Trump: Prisoner of the War Party?

“Ten days ago, President Trump was saying ‘the United States should withdraw from Syria.’ We convinced him it was necessary to stay.” Thus boasted French President Emmanuel Macron Saturday, adding, ...

The Real Kamala Harris

It's crazy for Donald Trump not to agree to another debate. While he may not be everybody's cup of tea, his opponent is an absolute lunatic who could do permanent damage to our country, in addition to the damage that she's ...

Decapitation

The heads keep rollin"€™, rollin"€™, rollin"€™ all over the world. So far in May: • A Mexican deputy prison governor's decapitated body was among eight headless corpses dumped in the state of Durango as part of ...

Better Flying

Your flight is delayed? Blame your government. OK, it's not always government's fault. Sometimes it's weather or mechanical problems. But often we suffer horrible flight delays because politicians won't relinquish ...

Austin, Texas

The Week That Perished

The Week’s Clingiest, Stringiest, and Springiest Headlines SXSS The South by Southwest (SXSW) film and music festival in Austin is no stranger to disruption. In 2014, a man named Rashad Charjuan Owens plowed through the ...

Antaeus by William Blake

Hercules in the Desert

Antaeus was a Libyan giant whose strength appeared invincible. One day he challenged the mighty Hercules to a wrestling match. Each time Antaeus was thrown to the ground, he rose again stronger than before. Hercules ...

Spirit of 1848

It began when Mohamed Bouazizi, a twenty-six-year-old fruit seller, set himself alight last December 17th in provincial Tunisia. Bouazizi was not demanding fair elections, free speech, equitable wealth distribution, or free ...

Michigan Is Headed Back to Rust Belt Poverty

Since the early days of Henry Ford, Michigan was the proud symbol of America's industrial might. But then, starting in the 1970s, things went south -- in part because of the might of the unions that ran the state's ...

In Defense of Stoning

The first and biggest mistake Americans make when analyzing the Middle East is assuming they are us. When France gave us the Statue of Liberty, we stopped making fun of them for a long time. When MacArthur saved Korea, a ...

On to Tehran—or Is It Damascus?

Our War Party has been temporarily diverted from its clamor for war on Iran by the insurrection against the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad. Estimates of the dead since the Syrian uprising began a year ago approach 6,000. ...

Attikon Cinema

Charge Them With Corruption!

I was sad to read that the Attikon Cinema on Stadiou Street in central Athens was burned down by anarchist scum pretending to protest against the EU Nazis. The Attikon was built in 1870 as part of a beautiful, ocher-colored ...

Mug Us Again!

From 2001 to 2013 more than 1.6 million people from predominantly Muslim countries were issued green cards for permanent settlement in the ...

Danger — Government Digital Currency

President Joe Biden and the media are excited about something new: a Central Bank Digital Currency, or CBDC. It's a currency like Bitcoin, except controlled by the federal government. Not everyone is a fan. "Sometimes ...

No Straight Lines in Gay Geometry

Now that your kids are “safely” back at school and college this September, what are they actually learning? How to eat shit, that’s what. In 2022, teaching materials endorsed by American teaching union the NEA were ...

Jane Fonda

Ain’t It Good to Know, You’ve Got a Fiend

Is it Democrat leftist ideology that drives their incompetence, or is it something else? The cognitive dissonance many leftists display is off the charts when the policies and laws they implement come crashing down. Stalin ...

Vivek Ramaswamy

President Ramaswamy?

Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy is obviously a long shot presidential candidate, but he's refreshing. Unlike most politicians, he speaks clearly and seems smart. He probably is smart. He went to Harvard and Yale and then ...

Crime Time

Like a strange melody that keeps repeating in my ear are four letters, PTSD, an acronym for a psychiatric disorder that seems to afflict most criminals in America. I suppose some shrink invented it, then ambulance-chasing ...

Noam Chomsky

Let Us Now Praise Old Men

(with apologies to James Agee, author of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, 1941) In Paris at the Shakespeare and Company bookshop the other night, a ninety-three-year old man delivered a lecture on resistance. Reflecting on ...

Anwar al-Awlaki

An American Letter on the War of Terror

The recent murder of American Anwar al-Awlaki is an outrage. One wishes he were not an American. Were I in charge he never would have been an American. According to old Western notions he will never be considered an ...

Napoleon, aged 23

The Emperor’s New Film

The French are up in arms, as always; the Brits have raised eyebrows; and the Americans are nonplussed, as they thought Napoleon was a brandy. The brouhaha has to do with the latest movie about the Emperor of the French, ...

Hillary Clinton

Portrait of the Week

HOME NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg introduced legislation requiring stores to hide tobacco products inside cabinets or under counters where customers can’t see them. ... The Government Accountability Office said it will ...

The Great Liberal Fallacy

I have trouble even talking with people about "€œhealthcare reform."€ The problem is, whenever someone says something like "€œ46 million Americans are uninsured!"€ (usually followed by a drawn-out sigh of moral ...

Taking Israel’s Side

The May 31st kerfuffle over Israel’s interception of ships headed to Gaza brought forth some predictable reactions from the paleo-Right: Pat Buchanan, Stephen Walt, Ron Paul, and many others. Of this crop, Steve ...

Lockdowns Lose the Olympics

Vincent Zhou, the world-class figure skater forced to pull out of the Olympics because of COVID, can thank Anthony Fauci and our COVID-crazed media for his withdrawal. In an agonizing Instagram post, Zhou expressed shock ...


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