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The Shrinking Truth Horizon
- Culture, Featured, Philosophy
- January 21, 2026

For hypothetical purposes, let’s say Joe Biden had spent the last four years in the White House and Donald Trump was the challenger. What if Biden was the one being dumped from office, despite evidence that Trump supporters engaged in questionable electioneering? What if election workers in heavily Republican areas had mistreated poll watchers in
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The other day, I drove past the place where it all started. One pulls up to the flashing red stoplight and looks left to check for traffic. There’s no need to look right, because the traffic won’t be there. Instead, one sees cement barricades, covered with scrawling graffiti, and a block down, the now nationally
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Hollywood actor, producer and professional wrestler Dwayne Johnson might be good at a few things, but marriage isn’t one of them. He is divorced from his first wife (mother of his 16-year-old daughter) and has not married his current partner. It’s a pity, because he is about to become a dad for the third time and
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With Australia’s catastrophic bushfires making headlines around the world, newspapers featured a photo of an iconic kangaroo illuminated by an apocalyptic scene of a burning house. But worse than the hundreds of houses lost or the millions of hectares of land burnt are the fatalities. So far at least 19 people have died, with dozens
READ MOREIn an interview with ABC News last July, then-candidate Donald Trump said: “You know the people of Crimea, from what I’ve heard, would rather be with Russia than where they were.” Sounds about right: the ethnic split in Crimea is more than 65 percent Russian versus 15 percent Ukrainian. The results of a poll by
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When the Union was fighting to preserve itself in the Civil War, the France of Napoleon III moved troops into Mexico, overthrew the regime of Benito Juarez, set up a monarchy and put Austrian Archduke Maximilian von Habsburg on the throne as Emperor of Mexico—one month before Gettysburg. Preoccupied, the Union did nothing. At war’s
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