Hysteria, Bad Taste, and a Loss for Oklahoma

I"€™ve been observing the onward march of Cultural Marxism for a whole quarter-century now, and been writing about it for a dozen or so years. It seems to me the pace of ...

Begging Questions

We live, as I have noted before, in a beggars"€™ democracy: This refers to the more relaxed sort of despotism in which the lower orders"€”the beggars"€”are permitted some ...

The Future of Girlification

Here's a clip from my read-it-and-weep folder. It showed up in a February 11th Washington Post article, headline: "€œCollege sexual assault prevention has unlikely model: ...

New York State Plaza, Albany

Rot Springs Eternal

Local headlines here in New York State recently have been dominated by corruption in the state legislature. The speaker of the lower house, the State Assembly, has had to resign ...

If You Were Curious …

It's been a while"€”blimey, 12 years"€”since I did an FAQs column, so here are a few from the email bag (in responding to which I am as usual far behind, sorry sorry). How's ...

White Identitarianism

A couple of years ago on this site I wondered "€œWhy Isn"€™t Racism Cool?"€ Why, I asked, has the state ideology of the West not generated its antithesis, as historical ...

The Tyranny of the Bookish

It is now nearly a hundred years since H.G. Wells remarked in his book The Outline of History that: "€œHuman history becomes more and more a race between education and ...

Quarterly Potpourri

The age of Krapp.  There went another year swirling down the plughole"€”one of the best ever, according to one salaried commentator. I don"€™t know about that. It was the ...

The Waters That Are Under the Earth

I recently spent some time making a table for my kitchen, with the assistance of a dear friend whose hobby is cabinetry, and who is generous with his time and equipment. (Thanks, ...

Kaiser Wilhelm

The Legacy of the Mad Kaiser

Who was the great villain of the 20th century"€”the person most to blame for the evils of those decades?   The stock answer is the person whose name is an anagram of ...

The Impotent Eagle

Soon after Barack Obama's November 20th amnesty announcement, I was having an e-discussion about it with a friend, a legal scholar. The precise topic of the discussion was the ...

No Exit

Well, that's been a depressing few days, hasn"€™t it? Have you been watching the pictures on TV? Howling mobs of blacks throwing bottles; overturned cars; stores looted and ...

Ike the Ringer

I have been reading Paul Johnson's new short biography of Dwight Eisenhower. This fulfills a long-standing intention of the feebler kind"€”a velleity, Bill Buckley would have ...

The Scariest Science

Reading the November issue of Literary Review (a British monthly, somewhat like the New York Review of Books but less claustrophobically liberal), the following thing caught ...

Decline of a Great Newspaper

I maintain some vestigial links to the old country. Among them is the inclusion of the London Daily Telegraph in my morning trawl through the online news. It's sheer ...

A Penny for your Thoughts

Some boffins at Harvard University claim to have transmitted information from one person's mind to another by telepathy.  Reading through the paper, I thought the content ...


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