A War of Attrition
GSTAAD—Writing in the Spectator diary, Lady Antonia Fraser, widow of Harold Pinter, recounts how then vice president Lyndon Johnson stipulated at a Jamaican party that he would dance as long as no words were exchanged. ...
GSTAAD—Writing in the Spectator diary, Lady Antonia Fraser, widow of Harold Pinter, recounts how then vice president Lyndon Johnson stipulated at a Jamaican party that he would dance as long as no words were exchanged. ...
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is being pressured by idiots like Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert to impeach Biden for his son Hunter's sleazy foreign dealings -- and thus decimate the reelection chances of every ...
What causes wokeness? Richard Hanania writes in his highly useful new book, The Origins of Woke: Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics, that: Conservatives have blamed wokeness on entities ...
I’m gonna start by talking about the porn girl I lived with, then segue into the actors’ strike and end on politics. Yep, ol’ Dave will deftly manipulate three balls at once. So, speaking of porn... For me, two years ...
It’s mid-September, so your kids will be back in school or college on both sides of the Atlantic—but what will they actually be learning there? Quite possibly, little more than Junior Maoism 101. Nonsense like Critical ...
The Week’s Most Fazing, Gazing, and High Holy Dazing Headlines OLD SMELLER When the Japanese lunatic who bought a lifelike “human dog” costume tells the NY Post that he wants to mate with a female dog and become a movie ...
Want a soda? You'll pay more for one in Philadelphia, because five years ago, local politicians decided to tax it. They're "protecting" people, they said. The tax would "reduce obesity" and "lower diabetes rates." But their ...
Days after Mayor Eric Adams said the migrant crisis was going to "destroy" New York City, we memorialized the last time immigrants tried to destroy it: the 9/11 attack. At least that was a one-time body blow. The city ...
India is in the spotlight as it throws the G20 economic conference. Its host, Hindu nationalist prime minister Narendra Modi, is fooling around, Elon Musk-style, with the idea of changing the name of his country to ...
This’ll be the final entry in my “Fog Trilogy”; totally different topic next week, I promise! Last week’s column was about how/why rightists “fog themselves.” This week, let’s examine the professional ...
As this piece is going up on 9/11, I thought I’d better do something about Islam. But first, as Monty Python (almost) used to say, for something completely different: Like Hot Chocolate, I’ll be starting with a kiss. You ...
The Week’s Most Drooling, Tooling, and Back-to-Schooling Headlines KAMI-KAMI-KAMI-KAMIKAZE CHAMELEON In the Philippines, September 3rd is known as Yamashita Surrender Day, marking the moment the war formally ended in that ...
In this decade, America’s most effective conservative activist has likely been Chris Rufo, who in 2020 came up with a winning euphemism for all the racist antiwhite hate suffusing our schools, streets, and screens during the ...
This is a sequel-in-spirit to last week’s piece about rightist “fog.” In a recent column I mentioned a Ron Unz contradiction regarding the Holocaust. In his “landmark” 17,600-word Holocaust denial essay, Unz wrote ...