Will Multiculturalism End Europe?

Multiculturalism has “totally failed,” says German Chancellor Angela Merkel. “State multiculturalism has had disastrous results,” says Britain’s David Cameron. Is multiculturalism a failure ...

The Racket Behind the Rhetoric

NEW YORK—My friend Douglas Murray is the canary in the Bagel coal mine as of late. The left controls culture, education, and the technology over here, but a few canaries are still free to warn the rest of us that we’re ...

The Abyss Gazas Back

Enough with Gaza. I’ve done three columns in a row on Oygenflaygin vs. Akbar, and that’s plenty. If there’s one thing I despise about opinion columnists, it’s the fetish of covering the daily “big thing.” So ...

Bilderbullshitting the Public

From June 9-12, while the American media was focusing its cruel klieg lights on, oh, Betty White switching her brand of adult diapers or something, over a hundred of the world’s most powerful financiers and policymakers ...

Donald Trump

Will the Radical Left Reunite the GOP?

"Our historic, patriotic and beautiful movement to Make America Great Again has only just begun." So said Citizen Trump Saturday on his acquittal by the Senate of the impeachment article of "incitement of insurrection" in ...

Fortysomethings (and Why I Hate Them)

Divorced, decapitated, dead"€”King Henry VIII's wives had it simple. For 21st-century fortysomethings"€”my contemporaries"€”the litany of woe is somewhat more extensive: dull, dumped, dejected, disillusioned, ...

The Big Greene Monster

I live in Georgia. My congressional representative is Hank Johnson, a Democrat whom I am unafraid to call stupid. In April at a House Armed Services Committee hearing, Johnson expressed genuine concern that sending more ...

Professor John Banzhaf

The Coming Church-State Wars

Appearing the other night on the Catholic network EWTN, I was asked by Raymond Arroyo what should be done about Muslim students at Catholic University demanding that the school provide them with prayer rooms, from which ...

Gay Marriage: Who Cares?

As I type this, the national pissing contest regarding Judge Vaughn Walker's decision overturning California's anti-gay-marriage Proposition 8 is the top news story on both Yahoo! and Google. Back in 2008, amid a ...

All Things Being Equal

It goes without saying that there should, for reasons of social justice, be full representation of all demographic groups in all human endeavors: for example, in scientific fraud. There is, apparently, a lamentable ...

Latest Symptoms of a Disintegrating Nation

In Stephen Vincent Benet's The Devil and Daniel Webster, the tale is told that if you approached Webster's grave and called out his name, a voice would boom in reply, "Neighbor, how stands the Union?" "Then you better ...

Letters From a Screenwriter in Trouble

Dear Gato, Not only is the Silk Road down and out, so is Atlantis, and so are the majority of illegal cyber-markets upon which the bad and the badder have depended for decades. The world below the surface is changing as ...

President Barack Obama

Portrait of the Week

A roundup of news items from last week (and a few tidbits from the week before). HOME The White House Press Corps whined about having "€œabsolutely no access"€ to Barack Obama. Less than a day after The New Republic ...

Lucian Freud

Freud Slips Into the Void

I’ve had a longstanding instinctive loathing of those who perpetrate gimmick art, a genre of which Lucian Freud was a master. His art was as sordid as his person, reflecting his loathing of human nature in general and ...

Aggressive Care for the Elderly: Too Much, Too Late

Lying on the backboard, a frail little old lady moaned with discomfort. She had fallen beside her bed in the nursing home and was then tightly bound by straps onto the backboard, a cervical collar pushing her chin up and ...

Moonlight Over Basra

One of my sergeant majors was an airborne soldier and what he said was gospel to us. We young soldiers saw the wings on his arm and asked him what parachuting was like. He said it was the second-best feeling in the world. ...

Letters

Donald Trump: The First Jewish President? Whoa Mr Cole, which Jews are you talking about? Just about everyone at the synagogues I attend, think President Trump is the greatest thing that happened to America since the 1st ...

Bradley Cooper in The Hangover

Hollywood: Dysfunction Junction

At six foot nine, Kris Humphries may literally be the world's biggest ass. This giant goober-faced fool is a basketball player who was briefly married to pneumatic Armenian reality-TV star Kim Kardashian. As a frequent ...

Keystone Cop-Out

It ain’t “nostalgia” if you weren’t there. “Anachronistic” more accurately describes the current left-wing sensibility. Watching twenty-somethings at Occupy gatherings clad in late-1970s punk gear while cheering ...

Dem Nightmare: What if the War Ends Before November?

Great news for Joe Biden. After months of abysmal public approval numbers, President Biden's favorability among registered voters has soared by 2 points to 45%! And all he had to do was bring us to the brink of World War ...

More Black History, Please

On January 30, the New York Post took a dig at Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, who was accused of "€œrewriting history"€ by uttering the following statement about Black History Month: "€œWe know there was ...

Pyromaganacs

Dave: “Let’s talk about Doug Mackey, the guy convicted of posting memes!” Readers: “Oh crap, I bet Dave’s gonna be contrarian and scolding, like a broken fucking record.” Dear readers, you shouldn’t cuss so ...


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