Greetings fellow curious minds! If you've ever flicked on a light switch and pictured a rush of electrons zooming from a distant power plant straight to your bulb, like water gushing through a pipe, you're not alone. That's the classic story we all learned in school. But as a popular YouTube video from Veritasium (titled "The Big Misconception Abou...

At a moment when many on the political Left seek to consign oil to the dustbin of history, it's worth taking a sober look at what oil actually represents: not some filthy symbol of the past, but the most powerful and flexible energy carrier humanity has yet harnessed — and the very backbone of our modern technological age. 1. Oil Built the Modern W...

Younger generations in the West today often express admiration for socialism. Whether on social media, in college classrooms, or in viral memes, there's a common theme: capitalism is seen as exploitative, inequality is portrayed as inherent rather than contingent, and socialism is depicted as the moral alternative — one that promises fairness, secu...

San Francisco's quiet approval of a reparations framework promising, in theory, up to $5 million per eligible Black resident, is another example of how politics driven by symbolism and moral grandstanding can drift dangerously far from reality. Mayor Daniel Lurie signed the ordinance discreetly, just before Christmas, establishing a reparations fun...

A recent publication highlighted on The Focal Points and elsewhere has drawn intense attention by claiming a connection between COVID-19 vaccination and cancer, based on a systematic review that reportedly identifies over 300 peer-reviewed cases and multiple studies in 27 countries showing cancer diagnoses, recurrence, or progression occurring afte...

Eliyahu Haddad, writing in The Jerusalem Post on 31 December 2025, highlights a demographic and cultural shift in Western societies that often goes unmentioned in polite discussion. As he notes: "What once required 500 years of military conquest now unfolds in just 50 years through immigration and demographics. Europe's Muslim population has surged...

James Hankins's resignation from Harvard — and his public critique of how Western universities have embraced a radical woke agenda — should have been an international wake-up call. Instead, it was treated as just another professor quitting his job. But what Hankins describes isn't a fringe irritation; it's a full-blown cultural offensive that has h...

The claim that home ownership is a form of "white supremacy," made by the radical Left, is not merely wrong; it is a profound misreading of human aspiration. Across the Western world, and far beyond it, people of every race, culture, and background want the same basic thing: a secure place to live, some control over their own space, and a measure o...

Roland Rolandsen's examination of the absurd arithmetic behind Big Australia does more than poke holes in numbers. It exposes something more fundamental: this is not a debate won or lost on spreadsheets, but one profoundly shaped by ideology — the modern greed creed of permanent growth at all costs. This critique is telling because it highlights a ...

Josh Konstantinos recently described a curious cultural pattern as "sterile polygamy" — a social condition where relationships proliferate without permanence, commitment, or generative intimacy. It's a vivid phrase, but it only begins to name a deeper structural collapse: not simply a transformation of marriage, but the erosion of stable male-femal...

Modern strength sport worships the moment: one maximal lift, one chemically inflated contraction, one viral clip. Arthur Saxon would have dismissed it as a circus trick. Who Arthur Saxon Actually Was Arthur Saxon (real name Arthur Hennig, 1878–1921) was born into working-class Germany and grew up in poverty. He did not emerge from gyms, laboratorie...

In the heart of Europe's progressive capital, a recent incident has sparked heated debate about government priorities, resource distribution, and the balance between globalist-imposed humanitarian obligations and domestic responsibilities. Berlin's handling of a massive power outage in its southwest districts — leaving tens of thousands without hea...

No civilised person wants to defend bigotry. That battle was fought and rightly won decades ago. Racism, sectarian hatred, and arbitrary exclusion based on immutable traits are moral failures and social poisons. But something odd has happened since then: the word "discrimination" itself has been placed beyond the pale, as if all forms of judgment, ...

Dr. Benjamin Spock, the darling of postwar liberal parenting, built his empire on a simple mantra: trust your instincts, shower children with affection, and reject the "rigid" discipline of previous generations. His 1946 bestseller, Baby and Child Care, sold over 50 million copies, making it the go-to bible for millions of parents — second only to ...

 There are moments in political commentary when one reads a sentence twice—not because it is subtle, but because it has crossed a rhetorical Rubicon. In the wake of the extraordinary U.S. operation that saw Nicolás Maduro seized and hauled before a New York court, it was perhaps inevitable that imaginations would run hot. Still, I did not expe...

"I start this first column of the new year with the heavy heart that I am sure all our readers have for the families of the victims of the horrific mass-murders on Bondi Beach just before Christmas. And let us not deal in the usual Labour Party euphemisms, misdirecting abstractions and Kumbaya platitudes. This was the deliberate attempt to murder J...

Michael Snyder argues in his Substack post that World War III is not looming but already in progress, characterized by a web of interconnected global conflicts involving major powers like the U.S., Russia, China, Israel, and Iran. He claims over half the world's nations are either directly engaged in warfare or funding proxy battles, drawing parall...

Rome didn't fall because the barbarians got stronger. Rome fell because Rome got weaker — fat, entitled, and convinced that the good times were permanent. Sound familiar? In 2025 we are living through the most astonishing golden age in human history, and we are doing exactly what the late Romans did: treating the miracle like background noise, expa...

Before there was law, before there was a king, before there was even a village, there was a man with a rock in his hand and a simple, non-negotiable truth: If someone comes to take my life, my body, or my freedom, I will stop them by any means I possess. That is not a "British value" added in 1689. That is not a "human right" invented in 1948. That...

We are the first humans in history who have completely lost the plot of how good we have it. A homeless man in Berlin or Toronto can wake up under a bridge, wrapped in a synthetic sleeping bag that keeps him warm at -20 °C, drink from a public fountain that delivers cleaner water than Louis XIV ever tasted, charge a smartphone that gives him access...