Napoleon’s ambition, decisiveness, and drive made him excellently suited to make the most out of the tumult of the revolution. Antony Beevor’s latest article in The Telegraph discusses Ridley Scott’s upcoming film about Napoleon’s life and laments the fact that heroic figures like Napoleon give weight to the Great Man Theory. Beevor sees the idea that […]
https://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.png00Elad Vaida Vaidahttps://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.pngElad Vaida Vaida2023-11-26 00:28:282023-11-25 16:17:57Even Though Unparalleled Deeds Offend Today, Great Men Did Shift History
When I read about an executive order issued by the Biden administration last year regarding a plan for digital currency, I naturally suspected something quite dire. Generally speaking, whatever the modern, self-described “liberal democratic” administrative state claims to be doing to help supposedly disadvantaged people is actually intended primarily, if not exclusively, to increase government […]
Jeffrey Tucker of Brownstone Institute has identified the key WHO “edict” that led to four years of Covid madness. In an essay for the Epoch Times, Tucker notes that draconian lockdowns were imposed on virtually all people of the world after the World Health Organization showered praise on Chinese officials for ordering lockdowns to “interrupt virus […]
It really is about being grateful, which is something too few of our spoiled citizens appreciate. But since the holiday is being weaponized by “woke culture”, there are some other elements of the story to think about. The short version, the way it is taught today, is that greedy Pilgrims landed in Plymouth Bay. Half […]
https://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.png00Neland Nobelhttps://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.pngNeland Nobel2023-11-23 00:30:322023-11-21 15:06:45The Other Thanksgiving Story
Our political class likes euphemisms. One of its favorites is “democracy”; democracy sounds better than “a systemic agenda of censorship, economic irresponsibility, increasing surrender of foreign interests abroad, an almost totally open policy on the border, inability to control crime and drug waves, and a recruiting and morale crisis in our armed forces which hasn’t […]
“[P]eople have bought this idiot meta-Marxism which is that the way to look at every social relationship that people ever have is through the lens of power.” Dr. Jordan Peterson had a brilliant response to a skeptical Bill Maher, who is wrong most of the time, on the issue of young and not-so-young Americans alike […]
A Potemkin village is a construction—literal or figurative—designed to deceive people into believing a situation is better than it is. The term arose from a fake portable village reportedly built by Russian military leader Grigory Potemkin, former lover of Empress Catherine II, solely to impress her while she traveled to Crimea in 1787. The Biden […]
https://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.png00Carrie Sheffieldhttps://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.pngCarrie Sheffield2023-11-21 00:30:312023-11-21 08:36:33U.S. Job Market Growth Inflated By Government Hiring, Not Real Value Creation
Editors’ Note: We are pretty much free speech purists, even if that speech is repugnant. However, if groups break the rules pertaining to on-campus meetings or intimidate and interfere with other university functions using force and coercion, they should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. After the BLM riots, it seems the […]
Florida has once again been ranked No. 1 among the states on The Heritage Foundation’s Education Freedom Report Card, which was released at an event Thursday in Des Moines, Iowa. “They have universal education choice in that state. Any child who wants it can exercise school choice,” says Lindsey Burke, director of The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Education Policy.
Brandeis University historian David Hackett Fischer’s African Founders illuminates the leading controversies today with facts that shame political cant and enable us to reassess the centuries of slavery’s effects on American national character. In a scholarly tome of over 900 pages, Fischer follows the method of his earlier work, Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America. There he traced […]
https://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.png00Ken Masugihttps://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.pngKen Masugi2023-11-20 00:26:502023-11-18 07:42:14A Historian Complicates the Racial Divide
Even Though Unparalleled Deeds Offend Today, Great Men Did Shift History
/in /by Elad Vaida VaidaNapoleon’s ambition, decisiveness, and drive made him excellently suited to make the most out of the tumult of the revolution. Antony Beevor’s latest article in The Telegraph discusses Ridley Scott’s upcoming film about Napoleon’s life and laments the fact that heroic figures like Napoleon give weight to the Great Man Theory. Beevor sees the idea that […]
The Administrative State’s Digital Currency Ruse
/in /by Paul GottfriedWhen I read about an executive order issued by the Biden administration last year regarding a plan for digital currency, I naturally suspected something quite dire. Generally speaking, whatever the modern, self-described “liberal democratic” administrative state claims to be doing to help supposedly disadvantaged people is actually intended primarily, if not exclusively, to increase government […]
WHO’s Edict Caused the Lockdown Disaster
/in /by Bill RiceJeffrey Tucker of Brownstone Institute has identified the key WHO “edict” that led to four years of Covid madness. In an essay for the Epoch Times, Tucker notes that draconian lockdowns were imposed on virtually all people of the world after the World Health Organization showered praise on Chinese officials for ordering lockdowns to “interrupt virus […]
The Other Thanksgiving Story
/in /by Neland NobelIt really is about being grateful, which is something too few of our spoiled citizens appreciate. But since the holiday is being weaponized by “woke culture”, there are some other elements of the story to think about. The short version, the way it is taught today, is that greedy Pilgrims landed in Plymouth Bay. Half […]
Harvard and Hamas
/in /by Conlan SalgadoOur political class likes euphemisms. One of its favorites is “democracy”; democracy sounds better than “a systemic agenda of censorship, economic irresponsibility, increasing surrender of foreign interests abroad, an almost totally open policy on the border, inability to control crime and drug waves, and a recruiting and morale crisis in our armed forces which hasn’t […]
Jordan Peterson: Marxist ‘Oppressor-Oppressed’ Narrative Brainwashed American Youth
/in /by Catherine Salgado“[P]eople have bought this idiot meta-Marxism which is that the way to look at every social relationship that people ever have is through the lens of power.” Dr. Jordan Peterson had a brilliant response to a skeptical Bill Maher, who is wrong most of the time, on the issue of young and not-so-young Americans alike […]
U.S. Job Market Growth Inflated By Government Hiring, Not Real Value Creation
/in /by Carrie SheffieldA Potemkin village is a construction—literal or figurative—designed to deceive people into believing a situation is better than it is. The term arose from a fake portable village reportedly built by Russian military leader Grigory Potemkin, former lover of Empress Catherine II, solely to impress her while she traveled to Crimea in 1787. The Biden […]
ASU Investigating Pro-Palestinian Protesters Disrupting A Meeting On Campus
/in /by Cole LauterbachEditors’ Note: We are pretty much free speech purists, even if that speech is repugnant. However, if groups break the rules pertaining to on-campus meetings or intimidate and interfere with other university functions using force and coercion, they should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. After the BLM riots, it seems the […]
Florida Earns Top Spot on Education Freedom Report Card (Arizona is #2)
/in /by Samantha AschierisFlorida has once again been ranked No. 1 among the states on The Heritage Foundation’s Education Freedom Report Card, which was released at an event Thursday in Des Moines, Iowa. “They have universal education choice in that state. Any child who wants it can exercise school choice,” says Lindsey Burke, director of The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Education Policy.
A Historian Complicates the Racial Divide
/in /by Ken MasugiBrandeis University historian David Hackett Fischer’s African Founders illuminates the leading controversies today with facts that shame political cant and enable us to reassess the centuries of slavery’s effects on American national character. In a scholarly tome of over 900 pages, Fischer follows the method of his earlier work, Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America. There he traced […]