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In 1913, Argentina was one of the wealthiest countries on Earth. Its GDP per capita rivaled that of Western Europe. The port of Buenos Aires bustled with international commerce. Immigrants flooded in from Italy and Spain, chasing the same promise that drew millions to US shores. Then came the Peronists. Juan Perón rose
On September 1, 1575, a royal courier from King Philip II of Spain arrived to the banking house of Niccolò de Grimaldi in Genoa. The Grimaldi bank had loaned Philip quite a sum of money, and the Italian bankers already knew that the king’s finances were on shaky ground. So when they opened
Tim Walz is angry. Jacob Frey is angry. I find it so rich that the people destroying the country think they have the right to be angry. Walz is the guy who allowed billions in fraud to flow through Minnesota social programs. He and his party import the worst third world scum for
Of the $18 billion in federal funding that went to 14 Minnesota-run welfare programs since 2018, HALF of that total may have been complete and total fraud. This scandal is a case study in government incompetence— over 90 people charged with bilking at least hundreds of millions from programs meant to feed low-income
It’s hard to imagine America being intimidated by a guy named “Little Turtle”. And yet, in the year 1790, he was about as terrifying as it could get. Little Turtle was the war chief of the Miami nation, one of the Algonquian-speaking tribes in the Great Lakes region, and he had made a
In our final look back at past work before my team and I take some time off for the holidays, we’re revisiting an article from August 2019 that captured one of the most important long-term truths about power, wealth, and decline. Think back to August 2019—your expectations and outlook at the time. How
Today we’ll continue our look back at past articles, with a piece that goes all the way back to 2012. I was in Oxford (before it became the woke capital of British academia), watching a Shakespeare play that referenced ducats—and it kicked off a deeper reflection on the stable value of gold over
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 marked the start
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 Terajoules (TJ) of
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 headlines for weeks.
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 witnessing the dawn
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 artifacts they left
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 scarcity back in
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. This type of
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 time—the grandiose and
