yes. Nothing says “nothing to see here” quite like a redacted email about your relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Representative Dan Goldman held up a document like a man presenting Exhibit A in a trial...
A Threat To Western Civilization

A Threat To Western Civilization

Canada may indeed lose Ice Hockey and the Stanley Cup, too! There are many threats to Western Civilization: inflation, war, TikTok influencers explaining geopolitics. But none, apparently, so grave as a bridge. Yes, a bridge. The latest menace to the Republic is the...
The Banality of Buffoonery

The Banality of Buffoonery

Is Buffoonery Harmless – Ask Howard Lutnick There was a time when American political paranoia required imagination. One needed satellites in orbit, secret cabals in candlelit basements under a pizza parlor, shadowy financiers pulling levers from behind velvet...
Superbowl 60

Superbowl 60

Football, Freedom, and Other Things Republicans Pretend to Understand America gathered last night to watch men in armor chase an oddly shaped ball while commentators explained, with grave seriousness, that this was the purest expression of freedom on Earth. Meanwhile,...