OPINION

Commentary What’s $4 trillion among friends? Just a sop to distract Leviathan for a short while. He’ll snaffle it down and then take a brief nap before waking up and demanding another snack. This time it was a $4 trillion nip and tuck to the federal debt. For decades, the ...

Commentary By 2017, already professionally engaged in transgender politics, I began to focus on the anecdotally observed phenomenon of Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria (ROGD): a sudden declaration of a need for gender transition in adolescents and young adults (AYA) who had never presented as dysphoric in childhood. I sought research material, ...

Commentary When mindless environmental zealotry turns into environmental vandalism and economic destruction something is badly wrong. What turns the wrong into an inexcusable outrage is when the government allows it to occur, ignoring the common good which is at stake. This is exactly the state of play in the state ...

Commentary I’m not going to be one of those prognosticators who finds evidence of my predictions regardless of the facts. True, I said two months ago that the U.S. economy would be in a solid statistical recession by late summer. This is based on existing industrial trends and weakened labor ...

Commentary Numbers recently released indicate that the Consumer Price Index (CPI), the most commonly used indicator of inflationary pressures, fell to a one-year annualized rate of 4.9 percent in the United States. The Biden administration heralded this as a major triumph as Twitter shills sang the praises of the Democrats' ...

Commentary I haven’t put much thought into Veterans' or Memorial Day, even as a military member, until this past Monday. I remember being on watch last Sunday and having to work until mid-afternoon on Monday. I was griping quietly to myself and my wife about burning most of a four-day ...

Commentary The Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius once offered a bit of stoic wisdom about the importance of being grateful for the things we have. “Treat what you don't have as nonexistent,” Aurelius wrote in "Meditations." "Look at what you have, the things you value most, and think of how much ...

Commentary Since last October, six departments of the Hong Kong government have criticized the cartoons of Zunzi, Hong Kong’s veteran political cartoonist, for being "factually untrue" and "unethical." The message is clear: Ming Pao, the newspaper where the cartoons were published, had to stop publishing Zunzi, who had produced pro-democratic ...

Commentary The London School of Economics (LSE), one of the highest-ranked universities in the world, recently published a report discussing the rise of the transphobic feminist. “How did it happen that a considerable part of feminist communities aligned with the conservative anti-gender movements in producing anti-transgender public discourse?” asked the ...

Commentary Signed bits of paper abound at international conferences. Serious-looking leaders signing their names to documents that would never pass the examination of a first-year law student abound. Statements of intent, flowing phrases, and wonderful words, which at the end of the day are neither enforceable nor meaningful, tend to ...

Commentary Following the election of the Albanese government last year, religious leaders from various Christian denominations and other faiths expressed their support for the proposal to amend the Constitution to include a provision for the Indigenous Voice to Parliament and the Executive. In the church I belong to, the Catholic ...

Commentary I don’t know when the debt ceiling will be raised, but it will be raised. Every time federal spending bumps up against the debt ceiling, we witness the same drama, a drama so predictable that you could almost call it a ritual: Republicans, citing a need for fiscal restraint, ...

Commentary I went to a CAMFT (California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists) training conference on May 5 and 6 in order to get an in-person account of what is happening in my profession, in particular regarding gender ideology. I attended because I wanted to hear firsthand what is being ...