Signing the Declaration offers a path out of the chaos and confusion of the current age by supporting a unifying vision—one that restores hope in humanity and confidence in a better future.
The official closure of USAID, once the world’s largest bilateral foreign aid agency, marks a seismic shift in global humanitarian assistance. For organizations like World Vision, the impact is immediate and devastating.
If you want to make sense of the chaos of our age, you must look past the daily headlines and the noise that fills our minds and feeds our fears. Beneath the political turmoil, the wars, the moral confusion, and the technological breakthroughs lies one ancient question: What does it mean to be human?
The Rolling Stone article, “What You’ve Suspected is True: The Billionaires Are Not Like Us,” argues forcefully that extreme wealth reshapes the human mind, creating a kind of moral pathology among the ultra-rich.
At first glance, the “network state” sounds like a bold idea for a borderless, digital age: a community of like-minded people, bound not by geography but by ideology and collective action, who crowdfund territory and eventually negotiate recognition from legacy states. But scratch the surface, and you find that this shiny crypto-utopia is merely the latest escape plan for the ultra-rich — a new Galt’s Gulch for our fractured times.
Konstantin Kisin recently posed an important question on Substack: Why is socialism on the rise? He rightly points to growing despair among younger generations, priced out of home ownership and increasingly disillusioned with capitalism.
Nearly 250 years ago, a people rose up to free themselves from the tyranny of a king through the Declaration of Independence. Today, we face a similar challenge in the face of a new and more insidious form tyranny.
Using the Declaration of Independence as a template to challenge the modern-day tyrant hiding in plain sight.
As a Christian observing from Australia, I understand the powerful appeal of leaders like Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and Viktor Orbán—especially to believers who see a world spinning off its moral axis.
In an era marked by rising authoritarianism and the hollowing out of democratic institutions, strongmen like Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and Viktor Orbán have gained prominence by presenting themselves as defenders of tradition, sovereignty, and order.