The 21 Club

When the national press trumpets its tales of white hate crimes, are the underlying realities more likely to turn out to be genuine examples of white racist criminality, Jussie Smollett-like hate hoaxes, or something in ...

Yes, the System Is Rigged

“I’m afraid the election is going to be rigged,” Donald Trump told voters in Ohio and Sean Hannity on Fox News. And that hit a nerve. “Dangerous,” “toxic,” came the recoil from the ...

Hugo Chavez

Evil Men and Their Champions

The gift of political prophecy is certainly not mine, and I suspect that the best, most certain way of prophesying correctly is to prophesy often. That way one will, by laws of chance, sometimes be right. The human mind's ...

President Obama

How to Pass: Past and Present

Last week, the press whipped itself into a frenzy of anticipation for Barack Obama's big speech at the Democratic Convention, only to have Obama once again turn out to be the National Letdown. That raises the question: ...

Talking Down to the Blacks

A new study from Yale and Princeton shows that only white liberals are dumb enough to think they can appease black people by acting dumb around them. The study is called “Self-Presentation in Interracial Settings: The ...

Julian von Abele

Love is Now a Hate Crime

On December 9 at about 4AM, a student at Columbia University filmed another student committing the unpardonable sin of declaring that he loves being white. The video lasts less than a minute as a clearly intoxicated and ...

Boehner Goes Limp

Once again, Republicans have snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. Faced with rising populist support of their principled stand against a law that a majority of the country does not like, the GOP has chosen this moment ...

Flinging Poo at a Jew

As a child, the thing I found most startling about attending majority-black public schools was the fact that most of my fellow students had no idea what a “Jew” is. To them, I was just a white kid. A few of my ...

In Praise of Broken Windows Policing

For many of us who live in American cities, certain things each year signal the arrival of warm weather: the joyful sounds of children playing in the street, the pleasant sight of pretty women in their dresses and skirts, ...

Help Wanted: Save Civilization

There is nothing quite as pleasing as to contemplate the imminent end of the world or the downfall of civilization. It gives you a sense of superiority for having recognized it when all about you people are going about ...

The War on Discipline

Since the 1960s we have spent trillions to uplift the bottom. All nostrums, whether liberal or conservative, free market or statist, have failed and there is nothing on the agenda that offers any hope. The latest, President ...

Rocky Horror Picture Show

Permanent Devolution

Scientific advances spur social mutations as surely as ergo prompters hoc. Sometimes the connection is irrefutable, however, if slightly askew. Air conditioning, for example, killed the Catskills. Why decamp to the ...

Dr. Michael Shermer

Michael Shermer’s Immoral Arc

Of all the people I"€™ve tussled with in my professional life, Dr. Michael Shermer, bestselling author and professional "€œskeptic,"€ draws the least amount of sympathy from me. I don"€™t know what makes me so raw ...

The Denazification of America

Are We All Nazis? is a 1978 book written by psychologist Hans Askenasy. The title is a little misleading. The book isn’t about whether all humans secretly harbor a desire to stuff Jews into concentration camps. Rather, ...

The Racial Reckoning on the Roads

As I may have mentioned once or twice over the past year, the media-declared “racial reckoning” following the death of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, has been getting a lot of blacks murdered by other blacks. But I am ...

The Money of Fools

People often claim to have cultivated their inner child as if this were a good thing to have done. They are proud of it, in fact. The "€œinner child"€ that each of us supposedly has somewhere deep within his being ...

The War Against Instinct

This week, I’m goin’ anecdotal. A little less “facts and figures” and a little more “Mark Twain after three whiskeys.” Here’s the story of Little Robert and the Crip. Little Robert (so nicknamed because I ...

Who Will Hire the Hangman?

Why should the dying have all the best deaths? Fatal illness is not the only form of terrible human suffering: on the contrary, the briefest of reflection should be enough to convince anyone that such suffering is ...

The Age of Expert Ignorance

Last year Tom Nichols, an ardent Never Trump Republican, published a popular book called The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Expertise and Why It Matters. “Americans have reached a point,” argues Nichols, ...

I”€™m Fact-Checking Your Brain, Dude

NEW YORK"€”I"€™ve had battles with fact-checkers my whole life. I blame The New Yorker magazine"€”that's where it all started. Harold Ross, the founder of The New Yorker, was such a perfectionist he hired editors ...

Linda Fairstein

The Wilding of Linda Fairstein

The African folktale version of the 1989 Central Park gang-rape has swept the populace! The mob thirsts for vengeance against evil spirits, like Linda Fairstein. In the past week, Fairstein, the head of the sex crimes unit ...

The Week That Perished

The Week’s Muddiest, Cruddiest, and Bloodiest Headlines HILLARY CLINTON: STILL FALLING, STILL CAN’T GET UP As everyone who isn’t an incorrigible, woman-hating, minority-lynching bigot knows, Hillary Clinton was ...

George Smitherman

The Man Who Almost Became Toronto’s Crazy Mayor

George Smitherman is supposed to be the mayor of Toronto. During the 2010 election, the former deputy premier was the liberal elite's standard-bearer. Sure, his name was attached to a few sordid, multi-million-dollar ...


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