Joe, with degrees in engineering and economics, raced motorcycles, founded 3 software companies, and launched one of the first computer store chains. Now he writes novels and Ghost essays while traveling with his wife, Lanying, and their cat, Cat.
Summary: The lowest common denominator is not accident but policy. Profit killed excellence because it could not extract value fast enough. Mediocrity scales; quality does not. We mock education publicly while hoarding it privately. By the time people notice what was lost, excellence has been priced out of reach. Audio0:
all over again Audio0:00/189.5331751× The strangest part of this whole era is how hard Republicans worked to convince the country that Democrats were running secret child-trafficking rings in pizza shops with no basements. They pushed the Pizzagate fantasy so aggressively that a gunman showed up at Comet
December 19 Don't expect to much. The Justice Department is sitting on photographs, travel records, communications, and investigative files that could expose the most powerful sex trafficking operation in American history. Jeffrey Epstein's network. His clients. His leverage. December 19 is the deadline to release them.
The Economist Who Stopped Being Polite The New York Times made Paul Krugman famous. It also made him bland. By his last year there, every column ran through a meat grinder of editorial caution. "Extremely intrusive," he called it. Three levels of editors, all of them allergic to
Summary: Trump's drug war isn't about stopping drugs—it's a hierarchy enforcement system. At the bottom: raids, mandatory minimums, and civil asset forfeiture crushing couriers, mules, and addicts who make easy targets. At the top: pardons for allies, donors, and operators whose silence matters.
Summary: The United States is experiencing an unprecedented wave of book banning—nearly 23,000 since 2021, with Florida and Iowa leading. The targets: books about race, gender, sexuality, and inconvenient history. Groups like Moms for Liberty, designated extremist by the SPLC, harass librarians and teachers into silence while legislators
the document Moscow wrote By Joe Zeigler Summary: Trump's new National Security Strategy reads like it was drafted in Moscow. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called it "largely consistent with our vision." He's right. The document offers Russia "strategic stability" while accusing America&
the easy war Summary: Vladimir Putin found the ultimate weapon to destroy the United States: our own government. He didn’t need missiles; he needed PrumpTutin to appoint wreckers like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. This isn’t incompetence—it’s calculated asymmetric warfare targeting our national immune system. Kennedy is
Warnings Ignored, Ships Burning This is the day we remember. Not for medals. Not for speeches. We remember the dead. Ships burned. Men died in pajamas. Sailors fired rifles at torpedo planes. Medics treated the wounded under smoke and fire. On the airfields, our pilots died running toward planes that
Joe Zeigler Summary: The Founders built a republic, not a democracy. They didn't trust the public, so they created guardrails—an appointed Senate, an Electoral College as filter, restricted voting. We tore them down. The Dunning-Kruger voter—certain of what he doesn't know—got sovereign power.
Extra Edition Senator Mark Kelly—whom Trump has publicly suggested executing—advised Adm. Frank M. Bradley not to follow illegal orders. The irony writes itself. Soldiers used to swear loyalty to emperors, warlords, kings, and dictators. In 1787, the United States broke with that tradition. The founders demanded something radical: