Michael Smith

Author Archive

  • Mar 31, 2026
    We didn’t choose to police the world—we earned the burden by pretending we didn’t have to. In a borderless, asymmetric world, refusing to act early doesn’t prevent...
  • Mar 31, 2026
    Secular humanism is a philosophy that dethroned God only to crown a far less reliable sovereign—and then called it progress.
  • Mar 25, 2026
    A ruling class of “Know Betters” untethered from principle governs not by consistency, but by narrative, control, and the convenient reinvention of truth.
  • Mar 24, 2026
    It’s not the handful of athletes that matter—it’s the wholesale rewriting of reality required to include them.
  • Mar 22, 2026
    Left leaning political parties and governments across the US, UK and Europe now fear the very people they imported for one purpose—to put them in power.
  • Mar 19, 2026
    The RINO revival is not a movement—it’s a retreat, carefully choreographed for polite applause.
  • Mar 18, 2026
    Trump’s foreign policy may be unconventional—but it is exposing decades of elite miscalculation.
  • Mar 17, 2026
    In a world that treats foreign policy like a game of chess, the objective is still to win—and without moral certitude, leaders forget what victory means or how to even achieve it.
  • Mar 16, 2026
    From Soviet “peace movements” to modern immigration debates, political actors have long hidden policy agendas behind sympathetic human faces.
  • Mar 10, 2026
    More often than ever when people ask me where I think we are going as a nation, my answer is a confident "I don't have a clue."
  • Mar 7, 2026
    Chinese missiles failed, Russian air defenses collapsed, and American air power reminded the world why deterrence still works.
  • Mar 5, 2026
    In 2007, Christopher Hitchens revisited the first foreign policy test of the United States—and the timeless danger of paying tribute to aggressors.
  • Mar 4, 2026
    In 2007, Christopher Hitchens revisited the first foreign policy test of the United States—and the timeless danger of paying tribute to aggressors.
  • Mar 3, 2026
    In his second term, the president’s unpredictable, leverage-maximizing tactics—from Iran escalations to domestic reforms—prove that controlling the negotiation often beats...
  • Feb 27, 2026
    At the State of the Union, Democrats chose illegal aliens over American citizens — and every GOP candidate should make them answer for it
  • Feb 18, 2026
    Race baiting charlatans have forgotten the lesson of the Civil Rights era: equal opportunity requires common norms, not separate systems.
  • Feb 17, 2026
    Why modern progressivism can’t succeed unless Americans stop prospering.
  • Feb 10, 2026
    Cultural institutions shape what feels normal, respectable, and beyond debate—often without ever saying a word.
  • Feb 9, 2026
    How ideology replaced reasoning and turned education into a pattern-recognition exercise.
  • Jan 20, 2026
    How moral absolutism turns mobs into heroes and victims into villains.
  • Jan 13, 2026
    When immigration enforcement is treated like self-defense in a “duty to retreat” state - the illegal alien's presence and preferences matter more than the citizen's right...
  • Jan 12, 2026
    I think the answer to that question is "yes", post-Civil War reconstruction is a precedent, but it won't come without heated battles, a lot of strings, and many risks.
  • Jan 10, 2026
    How activist leaders brainwash their followers by turning moral certainty into mortal risk.