Poverty Reduction Programs Do Not Reduce Poverty

Over the last 50 years, the proportion of Americans living in poverty has remained virtually unchanged. In 2023, 11 percent...

Tue, 30 Dec 2025 02:10:51 +0000

Where Everybody Knows My Name

For about 30 years now, my goddess wife and I have lived in Beverly Hills. It’s a leafy, charming ’hood...

Tue, 30 Dec 2025 02:07:53 +0000

The Christmas Gift of Walter Russell Mead

This Christmas season, do yourself a favor by clicking on Providence magazine, a journal devoted to Christian realism, to read...

Tue, 30 Dec 2025 02:04:55 +0000

Avatar: Fire and Ash: Beautiful and Bland

It’s unthinkable that a director might come along in 30 years and remake James Cameron’s Avatar saga. Visually, these films...

Tue, 30 Dec 2025 02:04:54 +0000

Learning From the Past, Leading in the Present

Eventually, the  American public is going to realize that, in too many cases, its armed forces are being led by senior...

Tue, 30 Dec 2025 02:04:52 +0000

The Case for Wisdom

Seeking Wisdom: The Road to Prosperity By Robert Luddy Thales Press, 131 pages, $15 The best book that I read...

Mon, 29 Dec 2025 03:22:52 +0000

The European Political Collapse That Never Ended

In 1951, Yale University professor Hajo Holborn wrote a book — as it turns out, an autopsy — titled The...

Mon, 29 Dec 2025 03:22:51 +0000

Confederates on Trial in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley

After whom should one name a school? The United States faces enormous economic, political, and international challenges. However, that isn’t...

Mon, 29 Dec 2025 03:19:53 +0000

Stop Blaming Reagan

As a longtime professor of government, advisor to presidential candidates, a Republican nominee for political office, and a conservative generally,...

Mon, 29 Dec 2025 03:19:52 +0000

Bardot and Other Screen Legends We Lost in 2025

  I am big. It’s the pictures that got small. — Norma Desmond, Sunset Boulevard An unsung tragic aspect of...

Mon, 29 Dec 2025 03:19:52 +0000