Memorializing Foolishness

Never forget how stupid we were to allow misfits and lunatics from the Third World to settle in our ...

Adolf Hitler

The Myth of Prejudice

I don"€™t believe in racism, sexism, or homophobia. There, I said it. While all three are prevalent all over the world, I don"€™t think they exist here in the West. Of course, ...

The Strange Evolution of Eugenics

Predictably, responses to veteran New York Times genetics reporter Nicholas Wade's new book A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race, and Human History are already starting to break ...

Lost in Space

The world is too much with us, late and soon. Before long, it can begin to seem reasonable. I have my doubts. The usual always seems reasonable. For example, existence seems ...

Tweeting Our Way to Justice

Whether or not it was Julie Burchill who described Stephen Fry as "€œa stupid person's idea of a clever person,"€ it's a finer quip than most of the labored ...

Conchita Wurst

The Week That Perished

The Week's Most Aimless, Brainless, and Shameless Headlines A CAVALCADE OF APOLOGIES Crushed under the increasingly harsh mandates of the Global Church of Human Equality, the ...

Samuel Goldwyn

Take the Sour with the Bitter

For some of you younger readers the name Schmuel Gelbfisz will not ring a bell. Yet back in the 30s, Schmuel Gelbfisz’s identity was a dinner party quiz, and the one who guessed ...

Minoritarianism

Minoritarianism: five percent of the population imposing their standards on the other 95 ...

Gerry Adams

The Week That Perished

The Week's Most Treacherous, Lecherous, and Obstreperous Headlines PICKING AT SCABS IN NORTHERN IRELAND The Police Service of Northern Ireland arrested Sinn Féin president ...

Jessica Raine

Walking Her Down

The vicissitudes of getting old are linked to the mystical innocence of childhood as one daydreams the precious time away. I’m a daydreamer par excellence, and lately I’ve ...

Clayton Lockett

Highlights from the Week’s News

It's been a strange couple of weeks here in the United States of ...

On the Road

That was me last week. It was a doubleheader. Sunday the 20th I flew to Tucson for the "€œToward a Science of Consciousness"€ conference at the university there. ...

Bryan Singer

A Confederacy of Coconuts

"€œI WANT TO BELIEVE,"€ announces The X-Files"€™ Agent Mulder, although silently, via that austere poster on the wall of his dark basement FBI office. It's a declaration of ...

Donald Sterling

The Week That Perished

The Week's Most Steroidal, Negroidal, and Hemorrhoidal Headlines WHITE MEN, WRONG WORDS Two elderly white men got in trouble last week for making the sort of comments that ...

St. Tropez. France

Creatures of a Day

Yesterday a young woman who was unknown to me except at third hand died. She was the friend of a friend of my wife. Considering that I was personally unacquainted with her, and ...

Peaches Geldof

Death Out of Season

NEW YORK — The poet was right, April is the cruelest month. We at the Spectator lost Clarissa Tan, my good friend Bob Geldof’s 25-year-old daughter Peaches died, and my oldest ...


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