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Beware: Our New Online Culture Is a Feast for Mass Surveillance0
- Culture
- April 7, 2020
The rapid spread of COVID-19 has caused network traffic to surge as Internet users resort to video conferencing to work remotely. For example, last December online meeting provider Zoom hosted roughly 10 million participants. In March this statistic jumped to 200 million. The public’s stampede to the cloud is an auspicious development for the intelligence
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Social Distancing Tips From Robinson Crusoe0
- Culture
- April 6, 2020
He survived the last great plague in London and the city’s Great Fire. He was imprisoned and persecuted for his religious and political views. There was no happy ending for the journalist Daniel Defoe, author of “A Journal of a Plague Year.” When he died in 1731, he was mired in debt and hiding from
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School’s Out and It’s Time to Revamp Education0
- Education
- April 6, 2020
This past weekend, I watched the original version of Red Dawn, the movie about a joint Soviet, Cuban, and Nicaraguan invasion of the United States. A group of teenagers escape to the mountains and resist these invaders. After their first skirmish in which they kill three Russian soldiers, a girl seated by the fire says, “Things
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Crying Over Dumped Milk0
- Economics
- April 6, 2020
Frustrated shoppers have reason to cry over spilled milk. Dairy farmers are dumping millions of gallons of the stuff. Meanwhile, some dairy products are sold out at many grocery stores across the country, due to intense demand for basic household goods amid the coronavirus crisis. USA Today reports on one farm in Wisconsin: “About 7
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China May Be Using COVID to Its Advantage0
- International
- April 6, 2020
Can it be that after systematically lying to the world for months about the Wuhan coronavirus – about its existence, about its transmission, about its lethality – that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) thinks it can turn this worldwide pandemic to its advantage? Yes. And here’s how. First, China has to rewrite its role in
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C.S. Lewis on Avoiding the Prayers the Devil Likes0
- Culture
- April 6, 2020
Holy Week 2019 started like no other with the horrific burning of Notre Dame Cathedral. Holy Week 2020 will be a bit less sensational than its predecessor, but nonetheless, different from anything we’ve ever seen. President Trump acknowledged this in his Palm Sunday coronavirus update, saying: “We may be apart… but we can use this
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The Fed Is Running Out of Bubbles to Create0
- Economics
- April 3, 2020
The Fed came out with a series of unprecedented measures on March 22, 2020. They announced the Fed will buy an unlimited amount of Treasurys and mortgage-backed securities (MBS), or as Peter Schiff refers to it, “QE infinity.” This has been very positively welcomed by many in the mainstream media and by businesses. Yet, what many are
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Replacing the Social Justice Trifecta0
- Culture
- April 3, 2020
To say that the world is in a crazy place would be stating the obvious. Craziness acceleration has been the name of the game for the last few years. That craziness was recognized by Timothy Lusch in a recent Chronicles Magazine review of Douglas Murray’s new book, “The Madness of Crowds.” Lusch writes: “[S]omething is
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Longing for the Days of Presidential Attack Ads0
- Culture
- April 3, 2020
Man, do I miss Michael Bloomberg. Don’t get me wrong. The constant bombardment his campaign leveled at Americans over billboards, television, radio, and the internet was incessant and utterly annoying. It was a great relief to see him drop out of the race, if for no other reason than to have this multi-sensory campaign assault
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