Saviors of the Silver Screen

Superhero and comic-book movies are the new rock & roll. Like rock, they were originally a passing fad understood to be for children. Now, however, they are a ...

Kanye West

Behold Their Lofty Angst: Artists in the Trump Era—Part Two

“Can Protest Art Get Its Mojo Back?” asks Spencer Kornhaber in a July 2018 article in The Atlantic. For though it’s a shocking thing, given the characteristic courage and ...

The Myth of Boomer Privilege

The major theme of my writing is guilt—how blaming others is maliciously used as a disabling mechanism and how people and cultures toss it around like a hot potato. No one, ...

Is Trump Facing a 1960s-Style Revolt?

Sunday morning, President Trump announced that the world's worst terrorist, the head of the ISIS caliphate who had raped an American woman, had received justice. About to be ...

Left & Right Unite Against Speech!

I don’t like being wrong. But every now and then, I find myself ashamed to be right. Last month I made a prediction. There was a movie being distributed by Universal called The ...

The Infantilization of America

America has always been for the young. However, in the past half century, America has become even younger. We’re becoming a country of children. This is clear in the realm of ...

Individualism vs. Individuality

It is a humbling tribute to my complete unimportance that, having written perhaps 5,000 articles in my lifetime, I have only once been the object of concerted attack or criticism. ...

Nationalism and the Conservative Country Club: Part One

“With the ancients...it was all or nothing, with no fear of disaster. The fall of states, cities, and kings was considered glorious. That is something utterly alien to us.” ...

Are Abortion & Gay Rights American Values?

"My religion defines who I am. And I've been a practicing Catholic my whole life," said Vice President Joe Biden in 2012. "I accept my church's position on abortion as ... ...

The Whole Folk Tale and Nothing But the Folk Tale

New York City public school teachers recently revealed that they have been instructed to reject "objectivity," "written documentation" and "perfectionism" by Schools Chancellor ...

First They Threw Milkshakes

In the grand tradition of primates tossing feces at perceived rivals, leftists in the UK have lately taken to throwing milkshakes at right-leaning figures they hyperbolically ...

Illustration by Aubrey Beardsley, 1896.

How to Find Meaning After God

It has become hackneyed to say, like Ivan Karamazov, that without God everything is permitted. And though it is rather simplistic and question-begging, this statement comprehends ...

The Liberty to Hate

If you want to understand politics, it is instructive to overcome the common prejudice against negative feelings—enmity, hatred, contempt, envy, resentment, and others—because ...

Anders Behring Breivik

Oh, What a Lovely Race War!

I don’t revisit my old work. I’ve been writing this weekly column for four and a half years now, and I never reread old pieces. Because for me—and I’m sure I’m not alone ...

Maya Angelou Street Art, Montreal

Just Say No to Saying Sorry

Woke is the concept that everything must be inclusive and inoffensive. Oh dear! Being hyperaware of everyone’s sensitivities must make one a hell of a bore. I recently flew down ...

Mayor Pete and the Crackup of Christianity

"(T)here is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so," said Hamlet, who thereby raised some crucial questions: Is moral truth subjective? Does it change with ...


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