When you look back at Bahia, Brazil in the 1800s, the whole dynamic was different than what most people picture. White folks and the big traders—guys like Francisco Félix de Souza—ran into something they didn't expect. They were bringing over…

Look at what happened to this country over the last forty years. We traded an honest, blue-collar backbone for pure, hollow consumption, and American television tracked every step of our decline right on schedule.
Go back to the sixties and…

The entire conversation about Western values versus the rest of the world usually starts on a lie. People claim it comes down to freedom versus oppression or reason against blind faith. That is the marketing script. If you watch how institutions…

 

If they can’t beat you on the field, they whip you with a pen. That’s the oldest play in the playbook, and college sports is running it right now. They watched young Black men finally touch real NIL money and immediately ran crying to Congress to…

The words human and humane were the exact same word for hundreds of years. People spelled them the same, said them the same, and meant the same thing by them. Back in the day, the old Latin root pointed right down at the dirt—an earthling, somebody…

Most of your day isn't run by you. Not the conscious part, anyway. Cognitive psychology shows that around 90 to 95 percent of our daily choices happen on total autopilot. The subconscious handles the driving, the scrolling, the mindless snacking,…

Propagandists love repeating that Islam isn't compatible with the West. You hear it constantly on podcasts and cable news. It's an incredibly tired talking point.
And from a purely moral standpoint today, they actually aren't totally wrong. Islam…