A striking feature of post-1968 liberalism is its obsession with the problems of people who don"t really have major problems. While activists of the past worried about the ...
Seven score and twenty-something years ago, a boat crossed the Atlantic from Hoboken, New Jersey for a day sail around the Isle of Wight. Thirty proper yachts vied with the sharp ...
Here is David Gelernter’s classic take on Virginia Military Institute being forced by the US Supreme Court in 1996 to admit women: The elite hated VMI, and no doubt VMI ...
Stop the presses. Call out the National Guard. Order in the tanks. The Simon Wiesenthal Center is mad and is not going to take it anymore. Especially from Vini Lunardelli, the ...
I"ll admit it: I"m unfashionably fond of Dr. Phil. At least early on"before he got caught up in shady stuff such as trying to brand his family as the Osmonds of ...
Every time a liberal sees someone behaving badly they sigh and say, "They just need education," but the solution to America's problems is less education, not more. If we ...
A relic of a long-gone era of “happy endings” and “family viewing,” the real-life Love Boat’s final voyage was marred by a perfectly po-mo, Irony Age ...
I hate billionaires. I loathe, disdain, and want to throw them in a wood chipper; take your pick, I can"t stand to be in a room with them. Millionaires are a different story. ...
The new movie Elysium, another science-fiction fable from young Boer refugee Neill Blomkamp about the horrors of mass immigration and nonwhite overpopulation, isn’t terribly ...
"I"ve been married to a capitalist, a communist, and a fascist, and neither [sic] would take out the garbage," Zsa Zsa Gabor supposedly said. In the pre-Internet era, ...
Trayvon. Bernanke. The Colonel. America is buffeted by blustery winds of change these days, yet who among us would have thought even they could disquiet the solemnity of the ...
Yes, there really is a Burbank. As a kid, I assumed that the smallish California city with the “beautiful downtown” was just a cheesy Tonight Show punch line, not a ...
When I was a kid, being a rebel was hard work. You didn"t have the Internet spoon-feeding you the latest trends. You had to dig under rocks to find out what was happening. If ...
People weren’t as shocked by the news of Michael Moore’s pending divorce as they were at the thought of some poor woman marrying him in the first place. The ...
Detroit, a city once known as “The Paris of the West” and “The Arsenal of Democracy,” has fallen and it can’t get up. In 1960 it boasted the ...
Aldous Huxley's 1932 dystopian novel Brave New World depicts an ideal pleasure drug, a hangover-free tranquilizer called soma that the totalitarian government freely distributed ...