The Most Likely End of the War
By James Quillian,Economist, Political Analyst, Natural Law

Israel’s greatest danger is not on the battlefield. It is inside its own society. The foreign press, which is not bound by Israeli military censorship, reports a steady deterioration that domestic audiences barely see. Losses in Lebanon continue to mount. Suicide rates among soldiers are at historic highs. Desertion and draft resistance are rising. The Orthodox revolt against conscription has become a street‑level rebellion. These are not isolated problems. They are symptoms of a society losing the internal cohesion required to sustain a long war.

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THE SIREN EFFECT: WHY INTELLIGENT PEOPLE GET PULLED IN
By James Quillian,Economist, Political Analyst, Natural Law

Tucker Carlson once described his first meeting with Donald Trump as “hypnotic,” “disarming,” and impossible to explain. He expected a showman. He expected a caricature. Instead, he felt something he could not name — a gravitational pull that softened his judgment and drew him into the other man’s frame. Carlson is not naïve. He is not easily impressed. What he experienced was not admiration. It was a temporary suspension of his own internal navigation.

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Common Ground Left and Right

James Quillian — Economist, Political Analyst, Natural Law

This applies to all of us in the great unwashed — not the country’s leadership class. Among ordinary Americans, left and right share more than either side wants to admit. Start with ignorance. Reading is fading fast.
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THE REALITY OF GOD’S CHOSEN PEOPLE
By James Quillian,Economist, Political Analyst, Natural Law

Human beings are born with an inborn propensity to exalt themselves and the groups they belong to. It is the oldest flaw in the species. Every tribe, nation, and ideology has done it. Zionism is simply this universal instinct amplified — identity fused with divinity, grievance fused with entitlement, and politics fused with theology. It takes a basic human impulse and elevates it into a sacred claim, then demands the rest of the world treat that claim as untouchable Continue reading →

The Phantom Depression
By James Quillian,Economist, Political Analyst, Natural Law

Why You Should Look at These Tables

Most people feel poorer today than they did in 2020. They aren’t imagining it. They aren’t failing to budget. They’re living inside a statistical illusion. The official inflation number, CPI, is designed to make the economy look healthier than it is. It measures products, not life. It hides the real cost of living by adjusting away quality improvements, substituting cheaper goods, and averaging essentials with non‑essentials.

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Future of US Economy
By James Quillian,Economist, Political Analyst, Natural Law

The United States is no longer a free market economy. It is a debt‑driven organism whose lifeblood is credit expansion and whose pulse is the movement of asset prices. GDP is no longer a measure of production; it is a measure of how much debt can be pumped into the system before something breaks. The country survives by inflating the value of what already exists, not by creating anything new.

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The Stock Market Heart of the Epstein Disciples
By James Quillian,Economist, Political Analyst, Natural Law

Power never wanders. It hunts. And right now, it’s hunting the world’s factors of production — land, labor, and capital — with a precision that makes the Iran war look like a side errand.

What cannot be bought is corralled. What cannot be corralled is pressured. This is the natural shape of the eternal power struggle we are all born into.

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The Rise of Luther Grimes
By James Quillian,Economist, Political Analyst, Natural Law

There was a world‑champion hog caller named Luther Grimes. He traveled the countryside winning first‑place prize money in every contest he entered. Folks said he was unbeatable. Luther didn’t brag about it, but he was making a fine living calling hogs from one end of the state to the other.

One day a newsman stuck a microphone in his face and asked, “Luther, what’s your secret? You get those pigs excited and enthusiastic. They run to you like their lives depend on it. And all they ever get is one Oreo cookie — more often nothing at all. Do you have some kind of supernatural power?”

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