Racism in ‘Harper’s Magazine’

There’s a certain type of black public intellectual who is becoming increasingly common. A leftist identitarian, as it were, his constant subject is racism—namely, what he ...

Parthenoffspring of Interest

The continued thoughtless use of the word person continues to puzzle me. Who was the Per whose son gave his name to every member of our species on the planet? Per is a well-known ...

GOP Needs Update to Dems’ Cage Match Rules

It's time to update the GOP's Marquess of Queensbury Rules. If you saw Ruth Bader Ginsburg at Brett Kavanaugh's swearing-in ceremony, you know that we may need to fill her seat ...

Hoaxing the Pseudo-Academic Nitwits

The best thing about being a modern academic is that you don’t have to know anything or prove anything—you simply need to have the right political opinions. This makes it ...

Al Sharpton

No More Mr. White Guy

"They know the optics of 11 white men questioning Dr. Ford ... will be so harmful and so damaging to the GOP." -- Areva Martin, CNN legal analyst "They understand that you have ...

Sex and ‘Mean Girls’ Politics

For centuries writers have depicted the weaker sex’s knack for using gossip and manipulation to pursue their ends. Research on women’s in-group relations confirms this natural ...

Ben Shapiro

Ben Shapiro’s Morality Play

“Indifferent hacks and mediocrities tower, by pushing their forces to a lucrative point, or by working power, over multitudes of superior men.” —Emerson It is a common ...

Holocaust Denial Triumphant

Two years ago, I penned a piece titled “Denial Is Dead.” The gist of it was that Holocaust denial is basically over. All of its leading intellectual proponents have abandoned ...

Color Me Raped

When I was a child, one of the many life lessons my parents taught me is that it’s easy to complain, but if possible, one should strive to be constructive and add something ...

Flinging Poo at a Jew

As a child, the thing I found most startling about attending majority-black public schools was the fact that most of my fellow students had no idea what a “Jew” is. To them, I ...

Beyond Translation

The key to a successful career in any modern bureaucracy, it seems to me, is the mastery of and willingness to use a certain kind of language that is opaque and almost meaningless ...

Nothing Is Safe From Resentment

The grim corollary of what I have called human nature’s difficult need for esteem is that nothing is safe from resentment. For so vital is human pride, and so powerful our ...

America’s Delusional Self-Destructiveness

Progressives and their neocon brethren have been predictably outraged this week, because at the press conference after the Helsinki summit on Monday, our president appeared to ...

The Media’s Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wounds

A few weeks ago, when a virginal loser with a gopher’s ass for a beard shot up the offices of a Maryland newspaper, social media was flooded with tweets from members of the ...

Attack of the Psychic Latina!

I’ve spent a great deal of my life hearing from people who supposedly know what I’m thinking…people who can’t find fault with my actual words, so they claim to know my ...

Why Is The World Getting Dumber?

I hate to concede the possibility that Bob Dylan was ever right about anything, but I will not deny that the times they are a-changin’. Still, what neither Dylan nor anyone who ...


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