From The Jackie Robinson Story

The Return of Skepticism

McKinsey & Company, the famous management consulting firm, has published a number of wildly popular reports during the Great Awokening—such as 2015’s “Diversity Matters,” ...

Joe Flaherty

Funny as a Crutch, or a Wheelchair

Yes, for those who are asking, Elon nuked me from Twitter. Perma-ban—irreversible. Yes, it involved the Holocaust. But let’s talk about that next week, okay? Because a great ...

Confected Controversy: Is White Chocolate Racist?

Did you eat a lot of chocolate for Easter last weekend? If so, did your choice of which particular color of candy egg to swallow say something deeply significant about you as a ...

Donald Trump

Trumped-Up Charges

Several of my American friends expressed to me their outrage at the recent trial of Donald Trump, his sons and associates, in New York for civil fraud, resulting in a huge and ...

King Felipe VI of Spain

Scientific Racism?

As floods of genomic data pour in on ancestral variations among humans, the Establishment increasingly double dumbs down on the question of whether or not race even exists. For ...

Dining Nazis, Whining Jews

I’ve done three straight weeks of politics, so let’s lighten the mood with the Holocaust. Wait, that came out wrong. I mean, let’s lighten the mood with Hollywood. And the ...

April Fools’ Day—Every Day!

In this Year of Our Lord 2024, it is now becoming increasingly difficult to tell the real news stories from the fake-news spoofs. I recently saw a story with the headline “Gay ...

In My House!

What if you come home and find strangers living in your house? I assumed you order the squatters out, and if they resist, call the police, and they will kick them ...

Hampstead Heath, John Constable

Untrue Believers

Sometimes I wonder whether the true aim of modern “progressives”—progress toward what, one is tempted to ask—is to provoke such a strong and even violent reaction among ...

Buy My Book

My anthology Noticing is coming out in paperback this week from Passage Press for $29.95. Please buy it. Also, I’m continuing my book tour with a speaking event in Los Angeles ...

Authentic Autism, or Aspirational Asperger’s?

What even is “mental health” these days? Apparently, it is now best defined as a teenage child turning up to school dressed as a giraffe. You may be aware of the lamentable ...

The Center of Mediocrity

A correspondent who knows precisely the type of things that I habitually complain about (and without such complaint I would have nothing to say) kindly drew my attention to the ...

Too Dumb for Harvard? Lemon’s Too Dumb for Twitter

Interviewing Elon Musk this week, former CNN host Don Lemon demonstrated the real-life consequences of affirmative action. Interestingly enough, Lemon himself is an affirmative ...

San Francisco City Hall

The Year Zero of American Architecture

Why do some buildings make us happier than other buildings? Tom Wolfe offered an eye-opening explanation in his 2003 collegiate novel I Am Charlotte Simmons: “the existence of ...

The Writing’s on the Wall

Walking around my rapidly crumbling hometown, I have recently begun noticing a series of stickers displayed prominently upon lampposts, walls, and bus stops, depicting a large ...

The Hollywood Hoax

I recently watched a Swedish movie, 1939, as good a film as I’ve seen in years, with a beautiful young blonde as the heroine, and with none of those boring Bergman silences that ...


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