Joseph Stiglitz

When Mediocrity Strikes

I think I too could be a Nobel Prize winner in economics"€”at least if an interview with Joseph Stiglitz in a recent edition of Le Figaro, the French newspaper, on the occasion ...

Michelle Obama

A Handy Guide to Popular Social Justice Hashtags (And What They Really Mean)

As everyone with two brain cells to rub together is well aware, a tremendous amount of social injustice exists in this so-called world of ours. To rectify this unfortunate ...

Bring Lexi Home

On Monday, agents from L.A. County's Department of Children and Family Services removed 6-year-old Lexi from her family of four years because she's 1.6% American Indian. ...

Seeing the World Through Third World Eyes

Last night wasn"€™t particularly eventful. We went out to dinner with some guys from work to celebrate Christmas break. The restaurant wasn"€™t very fancy and we spent a ...

A Quick Word

Last week I was irritated to receive an e-mail from the British Medical Journal asking me what I thought of its new format. What I thought of it was unprintable; and now that we ...

Is Third World America Inevitable?

Thousands of U.S. troops safeguard the border of South Korea. U.S. warships patrol the South China Sea to stand witness to the territorial claims of Asian allies against ...

Resisting Capitalism for Fun and Profit

It's a sign of strength for a man to admit his weaknesses, which is why I freely confess that I am economically retarded. I know nothing about economics. Sometimes it's even hard ...

10 Reasons Why “€œWalk a Mile in Her Shoes”€ is Wrong

Every time I think the insanity meter on the political correctness machine has finally gone as far as it can go, the needle plunges deeper into the red. Last year, we assumed it ...

The Lamps Are Going Out

Last night the streetlights in my pleasant little English market town were switched off at midnight. In fact they"€™ve been switching them off at midnight for two months, but ...

Eggs Over Black

Activists set a new low in terms of abject stupidity this week by haranguing brunching millennials in that known fascist stronghold we call Manhattan. Called "€œBlack ...

Domestic Furrorism

Excuse my language, but what the heck kind of world do we live in where a bunch of adults can"€™t get together for good times and fellowship dressed as anthropomorphic animals ...

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Gimmedat

When then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid saw fit to ram the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (now affectionately known as ...

Bad Book Week

Banned Book Week has come and gone, and once again the flood of articles celebrating this dubious event has proven two things. First, whatever its original purpose, the event has ...

President Obama

Barack Obama, Outside Agitator

In his U.N. address, President Obama listed a parade of horrors afflicting our world: “Russian aggression in Europe,” “terrorism in Syria and Iraq,” rapes ...

Against Stuff!

You knew that climate change could be blamed for any kind of weather, but did you know that the underlying cause is not, in fact, carbon emissions but racism? That was one of ...

Workers of the World, Goodbye

There was something pathetically nostalgic at the specter earlier this month of fast-food workers demanding compensation to the tune of $15 an hour for performing jobs that ...


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