Millennial guys not even 30, and sometimes younger than 25, are dating women in their 30s, 40s, and even 50s. It’s mass hysteria. At first I thought this trend was something my friends picked up from (where else?) the media. In Hollywood, where getting older is worse than dying, you find numerous ...
The great pundit James Bowman recently said, “The biggest mistake conservatives make is to suppose that Democrats control the media. In fact, the power relationship is the other way around: The media control the Democrats.” His remark sheds light on the convulsions going on in the Democratic ...
Pop music, like anything showbiz, is hardly as it appears. The gap between a pop star’s public and private politics can be as deceiving as anything. This is the lesson the singer Morrissey is battling, once again. He has had a number of his collaborators on a new album distance themselves from ...
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.” ―William S. Burroughs Kicked out of the National Review bio-dome by William F. Buckley in the early ’60s, the John Birch Society has been considered the kooky uncle of the American right for decades. For conservatives at ...
In the past few years the television show The Simpsons, which this year will celebrate its 30th anniversary of being on the air, has come under fire for its stereotypical, white-voiced portrayal of the Indian character Apu. Remarkably, an entire documentary was made on how troubling one Indian ...
This last political season, a 29-year-old bartender named Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a self-described “radical,” came “dancing across the water” to conquer the Democratic nomination and a congressional seat in Brooklyn, New York. The emergence of AOC is similar to the 2015 political ...
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 25-year-old Canadian, murdered ten people by running over them in a van. He claimed as his cause (terrorists, like ...
They hiss and shout “Boo!” at Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson for owning slaves, but now liberals are turning on presidents as recent as Bill Clinton. In the modern Democratic Party you either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become part of the problem. Jon Stewart, the ...
The inspirational story of a backup NFL quarterback suddenly dominating headlines by championing black-power politics sounds like a dream you’d dream if you fell asleep during a Warren Beatty marathon on TCM (specifically a section that ran Heaven Can Wait before Bulworth). Nike’s ...
“Everything in our age conspires to turn the writer, and every other kind of artist as well, into a minor official, working on themes handed down from above and never telling what seems to him the whole of the truth.” —George Orwell What was true about this in the 1940s is true today. There ...
