American Infantry helmets, WWII

The Holocaust of Doing Business

Foreign policy ain’t my bag. I’m a history guy, as the lunatics on Twitter who tag me with “#Holohoax” every fucking day never let me forget. I came up doing postmortems of long-concluded wars, and if there’s one ...

A New Age of Hardship?

Never has the contrast between the scale of world events and my own little personal concerns been so great. While millions flee bombardment, and the world economy faces implosion, with all the hardship that ...

Beneath the Surface

On two successive days, I traveled on the London Underground and the Paris Métro. One contrast between the passengers struck me very forcibly. On the London Underground, not more than 5 percent of the passengers wore face ...

No Room at the Inn

Canada's Human Rights Commissions (HRCs) are the bureaucrats who fined a comedian for heckling back at lesbian hecklers and persecuted a magazine that published the so-called "€œMuhammad cartoons."€ The HRCs"€™ ...

Notre Dame

Undercounting the Opposition

I estimate that a crowd of 1,400,000 gathered in Paris on May 26 for a rally in favor of traditional families and against France’s newly enacted legal extension of civil marriage to same-sex couples. The number ...

Mount Shasta

The Ascended Masters of Mt. Shasta

Living in a state where the elected leadership tends to fall somewhere between the criminal and the brain-dead, it is always a relief to turn from the political to the real. The meaning of “real” is debatable: As ...

Trump’s Failing. Don’t Ask Me to Lie About It

For decades, voters have been lied to by politicians promising to crack down on immigration. We vote and we vote and we vote, and nothing ever changes. Wage-lowering, culture-destroying policies manage to appear in every ...

The Liberal Stampede to ‘Abolish ICE’

“No Borders! No Nations! No Deportations!” “Abolish ICE!” Before last week, these were the mindless slogans of an infantile left, seen on signs at rallies to abolish ICE, the agency that arrests and ...

French or Not French?

The Frogs are at it again—the French Resistance has reemerged, this time in an iPhone version. A mélange of French anti-racist and pro-Jewish groups whipped themselves into a frothy meringue of holy Gallic gall and on ...

The Audacity of Africa

Amid new images of starving Africans we are told the United Nations is using a word it rarely utters—famine. It is the next supposedly global crisis, though no one ever explains how a succinctly regional matter can also ...

Rise of the Self-Tarded

Gunnery Sergeant Hartman voice: “I have failed.” I have failed to beat sense into the Gomer Pyles of MAGA regarding Beverly Hills. I’ve shown election data. I’ve shown electoral maps. All to counter the patently ...

Pedro Sánchez

Cabaret Government

(The article in its original Spanish immediately follows.) The Bella Dorita was that star of the Catalan cabaret who, in a bloody time for Spain, when the anarchists decreed a single and equal salary for all, commented: ...

Service Without a Smile

Like several other countries in the West, Britain has given up on the sordid and vulgar activity of making things and instead gone in for the more refined and sophisticated life of service industries. In the case of ...

Bert and Ernie

The Love That Won’t Shut Up

Maybe it’s my age—or maybe life really is getting crazier—but even for California, it feels ever more to me that we have slipped down a rabbit hole. The latest evidence for this is the push to have the characters Bert ...

Badminton House

It Takes Balls

Oh, to be in England, and almost die of heat after the Austrian Alps. Yes, Sarah Sands, writing in her Spectator diary about last week’s parties in London, was right, except she went mostly to the bad ones. The really ...

Kelsey Grammer

Oh Sadist, Can You See

At Christmastime, I tend to gravitate toward lighter topics. Because why befoul such a wondrous season with ugliness? So on a lighter note, last week a BBC Kelsey Grammer interview went off the rails after the Frasier star ...

Dead End For Serial Killers

DNA evidence has now shown with greater than 99.9998% probability that Bryan Kohberger was the man who murdered four University of Idaho students in the early morning of Nov. 13, 2022. His capture illustrates why there will ...

Rudy Giuliani

A Ten for Courage and a Zero for Sensitivity

Dr. David Starkey is a great man, a Tudor historian, and one of the few academics who tells it like it is. Openly gay, he has no time for prancing queens and other such clown minorities trying to steal a bigger slice of the ...

F. Nietzsche

The Will to Powerlessness

The news abounds with references to “rights,” “diversity,” and “justice.” But what do these terms signify? Allegations of Libyan “rights” abuses were powerful enough to justify a more widespread and ...

The Victim Sweepstakes

Signed a third of a century ago by George H.W. Bush, the landmark 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act remains an illuminating example of the curious ways in which politics and policy tend to operate in modern America. The ...

Rise of the Euro-Reich

Back in the 1940s the Luftwaffe and Wehrmacht had to bomb and invade countries to prove das Herrenvolk’s superiority over Europe’s lesser peoples. Now, thanks to those lesser nations’ poor housekeeping and the German ...

Rory McIlroy

Golf’s New Boy King

Relax, Tiger. It’s over. The glow is gone. The media has ceased to natter over your personal affairs. Your game is still good, but not great like it once was. End your Sisyphean struggle to win back fans. ...

The Royal Treatment

NEW YORK—At a chic dinner party for some very beautiful young women, your correspondent shocked, shocked the attendees by quoting an even greater writer than the greatest Greek writer since Homer—Rod Liddle, a Spectator ...

How Democracy Is Losing the World

If Donald Trump told Michael Cohen to pay hush money to Stormy Daniels about a one-night stand a decade ago, that, says Jerome Nadler, incoming chair of House Judiciary, would be an "impeachable offense." This tells you ...


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