Opposite Day
One of the chief characteristics of Clown World is its inversion of the moral order. Up is down, war is peace, men are women, and so forth. We’ve become...
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Totalitarianism Masquerading Under The ‘Green’ Label
The New American is proud to introduce you to Canadian social critic Kate Wand, who blows the whistle on totalitarianism masquerading under the ‘green’ label. She and Daniel discuss...
Defector, a True Thriller about a Man Who Risked Everything for Freedom
“Imprisonment. Forced labor. Permanent separation from family. Maybe even death.” Mark Hobafcovich knew what happened to people who were caught trying to defect out of communist Romania – but...
Kicking Away the Ladder Part 4
In our on-going series, ‘Kicking Away the Ladder,’ we explore various ways in which the elites rig the system so that they stay on top (and you remain out...
Kicking Away the Ladder Part 3
In our continuing series on how the elites “kick away the ladder,” so that ordinary people cannot replicate their success, we present how this is done in the field...
God and the Constitution
All political ideologies are underpinned by a metaphysical belief-system. Our Constitution (and its notion of individual rights) is predicated on some notion of a Supreme Being. What happens, though,...
The Insurance Fraud-Based Economy
Leading insurer AIG ensured that the US economy would collapse in 2008 over sub-prime mortgages. What is less known is that the founder of AIG, Cornelius Vander Starr, was...
Harvard Bets Against America
After the Global Central Bankers created “Catastrophe Bonds” in 2017, they invented a permutation known as the “Pandemic Bond” the next year. Investors could bet against a calamity and...
Frenemies
According to Thomas Hobbes in the 1600s, republics are internally turbulent, which causes them to unify only when there is an external enemy. This is why republics are almost...
Of Minerals and Microchips
There is currently a world microchip shortage. What are the real causes behind it? They’re not what you might think. ...
Disney Villains: Marketing Evil
With the release of the live-action movie “Cruella,” Disney is expanding on its marketing of villains to children. With this “Sympathy for the DeVil,” so to speak, they’re seeking...
How Psychology Has Replaced Ethics
According to Immanuel Kant, in the ‘Metaphysics of Morals,’ Anthropology tells us What Is, Ethics tells us what Ought To Be’. G.E. Moore, in 1903, worried that, in a...
Juneteenth and the Dangers of Fake History
Juneteenth is to Independence Day as Kwanzaa is to Christmas: a sort of synthetic reverse-engineered holiday that didn’t crop up organically from the people, but was imposed in a...
America’s Second Act
The philosopher Hegel said that a constitution is the spiritual expression of a people. The government’s sole legitimate purpose is to preserve that people (and their spirit) into posterity....
Pandemic Bonds
As the senate scotches legislation to ban gruesome experimentation into animal-human hybrids (known as chimeras), the focus sharpens on Chinese labs using “humanized mice” on which to test bioweapons....
Kicking Away the Ladder (Part 2)
In this second installment of the “Kicking Away the Ladder” series, we explore how the upper middle class and wealthy have extremely high rates of intact nuclear families, while...
Kicking Away The Ladder (Part 1)
In 1841, Friedrich List, the leading German economist of the mid 19th century, argued that it was in the nature of more developed countries to kick away the ladder...
Say No To Soycialism
We are a society desperately in need of virtue. But “virtue” is rooted in the Latin word, vir, which means “man”. So virtue comes from a conception of “acting...
Integrity
Character, in the weak, is what happens as a result of experience; in the strong, character is what GUIDES experience." What does it mean to have integrity? And why,...
Invisible Chains: How Phones Affect Your Brains
The iPhone seems to be giving out a mysterious pulse every five seconds which can only be picked up on infrared. What's happening as you stare at your screen?...