Torch Mobs for Tolerance

As I type this from my heavily black neighborhood, I hark back to my wigger days and recall something that Chuck D from black-nationalist rap group Public Enemy said to me wearily when I interviewed him back in 1990: You ...

Romeo and Juliet Balcony  Verona, Italy

When You’re a Remake

Like The Great Gatsby, the enduring fame of West Side Story is due to two factors: Many people encounter it during high school (because teachers show the 1961 movie when trying to get kids to read Shakespeare’s Romeo and ...

The Week That Perished

The Week’s Most Humbling, Grumbling, and Bumbling Headlines ARBEIT MACHT KRANKHEITSFREI For almost a year now, anti-lockdown protesters and refuseniks in the U.S. have dropped the capital N-word regarding heavy-handed ...

Book Retorts

American writers are on a roll. Bob Dylan wins the Nobel in Literature (for backward children), and Paul Beatty the Man Booker Prize, the first American to do so because this was the first year Americans were eligible for ...

Brooklyn Bridge

Liberty Island Media, Part I: Silly Rejects!

Not five months out from its launch this March, the right-leaning literary website Liberty Island recently earned a logic-impaired hate note from the fiction editor of the Washington Post himself, Ron Charles. Charles ...

Be Careful of Answered Prayers

It has been said ad nauseam that when Uncle Sam sneezes, the English bulldog catches the flu. Emulating American rioting has caught on over here with a bang, pun intended, and it is one import, as Douglas Murray wrote in ...

Trump the Dying Rabbi

Menachem Schneerson was the beloved leader of the Lubavitcher sect of Hasidic Jews. So esteemed was this New York-dwelling rebbe that many of his followers believed he was the long-awaited Jewish messiah, and that after ...

Sándor Márai

God Bless Mediocrity

I was in Hungary last week, so I thought that I should read Memoir of Hungary by Sándor Márai. Márai was a tragic figure. He was a novelist who wrote in his native Hungarian (though he was fluent in German), which ...

Steven Bradford

Dysgenic Supremacy

California State Senator Steven Bradford (Compton, Watts, Inglewood, and the dead rapper district of Long Beach) is the blackiest black in the state’s Democrat machine. Bradford so black, every time he visits Long Beach ...

Barack Obama with the Congressional Black Caucus

When Black Liberals Attack (Each Other)

The Congressional Black Caucus found out that if you’re gonna cuss the boss, first you’d better saddle your horse. They threw Obama a campaign party and Obama made it a roast…of the CBC! Obama saw his window of ...

Rammstein

Made in Germany, Stayed in Germany

Rammstein’s “Mein Land” is the single from their recently released greatest-hits album, Made in Germany. It may be a first in recent history—a popular song which expresses right-wing sentiments. The song’s meaning ...

Mt. Kilimanjaro

Huntin’ Homos in Tanzania

The oldest remains of the genus Homo were found in Tanzania near Lake Olduvai, so it’s a bit queer that Tanzania is currently so homo-hostile. Late in January, the US State Department banned Paul Makonda, Regional ...

Can a Disintegrating America Come Together?

On the last days of the 2020 campaign, President Donald Trump was holding four and five rallies a day in battleground states, drawing thousands upon thousands of loyalists to every one. Waiting for hours, sometimes in the ...

Russia Scolds America Back

A detailed report in The New York Times tells about a hearing taking place in the Russian Parliament emphasizing alleged American human-rights violations. Among the featured abuses are the American practices of ...

Their Damned Lies, and Yours

Remember the Dhaliwal brothers? No? Good. Like yesterday’s bowel movement, they don’t deserve remembering, let alone an encore. That said, I’m gonna reluctantly invoke them, because even the worst of mankind can ...

Prince Harry

Blue Blood Blunder

Had she claimed to be 100 percent African-American, or to be lesbian, transgender, or simply bisexual, the adoration would have been even more pronounced. If she had a criminal record, the perverse New York Times would have ...

Hey, Teacher, Leave Them Kids Alone!

UCLA recently hosted a panel to discuss youth culture, and as "€œone of hipsterdom's primary architects,"€ I was asked to come along. I showed up late for the event wearing nothing but a pair of pants and holding a ...

The Great Shoe Wars

This is not going to be another coronavirus column. Yes, the disease we’ve been saddled with thanks to the Dagwood Bumsteads of China will make an appearance later on. But let’s start by rolling the clock back—way ...

The Apathy Party

SAN ANTONIO—In my college days I was a card-carrying member of the Apathy Party. Each year we would nominate “Mr. Commodore” for student government president, Mr. Commodore being a nine-foot Disney-style football ...

Could I Get That Illegal ‘To Go’?

As we head into the long Labor Day weekend, here are two tips to make your holiday even more cheerful. First: Remember to watch out for drunk driving illegal aliens! The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ...

The Elephant in the Room

The African elephant issue is an extremely complex and divisive one, drawing attention from around the globe. Right now, the argument over whether or not to reopen safari hunting is fracturing the Botswana political ...

Sailing on Air

Seven score and twenty-something years ago, a boat crossed the Atlantic from Hoboken, New Jersey for a day sail around the Isle of Wight. Thirty proper yachts vied with the sharp pilot schooner America at the start of the ...

Whatever You Can Get Away With

Theoretically, you could become a professor of ethnic studies without being the ethnicity you study, just as you can be a gerontologist without being old or a botanist without being a plant. Still, and while I don’t ...

The Pain Principle

I hesitate, in this vale of tears, to bring before the public, however small it might be, my own personal travails, but at least I can claim to be an expert on them, insofar as I experience them myself. Many writers are ...


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