The comic biopic War Dogs starring Jonah Hill as Efraim Diveroli, the 22-year-old Miami Beach international arms dealer whose scandal was a nine days" wonder in 2008, serves as a fun test of my instincts about how the world actually works. Eight years ago, I went out on a limb to predict that ...
The celebrated Black Lives Matter movement chalked up another riot over the weekend, this time in Milwaukee. A black cop shot an armed black criminal and much passive-voice news reporting ensued. The New York Times wrote, for example: Like many of his neighbors, Dominic A. Lebourgeois was in ...
The Olympics tend to be the Island of Misfit Spectator Sports, showcasing competitions that got left by the wayside of popularity, such as volleyball and diving. So every couple of years when the Olympics roll around, there is much grumbling about how outmoded they are. Yet large numbers of people ...
Donald Trump is strikingly unaffected by the ideological indoctrination that has otherwise overwhelmed the thinking of American elites. Why? Trump's lack of verbal fluency. Consider the candidate's attitude toward modern art as an analogy. Physicist and genetic theorist Gregory Cochran explained ...
At a ceremony for some of the various policemen recently shot by his fellow Black Lives Matter advocates, President Barack Obama described the postapocalyptic hellscape of gun violence that is America today:We flood communities with so many guns that it is easier for a teenager to buy a Glock than ...
Do you ever get the impression that our endless identity-politics culture wars have less to do with the liberation of their ostensible beneficiaries than with the further career advancement of a small number of individuals whose careers were already doing pretty well? For example, consider the ...
Why do the human sciences record pervasive behavioral differences among racial groups, such as in violent-crime rates? One explanation is that these disparities originate in complex interactions between nature and nurture. But, of course, only dangerous extremists hold that theory. The much more ...
"Three thousand years of beautiful tradition, from Moses to Sandy Koufax, you"re goddamn right I"m living in the f—-ing past!" "Walter Sobchak in the Coen brothers" The Big Lebowski This is the 50th anniversary of pitcher Sandy Koufax's final season in baseball, in ...
The question of whether Britain should be in or out of the European Union might seem like a complex technical matter upon which people of goodwill might differ. But nationalism is now the worst idea of all time, because Hitler. Lex at WWTDD notes:Some portion of the American public is vexed about ...
I"ve been pointing out for years that O.J. Simpson's 1994 white Bronco run for the Mexican border from his lawyer Robert Kardashian's house was a turning point in American cultural history, spawning the Kardashians, Caitlyn Jenner, and much else that you could be watching on your TV right ...
