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 ...
The latest Muslim massacre has driven the mainstream media absolutely berserk with fear and loathing...but not, though, of the Muslim terrorist who murdered 49 Latino gays in Florida. Instead, the bad guy is Donald Trump for having been demonstrated to be right about immigration policy. The GOP ...
Even with its 55 electoral votes, California has slowly been drifting off the national political radar from the days when it served as the semifinals of the heavyweight division. For example, in 1962 California vindicated liberal activism by reelecting energetic incumbent governor Pat Brown over ...
The core of the Trump Phenomenon is the question of freedom of expression. Donald Trump has come to be seen by both his enemies and his supporters as the living embodiment of a potential revival of the American tradition of free speech after the Obama ice age of political correctness. Trump's ...
