โEverything is good as it leaves the hands of the Author of things; everything degenerates in the hands of man.โโJean-Jacques Rousseau, รmile (1762) On June 29, 2025, Utahโs Republican Senator Mike Lee withdrew a provision in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that would have allowed the first major sale of public lands since the…
The conflict of our time is not only military, economic, and diplomatic, but political, cultural, and philosophical. The clash is between systems with irreconcilable ideasโor, using the term neutrally, โidealsโโof government, the individual versus the state, human rights, and the rule of law. Adm. Samuel John Paparo, Jr., head of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, recently warned…