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Geopolitics and Papal Elections

For all his towering theological acumen, Joseph Ratzinger was a very practical man. When asked by a Bavarian journalist in 1991 whether it was the Holy Spirit who chooses the pope, the then-Cardinal Ratzinger gave a down-to-earth answer:

I would say that the Spirit does not exactly take control of the affair, but rather like a good educator, as it were, leaves us much space, much freedom, without entirely abandoning us. Thus, the Spirit’s role should be understood in a much more elastic sense, n...

Does Europe Yearn for Another General Bloodletting?

The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer once remarked that “mankind is doomed to vacillate eternally between boredom and distress.” Have Europe’s leaders grown bored with the long period of peace that has prevailed on most of their Continent since 1945? Do they long for the cathartic release of pent up aggression and negative feelings?

It’s a notable fact that pretty much every serious combat veteran of the Second World War is now gone, which means there is no living witness of the horror of ...

Suddenly, Leaving NATO Is on the Table!

Over the weekend, President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency head Elon Musk made quite a stir with just two words posted on his social media platform, X. Responding to a post that, “It’s time to leave NATO and the UN,” Musk replied, “I agree.” The comment immediately made the rounds on social media and also on mainstream and alternative media.

Was this the Elon Musk who owns X speaking, or was it the Elon Musk who has become one of President Trump’s closest advisors? Does it even matt...

A Golden Opportunity: Leave NATO Now

The President has the authority to withdraw from a treaty on behalf of the United States, and President Trump should immediately withdraw the U.S. from NATO. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s performance at a photo op in the Oval Office last week affords the U.S. a golden opportunity to walk away from a European war that serves no American interests, but the opportunity is even greater than that. We are witnessing the rise of populist movements in the U.S. and across Europe that reject th...

DOGE vs the Deep State

“Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.”

~ Doug Casey, Crisis Investing (1979)

Joel Bowman with today’s Note From the End of the World: Buenos Aires, Argentina…

Vroom… Vroom… VROOM!

What’s that we hear, dear reader? Could it be the sweet euphony of gnarled chainsaw teeth ripping into the flabby underbelly of the Leviathan?

Yesterday, greasy-palmed grifters at the United States Agency for International Development (...

Peace Is Almost a Forbidden Word

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Why Is Europe Making Itself Irrelevant

Readers want to know why the UK PM and European leaders–really, non-readers, misleaders, bad leaders–want war with Russia over Ukraine.  My answer is that they don’t.

What would they go to war with?  According to the European “leaders,” they already have given all their weapons to Ukraine and have nothing with which o fight a war.  The only way Europe can send any money to Ukraine is to get the EU central bank to print euros to send to Ukraine.  Moreover, the NATO force structure depends on the ...

Why Did the FDA Greenlight the COVID Vaccines?

The medical field has always had a problem holding onto dogmatic traditions and attacking physician dissidents who risk their careers to point out why those practices are unsafe and ineffective. To address this, in the 1960s, physicians began pushing for medical practice to be dictated by scientific evidence rather than entrenched interests, and in 1991, “evidence-based medicine” was born.

This mindset quickly caught on and overturned many disastrous medical dogmas, but unfortunately, gradually ...

Why Chinese Models Are Stunning Americans in the Tech Catwalk

The Empire of Chaos will not take the competition lightly. The Middle Kingdom is unfazed – and ready to rock’n roll.

When President Xi Jinping hosted a recent – rare – meeting with an array of Chinese tech superstars, including a “rehabilitated” Jack Ma, Alibaba’s founder, he urged them to “show their talent”, code for going for broke in the tech war with the U.S.

It was no wonder that young Liang Wenfeng, founder of AI sensation DeepSeek, was among the guests.

DeepSeek threw not only Silicon Va...

Radical Reconstruction and State Omnipotence

In his book Omnipotent Government, Ludwig von Mises traces the shift in Europe from individualism to state omnipotence, highlighting the disastrous effects of empowering government to run every aspect of social and economic life:

Men now seem eager to vest all powers in governments, i.e., in the apparatus of social compulsion and coercion. They aim at totalitarianism, that is, conditions in which all human affairs are managed by governments. They hail every step toward more government interferen...