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Christopher Chantrill

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Can ‘Get Trump’ Beat Failing Bidenomics?

Let us suppose that the best and brightest setting up the Biden regime in 2021 all confidently knew that by the spring of 2024 everything would be...

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Learning from COVID with Tucker and Naomi

My big takeaway during the late COVID unpleasantness was how everyone got with the program, right now, from lockdowns to masks to vaxxes. Especially...

16.04.2024 50

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The Challenge of Explaining Trump and Biden to an Argentinian

An Argentine friend in Canada challenged me about the absurdity of Trump vs. Biden. Really, he said. Can’t you Americans come up with anyone better?...

08.04.2024 7

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The Melting of the Liberal Icecaps

We are all, of course, deeply worried about the melting arctic icecaps, because of the devastating effect of a gas that amounts to a crucial 0.041...

01.04.2024 20

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The Commoner World After Conservatism 3.0

What on Earth is going on? We have GOP congressmen quitting early. Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) resigned last week , and Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) resigned...

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A Course in Biden Budgetology

After President Biden’s award-winning SOTU speech on March 7, 2024, it was time, on Monday 11, 2024, for the President’s FY2025 Budget, which is...

18.03.2024 10

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The Real State of the Union

Most of the time, a president’s State of the Union speech is avuncular. I wouldn’t say paternal because, as we know, paternalism is next to...

11.03.2024 10

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No, Substack is Not a Haven for Misinformation

Back on February 6, 2024 I told a tale at AT about how we were living in the Third Age of Communication, staring with: The Age of Parchment: Writers...

05.03.2024 7

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The Day They Turned the Spies on Us

Mike Benz, a former State Department official, argues that over the decades since World War II the U.S. has developed a huge intelligence system to...

26.02.2024 40

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Today’s Politics of Weakness

It was some years ago that my grandson eagerly showed me a video of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opining on the leadership of the European Union....

20.02.2024 6

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Wars and Putin, Lies and Biden

In a three-part piece arguing against the various U.S. populist and isolationist movements of the past century, starting with the movement to stay out...

12.02.2024 10

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The Curious Case of Disinformation

Since the American Godzilla came down the escalator in 2015 our liberal friends have been obsessed with disinformation coming from the Far Right. Did...

06.02.2024 10

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Fearless Forecasting at the OMB

As you know, I am the sole proprietor of the most comprehensive and mandatory website on government spending in the United States. Even though Google...

30.01.2024 20

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Stay in Your Lane, Everyone

Joel Kotkin reports from Davos that things are not well with Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum. Says he: The growing irrelevance of what Adrian...

23.01.2024 7

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Whither the Economy, this Election Year?

I think that we would all really, really, like to know what will happen to the economy over the next year. Will the economy drop into a recession as a...

16.01.2024 20

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Administrative Bureaucracy: Lessons from China

We MAGA Americans hate that we have lived under the yoke of an administrative state for over 100 years. We long to smash the administrative state to...

08.01.2024 7

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How to Understand the Woke Colonization Project

One of the ways in which our liberal friends advertise their virtue is their support of the global "decolonization" movement. And their students have...

01.01.2024 40

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The AI Axe Will Fall First on Bureaucrats and Journalists

I was reading a piece about EA -- Effective Altruism -- its intellectual godfather the utilitarian philosopher Peter Singer, and how billionaires...

26.12.2023 40

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What Kissinger Thought About Leadership

A couple of weeks ago I did a Kissinger piece on China and realism in foreign policy. But now, despite our present plagiarism pickle, I have just...

19.12.2023 9

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The Ladies Auxiliary of the Knights of Marcuse

I really felt sorry for the three diverse presidents of the Ivy League, when jumped-up congress-critter Elise Stefanik (R-NY) humiliated them before...

11.12.2023 10

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Henry Kissinger: Realism in Foreign Policy

Henry A. Kissinger died on Wednesday, November 29, 2023. And I bought my fourth Kissinger book, Diplomacy, at Half Price Books just the day before. I...

05.12.2023 10

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Dear Liberals: The Question of Colonization

Dear liberal friends: let's talk about colonization and colonizers, that everyone agrees is the worst thing in the world. That is why all the devoted...

28.11.2023 10

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The Anatomy of Terror

What is this thing called Terror? What is the point of a group like Hamas that lives for shooting rockets at Israeli civilians and raping and killing...

21.11.2023 20

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Behind Our Politics is the Existential Fight for the Middle Class

I was eating dinner with family over the weekend and everyone -- educated conservatives every one -- was for Nikki Haley. Then they asked me what I...

14.11.2023 10

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Who Gets to Name Whom?

In a time when Jewish university students are hiding in the library attic from pro-Hamas mobs and N4 insurrectionists are battering at the gates of...

06.11.2023 10

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Let's Close All the Government Schools

A couple of days ago I got from a friend a video featuring Gazan pre-pubescent boys telling the camera how they want to go kill Israelis. Here are...

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The Bankruptcy of the Victim Ideology

After our educated lords and rulers rose to power through the revolutions of the 17th and 18th centuries the great question was: how should they rule?...

24.10.2023 10

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Hamas Provides a Clarifying Moment

Do you think that things have clarified somewhat over the last week since the Hamas massacres in Israel? I get the feeling that our beloved leaders...

17.10.2023 5

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They Don't Give Us No Respect

As all of you know, last week Hillary Clinton finally couldn't take the transgender madness any more. Said she to Christiane Amanpour: Because at some...

10.10.2023 20

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In the Long Term, We Are All Dead

I happened to see an article about Brit Prime Minister Rishi Sunak "watering down" the UK's pedal-to-the-metal Charge of the Light Brigade towards Net...

03.10.2023 20

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Hanania on How to Drive a Stake into Woke

I ordered Richard Hanania's The Origins of Woke back on August 9 when the far-left Huff Post was trying to cancel him for being far-right Richard...

26.09.2023 5

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Our Rulers: Wrong in Theory, Incompetent in Practice

The big takeaway from the western ruling class's war on the rising populist movement is ruling-class failure. Rulers typically don't feel the need to...

19.09.2023 6

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Know What? Criminal Justice is Just Plain Ugly

I'm reading Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Black attorney Bryan Stevenson. It was lent to us by a very liberal friend, and I can see...

12.09.2023 7

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