As the curtain went up on La Bohème, I guessed the point they were making almost immediately, and maybe I even agreed with some of the sentiment at the heart of it. The lead tenor, the lead soprano, and the second lead soprano were black; many of the children in the crowd scenes were Asian; and there was a transvestite in the café scenes: a strapping six-foot bloke in stilettos dressed up as a woman in 19th-century Paris for no reason more obvious than the rest of the casting. If you consider that La Bohème is about a group of penniless artistic types sharing a garret in the Latin ...
Can Americans today really sleep safely in their own beds at night? Not with so many militant homosexuals wandering around. In late August, the media revealed that a highly qualified lady (she’s ...
Alcoholics Anonymous is no longer a fellowship of men and women, as used to be reassuringly stated at the start of every meeting. It’s now a “fellowship of people,” because AA is embracing ...
Last month saw the thirtieth anniversary of the death of one of my favorite conservative thinkers, Russell Kirk, back in April 1994. Very possibly Kirk enjoyed the process of ...
61 years ago this summer, to paraphrase America’s sweetheart, Rep. Ilhan "Bro-Fo" Omar (D-Mogadishu), someone said some things: I have a dream that my four little children will ...
As I may have mentioned now and then, there’s much wrong about the 2020s, but it’s also worth mentioning something right: We’re living in the golden age of airliner safety. ...
Theoretically, you could become a professor of ethnic studies without being the ethnicity you study, just as you can be a gerontologist without being old or a botanist without ...
The Toronto Blue Jays' Anthony Bass is really sorry. You see, Major League Baseball teams like the Dodgers will honor men in nun costumes who hand out condoms and simulate sex on ...
Netflix’s new pseudo-documentary Queen Cleopatra has now finally been released, having drummed up loads of free publicity via the simple expedient of misleadingly casting a ...
I didn’t watch King Charles III’s coronation because, with its much-trailed emphasis on “diversity,” I knew it wasn’t really aimed at me but at the likes of Adjoa Andoh, ...
Whatever you had planned to do for the rest of the day, please drop it and read this right now: Heather Mac Donald's new book, When Race Trumps Merit: How the Pursuit of Equity ...
All big American companies now require DEI training: diversity, equity and inclusion. All big companies! Really. It sounds responsible. But it turns out DEI courses are often ...
In Douglas Murray’s 2019 book The Madness of Crowds, the popular conservative author revealed something strange about the Google Image results when he typed the phrase ...
Just like pandas, white people are fast becoming an endangered species out there in their traditional areas of natural habitat, and for the same basic reason, too—namely, a ...
For at least a half-century now, every special pleader in America has made the following argument: Yeah, but what if we were black? This is supposed to be rhetorical kryptonite, ...
In 2017, as fear and loathing of Donald Trump seized the nation, a U.S. mayor got a four-star resort to cancel a conservative conference by threatening to withdraw police and fire ...
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