Woke’s Gone Broke

Let’s take it from the top: DEI was destroying Western values and the culture of meritocracy. The bigots of woke culture subverted our institutions yet claimed to occupy the moral high ground. A nation’s historic ...

Pantheon, Rome

‘Gladiator II’: A Rightful Heir

Sir Ridley Scott’s 2000 movie Gladiator with Russell Crowe as the hero Maximus has been one of the more unexpectedly culturally influential films of the 21st century. Americans had thought endlessly about Ancient Rome ...

Are the French Toast?

Quelle surprise was caused in France recently when Charles de Gaulle’s grandson, Pierre, suddenly announced his intention to apply for citizenship in Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Why? Because, Pierre told Russian media, ...

Lynda Benglis

Art: Scene and Unseen

Thursday night is opening night at the Chelsea galleries in New York. But, an art opening is not a good place to look at art because there are too many distractions. Nor is it is a good place to talk of art because you ...

Arianna’s PC Delta Force

Another of the media's enforcers of Acceptable Opinion was unleashed the other day, this one at the Huffington Post. There Sam Stein exposed the terrible extremists—including Tom Woods, Charles Goyette, and Thomas ...

Trump’s Endorsement Got DeSantis Nothing

Donald Trump is indignant that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis would dare run for president when he KNOWS Trump is running. According to the former president and big baby, this is a betrayal of epic proportions because Trump ...

Riot Act

The riots in Britain have made one thing clear: The political classes do not know what poor people look like. Keir Starmer has been like a broken record describing everyone on the streets as “a member” of “The Far ...

The Uniforms Came in One Color

"€œThey"€™re racist and they"€™ll kick your head in,"€ a white man named Paul warned me outside a convenience store in Burnley. He"€™d heard I was starting basic training the next day. I"€™d been buying a few ...

Yacht Plot

“Invert your ensign and pretend to be Serbs.” Such is the advice currently offered by Greek port officials to Russian yachts en route to Turkey. The Aegean now plays host to an Olympian game of musical chairs. No one ...

Kamala Harris

How Kamala Climbed the Peaks of DEI

The media are hopping mad about Republicans referring to Kamala Harris as a "DEI hire." Here's some of the teeth-gnashing: -- ABC News: "Kamala Harris Faces Racial 'DEI' Attacks" -- NPR: "Republicans Call Kamala Harris a ...

Emmanuel Macron

The Mind of Macron

The inclination to analyze politicians’ conduct by means of psychiatric diagnosis is growing. This is unsurprising in view of what was once called psychiatric imperialism: the classification of all thought and human ...

Auster’s Anger

Having already received several frantic notes about Taki's comments concerning Israel's campaign against armed Hamas members and other targets in the Gaza region, perhaps I should go public before these mounting inquiries ...

Juarez, Mexico

Break the Law Again, You’ll Get Two Desserts!

Days after Mayor Eric Adams said the migrant crisis was going to "destroy" New York City, we memorialized the last time immigrants tried to destroy it: the 9/11 attack. At least that was a one-time body blow. The city ...

Missing: British Identity

"€œThis is our country, our land, and our lifestyle. If you are not happy"€”then Leave."€ At last a politician in possession of testicles and a backbone. By definition then, not possibly a British parliamentarian. ...

Spies Like Us

Watching Steven Soderbergh's comedy The Informant! (with Matt Damon as that guy back in the 1990s who squealed to the feds about how he fixed the price of lysine for Archer Daniels Midland) reminded me of Econ 101, where ...

Sen. J.D. Vance

Pick the Hillbilly Trump

Now that it looks like Trump is seriously going to be the Republican nominee for president, who should his vice president be? If he's headed for a catastrophic, 1964-style defeat, then he should definitely pick Nikki Haley ...

Generational Gobbledygook: Astrology for MBAs

As we are constantly lectured, race does not exist. Yet, almost nobody points out that the conventional wisdom that races are wholly arbitrary social constructs is actually far truer for the popular concept of ...

Are We That Civilized?

If outrage, grief, and concern were the civilized world’s reaction to the killing of 1,200 Israelis on October 7, 2023, total indifference by the same types seems to be the response to the death of more than 41,000 ...

Is ‘Autocracy’ America’s Mortal Enemy?

In the aftermath of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, President Joe Biden declared to the nation and world: "We are engaged anew in a great battle for freedom. A battle between democracy and autocracy." On her trip to Taiwan, ...

Bethlehem, Palestine - Church of the Nativity

All-Conquering Israel

This is my last week in the Bagel and things are looking up. For some of us, that is; for others it’s despair time. No use beating around the bush: Israel has won big-time, Iran has lost big, and the Palestinians are back ...


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