The charade is up. It's now apparent that Nidal Hasan was acting upon the Islamic doctrine of holy war when he carried out mass murder at Fort Hood. But will this fact, like so many others, make any appreciable difference ...
“Variety is the spice of life”—American Proverb The definition of diversity is a moving target, controlled by opinion makers and social engineers. What is the ideal goal of diversity? Is it best ...
A female British IT worker recently sued her boss for sexual harassment in the workplace. According to her, the fact that her employer had placed the letters “xx” in his emails to indicate an unknown quantity (as in ...
The Week’s Most Skimming, Brimming, and Tree-Trimming Headlines BAYSQUASH For blacks, swimming in the ocean can be hazardous. So can sitting on the beach, apparently—odd as that may seem, what with their ...
As the clock ticked on racist admission policies at the country’s top colleges, Harvard announced prophylactically (but in vain) its selection of a new president, Claudine Gay, who becomes Harvard’s 30th president ...
One student newspaper contributor got it right when she said it looked as if “Satan himself had come to address the crowd.” Over one hundred leftists showed up to stage a protest against Bay Buchanan’s ...
An international shouting match is underway over the fate of the city everyone loves but no one wants to live in: Venice. It started back in 2008, after Venice ran out of cash to maintain its more famous monuments. To cover ...
The Week’s Most Glomming, Aplombing, and Flowers-for-Momming Headlines BREAKING BAD (WIND) How do you know you’re the least popular American president in history? When you lose a ratings war to farts. In the 1990s, ...
The New York Times recently ran an indignant article on the Department of Justice's arrest of two fugitives in Mexico who were accused of involvement in a mostly peaceful arson during the #BLM protests in the Twin Cities ...
One of the funnier aspects of the articles denouncing my recently restored freedom to speak in public, such as The Atlantic’s and now The Guardian’s, is that they can’t think of any good reasons why I should ever have ...
As one might surmise, one doesn’t get rich by serving the HL Mencken Club. Unlike other organizations, which have claimed the "conservative" label, belonging to our club is not a ladder to social acceptability ...
Just as Christians believe that we are made in the image and likeness of God, Muslims see themselves as a reflection of Allah. And as we wish to conform our will to God's Will, they attempt to conform their wills to Allah. ...
There have been many signs of the apocalypse as of late. We have a war in the birthplace of the Lord as was foretold in The Omen III, Global Warming is causing sheep to shrink as mentioned in Ecclesiastes, and the oil spill ...
Republicans' embrace of "diversity" has been an unmitigated disaster, as illustrated most recently by Sen. Katie Britt, whose response to President Biden's State of the Union address came with a double dose of ...
If it weren’t for Papa Hemingway’s machismo, or Scott Fitzgerald’s lovely prose, Somerset Maugham would have been my favorite writer. And one of the things I most regret is having refused an invitation for lunch at La ...
Between the warring camps vying for ownership of the true "American conservatism," a remarkable consensus has emerged around the status of Abraham Lincoln and his legacy. In the conservative house divided, almost ...
We live in such an unromantic ...
Did I ever tell you about the time I found myself face down in a urine-soaked stairwell with a cop’s knee on my neck? It was 1991, and black L.A. was in its Boys n’ the Hood phase. Its last years before Three Strikes ...
Two days before flying to Turkey for a few days, I found a little book published in 1944 titled La Turquie d’Ismet Ineunu (The Turkey of Ismet Inonu). It was published by Fernand Sorlot not long before the end of the ...
Last week, I saw a picture of President Macron in his shirtsleeves embracing Teddy Riner, the French heavyweight judo champion who has long reigned unbeaten in every championship he has entered, and who has just won yet ...
Once upon a time, there were The Founders. Though tragically trapped in their slave holding and lack of gender and ethnic diversity, these wise fellows envisioned that on the American continent might arise a new nation that ...
NEW YORK—‘Lock up your daughters! Is the world ready for Taki Jr?’ This was the New York Observer headline, followed by: “Meet the only son of the world’s naughtiest Greek playboy.” Under any other ...
Something unexpected has been going on with suicide rates over the past half decade. First, though, some background: It is widely assumed by many people who don’t pay close attention to social science statistics that ...
If you want to boost TV ratings, nothing does the trick like teen sex. Just think of poor Chris Hansen, who spent years building a respectable career as a TV newsman but since 2004 has become forever typecast as the guy who ...
