Winston Churchill once noted that “in wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.” But the UK’s WWII PM always played it straight with the British people regarding the war’s risks, costs and the country’s overall goal. In Racket, Matt Taibbi deconstructs the web of lies Biden Administration officials told the American people, other countries and themselves about every aspect of the West’s escalating involvement in Ukraine – most of all, the Big Lie denying the risk of nuclear doomsday.
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.
