Benjamin Braddock

Mar 29, 2024 | im1776.com | Benjamin Braddock |Adam Lehrer |Samuel Finlay

Benjamin: I first stumbled onto this discussion from a later tweet in which you posted a photo of the interior of a cathedral and said “I can tell you this, no surfer boy will ever build one of these, no matter how buff he is, how vital he feels or how many hot chicks he sleeps with. His life will amount to nothing and he will leave no enduring legacy.” This struck a nerve with me because I think surfing and surf culture is good. Let’s start with the activity itself.

Feb 7, 2024 | im1776.com | Benjamin Braddock

2019. El Salvador’s new president Nayib Bukele faces a staggering challenge. In office barely a month, his country is in international headlines again. For decades, El Salvador had never made international headlines because of good news. This time was no different. A Salvadoran father and daughter had drowned in the Rio Grande attempting to cross into the United States.

Dec 3, 2023 | im1776.com | Benjamin Braddock

Erik Prince: I would argue the peacetime military throwing more and more money at the organizations compounded bad habits, especially after 9/11. Compare what happened in World War II, when the officers that were largely in charge at the start of the war were not the ones in charge one, two, let alone four years later. After 9/11 there were never any housecleanings in the US military. We just added more and more to the bloat.

May 11, 2023 | americanmind.org | Benjamin Braddock

Up until a week ago, the 2024 presidential election campaign was by and large an uninteresting slog. The arrest of President Trump had shown some promise of injecting life into the race, but just a few short weeks later it is all but forgotten. Events that used to carry great significance which would be etched into the public memory for decades—like the investigation, prosecution, or impeachment of a president—have now been reduced to farcical shadow-play, gone in a moment.