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As we wind down 2025, we’ve been reflecting on some of the biggest long-term shifts that defined the year. Last week, we highlighted three: First, Charlie Kirk’s assassination—an event that exposed the violent extremism of the far left and will likely drive a generational shift to the right. Second, 2025
When Robert Oppenheimer watched the first atomic bomb detonate in the New Mexico desert on July 16, 1945, the blast confirmed that America had won the race to build a nuclear weapon. The destructive power of these weapons was extraordinary; the explosion from Oppenheimer’s “Trinity” test unleashed an astonishing 83.7
Looking back at 2025, it’s easy to mistake noise for impact. It’s been a wild year. And while most events that have taken place were loud, their impact was also fleeting. Very few will truly reshape the future. For example, the idiotic “No Kings Day” protests of 2025 monopolized the
On January 8, 1959, Fidel Castro rolled into Havana flanked by a ragtag convoy of guerrilla fighters, greeted by tens of thousands of cheering Cubans. The former dictator/president, Fulgencio Batista, had fled the country a week earlier. And the Cuban people—exhausted by decades of corruption, cronyism, and repression—believed they were
The ancient people of Uruk— who lived in modern-day southern Iraq more than 5,000 years ago— didn’t seem terribly interested in bequeathing colorful stories of their civilization to history. Rather than memorializing abundant tales of their immense works, or chisel countless tablets embellishing stories of their military victories, the main
In 1862, in the midst of the Civil War, the Union government under Abraham Lincoln passed the Homestead Act, offering 160 acres of land, for free, to just about anyone, as long as you were willing to farm it. For thousands of Norwegians, Swedes, and Germans facing poverty and land
Imagine the cost to insure James Bond against all the destruction he leaves in his wake—torched cars in Istanbul, collapsed buildings in Venice, botched assassinations in Macau. That’s why, in the real world, intelligence officers—whether they’re CIA field operatives, FBI investigators, or high-level national security officials—all carry professional liability insurance.
In 1871, as the Reconstruction-era US federal government was growing ever larger, work began on a massive office building in Washington DC to house the growing departments of State, War, and Navy. It would become known as the SWaN building, and it was designed in the high fashion of its
When mining superintendent Marcus Daly arrived in Butte, Montana in the late 1870s to evaluate a cluster of silver prospects, it was a mundane business trip— the mad western gold rush was over by then. The area was known for its patchy silver veins, and Daly’s job was to decide
When you think of hyperinflation, you might picture Zimbabwe’s trillion-dollar bills, or wheelbarrows full of cash in the streets of 1920s Weimar Germany. More recently, Venezuela’s currency collapsed under the weight of runaway printing, and Argentina has spent decades lurching from one inflation crisis to another. Throughout history, inflation isn’t
Barrick Mining Corporation—one of the world’s largest and most established gold producers—just reported its third quarter earnings yesterday— and it was an absolute blowout. The company reported third quarter profit of $1.3 billion, nearly triple last year’s Q3 earnings. And for the first nine months of 2025, Earnings per Share
By the autumn of 1648, England had been embroiled in a chaotic and bloody civil war for more than six years. Extreme ideological tensions in England had been building for decades over freedom of religion, plus the balance of power within government. King Charles was wildly unpopular. And a majority
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