Edward Said

The Vengeance of Edward Said

Contemporary white progressives cater to the most regressive tendencies of the various Others. Anybody who can get themselves classified as an official Other-American is today repeatedly encouraged to play the race card, the religion card, or the sex card in the most intellectually crude, bigoted ...

Le Grand Remplacement

Nobody seems to know exactly how fast France, the cultural heartland of the West over the past millennium, is being demographically transformed. But I have found a way to estimate the percentage of babies being born in France who are of non-European ancestry. And the results are astonishing. Some ...

Extended Stay America

We"€™ve heard endless denunciations of the Trump administration's initial minor adjustments to immigration and refugee policy as violating the sacred civil right of foreigners to relocate to America without Americans, you racists, having the slightest say in who and how many immigrants are let ...

Tribal Counsel

Remember the supermarket scene near the end of the Iraq War movie The Hurt Locker? Jeremy Renner plays an Explosive Ordnance Disposal technician. After countless telephoto shots of IEDs going off terrifyingly close, the sergeant is finally safe at home in America with nothing more stressful to do ...

Jose Canseco

Michael Lewis”€™ Hot Hand

From his 1989 Wall Street memoir Liar's Poker to his new book, The Undoing Project, Michael Lewis has succeeded his mentor Tom Wolfe as our top Southern center-right nonfiction author. Indeed, Wolfe recently let Lewis read through his old letters to his parents to enable Lewis to write an ...

The Wave That Won”€™t Break

"€œGod damn Christopher Columbus"€ were the last words my wife's grandmother spoke before dying at age 88 twenty years ago last week. Nobody has ever conclusively deciphered the meaning of that memorable sentence. Her descendants couldn"€™t recall her previously expressing ...

Choose Your Words Wisely

A paradox of the current nationalist rebellion is how worldwide it is. Three years ago, I pointed out in Takimag in a column entitled "€œNationalism Is a Blast"€: In 2014, the global winds are blowing in favor of conservative nationalism. One reason it's happening over much of the planet is ...

Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling in La La Land

Everyone’s Gaga Over “€˜La La”€™

Will the curse of Oscar front-runnerhood undermine public enjoyment of La La Land? It would be delightful to stumble unwittingly upon this old-fashioned movie musical about a romance between an unemployed actress (Emma Stone) and an underemployed jazz pianist (Ryan Gosling) in contemporary Los ...

Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull

Bordering on Success

Donald Trump's era of influence may turn out to be a flash in the pan like that of previous celebrity politicians Jesse Ventura and Arnold Schwarzenegger. But he may also be building a political system as enduring as Ronald Reagan's. A clever aspect of Trump's platform that hasn"€™t been much ...

Will Trump be Good for the Jewish People?

Much of the hysteria sweeping the fraction of the country that voted for Hillary Clinton originates in understandable Jewish worries about whether the rising tide of populist nationalism will be good for Jewish people. Note the disparate media treatment of Trump's two Steves. The press has gone ...