Michael Smith is a seasoned executive with a proven track record of transforming businesses on a global scale. With over four decades of leadership experience in industries ranging from oil and gas to automotive manufacturing and firearms, he has built a reputation as a strategy-driven problem-solver who thrives in high-stakes, international settings. A multilingual leader fluent in the languages of business — strategy, finance, and operations — Michael excels at bridging gaps between technical expertise, financial acumen, and people-centric leadership. His career is marked by a knack for turning around struggling operations, fostering high-performance teams, and delivering measurable results that resonate from the shop floor to the boardroom. Smith began writing in 2006 and focuses on politics, culture, and business.
The Republic at 250: A Crisis of Civic Memory
America’s fading understanding of constitutional liberty is opening the door to rival ideologies eager to fill the void.
If You Think Moral Certainty Is a Problem, Wait Until You Get a Load of Moral Uncertainty
A nation once grounded in a shared moral vocabulary has drifted toward a confused, improvisational ethic.
The Age of Selective Legality
From street protests to courtroom disparities, Americans are witnessing the slow undoing of a stable legal order.
Cultural Superiority
The law of large numbers may buffer the dominant culture from collapse, but deviation from tested norms punishes everyone, regardless of color.
The New Moral Architects
The question is no longer who makes the laws but who defines what is moral. Those who control that definition control everything else.
The High Price of Help
Subsidies always inflate the price of what they’re meant to make affordable.
Will TDS Ever Subside?
President Trump’s actions are directed toward the Jeffersonian concept of righting ourselves by abolishing the shadow autocracy to which we have become accustomed.
Into Mordor
Like Frodo in “The Lord of the Rings,” we may not always want to confront the challenges of our time, but the choice we face is what to do with those trials.
The Meaning of ‘Right-Wing’
Leftists accuse anyone who questions their agenda of being a “right-wing extremist,” but the truth is that “Right” has become synonymous with “truth.”
Coerced Collectivism
When attempts at coerced collectivism inevitably collapse, it’s only a matter of time before the next generation rediscovers the ruins and declares, “We’ll get it right this time.”
The Trouble With Progressivism
The progressive mindset views history as a series of mistakes to be overcome rather than a source of insight, and they tear down every fence without knowing why it’s there.
My Message to the American Left
God exists, and for His sake, stop voting for your current leadership. Find new, sane people to lead you. Find someone who has their head in the real world.
Retribution and Revenge
Democrats have relentlessly accused Donald Trump of breaking political norms, casting his actions as assaults on democracy. It’s all hypocrisy.
The Rules Have Changed
The Democrat leadership guides a party that is on the short end of every 80/20 or even 90/10 issue. Leftists are afraid — and they should be.
The Civil Duty to Protect
The ideal society may not need firearms, as the Left argues, but a civilized society needs firearms to protect itself from uncivilized entities acting in asymmetric and random ways.
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