Sadly, few of us are celebrating last week’s coup pulled off by our spy agencies precisely because we have again narrowly avoided having to watch American carnage on TV. And this allows us to get back to watching...

As we watch the continuing economic implosion of socialist Europe, I would offer this thought experiment especially to those who continue to vote Democrat:

A recent national poll showed that 7 out of 10 Americans feel this country is in decline.

The late, great William F. Buckley famously quipped: I’d rather be governed by 50 people randomly selected from the Boston phone book than 50 of the Yale faculty. Translation: no matter how pedigreed you may be, if...

Declining civilizations will always face superior firepower from ascending civilizations because sovereignty is only temporarily uncontested.

When a civilization accepts the propaganda of its enemy as truth, it has reached the far side of appeasement and capitulation is nigh.

Debasing the currency always destabilizes the governing authority.

With the loss of fiscal solvency comes a loss of sovereignty.

To hold territory, a state must be populated by those loyal to the central authority. When immigration overwhelms assimilation, the fall is predicted.

When a free people, through taxation, is deprived of its ability to acquire wealth and property, collapse is presaged.

If a people cannot avoid continuous internal warfare, they will have a new order imposed from without.

Appeasement of a ruthless outside power always invites aggression. Treaties made with ruthless despots are always fruitless and dangerous.

In battle, free men almost always defeat slaves. (Herodotus’ Law)

No nation has ever survived once its citizenry ceased to believe its culture worth saving. (Hanson’s Law)

One of the lesser understood phenomenon of history is that small ruthless bands of thugs will inevitably take over vastly larger docile civilizations, the operative words being ruthless and civilized. The civilized...