When Dr. Ananias Diokno saw the article “How Humankind Came to Be” by Mr. Li Hongzhi, published by The Epoch Times, he was curious as to what answer the author would supply. “I think I know,” Dr. Diokno thought. “It is by evolution or by Creation, which is a discussion that has been going on.” But…
My Book Is Being Burned
February 17, 2023
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Commentary On Jan. 25, 2023, Ghent University banned the use of my book “The Psychology of Totalitarianism” in the course “Critique of Society and Culture.” That happened in the aftermath of a media storm that erupted in September 2022 following my interviews with Tucker Carlson and Alex Jones. I already wrote about that in a previous essay. Following these media appearances, Ghent…
3 Years In, How Did the Lockdowns Go?
February 17, 2023
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Commentary Three years ago this month, a very small group of highly guarded ruling-class people from the UK, United States, and Europe, were gathering to figure out how to lock down the country and the world. They held Zoom meetings and went to burner phones and plotted how to convince Trump to betray his own…
China Lasers Hawaii, Prepares for War
February 17, 2023
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Originally published by Gatestone Institute Commentary On Jan. 28, the Subaru-Asahi Star Camera, which livestreams images from the Subaru Telescope on Hawaii’s Mauna Kea, caught images of a shower of green laser beams lasting just seconds. The beams were not, as originally thought, from a NASA satellite. They could have come from only one source:…
The Risk of CCP Influence on the DOJ for National Security and Legal System
Commentary The Department of Justice (DOJ) is the backbone of the American legal system, responsible for enforcing the law and ensuring that justice is served. Recently, however, there have been concerns about the influence of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on the DOJ and the potential threats that it poses to the American legal system…
3 Years’ Delay to Rein In TikTok
February 17, 2023
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Commentary The drumbeat regarding national security risks posed by TikTok, the popular social media app owned by Chinese big-tech firm ByteDance, has reached a fever pitch. After recently blocking it from federal government devices, Congress might now seek an outright national ban of the app. Given the failure of a prior attempted ban due to…
Educating for Freedom
Commentary This is an abridged version of Professor Coll’s essay in the Winter 2023 issue of The American Experiment, the Jack Miller Center’s historical journal. How do we educate our students for freedom? After all, many of them arrive in college today believing that the United States is systematically oppressive, hopelessly unjust, and that there is…
Turf Warfare Within Government Ranks Does Not Serve the Nation’s Interests
Commentary Turf warfare. It’s one of the most destructive and debilitating activities in any enterprise. Government is no exception. Indeed, the government may be the area where it is the most destructive and debilitating. The consequences are manifested in harm to the national interest. Myopic approaches, stove-piped considerations, protecting or desperately trying to increase your…
James Clapper Can’t Stop Lying
Commentary In an interview with The Washington Post’s “fact-checker,” former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper contends that Politico misled the public about a letter he and 50 other former intel officials signed during the 2020 presidential campaign warning that the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story could be Russian deception. “There was message…
The Ideas That Formed the Constitution, Part 18: Montesquieu
Commentary Montesquieu’s full name was Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de LaBrède et de Montesquieu. When he was born near Bordeaux, France, in 1689, he was merely Charles-Louis de Secondat. He received the baronry of LaBrède (with rich wine land) from his mother. He received the barony of Montesquieu from his uncle. He received a…
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