For the last few generations, Western civilization has been under attack. But recently, there were some excellent defenses of it made by Bill Maher (earlier this month) and by Greg Gutfeld in his program on Fox News Channel last Friday. Gutfeld said: “So let’s talk about the death of Western civilization. It’s in trouble, people.…

You must be lonely. The media say loneliness is everywhere in America. A Los Angeles Times columnist says, “There’s a mass loneliness crisis going on.”

In a romantic relationship, one cannot generally influence his partner’s emotions with rational argument. Feelings are unmediated, unruly, and mostly instinctual things. The same may be said for our…

President Joe Biden says 24 million Americans “suffer from food insecurity!” News anchors were shocked that there is “food insecurity in the richest country in the world!” ABC hosts turned “insecurity” into “hunger.”

By: John Greenwood and Steve H. Hanke – wsj.com – October 22, 2023 Early in the pandemic, the volume of U.S. dollars in circulation soared. For two years starting in March 2020, the M2 money supply—a measure of the cash and checkable deposits in circulation plus savings deposits and other easily convertible assets—grew at an unprecedented annualized rate of 16.5%. That...

By: Bjorn Lomborg – wsj.com – October 6, 2023 Well-off nations seem to have forgotten that while they’re no longer plagued by poverty-related ills such as hunger and illiteracy, most people in the world still are. Increasingly, the Biden administration and leaders of other high-income countries are putting climate policy ahead of these core development issues. When the World Bank...

Economists have long recognized a phenomenon known as the “wealth effect.” When “households become richer as a result of a rise in asset values, such as corporate stock prices or home values, they spend more and stimulate the broader economy.” Americans at all income levels experienced the wealth effect during the Trump years. “Bidenomics” has brought the wealth effect to a screeching halt, which is one big reason why President Biden’s polling numbers are so low.

As President Joe Biden travels the country to promote Bidenomics, let’s see if he highlights one area where he is the undisputed leader when compared to other presidents: the exploding federal deficit.

By: Noah Rothman – nationalreview.com – August 9, 2023 In June, the Biden White House pushed all its chips in on a big gamble. The administration took full ownership of the economic status quo with which most Americans were deeply dissatisfied, branding it a product of “Bidenomics.” The administration assumed that conditions would continue to improve into 2024 to such an extent...

The US is no longer the big dog in women’s soccer.