Allan J. Feifer

There are errors of omission and errors of commission. When an error rises to the level of intentional misleading, we call it a lie. The currently unassailable concept of some widely held white privilege was and is a deliberate falsehood…

It’s the middle of the night as I write this, and I’m deeply troubled by Trump’s conviction. Why? Perhaps I’m hyper-partisan, perhaps not. I know I’ll never forget where I was when I heard about his conviction. I knew I’d remember it…

A difficult concept to explain to ordinary people is that some people and some ideas are unadulterated evil, not just in their implementation but in their conception. Most of us are unfamiliar with evil because we spend much time and effort…

Most of us cannot evaluate equivocal information, which is essential to project future trends and events—“forwardcasting,” as I call it. In ancient times, we read the entrails of some poor beast or threw a roll of some old bones to see the…

Under the left’s aegis, which values emotion over reason, “compassion” is the highest societal goal. However, as the West’s collapse shows, while compassion has a place in a civilized society, it’s no way to run a country.For several…

Never before has an American president been so physically unstable that he needs an accompanying entourage wherever he walks. That shakiness is a visual metaphor of Biden’s presidency. He represents a departure from previous presidents in…

The U.S. and its allies keep substantial forces in the region to ensure an ability to intercede when our interests are threatened. It is not possible to leave the area to its own devices. It's only a question of time before we are sucked…

There has never been a more dangerous time in the world than right now. Moreover, great empires can end quickly, as the Soviet Union’s abrupt collapse showed. The lesson we should take away from this monumental historical moment is that…

The America that I knew regularly performed miracles. We put men on the moon, dug the Panama Canal, invented the atomic bomb, and created the transistor. There was no limit to what we could do. Nothing seemed impossible.Fifty years ago, the…

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