The Liberal Party, led by new Prime Minister Mark Carney, is projected to form a minority government in a dramatic political comeback, defeating the Conservative Party, led by Pierre Poilievre.
Pope Francis has died. The first Jesuit pope and first Latin American pope has died, at age 88, after a 12-year papacy in which he advocated for the rights of migrants and the poor. “On his first Sunday as pope, greeting the vast crowd in St. Peter’s Square and a global audience following on television and social media, Francis introduced a central theme of his pontificate: God’s mercy,” writes Gerard O’Connell for America magazine, the Jesuit publication. “He had first […]
1999: The Year Low Culture Conquered America and Kickstarted Our Bizarre Times, by Ross Benes, University Press of Kansas, 296 pages, $32.99 In 1982, Prince first sang that he planned to party “like it’s 1999.” But on New Year’s Eve of 1998, as MTV counted down to the actual year 1999, it wasn’t the Purple One who performed that song in Times Square. As Ross Benes notes in his new book 1999: The Year Low Culture Conquered America […]
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Amidst the horrific U.S. abuse of foreigners through the use of tariffs and police-state enforcement of immigration controls, it’s easy to forget that the U.S. government abuses foreigners in other ways, such as sanctions, embargoes, invasions, occupations, wars of aggression, torture, indefinite detention, and state-sponsored assassinations. Perhaps the longest-lasting, continuous example of this foreigner-abuse syndrome is the U.S. government’s horrific abuse of the Cuban people, which has gone on for more than 60 years. Given that there is […]
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While establishment historians claim that the British government had no intentions of depriving American colonists of their liberties, actual history tells a different story. Things came to a head April 19, 1775, touching off the American Revolution.
Tweet Here’s a letter that I sent ten days ago to the New York Times, but which was never published there. Editor: Although rightly decrying tariffs, as well as suggesting some worthwhile policy changes, Sam Hammond’s case for industrial policy fails (“Tariffs Won’t Fix Our Trade Imbalance. This Will.” April 18). That case rests on a misunderstanding of economic history and of current economic realities. It’s untrue, for example, that America’s postwar boom was fostered by government’s wartime […]
