Identity Trumps Science

Identity Trumps Science

by | Nov 14, 2021 | Uncategorized

Ponder this bit, from an article about how identity politics has infiltrated archaeology: [T]he archaeologist Bruce Bourque recently published a lengthy essay on Quillette about his attempts to decipher the genetic identity of an ancient maritime New England tribe...
Security Of Base

Security Of Base

by | Oct 6, 2021 | Uncategorized

Most Americans are convinced the nation has gone off the rails. The proofs: a mountain of debt (with much more to come) with no Marshal Plan leaps over normal market evolutions to show for it (and with none coming); our political system devolved into tribal warfare...
The Suicide Resolution

The Suicide Resolution

by | Sep 16, 2021 | Uncategorized

There will come a day, though it might not come for a long time, when Trump’s presidency is assessed rationally rather than emotionally. When the tweets and rhetoric have faded to irrelevance and insignificant footnote, and the focus placed on policies and...
Compounding Incompetence

Compounding Incompetence

by | Sep 2, 2021 | Uncategorized

America’s exit from Afghanistan is a monumental debacle born of a failure of leadership utterly breathtaking in its magnitude. Hundreds of Americans and perhaps tens of thousands of Afghan allies were abandoned to the predations of an emboldened Taliban in a...
The Great American Crack Up

The Great American Crack Up

by | Aug 24, 2021 | Uncategorized

If we’ve learned one thing from the first seven months of Joe Biden’s presidency, it’s that there seems to be no “bottom” to incompetence in American politics. Eight years of Obama-induced malaise and divisiveness ushered in the...