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In the 1960s, the conservative intellectual James Burnham wrote a book arguing that the decline of Western civilization was a self-imposed choice.

The volume, famously called "Suicide of the West," desperately needs to be updated with an epilogue about the U.S. dependence on China for the mining and processing of rare earths, which ranks as ...Read more

In one of his classic New Jersey ballads, Bruce Springsteen sings of the sun "rising over them refinery towers."

If New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy had gotten his way, the Boss would need to update the lyric to rhapsodize about enormous wind turbines looming on the horizon instead.

Murphy's obsession with wind power is one of the reasons that ...Read more

Donald Trump has held many rallies, but never one in the parliament of a foreign nation.

President Trump's speech to the Knesset on Monday was a raucous, celebratory affair with the audience of Israeli lawmakers showering him with adulation.

Trump's reception made it a little like a State of the Union address with no Democrats in attendance ...Read more