Bill Nye

Nye Lied, I Sighed

Bill Nye the Science Guy gave a commencement speech at Rutgers on Sunday. Reading the speech left me thinking that if this is America's designated Science Guy, I can be the nation's designated swimsuit model. Up to now I ...

2014: The Year the Liberal Narrative Exploded

The only thing worse than a man is a white man, am I right? They start off as violent little bastards, biting Pop-Tarts into guns, and before you know it, they"€™re raping their way through college. The very privileged ...

Catfight!

Good news, guys. Feminism is over. Sure, there are still women being stoned to death and a teenager might get butyric acid thrown in her face for rejecting an arranged marriage but as far as the Western world today goes, ...

What’s the Matter With Blackface?

Last week, some rich guy at a party in Vienna may have grabbed Kim Kardashian’s ass and someone may have approached her wearing blackface. So? She got $500,000 to be the host’s guest and her entire career is ...

Hadrian's Wall

Barriers Against Barbarism

One of the most fashionable manifestations of Trump derangement syndrome—the assumption that Walls Never Work—is crushingly debunked in historian David Frye’s eye-opening history of 4,000 years of barrier-building, ...

Ghosts of Africa

Can 2018’s tsunami of DNA data on the origins of human biodiversity help explain the puzzle of why Americans tend to equate “diversity” with Africans, especially West Africans? Anthropology has always been assumed to ...

The Con Is (Back) On!

Back again like a boomerang Same old stand, same old gang Back in business with a bang Let the good times roll! —“Back in Business,” from the movie Dick Tracy Stephen Sondheim’s less-than-classic song is employed ...

Leslie Jones

I Ain”€™t Afraid of No Black Women

America is obsessed with keeping black women happy. The bigotry of low expectations is strong with the treatment of black men, but when it comes to they baby mommas, shit is off the chain. When Valerie Jarrett showed up for ...

California Brownout

“If you’re black, we cannot be friends. Go fuckin’ die, you ugly-ass black people.” So begins a Snapchat video by a female California high school student. “Black people are trash, they need to die, like, I ...

Child-Toucher Checklist

"€œVirtuous pedophile"€ Todd Nickerson is back and he"€™d like to remind us that although he wants to molest children, he resists, so don"€™t you dare call him a child molester. Once again, Salon is here to correct ...

A Whole New Breed of White People

The 1977 ABC miniseries Roots—despite its slew of historical inaccuracies and outright fabrications—injected lethal doses of guilt into white America’s collective unconscious when it first aired. But over 40 years ...

Has Pot Become a Hard Drug?

More than half the country says they think pot should be legalized. This is due in part to a brilliant PR campaign that frames cannabis as a valuable medicinal herb instead of a party drug. "€œ[T]he medical marijuana ...

99% Wrong

The children—dozens of them at first, then hundreds—gathered in downtown Manhattan on September 17 to change the world. For better or worse, they’re still there. They may even be multiplying. Many of them, especially ...

Spaying the Queen’s English

There are no fishermen left in Washington State. As of July 1, they are all now “fishers.” There are no longer any “firemen,” only “firefighters.” The state’s ...

Here Comes Honey Jigaboo Boo

Cable TV's Oxygen channel was founded in part by Oprah Winfrey, but it appears to have finally jumped the shvartze with a proposed program called All My Babies"€™ Mamas. Originally slated to appear in the spring, the ...

Lemmy Kilmister

Rockin”€™ the Swastika

If the death of Lemmy Kilmister from iconic heavy metal band Motörhead teaches us anything, it’s that society currently considers it far more respectable to be a drug addict than a Nazi. The term ...

The Happy Hoteps

Ladies and gents, it is my sublime pleasure as a man of intensely European ancestry to introduce you to the most thoroughly enjoyable American Negro Identity Group to come down the pike since the Black Israelites. They ...

Baltimore, Maryland

The Final Solution to the Baltimore Question

Conservative firebrand Dana Loesch has the cure for what ails Baltimore: a trash-pickup field trip! Just a thought: A bunch of people in MAGA hats should schedule some time to go help those in that district who clearly ...

Because White People Are Bad

The single most relevant fact for understanding America right now is the one you are least supposed to mention: Blacks are vastly more homicidal than any other racial or ethnic group. Nobody seems to know this when ...

Enjoying the Race Wars? Thank the Media.

Yesterday, a massive brawl broke out at a St. Louis City Hall meeting that was called to investigate police behavior. A senator who works with the police unions stood up to defend the police and was quickly shouted down ...

A Pair of Giants

What do the pasts of India and China imply about their futures? 2018’s rapid advances in the race sciences, as exemplified by Harvard geneticist David Reich’s blockbuster book Who We Are and How We Got Here, are ...

Mumia Abu-Jamal

Why Mumia is Guilty

Convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal—easily the world’s most famous death-row prisoner—has finally been demoted from death row. Philadelphia District Attorney R. Seth Williams announced last Wednesday that his office ...

How to Check Your Privilege Every 3,000 Miles

A great kerfuffle, ballyhoo, and brouhaha recently erupted after a phenotypically white male attending Princeton University wrote an essay objecting to the fact that several others on campus were constantly instructing him ...


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