Nobel Prize, Stockholm

New Year’s Purge and Cleanse

Time for my annual Jan. 1 housecleaning of unused ephemera I wish I could’ve included in the previous year’s columns. The Lonely Norwegian In February, socialist Norwegian parliamentarian Petter Eide (dumb name, dumber ideology) nominated BLM for a Nobel Peace Prize. When asked how he could do this considering the amount of violence that accompanied BLM protests, Eide told The Guardian, “Studies have shown that most of the demonstrations organised by Black Lives Matter have been peaceful. Of course there have been incidents, but most of them have been caused by the activities of ...

Journalism as Dystopian Social Engineering

It is often said these days that there is little distinction between left-wing journalism and left-wing political activism, the former being essentially a vehicle for the latter. ...

Dupes Duped by Duplicitous Duper

“Dr.” John Glynn is a fascinating monster—an anachronistic throwback to the past and an inevitable product of the present. Glynn is a fraudster, a faker, a cipher who ...

Big Tech Still Has A Totalitarianism Problem

The biggest news story of the past few years is one that the mainstream press won’t touch, mainly because the mainstream press is an accomplice to the crime. Journalistic ...

Tim Hetherington

Photographers: The First Casualties of War

When journalists die in some foreign field, they die for you. Without them, your knowledge of the world in which you live would come from government spokesmen, corporate flacks, ...

On Guarding the Public’s Right to Ignorance and Meeting With Julian Assange

We must hang together, gentlemen…else, we shall most assuredly hang separately. "€”Benjamin Franklin When a journalist disappears in Russia or is murdered in Iraqi ...

Is it Better to Be Misunderstood or Ignored?

After I recently savaged Rich Lowry's syndicated review of Deirdre McCloskey's book Bourgeois Dignity, Professor McCloskey indicated that I have no right to discuss her work until ...

The New York Sun in Memoriam

The end of this month "€“ September 30, 2010, to be exact "€“ will mark the second anniversary of the death of the best conservative newspaper in America, and one of the best ...

The Frank Rich Syndrome

Thank God for air conditioning. A scorching Labor Day weekend found me home-bound, doing research on New York Times columnist Mr. Frank Rich. Unlike most of my conservative ...

Insight from the Outside: Seeing the USA from Pravda and Al-Jazeera’s Eyes

Living in America, one doesn"€™t tend to pay attention to the rest of the world. Among the many reasons the world hates Americans is the fact that we know the world hates us but ...

Independent Columnists Perhaps, But Not Independent Minds

The Independent is a newspaper with intellectual pretensions, and unlike most British papers often uses words with more than two syllables. But so far as most of it is concerned ...


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