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 possibly ruinous fine; so I decided to read in full Judge Arthur F. Engoron’s decision in the case. Let me first lay bare my various prejudices. I am no great admirer of Mr. Trump; when it comes to telling the truth, he is not George Washington. Where truth is concerned, indeed, I suspect that he is of the severely pragmatist school. But I could not see how in natural justice he could be hauled into court by an ...
There’s a pleasure in the downfall of sages, gurus, and moralists that is, unfortunately, part of the makeup of Man. Those whom we delight to place on a pedestal we delight equally to pull down. ...
The most likely process by which the current Black Moment will get canceled is the exact same way black radicalism got shut down in both the early 1970s and the early 1990s: As black antiwhite ...
On July 2, Facebook’s indefatigable legions of Hate Robots censored a post as “hate speech” because it dared to contain a passage from the Declaration of Independence: He ...
And so to that rainy mecca of Western values, London. Or erstwhile mecca, I should say. The talk there is of the end of a reign of terror. Its queen regnant was a lady called ...
I have met Tariq Ramadan only once in my life and was very impressed by him—impressed unfavorably, that is. He seemed to me then the Jimmy Swaggart of Islamism, or at least the ...
At its “Never Is Now” anti-Semitism summit this week, the Anti-Defamation League gave its ADL Americanism Award to Lt. Gen. Jay Silveria, superintendent of the Air Force ...
Looking back at my school years, attending majority-black public schools in L.A. during the early and mid-1980s, I"m not so much struck by the things I experienced, but by the ...
Evergreen State College is nestled far away from reality in the misty paradise of Olympia, Washington, a mossy and supernatural village which is run by lesbian elves and ...
Here's what I know about Kori Ali Muhammad: First off, he's black. He can"t shut up about it. He's one of those latter-day American blacks who has his head so far up his ass ...
Author Nikesh Shukla"a fat brown man who appears to sweat a lot"has just been named one of Foreign Policy magazine's "100 Global Thinkers of 2016." He won this ...
Almost twenty years ago, a young man called Faiz Siddique went up to Brasenose College, Oxford to read Modern History. When he came to sit his finals he was disappointed to get ...
Until last month, I lived in blissful ignorance of the existence of Mr. Manboobs. Ah, those were good days. But now that I"ve had the misfortune to become acquainted with him, ...
"But why would any white guy want to say "nigger"?" My perpetually outraged white leftist friend was, to nobody's shock but hers, outraged after viewing a thread ...
It is always cause for deep personal grieving when I observe a nonsensical term that had long lurked on the fringes of leftist dogma beginning to leak its way into the mainstream ...
Another week, another comedian prosecuted for rape in the courts of social media. This time it's even more extreme because a comedian who dared question the witch hunt is also ...
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