Enjoying the view from Limbo
In the immediate aftermath of the murder of the politically trivial and offensively pseudo-Christian MAGA grifter Charlie Kirk, Rob Reiner, a knee-jerk and sometimes offensive Hollywood progressive (though one who actually earned his living and reputation through honest work rather than by playing up to powerful political factions), offered an appropriate and elegant public statement about Kirk’s killing. Here is the Huffington Post’s...
The European Union appears to be on the verge of doing the bravest thing anyone could do in this moment of escalating and ever-more blatant pro-Kremlin machinations by the White House, namely taking their collective security into their own hands the way one must do when one finally comes to terms with the fact that one has been abandoned by one’s strongest ally....
America Descending / Ideas and Reflections / World Politics
by Daren Jonescu · Published December 2, 2025 · Last modified December 3, 2025
In a brilliant response to the infamous meeting in Miami in which Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner attempted to sell their country and all their allies to the Kremlin in exchange for some financial kickbacks for themselves and their immediate supervisor, i.e., Vladimir Putin’s American branch plant manager, Donald Trump, Ukraine has sent its own team of negotiators to the same city to...
The following is an account of a new interview of Donald Trump’s chief “negotiator” with Vladimir Putin, Steve Witkoff, conducted by the perfect interviewer for putting Witkoff at his ease in expressing his true thoughts about his assignment, namely Tucker Carlson, who has been the American media’s number one apologist for the Kremlin since the weeks before Russia’s full-on invasion of Ukraine. “What...
America Descending / Death by Education / Ideas and Reflections
by Daren Jonescu · Published November 23, 2025
Here is the final paragraph of Allan Bloom’s indispensable essay on the fate of the American mind: This is the American moment in world history, the one for which we shall forever be judged. Just as in politics the responsibility for the fate of freedom in the world has devolved upon our regime, so the fate of philosophy in the world has devolved...
Is there a level of cowardice lower than Donald Trump? After a few weeks of off-and-on posturing about “getting tough with Russia,” Trump has boldly reasserted what was never really in doubt, namely that Vladimir Putin owns him and always has, and that Trump will happily go down in history as the man who served as Putin’s battering ram into the gates of...
The trouble with followers.– The weakminded types who are quickest to join a crowd for fear of being left alone outside also tend to be the quickest to run for the door for fear of being left alone inside. Seeing how it feels.– Marjorie Taylor Greene, who was one of the loudest MAGA cheerleaders while Donald Trump was lying and rabble-rousing to foment...
For months, Donald Trump’s presidential path has been determined, both overtly and implicity, by his glaringly obvious desperation to quell the public appetite for transparency about “the Epstein files,” a grotesque treasure trove of documents which, as we already know, includes so many references or allusions to Trump’s long-term friendly relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, and so many indications of his...
Coding the future.– Elon Musk asserts with enthusiasm that in ten years there will no longer be jobs for humans — where by humans he means, in general, humans not at the very top of the digitized food chain, and in particular humans other than himself. Avarice being a native illness of the soul, it is not surprising that those most severely infected...
A tyrant is not a man who desires bad things. (No one desires bad things.) A tyrant is a man who is ignorant enough to have no idea what a good thing is or where to find one; who was raised poorly enough never to have learned the difference between wishing something could be so and believing one has every right to force...
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