Black Girl Magic Beaten by White Male Competence

In retrospect, maybe running the DEI hire for president was not a good idea. On the other hand, President Joe Biden's revenge plan worked perfectly. As reported by The New York Times, after his catastrophic debate, Biden's ...

Respect Hungary

Since its inception in AD 1000, the landlocked Central European nation of Magyarország has been invaded by Celts, Mongols, the Hapsburg and Ottoman Empires, a cartel of local expansionists such as Czechoslovakia after ...

Mr. Zuccotti’s Zoo

NEW YORK—The morning routine is now a pleasure. Up early, stretch and bend the creaky limbs, hit the coffee, then off to judo and karate. Last week I only managed to get drunk twice, hence there were five such mornings. ...

Patrick Buchanan and the Necessary Book

Neocons think in news cycles, the Vatican in centuries"€”and Patrick J. Buchanan? In the body of worthy, provocative books he has produced, his thought ranges over decades. Having nobly failed to affect American elections ...

Benjamin Netanyahu

The Gaza Conundrum

A major in the reserves of the Israeli army, Nir Avishai Cohen, got it more right than all the blowhards pumping out hot air about Gaza all week: Love Israel, Support Palestine is the name of his book written and published ...

MSNBC: Leaning Forward on the Edge of a Cliff

America's midterm elections are on Tuesday, but they"€™ve already voted for their favorite news network, and it sure as hell ain"€™t the Microsoft/National Broadcasting Company. Have you seen their latest advertising ...

Claudine Gay

Claudine Gay, We Hardly Knew Ye

That’s a fitting title for a piece about Harvard’s plagiarizer-in-chief. Full disclosure: The title is, er, borrowed from the title of Kenneth O’Donnell’s 1973 book about President John F. Kennedy. Claudine Gay, ...

Dalton McGuinty

The Will to Pander

Immigration is a hot topic up here in Canada right now. It has been that way for decades if you’re a white, working-class “citizen” of Trudeaupia. But by order of our elite betters, our candid chatter about “those ...

Anne Roiphe

The Big Bagel Bites Back

NEW YORK—Twenty-two years or so ago, I wrote a column for The New York Observer, a weekly paper owned by a tycoon named Arthur Carter. He had come up the hard way and made his fortune in Wall Street but retained his ...

Encountering Gottfried

Given the perpetual parade of "€œintellectuals"€ who are not intelligent in our media "”€ Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, PBS and the "€œparrot press"€ "”€ I don"€™t expect many Americans to be familiar with political ...

Natalia Vodianova

La Belle Dame Sans Merci

GSTAAD—Six hours into the New Year, and already there was trouble. My own bash to welcome 2011 with fifty of my nearest and dearest finished around 5 a.m., so I rolled down toward the Palace hotel still looking for some ...

Silver Linings

I am a pessimist, for reasons I have expatiated upon at book length. In that book’s first chapter, I distinguished two usages of the key word: I’m using the word “pessimism” in two slightly different ...

Charlie Gilmour

Modern English

Dear old England. What a wonderful country we live in. Change and decay in all around I see. Europe is in a state of near-collapse. Chaos and rioting have run rife throughout the Middle East. The stock market has been ...

Yale University

Are Law Schools Above the Law?

A fascinating test case of the rule of law in America is whether or not law schools are obeying the Supreme Court’s Students for Fair Admissions decision in the summer of 2023 finding affirmative action in undergraduate ...

1956 Cadillac Eldorado

From Black Robes to White Coats

I just drove to Kansas and back, 2600 miles listening to the radio and pondering American industry, the heartland, affairs of the heart, and other organs. On either side of the road were billboards advertising psychological ...

Biggest Corporate Welfare Scam of All Time

President Joe Biden keeps lecturing corporate America to "pay your fair share" of taxes. It turns out he's right that some companies really are getting away scot-free from paying taxes. But it isn't Big Tech companies in ...

The Soul of Booker T. Washington

“Uncle Tom.” Among African-Americans there is no bigger insult. Originally used to denote a black man all too willing to submit to campaigns of racial terrorism in order to save his own skin, today the term is ...

Salvador Dali

Dalí at the Kremlin

“The Russian Revolution is the French Revolution which arrives late because of the cold weather,” said Salvador Dalí. His work was banned in the Soviet Union, but has great success in Russia today. In Moscow, the ...

Taki

A Most Unlikely Bird-Watcher

Gstaad—Jeremy Clarke has wiped me out again, for a change. His accounts of the high jinks on board the Spectator cruise had the mother of my children laughing out loud, something she’s not known for among those of us ...

The Yank Who Drank at Oxford

"€œThis House would abolish the monarchy"€ was the resolution to be debated at the Oxford Union on February 3, 2011. I had been summoned to join the team opposing the resolution; thus, I found myself last Candlemas ...

The Week That Perished

The Week’s Most Wasting, Pasting, and Turkey-Basting Headlines RICKET SCIENTISTS Welcome to this weekend’s edition of Lowclassterpiece Theatre. When Minot, North Dakota, resident Steven Riley, a “son of the soil” ...

Sailer-ism

"I advocate what I call "€˜citizenism"€™ as a functional, yet idealistic, alternative to the special-interest abuses of multiculturalism. Citizenism calls upon Americans to favor the well-being, even at some cost to ...

The Philadelphia Horror: How Mass Murder Gets a Pass

Let’s give the “climate of hate” rhetoric a rest for a moment. It’s time to talk about the climate of death, in which the abortion industry thrives unchecked. Dehumanizing rhetoric, rationalizing ...

Must We Kill the Economy to Kill the Virus?

"We cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself," tweeted the president on Sunday night, adding that, after the current 15-day shutdown, "we will make a decision as to which way we want to go." President Trump is ...


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