The Grapes of Hate

Stop the presses. Call out the National Guard. Order in the tanks. The Simon Wiesenthal Center is mad and is not going to take it anymore. Especially from Vini Lunardelli, the Italian winemaker that labels some of their ...

Stephen, Simone, and Jean-Paul

Ten years or so ago Stephen Fry, an English polymath, stage and screen actor, writer, TV personality, and many other things, gave a Spectator-sponsored lecture at the prestigious Royal Geographical Society. The theme was ...

Creole

Gangsters at Sea

I"€™ve just had the worst time in my life rubbing shoulders"€”actually masts"€”with ghastly ex-Soviet Union gangsters, now called "€œoligarchs"€ by the gutter press and the New York Times/Washington Post Camorra. ...

The Week That Perished

The Week’s Loopiest, Droopiest, and Poopiest Headlines REFUSING TO DISAVOW FARRAKHAN Born Louis Eugene Walcott 84 years ago in the Bronx, the man known and beloved by millions of Americans as Louis Farrakhan just can’t ...

Across the River and Into the Past

Ernest Hemingway’s Across the River and Into the Trees was published in 1950 to terrible reviews, but I recall that at some point in the past I thought Across the River was the best book he had ever written. Then I ...

Pope Francis

The Week That Perished

The Week's Most Divisive, Derisive, and Indecisive Headlines POPE SLAMS TRUMP; TRUMP HITS BACK AND WINS Suspected globalist tool Pope Francis took a swipe at Our Glorious Future Leader Donald Trump last week, only to ...

A Quick Word

Last week I was irritated to receive an e-mail from the British Medical Journal asking me what I thought of its new format. What I thought of it was unprintable; and now that we know that e-mails are as permanent as the ...

Gillette’s Castration Razor

So when will Gillette be rolling out its new line of self-castration razors for men? Unless you’ve been living under a rock on Venus, you are aware of Gillette’s rampagingly misandrist two-minute video that takes ...

I Have a (Wet) Dream …

May a lowly white Canadian like me take a little pride in my knowledge of African-American "€œthangs"€? You know what I"€™m talkin"€™ "€˜bout, Willis: "€œGood hair"€ and barbershop culture. "€œBlack ...

The End of Ideology?

On our TV talk shows and op-ed pages, and in our think tanks here, there is rising alarm over events abroad. And President Obama is widely blamed for the perceived decline in worldwide respect for the United States. Yet, ...

Trump’s Wuhan WMDs (This’ll End Well)

If you disagree with the theory that Covid was Frankensteined in a Wuhan lab, you’re a Holocaust denier. And America First “nationalists” should spend their time fighting for the freedom of the Chinese people. So ...

Let Them Be Fake

I suppose that if I had to select a single figure as the preeminent intellectual influence of our time, it would have to be Marie Antoinette. She, you remember, played at being milkmaid or shepherdess while actually she was ...

Erdogan's Palace

Palace in Blunderland

No one can build a decent palace anymore. I agree that this is not one of the greatest social problems of our time, but it must nevertheless be revelatory of something economic or cultural. My first reaction when seeing ...

Giffard Hotel, Worcester

No Such Thing as a Free Lunch

Recently I made reference to the criticism Simon Leys made of a book by Maria-Antonietta Macchiocchi. He said that the most charitable interpretation that could be put on it was that it was the product of stupidity; any ...

Avital Ronell

The Sorrows of Young Nimrod the Toady

“I hope the reader of a later age will pardon me for detaining him with persons of whom he has never heard.” —Schopenhauer If it’s true, as some people say, that one’s name, like character, determines one’s ...

Black Mountains, Arizona

What the El Paso Shooter Learned from Immigrants

I know who filled the El Paso mass shooter's head with murderous thoughts! Contrary to the conclusions of The New York Times' Jeremy Peters, it wasn't me and other conservatives. Peters says we caused Patrick Crusius' ...

The Week That Perished

The Week’s Most Illicit, Complicit, and Explicit Headlines PANCAKKKES OF HATRED Eating pancakes for breakfast is an American tradition—just like slavery and lynch mobs. That’s why it is with a sense of deep personal ...

It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time

On this, the second anniversary of the death of George Floyd, the evidence is now overwhelming: American elites have blood on their hands for their hysterical response to a local police blotter incident that has since ...

John Kerry

Pickle Boy Steps Up: Dill, Sweet, or Kosher?

Now, about this Crimea thing: What I figure is, the top part of the Feddle Gummint got dropped on its head when it was little, and the rest is just asleep, or might as well be. We look to be ruled by a bus station of ...

The Right Not to Commit Suicide

The other evening one of my dinner clubs had a meeting. I’m getting addicted to these clubs—I now belong to three of them. This one is conservative-dissident. By “conservative” I mean skeptical of ...

Mauna Kea from Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii

Indigenous Basterds

Typically, when people use the phrase “a hill to die on,” they’re not speaking of a literal hill. So it’s a wonderful, terrible irony that the hill upon which science has chosen to die turns out to be an actual ...

Down, But Still Russian

Walking around central Moscow, the thing you notice is the Russians—I mean, the near-total absence of non-Russians. There is, of course, a tourist element. Appearance is not much to go by here, but I can recognize—not ...

Worms Have Rights Too

The real winners of the recent Dutch elections were the animals"€”or at least the Party for the Animals, which might not benefit animals any more than workers"€™ parties benefit workers. We shall have to see. The ...


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