Hillary Clinton

Hillary Held Hostage

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 ...

Sick and Tirade

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 ...

Political Punk Rock

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 "€œalt-right"€ she's denouncing? Hillary has been doing ...

Ethnic pride in Spanish Harlem, N.Y.

Puerto Rico: All Banana, No Republic

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 ...

“€˜War Dogs”€™ : The Real Spiel

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 ...

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

What’s the Matter With Wisconsin?

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 ...

America First

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 ...

Andy Warhol, Self Portrait

The Inarticulate Orator

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 ...

The Left Goes Ballistic

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 ...

Paul Feig, Honorary Non”€“Straight White Male

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 ...