Paradocracy

Top-ranked chess player Magnus Carlsen  is widely regarded as the best chess player of all time. Carlsen has held the number-one position in the FIDE world chess rankings since July of 2011. Boasting a peak rating of 2882, Carlsen’s is the highest in history, and his time as the highest-rated player in the world is second only to the renowned grandmaster and former world chess champion Garry Kasparov. For the latest generation of chess enthusiasts, Magnus Carlsen personifies perfection in the game; he is the face and the poster child for the modern game. He is, in the current renaissance of this centuries-old game, the Bobby Fischer of his time, bringing attention and publicity to a game otherwise overlooked and under-appreciated, especially among the youth.   What was once a scholar’s and older man’s game with the rare adolescent chess prodigy has, since the 2020 release of the TV series  The Queen’s Gambit , evolved into an internet sensation through a sharp rise in onl...

This Christmas, give the gift that keeps on giving: the gift of knowledge, the gift of critical thought, the gift of awareness and truth. This Christmas, get a copy of  Death by Socialism ; it’s sure to inform as much as it’s sure to inspire conversation on Christmas morning.  Looking to stir the pot just a bit? Looking to break the ice at this year’s family get-together?  Death by Socialism promises this and more: it promises to get the conversation going and the blood flowing; it promises to make this a Christmas worth remembering.  Have a friend or a family member who’s been watching just a bit too much CNN or mainstream media? Know anyone who gets the bulk of her ideas from Joy Behar, Rosie O’Donnell, and Whoopi Goldberg of The View ? If they can even stomach the idea of celebrating Christmas this year, get them their own intellectual first aid kits: their very own copies of this one-of-a-kind treatise on the principles of logic that exist in that massive blind ...