College Racism
The Left is angry because the Supreme Court ruled race-based affirmative action unconstitutional. President Joe Biden says he "strongly disagrees." But Chief Justice John Roberts was right to say, "Eliminating racial ...
The Left is angry because the Supreme Court ruled race-based affirmative action unconstitutional. President Joe Biden says he "strongly disagrees." But Chief Justice John Roberts was right to say, "Eliminating racial ...
“We are entering an autocratic, or at least authoritarian, American future.” So wrote some bald-faced phonies in The New York Times, but they would, wouldn’t they? I find the idea that a parent once gave a word ...
You know this story. Congress cannot get its act together, again. It is facing a government shutdown by this Saturday, again. It has retreated to secrecy, again. It seems redundant and ridiculous to say “here we go ...
The polls and pundits are all in alignment now. The Republican Party is headed for a victory Tuesday to rival the biggest and best of those that the party has known in the lifetime of most Americans. In 1938, the GOP won ...
I'm not sure the Central Park Five really want a civil trial on what happened the night of April 19, 1989, but by suing Donald Trump for defamation, that's what they're going to get. The alleged defamation was Trump's ...
What is the greatest human achievement? Many would answer in terms of some architectural or engineering feat: The Great Pyramids, skyscrapers, a bridge span, or sending men to the moon. Others might say the subduing of some ...
The dead and displaced now run into the millions, lawless ruination continues unabated in Zimbabwe. But, Morgan Tsvangirai, the president, and man Zimbabweans looked to for salvation, looks surprisingly pleased with ...
The first time we spoke she walked past me, pointed at my feet without breaking her stride, and sternly said, "Good shoes." By the time I thought of something to say back she was on the other side of the building. ...
One must be a person without discernible intelligence or conservative inclination to be allowed to write for the New York Times as a "conservative" columnist. Otherwise someone would not likely be picked to ...
Once upon a time, there was the American Dream, "that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone," as James Truslow Adams described it in his book The Epic of America (1931). ...
Plus, La Sonnambula in Sydney, The Vizcaya Museum and Gardens in Miami, and more picks to love this week The Surreal House, Barbican Art Gallery, through September 12 Designed by the critically acclaimed architect Carmody ...
I don’t know much about economics. What I do know is that so many so-called “experts,” including politicians and economists, are wrong far more often than they are right. They’re wrong about ...
Those Poor, Helpless Indian Savages The modern narrative of the noble savage does not mesh well with the idea of multiculturalism. The Comanches remind me of certain ethnic minorities that are committing the majority of ...
I’m often asked where I got the name “Southern Avenger.” For starters, it was a rip-off of a popular 90’s conservative talk radio host named Ken Hamblin, who called himself the “Black ...
The problem with British history, said Salman Rushdie, is that so much of it happened abroad. By way of revision, we might say that the problem with British politics today is that all of it is happening abroad. In 1938, ...
The New Republic is about the last place anyone would look for a fair reading of traditionalist conservatism. The magazine's review pages are often outstanding, with such contributors as American historian Gordon S. Wood ...
Everybody and his dog is writing about the Trump conviction, so I guess I’ll add my few grains to the sand pile. Otherwise I’d kill something, preferably a New York judge. Or several of them. On the observable ...
As Christians around the world wait by the tomb, reenacting the vigil of the Blessed Virgin and the Apostles, we do our best to replicate their grief, and gratitude, and hope. Such efforts will shape the life of every ...
Let's suppose a business employed ten workers in June. Along came Barack Obama and huffed and puffed and blew six jobs away. Four employees now run a pared-down operation. The next round of retrenchments will invariably ...
Stalin, who espoused the profound rationalism of a Constitution that made socially useful labour into universal law, lost out on Europe's scientific genius and therefore on world domination. So did Hitler, who espoused no ...
Whenever I try to escape pop music relayed in public places at high volume—which is often, though considerably less often with success—the thought comes into my mind that the harnessing of electricity was a disaster, if ...
Funny how the Brits are always falling behind the Yanks, as they pejoratively call them. No sooner had the Americans woken up and voted Trump to power, those in Britain wielding power are arresting and jailing people for ...
...sticking it to the rich is a real psychological ...
President Joe Biden, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and a handful of left-leaning Republicans (led by Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, of course) have just agreed to a near $100 billion foreign aid bill for Israel and ...
