Exploring the Monumental Ugliness of the New Obama Center

Exploring the Monumental Ugliness of the New Obama Center

The Barack Obama Presidential Center will open to the public on June 19 and is already surrounded by controversy, primarily for its appearance. In fact, controversy has been a constant companion of the project since its announcement. To call it stark is an understatement. In fact, one admittedly right-wing source referred to … Read more

China’s Climate Magic Trick: Moving the Carbon Goalposts

Factory complex with tall smokestacks releasing dark plumes into a hazy, yellow-tinted sky (air pollution)

China pretends to comply with green mandates, but it can never get rid of its red communist habits. Looking behind the statistics on carbon compliance, one finds that China is cooking the books. Indeed, with a mere stroke of a pen, Beijing has managed to conjure a statistical loophole roughly equivalent to … Read more

How to Stop the Great British Wealth Exodus

How to Stop the Great British Wealth Exodus

As a major financial center, Britain once welcomed wealth from across the globe with open arms. However, that golden narrative is now unraveling as liberal politicians attempt to fund socialist programs with other people’s money. In the United Kingdom (U.K.), wealth remains in motion, but it’s not coming in; it’s leaving. Following … Read more

Addressing the Stand Out Class of 2026

Addressing the Stand Out Class of 2026

Many classes have come and gone over the years, but the one thing that stands out about the Class of 2026 is that it stands out. Some defining characteristics of the stand out class of 2026 make it different and special. Of course, not all Gen Z graduates stand out; most do … Read more

Remembering “America’s Son” on Memorial Day

Remembering “America’s Son” on Memorial Day

It seemed like it was going to be another day of air travel as I waited to board Southwest flight 3968 out of Reagan Airport. Suddenly, I noticed several people walking with intention towards the plate-glass window behind me. A woman pulled out her phone to photograph something outside. When I turned … Read more

Phones Don’t Have a Place at the Table in Some Restaurants

Phones Don’t Have a Place at the Table in Some Restaurants

The dinner table was once a sacred space. The dining room was a domestic sanctuary where families and friends gathered to share meals, exchange ideas, and occasionally argue over politics and religion. Children learned first principles, manners and valuable life lessons from their parents that are rarely taught elsewhere. Today, however, this … Read more

An Appalling Alliance to Disfigure Notre-Dame

An Appalling Alliance to Disfigure Notre-Dame

There is something profoundly unacceptable in the Notre-Dame stained-glass window affair: an appalling alliance to impose the ideological mark of modernity on the historic cathedral in Paris that was recently restored. The powers that be want to change a sector of windows from the nineteenth century with modernistic ones. On one side … Read more