Speech is silvern, said the old proverb, but silence is golden; and notwithstanding the recent disgraceful attacks on free speech, I more often find myself longing for freedom from speech, for example on trains, than freedom of it. The banality of so much conversation, including my own, appalls me. Much conversation is not so much the expression as the suppression of thought. Recently, I happened on another advantage of freedom, if not from speech exactly, at least the freedom from the sound of speech. I happened to see on my computer an interview with a political figure who was being ...
Too bad the Jewish students being harassed on campuses don't have the Proud Boys around to protect them. They can thank the Anti-Defamation League's Jonathan Greenblatt for making that ...
Occasionally I’ve been known to slightly embellish a story for comedic effect, but the one I’m about to relate is 100% true. The house next door to me is cursed. Wait, no, that’s not the 100% ...
It’s charming how upset some of you are that the new apartheid isn’t “fair,” as though it’s supposed to be, as if cries of “This isn’t fair” are a devastating ...
I rarely feel sorry for professional politicians, especially powerful ones; after all, they have chosen their career and (especially in modern conditions) have generally pursued ...
Canadians like to tell themselves that their nation is progressive and tolerant, but they are masters at the art of self-deception. Even though Canada is larger than the USA in ...
An essential element of all postapocalyptic movies is the “precious object.” This is the thing that either the good guys are trying to find, or the bad guys are trying to ...
The continental catastrophe that has engulfed Africa may go down in history as the greatest politically motivated human calamity of all time. Hundreds of millions of ...
Okay, all you readers: You are weak, easily manipulated, led by the nose to the gutter, susceptible to the devils of your diabolical urges, and mad. In fact you are the ...
In South Africa the mood across the media and political spectrum is one of jubilation. On Wednesday last week the finance minister announced the country was bankrupt and offered ...
Last Wednesday night, nine black men and women were shot to death at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, SC. As the young white male shooter was picking off his victims, he ...
Working-class whites, prole whites, salt-of-the-earth whites who are the soldiers of our army and work in our factories make up Fishtown, a bloc of America that Charles Murray ...
Ask any Greek about the Turks and the best you"ll get is a grimace. More often than not the answer will be a swear word and the word "barbarians" thrown in for good ...
I suppose everyone has his madeleine moment"that experience, sensory or otherwise, that awakens in him a long train of memories. Actually, the longer one lives the more ...
Media reports suggesting South Africa has been "shocked" by the viral rape video involving a young Sowetan girl are almost certainly exaggerating the public reaction. ...
Macbeth knew what would be coming to him once his domestic enemies had the upper hand. He decided to go down fighting. I will not yield, To kiss the ground before young ...
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