For the past 30 years or so, the Left has invented a narrative that there are two Americas: a group of very super-rich people (the one-percenters) who have prospered over the past several decades, and everyone else who has ...
I would be a Republican if they would. Which means that I like the Barry Goldwater Republican Party, even the Reagan Republican Party. I want a mean old man to watch my money. I don’t want a Republican to be funny. I ...
The Week’s Most Tiresome, Miresome, and On-Firesome Headlines CLOWNTOWN L.A. You know you have a frail infrastructure when a birthday clown can cripple your power grid. Two days before the start of the worst fires in ...
I"ve avoided reading, let alone commenting on, the various post-election analyses of "where is conservatism headed?" or "what went wrong?" symposiums, because in my old age I"m becoming more ...
Disinformation, misinformation and fake news are real problems in a world that is now mainly online. However, this shouldn't blind us to the very real risk that comes from a government that aggressively polices information ...
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks. —Karl Marx If Karl Marx and V.I. Lenin were alive today, they would be leading contenders ...
My pronouns are She-rah, Herbal, and Hersheys. I don’t think it’s asking too much to refer to me using those simple terms, which I’ve made up, as I’m legally entitled to do in the name of equality. Can you believe ...
During my book party one month ago—rather surprisingly, the thing is selling well—I spotted Ferdinand Mount in the crowd and asked him to meet a friend of mine. Ferdie recognized the name immediately. “You ...
In a little time [there will be] no middling sort. We shall have a few, and but a very few Lords, and all the rest beggars. —R.L. Bushman Rapidly you are dividing into two classes—extreme rich and extreme ...
Mykonos. Lying northward of the sacred island of Delos, Mykonos is as profane as it gets. Largely barren, it used to be a brothel during ancient times, or so Herodotus tells us, and it continues its erotic, carnal ways as ...
After our most recent Republican president took unprecedented liberties with the executive branch, and after the current Democratic president has promised central planning, some state lawmakers have decided to take their ...
I'm excited to announce a new acquisition for my New York Times museum! It's an article from the March 24 edition titled, "What Would Make the Subway Feel Safer? Experts Have 5 Suggestions." Appropriating from ...
Last week, while CPAC was winding down its annual conference, one of its stellar speakers, Jonathan Krohn, was honored with an interview on FOX news. This much-touted interviewee, who is now being compared to Joe the ...
As neoconservatism ascended, its regard for science slipped to the brink of open contempt, for it owed much of its political traction to social conservatives apt to dismiss science as corrupt as literary theory, only more ...
Ron Paul’s recently published book, The Revolution, is number one on Amazon and will debut on the New York Times bestseller list at number seven—good news, eh? Not to the fake “libertarians” over at ...
He is the clown prince in a continent whose rulers boast of more clowns among them than all the circuses of the world combined. He uses more black shoe polish on his hair than a company of Rumanian hussars use on their ...
The late, great humorist P.J. O'Rourke used to quip that everyone wants to save the world, but no one wants to wash the dishes. Well, now that can be said for traditional environmental groups that seem to have lost their ...
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. —George Orwell There was a time when the pen was mightier than the sword. That was a time when people believed in truth and regarded ...
I’ll report some good news for a change. Perhaps the most important event this year outside the presidential election is the imminent collapse of the so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion con, the poisonous hokum ...
The Declaration of Independence"whose proclamation, on July 4, 1776, we celebrate today"has been mocked out of meaning. To be fair to the liberal establishment, ordinary Americans are not entirely blameless. For ...
“One can name-drop with impunity when writing about the past,” said Nicky Haslam. “What is hard is to avoid it when writing of the present,” according to the sage. I remember when this column began ...
On board S/Y Bushido off St. Tropez. My book party’s best line was Claus von Bulow’s, as told to Antony Beevor, Piers Paul Read, Paul Johnson, and Sir V.S. Naipaul, among the literary worthies who took the time to ...
An American president is launching the most ambitious, the most expensive, and certainly the most dangerous military campaign since the Vietnam War"and the antiwar movement, such as it is, is missing in action. After a ...
At this point, the only thing we know for sure about the presidential election is that if Donald Trump loses, it will be because of his personality, and if he wins, it will be because of immigration. I know this because ...
