G.K. Chesterton famously proclaimed, “When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.” More recently, Jordan Peterson suggested, “If people think they are atheistic, it means they are unconscious of their Gods.” Tara Isabella Burton, writing in The American Interest, examines the spiritual and metaphysical beliefs of secular progressives. God may be dead for many of our social justice warriors, but psychics and astrologers, witches and demons, stars and signs and the casting of spells and hexes, are experiencing a renaissance.
Javier Milei Makes Fools of the “Experts”
As it began looking like Javier Milei might actually be elected President of Argentina, more than 100 leading international economists warned that this “far-right” political “wrecking ball” would “cause ‘devastation,’ spike inflation, expand poverty, and unemployment.” But as David Harsanyi relates in the Washington Examiner, Milei has tamed inflation, balanced the budget, shrunk the bureaucracy, deregulated the economy, driven down poverty and repaid billions in U.S. loans. And now, Harsanyi notes, Argentina is starting to boom.
