Canceling Cancel Culture

"I was not genuine in my own beliefs," says 23-year-old Rikki Schlott in my new video. "I self-censored." Why? What did this college student believe that was so unacceptable that she felt she had to hide it? The fact that she's a right-leaning libertarian. "I was afraid to have Thomas Sowell and Jordan Peterson books on my bookshelf." If her classmates at NYU saw that, she says, she might have been "verbally attacked on social media, maligned as whatever 'ist' or 'ism' people might attack me with." So Schlott kept her mouth shut, eventually dropping out of NYU. I ask her, "If you were ...

Valor Is Wasted on the Old

Here’s what a wise man recently said: “Our youth love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders, and no longer rise when a ...

The Bland Leading the Bland

Starting from absolute freedom, I arrive at absolute tyranny. —Dostoyevsky, The Devils The unexamined life is not worth living, said Socrates, but users of social media are ...

Leave Them Vids Alone

W.H. Auden once said that Eros was the builder of cities. If true, that would explain why American infrastructure is collapsing from decay. Earlier this year, Alek Minassian, a ...

The Dangers of Appeasement

With that almost infallible instinct for making the wrong decision possessed by the British government, headed by nullity-made-flesh Theresa May, Britain has refused the request ...

Feeding Your Inner Caligula

Self-love used to be a vice, but nowadays it is the nearest thing to a virtue, as a supposed precondition of our own mental health (whatever that might be). An Irish friend ...

Pretending to Care About Nazis

I got maced last week. I was trying to get into NYU to do a talk for the school's Republican club but there was a mob of protesters outside screaming retarded slogans such as ...

An Epidemic of Clowns

Don"€™t you love a farce? My fault, I fear I thought that you"€™d want what I want, sorry my dear But where are the clowns? Send in the clowns Don"€™t bother they"€™re ...

Rioting: The Unbeatable High

It's fun watching the pundits on CNN try to intellectualize the riots in Charlotte. They bounce stats around and wonder aloud if the protesters are more angry about 19th-century ...

The Power of a Bad Idea

In early 2012, a conservative blogger I had never heard of named Brooks Bayne, who apparently had a website of some sort (and who, according to some, is a white nationalist), ...

A Timeline of Hate on Campus

Finally, after at least a decade of white supremacy on campus, students of all colors are breaking free and screaming, "€œWE HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE BUT OUR CHAINS!"€ It took a ...

Turn On, Tune In, and Drop Out

So, I"€™m walking along the East River the other day and I see this twenty-something couple sitting on a bench, reading old-timey books. I was surprised by my own reaction which ...

#Rapefest 2K15

Fox News has been broadcasting a series of Florida vacation shockers under the title, "€œSpring Break Exposed."€ They"€™re showing twenty-somethings partying in bikinis and ...

Lena Dunham

Not That Kind of Sexual Predator

I suppose that since I find Lena Dunham to be a disgustingly entitled pig monster, I am a sexist, a fat-shamer, and, hell, even an anti-Semite. None of this changes the fact that ...


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