The Times They Are a-Changin’

Why is Trump ahead in the polls over Biden, even though several traditional measures of electoral viability suggest the incumbent should be in good shape? For example, the Dow Jones average was over 38,000 on Monday. I can ...

Michele Bachmann

Too Pretty for Politics

The American political class is becoming better and better-looking. The trend began back in the heady days of 2008, when that mulatto presidential candidate from Illinois was praised as much for his “dashing” ...

Left’s Latest Demand: Race-Based Reparations

Having embraced "Medicare-for-all," free college tuition and a Green New Deal that would mandate an early end of all oil, gas and coal-fired power plants, the Democratic Party's lurch to the left rolls on. Presidential ...

A Sorry State

The British government has managed to spend approximately $50 billion on a system for testing and tracing cases of COVID-19. So far, the average citizen has been tested five times. Yet mysteriously, the British mortality ...

President Barack Obama

The Week That Perished

It’s official: Big Brother is watching you. And despite previous denials, he’s finally been forced to admit it. The term “leaks” seems insufficient to describe a pair of revelations regarding US ...

Pope Francis

Can a Pope Change Moral Truth?

That joking retort we heard as children, “Is the pope Catholic?” is starting to look like a serious question. Asked five years ago about a “gay lobby” in the Vatican, Pope Francis responded, ...

Break Ground, Not Promises

Several months into the Trump administration, I started running a daily "Border Wall Construction Update" on Twitter, announcing how many miles of the wall had been completed that day and how many miles since the ...

And Was the Mission Accomplished?

For the Army and Marines who lost 4,500 dead and more than 30,000 wounded, many of them amputees, the second-longest war in U.S. history is over. America is coming home from Iraq. On May 1, 2003, on the carrier Abraham ...

Biting the Hand That Feeds

An employment tribunal in England has just ruled that ethical veganism—the refusal to consume animal products in any form—is equivalent to a religion or philosophical belief that is entitled to protection under ...

Go Big or Stay Home

COVID-19 is the coveted excuse the global elite have been looking for to push through their agenda. Washed-up former leaders sensing a second opportunity to rule, such as Gordon Brown and Mikhail Gorbachev, have already ...

Benjamin Netanyahu

Return of the War Party?

Is a vote for the Republican Party in 2012 a vote for war? Is a vote for Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich a vote for yet another unfunded war of choice, this time with a nation, Iran, three times as large and populous as ...

Your Best Bet Is Volatility

In a week of uniformly bad news for the capital markets, certain keywords repeated across the media. Signifiers like contagion, fear, or shock linger in the mind like echoes of a catastrophe. Only, the catastrophe is yet to ...

Long Before Trump, We Were a Divided People

In a way, Donald Trump might be called The Great Uniter. Bear with me. No Republican president in the lifetime of this writer, not even Ronald Reagan, united the party as did Trump in the week of his acquittal in the ...

Pedestrian Logic

Why are American pedestrians getting run over so much more often than a decade and a half ago? You’re not just imagining it: It really has gotten more dangerous to cross the street. Since 2009, the worst year of the ...

Whiteout

Thanks to a group of disgruntled firemen, the question of what it means to be white is back in the news. By late June, the Supreme Court will decide whether the city of New Haven, Connecticut was right to throw out the ...

Norman Mailer

Be Your Own Advert

To mark the centenary of the birth of Norman Mailer—which I shall not be celebrating wildly—a publisher decided to reissue a volume of his essays. An employee of the publisher’s objected to the inclusion of the essay ...

Will Paris Riots Scuttle Climate Accord?

In Katowice, Poland, all the signers of the 2015 Paris climate accord are gathered to assess how the world's nations are meeting their goals to cut carbon emissions. Certainly, the communications strategy in the run-up ...

Good for the Gander

#Me Too! It happened right here, in Gstaad, last week. A man in his mid-50s, around six feet tall and about 165 pounds, forcibly grabbed me by the neck, pushed my head down, and then slid his hand between my legs. He ...

They’re Replacing You, Black America

Liberals are screwing over African Americans again, sublimely confident that whatever they do, Democrats will never get less than 90% of the black vote. In the Buffalo, New York, mass shooting 10 days ago, 18-year-old ...

Downgrade ISIS

Counting unhatched chickens is rash. Nevertheless, it does seem that ISIS is slowly being degraded as a military power and self-proclaimed state. This is good news for Iraq and Iraqis and will be good news for Syria and ...

Michelangelo

The Divine Comedy: Funnier Than Ever

GSTAAD—It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas: nonstop snowfall, an empty main street, and the closing of the Palace hotel as well as the Eagle club. (I give the traditional closing-day speech at the club, and my ...

Nationalists Without a Nation

Jared Taylor's recent posting on Takimag has drawn a number of a responses, including from Paul Gottfried and Richard Spencer, both of which make some good points. I"€™m afraid, however, that neither really hits on the ...

Share the Wealth but not Your Blanket

The left finally has a poster boy for the “Occupy” movement, and his name is Shawn Coleman. He encapsulates the liberal “What’s yours is mine and what’s mine is mine” mentality fostered by a president who ...


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