by Fred Reed
Given that Washington is actively looking for a pretext to invade Mexico, where I have lived for twenty-three years, a few observations from this side of the border may be of worth. To begin, let us ponder Claudia Scheinbaum Pardo, Mexico’s recently elected president, who is subject to venom from the far Right. For example …
‘People of different sorts seldom want to live together. When forced to do so, the results often are suboptimal, such as mass murder. For example Protestants and Catholics in Ireland, Hutus and Tutsis in Burundi, Israelis and Palestinians in Palestine, Chinese and Indonesians in Jakarta, Shias and Sunnis in many places, Moslem and Hindus in …
Much ink has been shed over the blowing up of the Nordstream pipelines with fingers being pointed at Americans, Russians, and Ukrainians as the saboteurs. At this writing, a Ukrainian supposedly involved has been arrested. How the media will spin this I don’t know. There exist many politically motivated who would like to decide who …
The following is a compilation of what over the years I have regarded, perhaps optimistically, as philosophically useful thought on what I have refrained from calling Chuckie D. and the Darwin Caper. It is a bit lumpy, consisting in part of articles published elsewhere. It is also criminally long. For this I apologize, and …
Massive Archive I have been writing this column, off and on, mostly on, for–dear God, can it be nearly thirty years? Yet nothing lasts forever, neither columns nor columnists, and Fred on Everything, for unexpected reasons with which i will not bore the reader, has reached its end. Columnizing is a curious trade. I suppose …
Consider two children, white, boys, growing up in contented middle-class families in the same suburb of Washington, DC, equally bright, popular, successful with girls, and so on. One becomes a growling conservative, the other a chirping liberal. I think of them as woofers and tweeters.) Why the difference in outcome? A likely explanation, or so …
}these are deranged ramblings, perhaps of psychiatric interest. If pressed, Fred will deny authorship and possibly bring an action for defamation. }beware. These days, not unreasonably I think, people wonder whether artificial intelligence will produce an electronic being superior to, well, us. Others of darker immaaginings ask whether we don’t face the arrival of a …
I wonder how many Americans quite understand what the Us is facing in its aggressive confrontation with China. Washington clearly prepares the public for another unnecessary war. Given America’s routine defeat in war and catastrophic miscalculations in fighting small powers, picking a fight with what, increasingly, is again becoming the Middle Kingdom seems less than …
Democracy may not be the silliest idea concocted by man but, for anything larger than a small town, it is crackpot. It consists in the idea that a public, on average knowing almost nothing, can choose leaders in popularity contests among provincial lawyers who know little more and are required to know nothing, except how …
If you are a young man wondering what to do with your life, you may consider enlisting in the military. Don’t. Yes, the military has its appeal, or seems to. You may need a job. The uniform looks good. There can be adventure. You might get laid by Asian lovelies in foreign countries. These things …