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Trump’s ‘Energy Emergency’ and the IEA January 28, 2025

President Trump declared an “energy emergency” in one of his Inauguration Day executive orders. The fallout from that order will affect myriad global organizations, especially ones that promote or invest in the so-called energy transition.Atop that l...

The Looming Climate vs. AI Civil War January 28, 2025

There is an old European proverb: “Where two fight, a third one wins.”Anyone with eyes to see the misaligned interests of our major industrial factions can see that an existential clash is coming between the climate industry and artificial intelligen...

We Also Need Democracy in Aesthetics January 21, 2025

In a new book entitled BACKBONE: Why American Populism Should Be Welcomed, Not Feared, author Karl Zinsmeister reports on middle Americans living all across the country, and why they want dramatic change in the direction of our country. He examines p...

BlackRock Stacked Exxon’s Board With Fossil Fuel Haters January 20, 2025

A recent House Judiciary Committee report details how America’s largest financial institutions, colluding with climate activists, imposed radical environmental policies on the American economy, subverting both our self-government and free markets. It...

It Can’t Just Be DOGE January 10, 2025

President-elect Donald Trump’s return to Washington will surely bring with it a renewed focus on the administrative state and its excesses. Exemplifying that effort is the much–media–maligned Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, headed by El...

How to Storm and Save an Ivory Tower January 07, 2025

Not until quite recently did American colleges cease being free expression zones. After University of Chicago professor Allan Bloom sounded the alarm with his bestselling The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and...

How Saturday Night Live Televised the Revolution January 06, 2025

Humor is “the best guide to changing perceptions,” writes Marshall McLuhan. Because “older societies thrived on purely literary plots” and “demanded storylines” to channel sophomoric energy, they employed elaborate farce in poems, plays, operas, and ...

Why Girls Deserve a Drink January 03, 2025

Remember those first moments of alcohol-fuelled exhilaration when you were young? The energy rising lightly in your solar plexus and making your cheeks ache from smiling; and how time would drop away, so that there was only now, tonight, this? And wh...