Paul Krugman

The Mouthpiece of Redistribution

Paul Krugman is no stranger to demagoguery. The New York Times columnist practically oozes with hatred for his conservative opponents. In spite of his academic accolades"€”a ...

Nobody Escapes the Progressive Inquisition

In what will come as a surprise to absolutely no one who follows him on Twitter, the roguish bro reactionary Pax Dickinson has been defenestrated and sent off to a labor camp ...

Hugo Schwyzer

The Unsurprising Sexism of Male Progressives

"€œI"€™ve been married to a capitalist, a communist, and a fascist, and neither [sic] would take out the garbage,"€ Zsa Zsa Gabor supposedly said. In the pre-Internet era, ...

James O'Keefe

Project Veritas: True Crime on the Front Line

James O’Keefe’s new book Breakthrough is a spine-tingling true-crime thriller about the quest for truth in the age of media obfuscation. I love reading Coulter and ...

Rush Limbaugh

Putting the “€œF”€ in FCC

George Carlin wasn"€™t funny. His "€œjokes"€ about the Catholic Church were juvenile truisms. On other topics, his "€œbrilliant"€ observations barely approach cheap ...

Language as an Assault Weapon

Come now, all ye tired, poor, and huddled masses of illegal immigrants and bomb-tossing Islamists"€”according to the Associated Press Stylebook, you don"€™t even exist ...

Quevenzhané Wallis

The Onion’s Big Mistake

The Twittersphere got itself into a lather this week after the venerable American parody newspaper The Onion ran an unusually nasty Tweet mocking the Oscars:Everyone else seems ...

A Tale of Two New Yorks

When people talk about “Two Americas,” they usually assume New York City is part of the “elitist jerkoff” half and write us off. But there are two distinct ...

Rupert Murdoch

Leveson’s Legacy

A venerable British political tradition dictates that whenever some important matter arises, the government commissions an inquiry chaired by a renowned expert. This expert duly ...

Matt Drudge

The Drudge Paradox

"I just report the news." That phrase may not have the currency of "The check's in the mail," but it's all too familiar as every journalist's favorite alibi. They always trot ...

Julian Assange

Who Guards Those Who Guard the Guardians?

In July 2011, in response to public anger at a few tabloid journalists"€™ illegal activities, David Cameron reluctantly announced the Leveson Inquiry into the specific ...

A Message to Newsweek

The first copy of Newsweek I ever read was shortly after German reunification when I was able to get my hands on one of its international issues. What I expected was an unbiased ...

The Spice of Death

The 107-year-old Variety publications have been sold to the Internet-based Penske Media Corporation. Weekly Variety, daily Variety, and Variety Broadway are all falling into the ...

The Tyrannical Twerps of Twitter

Last week I wrote about Facebook, censorship, and the danger of relying upon these supersized social-media conglomerates to get your message out, particularly if that message is ...

The Landlords of Social Media

Facebook's disastrous IPO was less an "€œinitial public offering"€ than an injurious public ordeal. Is it possible that the investors snapping up shares were the only folks ...

Just Another Mouth in the Republican Fellatio Machine

The symbolic thrust of Hustler's crude, much-protested, Photoshopped depiction of Rockefeller Republican S. E. Cupp is commendable: Silence this siren of stupidity. The Hustler ...


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