On Feb. 28, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) wrote an impassioned appeal in The Wall Street Journal for Republicans to support environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores because ESG ostensibly represents the free market at work, by offering investors more “choices.” Schumer appears to be deeply confused about how ESG operates. Or, more […]
President Joe Biden recently issued his first veto since taking office on Jan. 20, 2021. Biden rejected a bipartisan bill that would have required investment fund managers to take politics out of their investment decisions and to stay focused on providing the best return to their clients as much as […]
Lamenting the astonishing success of the activist Left’s century-long Gramscian march through America’s major institutions is, at this juncture, old hat. Still, there have been a few recent powerful examples, coming in quick succession, illustrating the extent to which leading liberal institutions of civil society have been captured by far-left […]
On January 1, 2023 it is likely most Americans woke up with a hangover. On January 1, 2023, it is a almost a certainty that no American woke up worried that the gas stove in their kitchen was secretly killing them. Within a week, the hangovers had gone away but […]
In 1967, then-Governor Ronald Reagan signed the legislation that created the California Air Resources Board (CARB.) One of CARB’s primary tasks, as the name implies, was to assist in reducing the terrible smog that plagued Los Angeles and, buoyed by the singing of the Clean Air Act by then-President Richard […]
First published by Iain Davis at off-guardian.org and Iaindavis.substack.com This article has been very lightly edited from the original for formatting and cohesion. Central bank digital currency (CBDC) will end human freedom. Don’t fall for the assurances of safeguards, the promises of anonymity and of data protection. They are […]
National conservatives believe that the progressive left is attacking America’s traditions and institutions. Defending American freedom requires, controversially, weaponizing the federal government to do to liberals and liberal organizations what is being done to conservatives. For instance, Rachel Bovard argues, “Wokeism is not a fever that will pass, but a […]
When the Wall Street Journal reported in a front-page lead story that the Department of Energy had concluded the COVID-19 pandemic resulted from a leak from China’s Wuhan laboratory, you might have argued it was old news. The FBI had already, it turns out, come to the same conclusion and […]
The 2024 presidential race gets more exciting each day. Now 37-year-old entrepreneur businessman Vivek Ramaswamy has entered the race as the newest Republican candidate. Whether this political novice has a chance at winning the highest elective office in the land remains to be seen. But for sure he has something […]
President Joe Biden’s diplomats are negotiating a treaty with the World Health Organization to promote so-called global health equity. The premise is that in a pandemic or other worldwide disease emergency, Americans should not get better or faster health care than inhabitants of third-world countries. If Biden rams this through, […]
Not too many years ago, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) was a political afterthought, a movement that was born of the near-constant internal doctrinal struggle that hard-left ideologies encourage and endure. Now, the DSA has about 100,000 members across the country and more than 160 elected officials from the […]
With the revelation that Roald Dahl’s classic children’s works like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory have undergone posthumous sensitivity butchering, one can only wonder exactly how the scriptorial sodomites will handle other prominent works of art from history. First, as to Dahl, it is true that, like many a writer, […]
Incredulity. Astonishment. Disgust. Anger. It is these feelings – amongst others – that describe the general reaction to the revelations of the Twitter Files and other egregious episodes of Big Tech censorship of the electronic public square. The implicit deal with companies like Twitter, Facebook, Google, etc. is very simple: […]
Last week, as Presidents Day weekend loomed, the Biden administration dropped a little-noticed executive order. That executive order happened to be one of the broadest, most transformative executive orders in modern American history; it turned the federal government into one giant machine designed for the propagation of woke principles. The […]
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is a prolific author who has made millions of dollars selling books that promote socialism and trash capitalism. In fact, for his latest screed, It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism, Sanders was paid a cool $170,000 by publishing giant Penguin Random House. Then, Sanders launched […]
How many people believe, really believe, in freedom of speech? Or, as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote, not just “free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate”? The answer is not as many as I supposed before reading my Washington Examiner colleague […]
The 2023 World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting in Davos has been heavily covered, for good reason. Beyond providing a physical meeting location for the world’s political, economic, and technocratic elite to execute their Great Reset of the entire planet’s social and economic infrastructure, the annual summit also provides a […]
The purpose of this post is two-fold. First, I want to give my subscribers a heads-up that tomorrow (Feb. 15, 2023) I’ll be releasing a new video, “Why Is the Federal Reserve Provoking a Financial Crisis?” I’m shooting for noon eastern time, but we’ll see how the timed-publication feature on […]
This week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new data showing that our nation’s young girls are in a state of absolute emotional and mental crisis. According to the CDC, 57% of high school girls said they were depressed in 2021, compared with 36% in 2011; 30% said […]
This is one of the greatest federal government scandals of all time. Many hundreds of thousands of federal employees have been getting a full-time paycheck from Uncle Sam (meaning from all of us) without showing up for work for three years now. They don’t call it Club Fed for nothing. […]
Elon Musk is not one to pull punches, even when they are aimed at the hosts of the very event he was invited to give a speech to in the first place. While delivering a speech (remotely) at the World Government Summit, Musk made it crystal clear where he stands […]
With abundance, anything is possible; with scarcity nothing is certain. And what the world is facing right now is an abundance of scarcity. From climate change edicts to purposefully limiting housing supplies to cordoning off the public square from the free exchange of ideas to food shortages and/or diet modifications […]
Unless you can get fired for asking it, a rather common question today is exactly what has happened in the past few years to bring society to the point that, well, you can get fired for asking a question? In other words, how did we from zero to woke in […]
Step away from the blinders that partisan politics uses to distract, divide and conquer, and you will find that we are drowning in a cesspool of problems that individually and collectively threaten our lives, liberties, prosperity and happiness. These are not problems the politicians want to talk about, let alone address, […]
In 2022, a momentous event occurred that forever changed the trajectory of human history. OpenAI unveiled DALL-E and ChatGPT — two powerful artificial intelligence tools that give any person with an internet connection the gift of artistic expression and storytelling. With the power of these tools, people are now no […]
Adding to the efforts of a multitude of states across the country, the U.S. House of Representatives will be taking the fight to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores. A press release on February 3 from House Financial Services Committee Chairman Patrick McHenry (R-NC) has announced the formation of a […]
Efforts to stem the tide of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores reached a zenith in 2022, due in large part to the actions of state financial officers and other state government officials. The State Financial Officers Foundation has been working to raise awareness on ESG investing and prevent it […]
As written in UnHerd, the exponentially increasing demand for environmental, social, and governance (ESG) ratings for companies has led to a parallel growth in data sweatshops across the globe. Data companies use artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to process the vast amounts of data required to produce a company’s ESG score. […]
In early February, the U.S. House of Representatives held a vote on a simple resolution condemning the “horrors of socialism.” Ordinarily, one would assume that a resolution calling out socialist policies, which the resolution notes, have resulted in “famine and mass murders, and the killing of over 100,000,000 people worldwide,” […]
Almost every decision that has been made in Washington and in the states that deals with COVID-19 has been about politics and money, hundreds of billions of dollars, and not about public health. COVID-19 is a deadly virus that has killed over a million Americans — almost all over the […]
Poor Ilhan Omar has been denied a seat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. “I certainly did not or was not aware that the word ‘hypnotized’ was a trope,” the congresswoman told CNN’s Dana Bash this week. “I wasn’t aware of the fact that there are tropes about Jews and […]
The ordinarily fluent and unperturbed Justice Elena Kagan seemed, judging from the transcript, to be sputtering a bit in the oral argument of the Supreme Court’s case challenging the racial quotas and preferences used in admissions by the University of North Carolina. Questioning the counsel for those suing the university, […]
The average American home is almost 2,200 square feet. An average home in the United Kingdom is a minuscule 818 square feet, in Finland 880 square feet and in Germany under 1,200 square feet. Cramped. Americans have bigger houses and a higher material standard of living — more appliances, clothing […]
In the wake of the “Twitter Files,” let’s revisit former President Barack Obama’s warning last April about the spread of misinformation: “You just have to flood a country’s public square with enough raw sewage. You just have to raise enough questions, spread enough dirt, plant enough conspiracy theorizing that citizens […]
Power is a zero-sum game. Base power doesn’t grow or diminish depending upon current conditions or the vagaries of transient situations – it remains a set singularity that can never be multiplied, only divided, meaning that gaining power by definition comes only from the loss of power by another group […]
The United Kingdom’s National Health Service is a public, single-payer health care system that is often referred to as a socialist institution. The NHS’s historical failures and the current mayhem afflicting the UK’s public health system should serve as a stark warning to progressives and socialists in America, who consistently […]
Over the past few years, numerous polls have asked Americans their opinions on socialism with several showing that hypothetically, young Americans increasingly prefer socialism over capitalism. However, rarely has there been a poll that has asked Americans the simple question: Is the United States actually becoming more socialist? This question […]
Is charity still charity when it is performed for uncharitable reasons? Looking beyond the “aw, neat, what a great person” façade of “effective altruism,” (see here, with a grain of salt) one clearly finds a level of narcissistic cynicism and a will to the permanent power that financial immortality affords […]
“The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature. . . the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart.” In the book Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, the character Robert Walton is moved by the idea of power. The […]
The cascading release of the “Twitter Files” by Elon Musk and his cohort of independent journalists clearly illustrates the need to drain the Washington swamp once and for all. Nowhere is this more necessary than in the U.S. intelligence and security apparatus, which—despite ostensibly existing to protect Americans and safeguard […]
The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) annual meeting in Davos has long been derided as an excuse for global elites to party, hobnob, and plan their various schemes for social engineering and societal restructuring. The meeting also represents the height of hypocrisy, with thousands of attendees traveling via 1,500 private jets […]
As thousands of dignitaries, business tycoons, pseudo-celebrities, politicians, and so-called elites gather in Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Annual Meeting so they can finally “master the future,” millions of Americans have much more pressing issues on their minds. For instance, while the eggheads in Davos rant and […]
Discussion and summarization includes all files released to date, Parts 1-12 (as of 1/10/23). All original information was taken from journalists’ Twitter feeds, as provided by hyperlinks in the main body of text. Introduction Elon Musk, after taking control of Twitter and firing most of its upper-level management (and many […]
World Economic Forum (WEF) Chairman Klaus Schwab, who has run the organization since its foundation in the early 1970s, may be the target of a mutiny. According to The Guardian, a group of current and former WEF members contacted them, saying “Schwab was a law unto himself and had surrounded himself with […]
President Joe Biden’s Labor Department recently announced a new rule that will permit money managers to play politics with trillions of dollars of people’s retirement savings. The administration is pushing environmental, social and governance investing, which allows retirement fund managers to select stocks of companies based on their positions on […]
This week, the World Economic Forum (WEF) is hosting its 53rd Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland in which close to 3,000 elites, business titans, and government leaders will come together to solve all of the world’s problems, especially the “existential threat of climate change,” or so they say. The theme […]
In mid-January, the World Economic Forum (WEF) will host its 53rd Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland wherein more than 2,700 leaders from 130 countries (including 52 heads of state) will gather to “address people’s immediate, critical needs while also laying the groundwork for a more sustainable, resilient world by the […]
From all those lists of best books of 2022, here’s one with the potential to change public policy debate and discourse for the better. It’s “The Myth of American Inequality,” and the three authors are two Ph.D. economists, former Sen. Phil Gramm and his long-ago Texas A&M colleague Robert Ekelund, […]