Charlie Gilmour

Modern English

Dear old England. What a wonderful country we live in. Change and decay in all around I see. Europe is in a state of near-collapse. Chaos and rioting have run rife throughout the ...

You’ve Come a Ching-Chong-Ling-Long Way, Baby

Now that UCLA has a takeout service called Ching-Chong-Ling-Long, we can finally put Alexandra Wallace’s racist rant behind us. Nothing says “our cultural wounds have ...

The Dumbing-Down of America

“Is our children learning?” as George W. Bush so famously asked. Well, no, they is not learning, especially the history of their country, the school subject at which ...

The Persistence of Bourgeois Radicalism

When searching for Islamic terrorists in England, avoid the mosques and head straight to the universities. Most of Britain’s homegrown terrorists get the all-important leg-up to ...

The Antifa Fad: Totalitarian Anti-Fascism”€¨

Four young men in black-denim jackets and hoodies closed in when the man they"€™d been waiting for emerged from the Mecklenburg Government Center. One of them yelled, "€œJared ...

10 Reasons Not to Go on a Disney Cruise

Online reviews for Disney Cruises read like effusive testimonials from someone who has been healed by the Lord's power. But after returning from the Disney Magic cruise with my ...

British Students Need a Good Bollocking

"€œWhat do we want?"€ Um.... "€œWhen do we want it?"€ Er.... Well, knock me down with a fire extinguisher (preferably dropped from a serious height). British students ...

Dash Snow

Cool Culture = Death Culture

Seminal punk legend Ari Up just died. She sang for The Slits, had dreadlocks down to the floor, and is credited for helping put women on the punk map. She also followed the ...

Hey, Teacher, Leave Them Kids Alone!

UCLA recently hosted a panel to discuss youth culture, and as "€œone of hipsterdom's primary architects,"€ I was asked to come along. I showed up late for the event wearing ...

Tyler Clementi: GLAAD Rag

When news of Tyler Clementi’s suicide broke last month, it outraged all the “right” people for most of the wrong reasons. Reeling with humiliation after falling ...

Sex and Consequences at Purdue University

"€œThe only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform."€ "€”Alfred Kinsey, Indiana University "€œOur criteria for consent…are conscious, coherent, and ...

Beloit College Students Convinced You Can Get Married in Outer Space

For a codger like me, the Beloit College Mindset List made depressing reading. Apparently this college (liberal arts, 1,300 students, in Wisconsin somewhere, motto: Scientia Vera ...

The Death of Math

With the Boomer Revolution came the reinvention of everything we used to take for granted. The first old guard institution they decided to shut down was, "€œDoing the math."€ ...

Edukation, Edducation, Educcation

"€œIs Stoppard's play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead simply glib and superficial?"€ Some thirty years ago now, it was one of the English essay questions put to me in ...

The Hidden Inspiration of Vampire Weekend

New York City is for the rich and the young. If you"€™re not either of those things, get out. Those who stay are doomed to sitting in a tiny apartment all alone and bitching ...


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