Manifester in Chief

Manifester in Chief

Trump Derangement Syndrome—TDS—is widely mischaracterized, to the point that many people now treat it as if it were an actual diagnosis from the DSM‑5, the standard manual for mental disorders. It isn’t. Yet the phenomenon is real enough that millions of...
Private Property Confiscation

Private Property Confiscation

Americans traditionally understood that what they owned was theirs, not the government’s. Yet, over the last century, that principle has steadily eroded—from gold confiscation to civil asset forfeiture to proposed wealth taxes. The emerging principle is...
Fauci—The Pandemic Playbook That Wasn’t

Fauci—The Pandemic Playbook That Wasn’t

An unanswered first-order question from the COVID-19 pandemic is this: Why was America’s pandemic doctrine apparently so lacking, given nearly 40 years under Dr. Anthony Fauci’s leadership and more than $60 billion spent preparing for the next inevitable...
Iran and Russia—Ripe for a Cascading Failure?

Iran and Russia—Ripe for a Cascading Failure?

The Berlin Wall’s fall is one of history’s most recognizable examples of a rapid, largely unforeseen cascading failure. On November 9, 1989, East German spokesman Günter Schabowski mistakenly announced that new travel rules would take effect “immediate...