Barack Obama is gradually seeping back into the news. Since his ostensible departure from the Presidency in 2016, he kept a carefully studied distance from public life that was aloof and yet entirely inauthentic. He broke with traditions that a past President would not meddle with an in-coming administration and threw public barbs from afar at […]

I used to comment on the background to these posts more often. It seems it’s been a good two years or more. This is for the benefit of the two hypothetical regular readers to these posts. I used to keep track via Google Analytics but then quit even that. The results became implausible. I also […]

How would you react if the people in charge of your city had built a tunnel shaft under your four-year-old son’s bed, then woke him often and indiscriminately to use that shaft, carrying guns, crates and what not at all hours of the night? Your mother-in-law is in the hospital and the same people have […]

Most of the world is reproducing their populations at or below replacement rate, especially western developed nations. This quiet shift has been forming for decades even as paleo-doomsayers perpetuated the outdated belief that the world will be over-run by out-of-control reproduction. While that is still the case in isolated countries, particularly in Africa, most the […]

If ever there were a topic already exhausted, it is the war against Hamas. I posted my own initial reaction and prepared a follow up. Those words were outdated and flooded by other voices almost immediately. Some were quite good. I would point especially to the analysis by Victor David Hanson, get it on Twitter/X. […]

I, like most civilized people grieve for the suffering of war against Israel, especially civilians. While a few would point to a Palestinian side of the story, in this case, there is none. Palestinians have been used as a pretext for hate for a long time. This is a spiritual war but one that has […]