By: Noah Rothman – nationalreview.com – January 18, 2024 Far from a global cabal cooking up a grand conspiracy, the World Economic Forum is a display of elite impotence. For a certain paranoid sort — a growing contingent, since paranoia has become such a lucrative enterprise — international gatherings of elites are a threat. Exclusive confabs that attract the world’s...

By: Phil Gramm and Donald J. Boudreaux – wsj.com – January 17, 2023 The evidence shows they benefited a politically connected few, while U.S. consumers and producers paid the bill. But protectionism shrinks rather than expands production. It does so most directly by obstructing U.S.-based producers’ access to inputs. As Dartmouth’s Douglas Irwin has shown, more than half of American imports...

I don’t typically go where I’m not wanted, but I do tend to go where I’m needed. So I was intrigued by the invitation to attend a globalist sleepaway camp in the beautiful Swiss Alps—some pop-up utopia called Davos. At first, it sounded as dreadful as a road trip with the New York Times editorial board. The infamous hypocritical self-avowed...

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – January 12, 2024 President Biden’s patience, and his own fear of escalation, ran out Thursday night as U.S. and British forces hit more than 60 targets across 16 locations with more than 100 precision-guided munitions. The Houthis have been using these weapons depots, radars and launch sites to “endanger freedom of navigation in...

A glance across the globe reveals that censorship is often the tool of choice for governments facing problems.

Post-colonial discourse has played a major role in turning the citizens of a democratic Jewish state into Nazis in the minds of the woke.

Switzerland recently announced it plans to eliminate tariffs on 95 percent of all imports. Donald Trump recently announced that as president he would impose tariffs of at least 10 percent on virtually all imports to the United States. The Swiss have it right on both the economics and the politics.  

By: Katie Pavlich – townhall.com – December 15, 2023 During remarks at the White House this week, President Joe Biden made one of his most disingenuous claims yet against Republicans.  “Congress needs to pass the supplemental funding for Ukraine before they break for the holiday recess — before they give Putin the greatest Christmas gift they could possibly give him. And...

If you seek to destroy the one Jewish state, you don’t have to hate every Jew to be called anti-Jew. And the name for that is antisemite.

By: Ron E. Hassner – wsj.com – December 5, 2023 But only 47% of the students who embrace the slogan were able to name the river and the sea. Some of the alternative answers were the Nile and the Euphrates, the Caribbean, the Dead Sea (which is a lake) and the Atlantic. Less than a quarter of these students knew...