The Trump Revolution is Real

J.B. Shurk | August 29, 2026

We are living through such an arrogant era in which too many people “know” preposterous things: Biological sex isn’t real.  Muslims built America.  Math is racist.  Iran is defeating the United States.  Joe Biden is “sharp as a tack.”  President Trump is a Russian spy.  People are certain that “their” side is right and the “other” side is wrong.  There is not a lot of humility in the world today.  But, as we see during the LGBTQIA community’s various bacchanalia each year, there is a glut of personal pride.  

When I encounter people who “know everything,” I like to remind them how wrong some of the smartest people over the last century have proved to be.  During a guest lecture at the University of Munich in 1924, theoretical physicist Max Planck recounted a conversation he had with his mentor, Philipp von Jolly, fifty years earlier.  After Planck inquired about pursuing a career in physics, Jolly discouraged his young student from doing so, telling him that nearly everything in the field of physics had already been discovered, with little left to do aside from a few final measurements.  Planck went on to win a Nobel Prize for discovering energy quanta — revolutionizing theoretical physics and our understanding of atomic particles, while setting the stage for Albert Einstein’s special theory of relativity regarding space and time.  At the turn of the twentieth century, plenty of physicists believed they knew almost everything; quantum mechanics and general relativity proved they knew almost nothing.

In 1919, most astronomers believed that our Milky Way Galaxy comprised the whole universe, that the size of the universe was roughly 300,000 light years across, and that the universe was infinitely old and unchanging.  A hundred years later, astronomers estimate the observable universe to be ninety-four billion light years across and 13.7 billion years old.  Ten years ago, astronomers adjusted the estimated number of galaxies in the universe from a hundred billion to at least two trillion.  And the James Webb Space Telescope has pushed this number to as high as twenty trillion.  Even that........

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