Category: Politics

Republicans Mishandle First Oversight Hearing
by Louis Clark | Mar 2, 2023 | PoliticsLawyers often warn younger associates never to ask questions of a witness on cross-examination unless they know what the answer will be. The House Oversight Committee recently demonstrated a related point best described through an analogy: if you want to establish that the moon is made of green cheese, don’t subpoena astronomers to testify at […]

The Wide Angle: Crash the Global Economy? It’s Harder than It Sounds.
by Dave Troy | Feb 27, 2023 | Economy, The Wide AngleMany of us are familiar with the phenomenon of “dorm room philosophy” and its derivative field, “dorm room economics.” Often, it is rooted in the clunky prose of Ayn Rand and the simple, common-sense decrees of Austrian economics, along with the limited life experience common to all young people — particularly young men. Rand’s “objectivism” […]

The Wide Angle: Combatting Putin’s War with a Forward Vision for the West
by Dave Troy | Jan 21, 2023 | Foreign Policy, The Wide AngleWar, beyond being just a struggle for territory, is a process. Long-running wars, in particular, have the potential to transform geopolitics, and this is playing out in Putin’s war in Ukraine. Sanctions initially intended to isolate Russia have created a bifurcated world where the G7 nations have shunned the slavic state, while other nations are […]

Steve Bannon, Trump Whisperer, Offers New Theory of Governing
by Hamilton Fish | Jan 7, 2023 | PoliticsArticle from December 31, 2021 Arguably the most influential and surely the most resilient of the internet extremists is Stephen Kevin Bannon, whose astonishing biography includes a seven-year stint in the Navy (including several years as special assistant to the chief of naval operations at the Pentagon), Georgetown (where he received a master’s in national […]

Conservatives Hawk “Birch Gold” In Run-Up to Debt Ceiling Crisis
by Dave Troy | Jan 6, 2023 | PoliticsFor the last several years, prominent conservatives including Dr. Ron Paul, Steve Bannon, and Ben Shapiro, have been promoting gold and gold-backed assets to their audiences. One company in particular, Birch Gold Group, has earned prominent public endorsements from all of these figures, with each of them participating in various cross-marketing activities. Birch Gold is […]
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