Better Red Than Woke

At the time it felt like a century, but it was only twelve years. I began this column in 1977 and the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, the latter calling for an end to my ...

Pesky Reality Catches Up to the Left

There are certain leftist ideas that, if one is to believe in them, it is necessary to live at a certain removal from reality, that rather pesky thing which never ceases to ...

Michaelangelo's David

Photoshop Me, Please

TULSA, Okla.—I’ve been flipping through a website called Exposing Celeb Surgery. The goal of the publisher seems to be: humiliation. Here you have various models, actresses, ...

Behind Transgenderism

It used to be said that the war between the generations was the only war where you eventually switched sides. This is no longer true. The modern craze of transgenderism means ...

T(y)ranny Triumphant, Part II: Zhe Who Controls the Past…

“The devil’s finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.” And the left's finest trick is to persuade you that a man in a dress is a woman. In last week’s ...

Khor Virap Monastery in Armenia close to Turkish border

USA Drops a Guilt Bomb on Turkey

War is fought on two fronts: the battlefield and the mind. Whereas superior strategy and firepower wins it on the battlefield, the war for the mind is won by successfully ...

Deposition by Daniele da Volterra

Il Braghettone in UNESCO

UNESCO headquarters in Paris are offended by the nudes, and so they have been forced to cover up with a thong. Either the prick has become a disturbance or an iconoclastic Taliban ...

The Week That Perished

Is this the dawn of a murderous turf war between Mexican drug cartels and polyamorous heretic Mormons? Grab the ...

Central Park

Old Bagel Buildings

NEW YORK—What follows will bore the pants off you, but at least it beats another piece on Brexit. Perhaps some of you are interested in old Bagel buildings, as I am, but if ...

A Failed Life and Progressive Excuses

The story of Ganave Fairley is a story of failure—not just of her own failed life, but also of a failed criminal justice system and a failed intellectual class that, led by a ...

ScorseseLand

Martin Scorsese is trending on Twitter for denouncing superhero movies as being more like theme parks than films because “Cinema is an art form that brings you the ...

The Myth of Boomer Privilege

The major theme of my writing is guilt—how blaming others is maliciously used as a disabling mechanism and how people and cultures toss it around like a hot potato. No one, ...

Michelle Obama

The Week That Perished

Nineteen million dollars is quite a pretty penny for being called a fag. Hell, for a mere thousand semolians, we’ll do the best Rip Taylor impression you’ve ever ...

Minetta Tavern

Restaurants and Witch Hunts

A busy ten days—nights, rather—with some heroic drinking thrown in for good measure. Hangovers discriminate against the old nowadays, but no one is doing anything about it, ...

The Brutalist Strain

Recently, it seems to me, there has been a concerted effort, amounting almost to a propaganda campaign, to persuade people that the brutalist strain in architecture was and is a ...

Journalism as Dystopian Social Engineering

It is often said these days that there is little distinction between left-wing journalism and left-wing political activism, the former being essentially a vehicle for the latter. ...


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