Drowning in Data

I think I’ve stumbled upon one type of education that actually would effectively reduce an unfortunate racial gap. Most forms of instruction don’t, of course. In the first dozen years of this century, billionaires such as Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg and politicians like George W. Bush and ...

“Screw the Jews” Might Bring Bad News

Last week we talked about overcorrection. This week, let’s see how the right’s gonna use that shotgun to blow off its remaining toes. As I pointed out last year, the GOP goes into 2024 with several strikes against it, at a time when, under different circumstances, the election would be a cinch ...

Parental License: The Left’s New Child-Snatchers

The Christmas holidays are now over, leaving your kids safely back in school—to the probable relief of some parents. For such child-phobic adults, a new and innovative solution to the problem of home child-care is now available: Why not fail your forthcoming Compulsory Fitness to Rear Children ...

The End of Great Power Politics

The prophets of international relations are eager to offer us different visions of the future. For some, American decline is destined to give rise to a new era of multipolarity. Others assert we’re already living in a bipolar system, with Beijing and Washington occupying center stage. Still ...

The Week That Perished

The Week’s Most Teeming, Scheming, and I-Have-a-Dreaming Headlines A SCOOBY JEW MYSTERY! Today’s episode: The Case of the Haunted Brownstone. Crown Heights, Brooklyn: For weeks, people living in the area were hearing voices coming from their walls and floorboards. “Honey, I think we have ...

Blue States Just Can’t Stop Taxing

The latest Census Bureau data on population changes in America should have been a wake-up call to lawmakers in blue states and cities. The Census data provide even further evidence that "soak the rich" tax policies have incited a blue-state meltdown. California, New York and Illinois all lost the ...

Harvard University, Boston

All the President’s Mien

The slow-motion implosion of Claudine Gay’s presidency of Harvard has been a pleasure for many to watch, in the manner in which wanton boys, to use Shakespeare’s designation of them, enjoy picking the legs and wings off flies. Her discomfiture was deserved, however; she seems to have made a ...

Sign of the ‘Times’

Okay, sport fans, according to Joe Biden the Donald is the reincarnation of Adolf Hitler, so if you value your freedoms, do not vote for Trump or you’ll be seeing storm troopers marching down Fifth Avenue. Biden gets his ideas from The New York Times, the paper that prints only news that fits its ...

Prove You’re Not ‘Easily Led,’ Evangelicals!

In 1986, The New York Times described evangelicals as "more easily led than other kinds of voters." Then in 1993, The Washington Post reported that evangelicals were "largely poor, uneducated and easy to command." (The Washington Post issued a correction; the Times did not.) For the past week, the ...

Mark Cuban

Mark Cuban: The Bumptious Billionaire

It’s a striking aspect of how out-of-fashion Diversity-Inclusion-Equity has suddenly become in the wake of Claudine Gay’s ouster as the president of Harvard that the most prominent person to take to Twitter to defend DIE has been Mark Cuban: DEI does not mean you dont hire on merit. Of course ...