Over the last half-century, enormous efforts have been expended by individuals to get their groups, such as blacks, women, Jews, homosexuals, and Hispanics, certified as authentic victims of society. Just since 2013, the "transgendered" have achieved cultural validation as designated ...
Has the cult of Alan Turing finally jumped the shark with the well-made but tepid movie The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as the British mathematician and computer science pioneer who died of cyanide poisoning in 1954? Over the decades, Turing has become ever more of a folk hero ...
The Progressive crack-up of late 2014 began in early November: the voters rejected the Democrats" "Coalition of the Fringes" campaign themes of Ferguson, feminism, and foreigners. It worsened with the shameful Michael Brown riots and the ludicrous fraternity gang rape libel, which has ...
Last week, in the wake of the grand jury's decision in Ferguson and the ensuing night of undocumented shoppers, I was planning to write the definitive essay on why the engineers of conventional wisdom"the holders of the Megaphone"always seem to get their big stories so ludicrously ...
Numerous identity politics uproars, such as Ferguson, Trayvon, and Duke Lacrosse, have turned out to be humiliating fiascos for the national press when all the facts are finally toted up. Note that these were the mainstream media's wars of choice, battlegrounds chosen to teach the public ...
Months of egging on the mob in Ferguson, Missouri by the Obama Administration, the Democratic Party, and the national media in order to goose turnout in this month's midterm elections have culminated in the Night of Undocumented Shopping. CNN reported: An entire row of businesses on West ...
For most of history, being a hereditary aristocrat was a good job. The only catch was the old concept of noblesse oblige, which suggested that people of wealth, power, and influence were honor bound to defend the general public. Today, however, it's more prestigious to be a victim of the majority. ...
With the exception of the teeming masses of Philip K. Dick adaptations, science fiction movies (such as the new Interstellar) tend to be based on original screenplays rather than the genre's classic novels. One reason has been budgetary: mainstream novels, such as Gone Girl, consist mostly of ...
I"m writing this a day before the midterm elections and you"re reading it at least a day after, so I"ll focus upon a continuing feature of the political landscape: Barack Obama. No doubt the results of the midterm election are being interpreted as a referendum on Obama. But who ...
Six years after he was first elected President of the United States, Barack Obama remains something of an enigma to the public he presides over. Ironically, this isn"t due to the President being particularly reticent about himself. After all, judging from his two books, the subject Obama finds ...
