Thomas Savidge in Law & Liberty explains how the U.S. Social Security and Medicare programs are expected to exhaust their reserves in the coming decade while facing tens of trillions of dollars in unfunded future obligations. Savidge warns how a combination of declining birth rates and mismanaged government spending is leading down a path to bankruptcy.
It Was Nice While it Lasted
Victor Davis Hanson in Jewish World Review condenses his scenario for Western civilization’s imminent demise into 700 words. The West’s fatal arrogance, Hanson argues, has prevented it from repulsing the four horsemen of its own apocalypse: global warming hysterics, sexually liberalized (and largely childless) lifestyles, unrestricted illegal immigration and a descent into tribalism driven by divisive ideologies like DEI. Despite all that, Hanson also offers the outlines of a solution.
