On the Origin of Races

During America’s current racial crisis, it’s striking how useless and irrelevant has been the intellectual conventional wisdom, which denies that race even exists. So I’m going to step back from the daily fray this ...

L.A.’s Black Spoilers

Thirty-five-year-old Nicole Mokeme was Portland, Maine’s BLM superstar. She founded “Rise and Shine,” a woodsy retreat where “BIPOCs” could gather and rant about whitey. As Mokeme stated on her website, “as the ...

The Disgust Reflex

My friends on the far right see Marxists under every bed. But that's crazy, because everyone knows that Marxists don"€™t hide under beds"€”they bang their grad students on them. Just don"€™t say that aloud in polite ...

Henriette Reker

The Week That Perished

The Week's Most Specious, Facetious, and Diecious Headlines KEEPING MUSLIM RAPISTS AT ARM's LENGTH As Germans rang in the New Year, there were multiple reports of mob-style sexual assaults perpetrated by men of "€œNorth ...

The Quarterly Potpourri

OK, three months are up. Time for another potpourri of unconnected items. I can’t claim any thematic thread this time. Like the universe in current cosmological models, my output is tending toward perfect entropy, ...

New York State Plaza, Albany

Rot Springs Eternal

Local headlines here in New York State recently have been dominated by corruption in the state legislature. The speaker of the lower house, the State Assembly, has had to resign his position after being arrested last ...

The Pentagon’s Surrender to Feminism

“The Pentagon unveiled plans Tuesday for fully integrating women into front-line and special combat roles, including elite forces such as Army Rangers and Navy SEALs.” So ran the lead on the CNN story. And why ...

An Open Letter to Justin Trudeau

Dear Justin Trudeau, (Assuming that IS your legitimate surname. Since you’ve evidently inherited your mother’s looks AND brains, your real father might not be Canada’s 15th Prime Minister but rather one ...

Star-Spangled Banter

Antonio Cromartie is one of the numerous professional and amateur athletes in America who now refuse to stand during the playing of the national anthem. Cromartie plays for the Indianapolis Colts and makes over 10 million ...

Useless Eating

Only barroom bores bemoan the real-life dearth of science fiction's long promised "€œflying cars."€ (As I"€™ve said before, we already have flying cars. They"€™re called "€œhelicopters."€) I don"€™t drive ...

Jug Jargon

One of the pleasures of working as a prison doctor was to learn the language of prison. It was often colorful and expressive, and it changed rapidly, sometimes because of technological change. For example, when I started ...

Mental Qatardation

For some fifty years now it seems that God has played a great joke on mankind, granting the best fuel reserves to undeserving desert places run by crooked camel drivers: places such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Libya, ...

Only 10,000 Killed!

I"€™m sure it was just a coincidence that the first issue of my firearms association's magazine to arrive after Justin Trudeau's election came wrapped in an opaque gray plastic wrapper instead of the usual transparent ...

Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill

Of Stats and Steroids

When my son was ten, his baseball coach—inspired by Michael Lewis’s bestseller Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game—came up with a statistically brilliant team strategy: Don’t swing. Ever. Because ...

Love Under Liberalism

“We are not very much to blame for our bad marriages. We live amid hallucinations; and this especial trap is laid to trip up our feet with, and all are tripped up first or last. But the mighty Mother who had been so sly ...

Christine Blasey Ford

The Kavanaugh Farce Escalates

Before the sexual revolution, there were certain mores that the sexes were expected to follow in regard to sex and romance. Of these, not having sex before marriage and children out of wedlock were by far the most ...

I Believe You Will Agree

Charb (Stéphane Charbonnier) was one of the people killed in the attack on Charlie Hebdo on 7 January this year. He was a writer and editor as well as a cartoonist, and recently I bought a slim volume of his articles ...

Stevie Wonder

The Week That Perished

The Week’s Soggiest, Foggiest, and Groggiest Headlines STEVIE WONDER: CLIMATE DENIERS ARE BLIND Last Tuesday—undoubtedly guided onstage by his handlers—Grammy-winning sight-deprived musician Stevie Wonder joined other ...

The Week That Perished

The Week’s Most Incessant, Tumescent, and Adolescent Headlines FEDS NAB BANNON ON FRAUD CHARGES Apart from helping to forge a populist coalition that pushed Donald Trump toward presidential victory four years ago, Steve ...

Osho Rajneesh Drive-by in Rajneeshpuram

The Cults That Are Killing Us

I’ve devoted a lot of text to George Soros, the one-man army behind the U.S.’s catastrophic rise in violent crime, the obsessed, inflexible ideologue who personally funds the “progressive prosecution” and ...

Clint Eastwood

The Week That Perished

The Week's Most Morose, Bellicose, and Grandiose Headlines CLINT EASTWOOD: "€œWE"€™RE REALLY IN A PUSSY GENERATION"€ In an interview with Esquire magazine, eighty-six-year-old film legend Clint “Make My ...

Oscar Wilde

Quote, Unquote

Reading Steven Goldberg's Fads and Fallacies in the Social Sciences the other day, I got to his 1998 essay on the Clinton scandals. Steve starts off with an Oscar Wilde quote: I have never come across anyone in whom the ...

Teddy Kennedy’s Surprise For Grandma

This week, we’ll cover one of the little-noticed ways mass Third World immigration is making our country more colorful: elder rape. Usually the vibrant cultural diversity that immigrants bring runs more along the ...


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