Why You Can't Outrun the Story You Tell Yourself

Most people confuse self-concept with self-esteem. Self-esteem is how you feel on a given day. Self-concept is the deeper architecture, the "I am" beliefs that silently govern every decision you...

What Hannah Arendt Needs To Teach Us Today

Hannah Arendt went to Jerusalem in 1961 expecting to see a monster. What she found was a bureaucrat who was very good at his job. That gap between what she expected and what she saw produced one...

Why Targeting Iran's Supreme Leader Was a Strategic Mistake

On June 28, 1914, a nineteen-year-old with a pistol shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. Six weeks later, the world was at war. The assassination did not cause the war by itself. The global...

The Con Being Run on Rural America and the People Running It

Rural America is losing its hospitals, its affordable housing, its farms, and its schools , not because of immigrants, not because of urban elites, and not because of woke ideology. It is losing...