The War on Free Speech 2017
"The guy has freedom of speech but to fund him & give him a platform tells me a LOT about @simonschuster YUCK AND BOO AND GROSS," declared Sarah Silverman when she discovered Milo Yiannopoulos had just closed a ...
"The guy has freedom of speech but to fund him & give him a platform tells me a LOT about @simonschuster YUCK AND BOO AND GROSS," declared Sarah Silverman when she discovered Milo Yiannopoulos had just closed a ...
A paradox of the current nationalist rebellion is how worldwide it is. Three years ago, I pointed out in Takimag in a column entitled "Nationalism Is a Blast": In 2014, the global winds are blowing in favor of ...
On Christmas Eve, an eminently smackable-looking self-described "actual communist" crouched down, grabbed his ankles, and shat the following Tweet upon planet Earth: All I want for Christmas is White Genocide The ...
Future historians, if there are any, will look on our epoch as one of bad temper. The ease with which people are provoked to the expression of outrage suggests that it has a very important function in our mental life, if not ...
Considering the state of this world, it is perfectly understandable to find oneself being constantly annoyed. As each year winds to an end, I find myself surveying the past twelve months and thinking about who annoyed me. I ...
The Week's Most Inveterate, Degenerate, and Confederate Headlines GAY LAWYER HASSLES IVANKA TRUMP ON A PLANE Ivanka Trump is the beautiful and eminently bangable blonde daughter of President-Elect and Emperor-to-Be Donald ...
It's very sad to watch the Democrats these days. I mean, this is a party that has, in the past, shown itself to be exceptionally skilled at getting people fired up over going to war. Justifiably or not, Dem presidents took us ...
Will the curse of Oscar front-runnerhood undermine public enjoyment of La La Land? It would be delightful to stumble unwittingly upon this old-fashioned movie musical about a romance between an unemployed actress (Emma Stone) ...
Author Nikesh Shukla"a fat brown man who appears to sweat a lot"has just been named one of Foreign Policy magazine's "100 Global Thinkers of 2016." He won this award for his work focusing on the "unbearable ...
The Week's Rudest, Crudest, and Lewdest Headlines MICHELLE OBAMA FEELS HOPELESS Michelle Obama is feted and loved around the world for no other apparent reason than the fact that she walks around with a vagina that has ...
AMARILLO, Tex."Out on the western edge of town, right before you hit the empty prairie that runs all the way to Albuquerque, there's a big, sprawling clothing store in the Cavender's chain where they have about five long ...
In the past few weeks, I"ve had a good dozen people ask me about "Pizzagate." "So whaddya think, Dave? Is it a real scandal? Is there a "there" there?" My best answer is this: If you"re an ...
Donald Trump's era of influence may turn out to be a flash in the pan like that of previous celebrity politicians Jesse Ventura and Arnold Schwarzenegger. But he may also be building a political system as enduring as Ronald ...
On the topic of "noteworthy accomplishments," here's an ironic one: With How the Scots Invented the Modern World, author Arthur Herman somehow wrote a book that is tedious in direct reverse proportion to its ...