A Tale of Two New Yorks
When people talk about “Two Americas,” they usually assume New York City is part of the “elitist jerkoff” half and write us off. But there are two distinct New Yorks"an exaggerated version of the ...
When people talk about “Two Americas,” they usually assume New York City is part of the “elitist jerkoff” half and write us off. But there are two distinct New Yorks"an exaggerated version of the ...
The Week's Most Detestable, Suggestible, and Indigestible Headlines POP SUPERSTAR ACCUSED OF ENABLING ANTI-SEMITISM Baby-faced pop singer Justin Bieber has earned a quarter-billion dollars and sold 45 million records ...
Charles Manson, who for decades existed as an emblem of wide-eyed 60s idealism gone fatally wrong, died last week. Within moments, leftist scribes rushed to disavow him and to insist he had nothing to do with leftism or the ...
Over the weekend in Milwaukee, a black cop shot and killed an armed black man. In response, throngs of howling blacks rioted, looted, committed arson, and randomly attacked whites. If that makes no sense to you, that's ...
Samuel Leistedt has my dream job. The Belgian forensic psychology professor and his team watched 400 movies and diagnosed 126 characters as true psychopaths. They concluded that many famous movie crazies don’t fit ...
This all happened last week: "¢ In South Dakota, someone claiming to be a 16-year-old boy called the county sheriff’s office and said he’d rigged his house with explosives, had already shot one of his ...
In recent months Rep. Maxine Waters, former attorney general Eric Holder, and other powerful Democrats have called for Americans to protest and even confront members of the Trump administration and Republican candidates and ...
NEW YORK"Stop fiddling with your phone. This is my theme today. I want you to consider some cause-and-effect scenarios. Maybe the reason you got jostled from behind three times today on Eighth Avenue is that you were ...
2019 was supposed to be Hollywood’s year of Intersectional Diversity, but the handful of good films—such as Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Joker, The Irishman, and now Ford v Ferrari—keep turning out to be period ...
Nothing human is alien to me, I understand nothing that is human: I cannot quite make up my mind which describes my situation the better. But certainly one of the things that I do not understand is the cult of celebrity; it ...
Last week we learned that the guy who made that anti-Muslim film is going to prison for a year. It is apparently now illegal to embarrass this administration. What I find even more shocking is the apathy my friends express. ...
With the perennial race-IQ controversy back in the news, due to The New York Times attempting to put the boot in on 90-year-old Nobelist James D. Watson from the left and Nassim Nicholas Taleb thundering on against IQ from ...
Dr. Frankenstein had nothing on leftists. Frankenstein's monster merely terrorized the countryside. The monsters birthed by the left tend to terrorize countries, cultures, and occasionally even the entire world. And like ...
Soccer, while traditionally lacking in highbrow accoutrements like sophisticated statistics (although those are improving) or literature (the most memorable English-language book on the game is American writer Bill Buford's ...
"While Rand's inner circle continued to fray, Objectivism in New York was reaching fever pitch. With much fanfare, in May 1967 NBI signed fifteen-year lease on offices in the Empire State Building, then the world's ...
I"ve been observing the onward march of Cultural Marxism for a whole quarter-century now, and been writing about it for a dozen or so years. It seems to me the pace of hysteria has been picking up since the start of ...
There is a strange thing about modern ugliness: It is militant and proselytizing, and not just the result of thoughtlessness, poverty, lack of skill, and so forth. It might properly be called ideological. It is not so much ...
"I was never a true believer, but the money was good." When I started writing about politics and hanging around with conservatives, I started hearing leftists say the weirdest crap. Stuff that stank of ...
When a Nobel Prize winner can be hounded from his university chair by the harridans of the Internet (or any other self-constituted group of fanatics), the outlook for freedom of speech is not good. The West, having ...
A specter is haunting Europe"and pace Marx, it is the specter of monarchy. Whenever a ceremony of any sort is performed for or by a deposed ruling family's members"as has happened in the past few years in France, ...
A curious example of the power of social trends on thought is that two years into the Covid pandemic, nobody of any influence has yet bothered to launch a campaign to persuade Americans to do the one obvious ...
Like any art form, journalism has genres. There is the celebrity-fall-from-grace genre. There is the up-and-coming cable-television-pundit-zings-opposing-network-pundit genre. The scientists-discover-new-gene genre is ...
Of all the subjects of academic study, psychology is probably the most useless, or at least the most useless by comparison with its pretensions to use. In a century and a half, it has not told us anything of undisputed ...
In 2014, the business model for journalism (so-called) is as follows: manufacture some perceived outrage and let the delicious page views and ad revenues flow forth. The Atlantic, a once-venerated font of American letters ...
