There might be something scarier than German power. That’s German weakness in this dangerous moment for Europe—and the free world.

“I will probably be the first British historian in history to say this, but here it is: I fear German power less than I am beginning to fear its inactivity,” writes Niall Ferguson for The Free Press.

Podcasts are not reviving history, as is often claimed these days. They are mostly drowning it in a tidal wave of blather, at best sloppy, at worst mendacious.

Three years ago, the University of Austin was announced in these pages. Yesterday, the school welcomed the class of 2028. This is what the president told them.

While Kamala Harris runs a campaign of unsurpassed vacuousness, on the other screen we have the dark, fissile energy of Donald Trump.

What the hell just happened to the market? This wasn’t the reaction to an underwhelming U.S. jobs report. This is something bigger.

Assassinations have often changed the course of a country. Would that have happened if the shooter had slightly better aim?

The iPhones of the well-manicured elite are burning up from Aspen to Martha’s Vineyard. What comes next?

A government with a permanent deficit and a bloated military. A bogus ideology pushed by elites. Poor health among ordinary people. Senescent leaders. Sound familiar?

Anyone who has a naive belief in the power of higher education to instill morality has not studied the history of German universities in the Third Reich.