John Leake

5 days ago | lewrockwell.com | John Leake

I once asked my old mentor, Roger Scruton—a famous British political philosopher—why he’d never pursued a career in politics. Because intellectuals are ill-suited for political decision making, which is about dealing with aggressive competing interests and finding compromises that are seldom entirely satisfying for any particular party.

6 days ago | thefocalpoints.com | John Leake

“You are what you eat,” as the old saying goes. Anyone who visits a U.S. airport and looks around can see that something has gone terribly wrong with the metabolic health of the American people. It’s therefore an astonishing fact that President Trump’s new pick for Surgeon General, Casey Means, has come under fire from all quarters for suggesting that there is something wrong with our food supply that needs to be investigated and corrected.

6 days ago | lewrockwell.com | John Leake

VE Day: When America Cheered Russia Studying the history of international relations is in some respects a study of forgetfulness. One generation is swept into the maelstrom of a great struggle against an evil adversary. After that generation dies, the next generation retains only a dim memory of what the old men of the previous generation were carrying on about. New resentments and antipathies form.

1 week ago | lifesitenews.com | John Leake

(Focal Points) — I remember reading an October 2019 issue of Forbes about how Italy was already insolvent and would never get out of its debt trap. A debt trap occurs when economic growth and population demographics—not enough young people to take care of retired people—become grossly insufficient to finance a society’s growing debt (private and public). At the time I wondered how international banking institutions would deal with Italy’s pending debt crisis.

1 week ago | lewrockwell.com | John Leake

I remember reading an October 2019 issue of Forbes about how Italy was already insolvent and would never get out of its debt trap. A debt trap occurs when economic growth and population demographics—not enough young people to take care of retired people—become grossly insufficient to finance a society’s growing debt (private and public). At the time I wondered how international banking institutions would deal with Italy’s pending debt crisis.