Last Wednesday and Thursday night, the top twenty Democratic presidential candidates—yes, there are actually more than twenty—locked horns in Miami to bitch about corporations, racial injustice, brown children who are ...
Staying up all Monday night to write a column for publication Wednesday morning is a tricky business when elections fall on a Tuesday. So let me offer four longer-term perspectives. First, Hispandering. While we still ...
This is a story of love, hate, interracial romance, journalistic malpractice, and anti-Semitic bomb hoaxes. It involves a young black man named Juan, whose mother named him that because Juan was enough"just kidding! ...
According to Nevada Senator Harry Reid"who is retiring from politics to pursue a career as a Roy Orbison impersonator"Donald Trump's election "has sparked a wave of hate crimes across America." Almost as if ...
On Monday, America's undergraduate college system melted down in three humiliating incidents. At Yale, in a brouhaha over Halloween costumes that has been dragging on for a week and a half now, a distinguished professor ...
Trayvon. Bernanke. The Colonel. America is buffeted by blustery winds of change these days, yet who among us would have thought even they could disquiet the solemnity of the buffet table? Recently it was announced that ...
With the spectacular failure of clinical psychologist Dr. Prof. Christine Blasey Ford’s vague charges against Brett Kavanaugh to elicit any corroborating evidence, moral psychologist Jonathan Haidt’s new book about the ...
Last Wednesday, Arizona's lizard-skinned Governor Jan Brewer vetoed what had largely been described as an “anti-gay bill,” even though the bill’s text doesn’t mention homos at all. The luridly ...
From outward appearances, the four little black kids singing a song called “We Are Provided For” seemed happy. Along with two other Children of Color, they had been adopted by a married white lesbian couple named Sarah ...
A corrupt Memphis journalist tried to shoot down a conservative judge, and he used me as the bullet. Here’s the whole sordid story. It all started with illegal immigration. Shelby County (Tennessee) Criminal Court ...
There is one group of people whom it is morally permissible to hate, and of whom in these times of speech codes it is allowed or even obligatory to speak hatefully: namely, the rich. This is rather odd when one thinks of ...
MONTREAL—So now San Francisco is banning e-cigarettes, because a City Council member discovered there are still people making personal decisions about what to do with their lives. They’ve been trying to eliminate these ...
"[W]hen Tom gives his famous "I"ll be ever"where" speech, I always want to call his parole officer." Only a few bylines compel me to set aside my so-called work and read what's printed beneath them ...
Human races are subspecies of Homo sapiens [sic], just as Basset Hounds and Chihuahuas are subspecies of dog. The breeds of neither are precise genetic categories: In the words of the heroic John Derbyshire, genetically ...
Thirty years ago, a taxi driver in Mexico City taught me, though I cannot remember the exact context in which he did so, some lines from Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, the learned Mexican nun of the 17th century, a sage and ...
As the leftist juggernaut blithely steamrollers its way over what's left of this country, its blinkered acolytes have smugly convinced themselves that they are on "the right side of history" and that any dissenters ...
I have a confession. I behaved badly recently, and I'm just going to admit it. As a guest at a dinner party in Georgetown, I stormed in and started bossing everyone around. First, I demanded that the foyer be painted a ...
Last week, America's institutions of higher learning were in turmoil over Halloween costumes. How can minority students survive Yale if their diktats are ever subjected to skepticism from grown-ups? This week, we are told ...
Ridiculing “Bronies”"those fanboys who are obsessed with the TV show My Little Pony"is a forgivable offense. Sure, these are seemingly heterosexual males who worship a cartoon for little girls. ...
Although it was released over three years ago, there were audible sounds of indigestion online recently at the discovery of a textbook called Is Everyone Really Equal?: An Introduction to Key Concepts in Social Justice ...
Author Nikesh Shukla"a fat brown man who appears to sweat a lot"has just been named one of Foreign Policy magazine's "100 Global Thinkers of 2016." He won this award for his work focusing on the ...
I was walking through the Fox News building a while ago and a producer introduced me to a young black man by saying, "This is the engineer you"ll be working with tonight." We shook hands and the engineer said, ...
The current year is 2017, people, so why are we still segregating male and female athletes? Don"t they know that gender is a social construct and everyone's equal? Legendarily ill-tempered tennis champ John McEnroe ...
Had there been no Dallas, there would have been no Camelot. There would have been no John F. Kennedy as brilliant statesman cut off in his prime, had it not been for those riveting days from Dealey Plaza to Arlington and ...
