Vol. 41, No. 18
12/01/2025
From the Publisher | The Things That Truly Matter
Since at least the time of Plato, philosophers have noted the difference between being and merely seeming to be, or, if you will, between reality and illusion. This distinction is especially stark in human affairs, where guile and egotism are so often enlisted to distort, to cover up, or to cancel, depending on political expediency. The great majority of stories being played up in the news are deliberately distorted to serve some agenda; in fact, as Walter Lippmann long ago insisted, it is the job of the modern media to prioritize stories that fit the most important narratives and serve the most important agendas. And those narratives usually serve to distract from reality, from the things that truly matter.
From time to time, we hear from readers wondering why we do not pay more attention to this story or that. To be sure, we often need to address stories of lesser importance, if only to correct the distorted record created by the legacy media. But for the most part, we dedicate our energy to the stories that truly matter in relation to the preservation of our freedom, independence, and morality.
Take, for example, the recent government shutdown. We have not focused on this issue nearly as much as the legacy media, for several reasons. First, there was no “shutdown,” but merely a temporary scaling back of nonessential government functions. And nearly all of those functions are clearly and unambiguously unconstitutional. They are the reason that the national debt has grown so large, taxes so high, and federal controls over our lives so numerous and oppressive. Would that the recent “shutdown” became permanent, as part of a larger movement to restore constitutional limits on federal power! Yet the narrative peddled by the establishment media is that the “shutdown” is wicked, malicious, and wholly the fault of heartless MAGA operatives eager to starve America’s poor and make planes fall out of the sky.
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