5+ mon, 4+ week ago   (415+ words) The writer of Ecclesiastes had seen enough of the world. Wealth, wisdom, labor, pleasure – he’d tried them all and arrived at the same conclusion: Vanity. A breath. A chasing after wind. I don’t see that as despair. I don’t see…...

11+ mon, 1+ day ago   (359+ words) About 420 B.C., over 2,400 years ago, the philosopher Democritus of Abdera wrote: “To a wise man, the whole earth is open. For the native land of a good soul is the whole earth.” At The Globalist, we believe such a “wise man…...

10+ mon, 3+ day ago   (370+ words) "Think tanks" work on engaging voters to vote for their candidates and you’re paying for a lot of their work undermining your candidates’ chances of victory. I confess to a bias against political think tanks. If candidates can’t figure out…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (112+ words) political parody of The Guess Who’s 1970 rock classic “American Woman.” 🎸🇺🇸 “Liberal woman… stay away from me!”...this parody, I take the attitude and swagger of “American Woman” and aim it squarely at the modern political...

8+ mon, 3+ week ago   (322+ words) noticed there is a heated debate underway on the American right over the question of American identity. What makes someone an American? Is it based on lineage or is it propositional?...Ramaswamy defends this view, arguing that being an American…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (138+ words) The New York representative may have forgotten or never learned what makes the Fourth of July special. Economics is counterintuitive. Few secondary schools teach it (they might want to start here). Most Americans learn the value of work, thrift and…...

10+ mon, 4+ week ago   (411+ words) Former President Barack Obama stated that President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to quell crime in Democrat-run cities is “inherently corrupting,” arguing that he would have received a different reaction from conservative media if he had sent the…...