It’s what America does to every ally, sooner or later — the New York Times editorial board is setting the stage for history to repeat yet again. What do the Kurds, Syrian rebels, Shia of southern Iraq, and South Vietnamese all have in common? Being left in the lurch by…

Unlike most folks who fall on the left end of the spectrum in American political culture, I’m not scared of guns. I grew up with them. Even accidentally took a couple shotguns and bunch of ammunition to high school as a kid, because when there’s a foot of snow outside…

Complaining to politicians and bureaucrats about the destabilized climate is futile — they don’t care, and they never will. Twenty critical years have been utterly wasted in the dead end of climate activism. Protests, think pieces, the constant warnings of a generation of prominent scientists — it has accomplished almost…

The Battle for Donbas has reached a decisive point — unless Putin’s hordes unleash a major attack soon, Ukraine has won another epic victory. Unlike most folks who assess Russia’s war on Ukraine, I adamantly refuse to get caught up in starry-eyed optimism and rah-rah appeals. Why? Because overconfidence gets…

It’s not fair! whine people who turn around and expect young folks to pay for their Social Security and Medicare forever. Fun fact about life in any society: not everything will be fair. It simply isn’t fair that my taxes go to pay for public services that don’t directly benefit…

Russia may be getting whacked hard in Ukraine, but Putin has the Western world exactly where he wants it. Am I set to receive a swarm of comments insisting that I’m either a Putin or NATO stooge? Most likely! Information war is like that. :) But remember: war is not…

Oh noes, everyone! An egoist billionaire wants to own the platform he likes to use to troll his way to popularity and wealth! Whatever shall we DO?! Taru Anniina Liikanen, who you should totally follow by the way, published an excellent piece about Musk and Twitter that prompted me to…

Orthodox Easter seems to have kicked off the next phase of Russia’s assault on Ukraine, and Putin’s plan is coming together mostly as I expected.