Today’s totalitarians avidly exploit humanity’s innate fear of loneliness to weaponize mobs in service to their ends, argues Stella Morabito in American Greatness. Morabito’s detailed account of what makes and motivates a mob illustrates today’s radical puppeteering.
In The Wall Street Journal, Konrad Putzier details the City of St. Louis’s catastrophic “doom loop” of rising crime, fleeing businesses, emptying buildings and worsening decay. The once-vibrant central business district is largely boarded up and the city saw the steepest drop in foot traffic of 66 major North American cities. The halting half-measures Putzier reports on are almost certainly destined to fail.
David Krugler in Law & Liberty reviews the recent Steven Spielberg TV series Masters of the Air. The series unflinchingly, if a bit woodenly, portrays Second World War strategic bombing missions carried out by the U.S. Air Force (with a nod to Britain’s Royal Air Force), whose young aircrews withstood horrific casualties to carry on undaunted.
In The Times of Israel Cathryn J. Prince tells the story of Jewish authors as the Gaza war continues. When they aren’t confronted with outright hostility – like having their work pulled from prestigious journals – they are told their voices are unmarketable. The censorship and attack on their freedom of expression is felt globally, writes Prince, who urges Jewish writers to louden their voices.
In the 1960s, people listened to Paul Ehrlich’s “Population Bomb” doomsaying and concluded it was bad for children to be born. Policymakers adopted population-trimming policies. But the 21st century is not turning out as expected. Global fertility is collapsing. Glenn H. Reynolds in the New York Post looks at what global population might do over the next century.
In The Wall Street Journal, Konrad Putzier details the City of St. Louis’s catastrophic “doom loop” of rising crime, fleeing businesses, emptying buildings and worsening decay. The once-vibrant central business district is largely boarded up and the city saw the steepest drop in foot traffic of 66 major North American cities. The halting half-measures Putzier reports on are almost certainly destined to fail.
David Krugler in Law & Liberty reviews the recent Steven Spielberg TV series Masters of the Air. The series unflinchingly, if a bit woodenly, portrays Second World War strategic bombing missions carried out by the U.S. Air Force (with a nod to Britain’s Royal Air Force), whose young aircrews withstood horrific casualties to carry on undaunted.
In The Times of Israel Cathryn J. Prince tells the story of Jewish authors as the Gaza war continues. When they aren’t confronted with outright hostility – like having their work pulled from prestigious journals – they are told their voices are unmarketable. The censorship and attack on their freedom of expression is felt globally, writes Prince, who urges Jewish writers to louden their voices.
In the 1960s, people listened to Paul Ehrlich’s “Population Bomb” doomsaying and concluded it was bad for children to be born. Policymakers adopted population-trimming policies. But the 21st century is not turning out as expected. Global fertility is collapsing. Glenn H. Reynolds in the New York Post looks at what global population might do over the next century.
