The hit movie Lee Daniels’ The Butler, staring Forest Whitaker and Oprah Winfrey, takes us back to the bad old days when blacks worked in the White House rather than lived there. Strange as it may seem now, in an America where Hispanics and Filipinos fill ever more of America’s servile ...
The new movie Elysium, another science-fiction fable from young Boer refugee Neill Blomkamp about the horrors of mass immigration and nonwhite overpopulation, isn’t terribly amusing to watch. But at the meta level, the career of Blomkamp, whose mother dragged the family off from Johannesburg ...
In the immigration debate, the conventional wisdom is that the solution to millions of "undocumented workers" is for the government to print up documents for them. That always reminds me of a pivotal scene in Evelyn Waugh's prophetic 1932 novel Black Mischief. After observing Haile ...
With Barack Obama solemnly recounting for us last Friday how being black in America has personally burdened him, race is back in the news. Actually, race is always in the news. Still, it’s worth using this particular intersection of inanity"during which the president and the Attorney ...
What can we learn from the media and government frenzy to railroad George Zimmerman, a campaign that continues even after his acquittal, with the Obama Administration now threatening hate-crime charges? First, the KKKrazy Glue that holds together the disparate elements of the Obama Coalition is ...
After Richard Nixon's landslide victory in 1972, New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael lectured: I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don’t know. They’re outside my ken. But sometimes when I’m in a theater I can feel them. Kael's Conundrum has muddled much ...
Perhaps to celebrate the Battle of Gettysburg's 150th anniversary, liberal Washington Post columnist Harold Meyerson announced on June 25th that, in effect, it's too bad Pickett's Charge of July 3, 1863 failed. From Meyerson's "Start the border fence in Norfolk, Va.": Until that day, ...
In America's fifth year of having a black president, the five Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices had an opportunity on Monday to abolish racial and ethnic preferences for violating the 14th Amendment's requirement of "the equal protection of the laws." But they were unable to pull ...
Watching the news of protests in Istanbul, I"m reminded of the time I required a Turkish private detective's services. I was in Turkey and had to get the answer to an important personal question. I had tried all the proper channels, spending many fruitless hours on the phone with very nice ...
Edward Snowden’s leaks about the spying capabilities of the US government and Silicon Valley have ignited speculation about what the emerging “surveillance society” portends. Still, we’ve long endured many varieties of spying and tracking, and some lessons can be learned ...
