In politics, secrecy and silence are becoming less practical, while noise and distortion are coming to dominate. Thus, the 2016 election raises questions of how strategies of political power are evolving as we move from an age of information scarcity to one of superabundance. Almost by ...
One hour and one minute into the first presidential debate, Donald Trump finally mentioned, in passing, the word that had gotten him this far: "border." And then Trump immediately forgot to bring up borders anymore, other than a rushed reference to the Border Patrol endorsing him. (He ...
As demonstrated by a weekend of immigrant Muslim terrorism in Minnesota, New York, and New Jersey, Mrs. Clinton has left herself a hostage to fortune. While still the overdog in the campaign, her repeatedly passing up opportunities to pivot away from the Establishment's extremist conventional ...
It has been a fun week for everybody (except Hillary Clinton) since my last column began by asking: If Donald Trump were as bad as she says, shouldn"t Hillary drop out so a better candidate could beat him? After noting her two coughing breakdowns on Labor Day, I inquired: If Hillary ...
Hillary Clinton's disastrous Labor Day raises the question: If Donald Trump were as bad as she says, shouldn"t Hillary drop out so a better candidate could beat him? But first... Why is Trump outsmarting Hillary? And what's this "alt-right" she's denouncing? Hillary has been doing ...
Puerto Rico is being allowed to fall apart in order to rig American presidential elections by tipping Florida's electoral votes to the Democrats. The looting of Puerto Rico's institutions by the rich and the poor alike is depopulating the island. Puerto Rico is a fascinating test case for what has ...
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 ...
