Race and Rome
Men like thinking about the Roman Empire. So, should Sir Ridley Scott have cast Denzel Washington as the bisexual bad guy in his new movie Gladiator II? Is it historically accurate to cast a black villain in the Roman ...
Men like thinking about the Roman Empire. So, should Sir Ridley Scott have cast Denzel Washington as the bisexual bad guy in his new movie Gladiator II? Is it historically accurate to cast a black villain in the Roman ...
Beginning his joint press conference with Vladimir Putin, President Trump declared that U.S. relations with Russia have “never been worse.” He then added pointedly, that just changed “about four hours ...
I was innocently reading my New York Times last week when I was startled by this ghastly headline: "Judge Let Abusive Parents Keep Daughter. Days Later, She Was Dead." As we shall see, this wasn't a mistake; it was the ...
It’s always stimulating to discover a quality writer you didn’t know before. For a conservative, it’s doubly stimulating if the discoveree is of the same persuasion. And in an age when the middlebrow novel ...
In contribution to Takimag from last summer, Austin Bramwell asked "Why are movement conservative intellectuals so obsessed with refuting positions (e.g., that the United States is an inherently "liberal" ...
The directed killing of Gen. Qassem Soleimani, Iran's blood-soaked field marshal in the "forever war" of the Middle East, has begun to roil the politics of both the region and the USA. A stunned and shaken Iran retaliated ...
One of Israel's finest journalists, Gideon Levy, wrote in the daily Haaretz, "Just as there is no such thing as a partial pregnancy, there is no such thing as a partial democracy, either." Despite how Israel pats ...
“You know, despite it all, it’s still really a miracle America elected a black man as president,” my 60-something neighbor said to me over beers recently. You get this a lot from people born before 1965. ...
Politico Europe, a publication marinated in green politics, has named Russian President Vladimir Putin as one of its "power players of the year" -- for, in the publication's words, "advancing Europe's green agenda." "By ...
PEGASUS BRIDGE, NORMANDY—We’re taking morning coffee at the Gondree Café (skirting “THE” bridge), still owned by Arlette Gondree, whose family owned it on D-day. She was a girl at the time, and she now stands old ...
Obama's campaign would have us believe that he's the anti-corporate candidate, a populist "man of the people" whose race for the White House is being funded by tens and twenties sent in by ordinary folks who can"t ...
The media love disaster. One can hardly sit through a half hour of cable news without hearing dire prophecies of "climate change" and other ecotastrophes. And over the past year, television pundits have warned ...
Hear that? It’s the escalating cry of American employers and workers trying to hold on to their health care benefits in the age of stifling Obama health insurance mandates: Gangway! Gangway! Save me! Waive ...
When new British Prime Minister Liz Truss suggested lowering the United Kingdom's highest tax rate from 45% to 40%, along with a 1% reduction in the income tax rate for all taxpayers, the bond markets and the central ...
If you read news coverage about the brewing battle over raising the debt ceiling, you might think it's a fight between demons and angels. On one side, you have Republicans who are willing to risk a default on the ...
Perhaps the most instructive faux pas during the controversial Olympics opening ceremony in Paris on 26 July was the moment when the South Korean team was incorrectly labeled as the North Korean team instead. You can see ...
The process of auto-beatification among the educated in the West seems more prevalent than ever. Possessed, as they believe, of knowledge, wisdom, and generosity, they believe also that they are the conscience of society ...
Is the grindingly low scoring in the World Cup soccer tournament a bug or"as I"m finally starting to suspect"a feature? Could it be that the World Cup's global popularity is not so much despite all the nil-nil ...
Though Abbottabad's eponymous founder might approve of the rough justice OBL received there early Monday morning, something is very wrong with the establishment that calls the old cantonment home. Neither Sandhurst ...
In a perfect world, we would be stuffed together in plastic tents under the hot sun, breathing in the dust, absorbing the music. We would gorge on carnie food, smoke dope, snort coke, eat mushrooms, ecstasy, and acid, ...
After I recently savaged Rich Lowry's syndicated review of Deirdre McCloskey's book Bourgeois Dignity, Professor McCloskey indicated that I have no right to discuss her work until I"ve read it from cover to cover. I ...
Respect LBGT rights or get out of the EU, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte instructed Hungary's Viktor Orban at last week's gathering of the European Union in Brussels. According to Reuters, attendees described it as the ...
We are told climate change is a crisis, and that there is an "overwhelming scientific consensus." "It's a manufactured consensus," says climate scientist Judith Curry in my new video. She says scientists have an incentive ...
Crime stories are part of the “racial America” beat, and it helps if you don’t let them get under your skin. That’s difficult with black-on-white crime, because of the blatant sadism often exhibited by the ...
