Watchman Nieuws

Trust must be earned through transparency, consistent rules, and procedures that make fraud difficult and detection easy.

Meritocracy is like free trade. Countries or classes embrace it when it advantages them and view it more skeptically when they are no longer on top.

I retired from the University of Notre Dame at the end of 2025. More accurately, I left. After twenty years on the faculty, I could no longer do Notre…

In recent days, Germany, under globalist leadership, has proposed the creation within the European Union of the so-called E6 format – an informal framework bringing together the EU’s six largest…

Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s impressive performance at the Munich Security Conference gives us an alluring glimpse of the president he could be one day.

The decline of religion remains a fundamental reality in most Western countries, particularly in Europe, where over 50% of those under age 40 do not identify with any faith. Even in more rel

During World War II, Japan’s fleet was large and qualitatively peerless, but unsupported by a broader defense-industrial base. The United States finds itself in the same position today.

The diagnosis of gender dysphoria bewitched the medical community like the brutal brain operation once did.

Donald Trump had a busy January. Just as he withdrew his threat to invade Greenland, he threw a spanner in the works of Keir Starmer’s plan to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.

The transgender industrial complex is unraveling as lawsuits mount and medical groups reverse course on child gender surgeries and “gender-affirming care.”

If the U.S. does not go after the DSA system itself, then it is game over: free speech is gone, and our censors are European.

The Polish prime minister is provoking a fight with the United States with potentially catastrophic consequences for European security.

Recent migration numbers emphasize how population gains, economic growth, and political power are shifting toward Republican strongholds.

In case you didn’t see it, late Friday afternoon President Trump posted an op-ed piece on the Wall Street Journal website entitled: “My Tariffs Have…

Ideological readings of nationhood may be losing their grip.

America’s immigration bubble has burst after 60 years of growth, with the U.S. experiencing negative net migration for the first time since the 1970s.

A voter ID filibuster would be a 24/7 GOP campaign ad.

Reclaiming competition today means restoring balance to the economy so that workers, small businesses, and communities can compete and grow.

How smart people end up believing dangerous things and why antisemitism waits at the end of the road

My speech at the Second International Conference on Anti-Semitism in Jerusalem this week.

“Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do.”