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Jan 9, 2025 | 
fusionaier.org | Robert Bellafiore
January 9, 2024By Robert BellafioreIn his Life of Samuel Johnson, James Boswell recounts a conversation with his subject about one philosopher’s “ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal.” It’s obvious nonsense, Boswell says, to think that we are ethereal concepts, rather than corporeal beings. But can how can we ever convincingly refute the argument to the contrary?
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Jan 5, 2025 | 
conservativereview.com | Robert Bellafiore
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Jan 5, 2025 | 
freebeacon.com | Robert Bellafiore
Humans born in 1900 witnessed a startling stream of technologies that transformed their everyday lives and their understanding of the universe. Cars, telephones, and the internet overturned where we lived, how we worked, and whom we knew. Other scientific feats took the breath away by their sheer might—most of all, the atom bomb and a man on the Moon. Whatever else, rapid innovation ensured that the 20th century was never boring.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Jessica Schurz |Luis Parrales |Christopher J. Scalia |Robert Bellafiore
Taylor Swift’s tour was a worldwide spectacle—and paradoxically intimate. Published December 7, 2024 After 149 nights of sequin-filled stadiums across five continents, Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour will come to an end Sunday night in Vancouver, British Columbia. Whether you’ve long been Swift-fatigued or are rewatching videos in the merch you bought at your third show, the conclusion of Swift’s Eras Tour marks the end of a global spectacle. Starting with its economic impact.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
firstthings.com | Robert Bellafiore
Democracy and Solidarity:On the Cultural Roots of America's Political Crisisby james davison hunteryale university, 504 pages, $40
For the last few decades, James Davison Hunter has eloquently chronicled the fracturing of America. When his Culture Wars appeared in 1991, it might have been possible to dismiss as Chicken Little-ism his thesis that America was being riven by two incommensurable worldviews. No more.
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Sep 14, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Flagg Taylor |Nick Ripatrazone |Christopher J. Scalia |Robert Bellafiore
Published in English 50 years ago, the book remains a monumental work of history, politics, and literature. Published September 14, 2024 Can there be a duty to read a work of literature? Most people I’ve met who are at least aware of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s masterwork The Gulag Archipelago know that they should read the book. They know of the book’s historical importance and of Solzhenitsyn’s stature as one of the great Soviet dissidents and writers of the 20th century.
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Aug 31, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Christopher J. Scalia |Kevin Williamson |Robert Bellafiore |Jonah Goldberg
It’s been a big week for Oasis fans. On Tuesday, the group that once reasonably, if immodestly, billed itself as the greatest rock band in the world announced that it would be reuniting for a series of shows in 2025, more than 15 years after its last live performance. This was a minor miracle: Few people ever thought there could be a ceasefire between the feuding siblings at the band’s core, Noel Gallagher and his younger brother Liam.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
fusionaier.org | Robert Bellafiore
July 18, 2024By Robert BellafioreWith the tapping of J.D. Vance as Donald Trump’s running mate, it seems that the Republican Party has fully shed its old skin and revealed its new nature as the party of an altogether different, “national” conservatism. His selection follows the recent National Conservatism Conference in Washington, DC, which offered further evidence of conservatives’ sense that the movement has broken with its past and is prepared for something different.
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May 31, 2024 | 
americanmind.org | Robert Bellafiore
National Public Radio’s new CEO, Katherine Maher, has come under scrutiny in recent weeks, and deservedly so. Maher’s appointment can help us understand the shifting elite consensus regarding social media and the internet’s political impact.
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May 13, 2024 | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Robert Bellafiore
The latest round of campus madness, in the form of student protests over the Israel-Gaza conflict, should prompt American onlookers to ask a simple question: Why exactly do we give these institutions our money? But as Americans hopefully reassess their continued financing of activist madhouses, we will also need to look more carefully at the funding that American higher education receives from abroad. Simply put, our universities are flush with money from countries of concern.
