Enjoying the view from Limbo
Here, from Axios, is the funniest headline I have read this year, or perhaps ever: Scoop: US suggests Cuba complicit in helping Russia fight Ukraine. No, of course, when I say this is the funniest headline of the year, I am not referring to the usual news media illiteracy that has become so commonplace that we barely notice it anymore. For does not...
Liberty's Labors Lost / World Politics
by Daren Jonescu · Published March 18, 2026 · Last modified April 15, 2026
During the absurd and wholly outrageous test-run assault on Venezuela, in which Donald Trump ordered an authoritarian president kidnapped and then “replaced” with that same president’s regime, all with the intention of grabbing control of that country’s oil reserves, though without having asked any of America’s leading oil men in advance whether they would be stupid enough to set up shop under the...
Headline I just read, from Real Clear Politics: Mark Levin: Bannon, Tucker Carlson, and Megyn Kelly have contributed nothing to conservatism or the country. Of course I will not read, and do not recommend, the accompanying article, apparently a transcript from an episode of the money- and audience-grubbing Levin’s Trump sycophant jamboree hilariously called “Liberty’s Voice.” But I will merely point out, for...
Liberty's Labors Lost / World Politics
by Daren Jonescu · Published March 2, 2026 · Last modified March 15, 2026
A text message exchange with a young friend of mine yesterday, March 1st here in Korea: She: I’m struggling with deciding how many clothes I should bring to Seoul. On another side of the earth, war is happening.I: Yes, there are now multiple wars happening, due to a few idiots who think they can do whatever they want. I hope you will be...
George Will, the long-compromised Republican establishment conservative, has somewhat miraculously rediscovered his principles with aplomb during the Trump era, presumably due to the liberating effects of being forcibly ousted by the populist pogrom from his secure home within the party establishment. Exemplary of his octogenarian rejuvenation is his take on the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision to strike down Trump’s global reign of terror...
A few random thoughts (not all of them mine) regarding the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to strike down Donald Trump’s global reign of economic terror by means of his “signature policy initiative,” namely his tariffs-by-mood-ring-and-mean-girl-whim fanaticism. First, from former Republican congressman Justin Amash on X: I’m not sure there’s ever been a president more distant from the ideals of the Founders of the...
America Descending / Liberty's Labors Lost
by Daren Jonescu · Published February 8, 2026 · Last modified February 9, 2026
Donald Trump is trying to execute in the 2026 midterm elections the same strategy he used in the 2020 presidential election: Start telling people months ahead of the election that the Democrats are planning massive voter fraud, though without providing any evidence to support this; on election night, stand up and declare that the election fraud he predicted has really happened, though without...
It is very true that videos can lie. It is equally true that government officials can lie. But when several videos shot independently by several different people from several different angles present one consistent picture, while several government officials mouth one script written or approved by one government official, then we are being asked whether we are more inclined to believe several different...
Ideas and Reflections / Liberty's Labors Lost / World Politics
by Daren Jonescu · Published January 20, 2026
Ted Cruz, who back in the latter days of 2016 willingly defined himself for all time as the single most spineless and snivelling anti-man in American politics, now seeks to reassert that title against increasingly aggressive competition, by stating, in support of his master’s latest evidence of mental deterioration, that it is “overwhelmingly” in America’s “national interest” to acquire Greenland. As though concepts...
Ideas and Reflections / Liberty's Labors Lost
by Daren Jonescu · Published January 13, 2026 · Last modified January 14, 2026
The leaders of the MAGA cult, looking at every video of an ICE shooting in Minneapolis, insist that they see, and therefore that you must also see, an honorable law enforcement officer being rammed by a car driven by a domestic terrorist and therefore fully justified in defending himself with lethal force against this act of extremist violence. The cult submits its perceptual...
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