Moana, the new Polynesian-princess animated feature from Disney, is like a less on-the-nose version of Interstellar, the 2014 Christopher Nolan science-fiction epic set on a dying Earth that has cravenly given up on space exploration. Nolan's characters complain overtly that humanity has lost its ...
Donald Trump is not the most scholarly American, but he could do education a bit of good. It's not even all that necessary for Trump to appoint effective administrators to key roles in the Department of Education and in the civil rights division of the Department of Justice. Simply get rid of the ...
As the Duke of Wellington more or less said after the Battle of Waterloo, it was a damn close-run thing. But the Trump campaign triumphed using what my editor at VDARE, Peter Brimelow, likes to call the Sailer Strategy. As I explained 16 years ago during the Florida recount after the 2000 ...
Rather like Donald Trump's campaign for president in 2016, Mel Gibson's 2004 movie The Passion of the Christ was not popular in Beverly Hills. I overheard the following conversation in a Rodeo Drive screening room while Gibson's Aramaic-language movie was doing historic business in Chicano ...
Will the FBI find any interesting emails from Hillary Clinton in the trove on the laptop of former congressman Anthony Weiner, the estranged husband of Hillary's gofer-in-chief Huma Abedin? I don"t know. Hillary has survived in the national spotlight for a quarter of a century by boring her ...
If you want to understand Hillary Clinton's campaign for president, a good place to start is the current libel trial against Rolling Stone for publishing Sabrina Rubin Erdely's ridiculous hate hoax article, "A Rape on Campus: A Brutal Assault and a Struggle for Justice at UVA." As I ...
Ironically, the most far-reaching scheme to rig this and future American elections isn"t being plotted in the Kremlin (as Hillary Clinton and the ruling media warn). Nor is it being hammered out in K Street offices by lobbyists, Democratic operatives, and their press counterparts (as Donald ...
Late last week, the respectable media was shocked, shocked to discover that Donald Trump is a horndog of almost the same caliber as his golf buddy Bill Clinton. One advantage of being old is that current events become more amusing the more of the past you"ve endured. For example, the ...
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 ...
