Catholic libertarian Jeffrey Tucker recently introduced us to the concept of "libertarian brutalism." The distilled version: Libertarianism is well and good, but can"t ...
“There is a gay mafia,” said Bill Maher, “if you cross them you do get whacked.” Maher, the host of HBO’s “Real Time,” was talking about ...
Young Jewish Man: "Is there a proper blessing for the Czar?" Rabbi: "A blessing for the Czar? Of course! May God bless and keep the Czar… far away from ...
The 15th annual White Privilege Conference ended on Saturday in Madison, WI. As is usually the case with the locales for such public displays of white ethnomasochism, ...
Now, about this Crimea thing: What I figure is, the top part of the Feddle Gummint got dropped on its head when it was little, and the rest is just asleep, or might as well be. We ...
William Goldman's fantasy tale The Princess Bride made famous the saying “never get involved in a land war in Asia” (it was purportedly advice General Douglas ...
Last week, Turkey decided to ban Twitter. The move was a reaction to supposed evidence that had spread on the website purporting to corroborate allegations of corruption within ...
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The West used to send Bible-waving missionaries to Africa to try and pry open the natives" eyes to the truth. Now it sends scientists. US Secretary of State John Kerry has ...
Last week saw the passing of two prominent figures on the extreme left wing of British politics: Tony Benn and Bob Crow. Politicians of all persuasions have made the inevitable ...
With murky foreign affairs much in the news, it’s worth trying to figure out how to think about the notion of “false flag” operations"would, say, a ...
Is a baseball mitt a toy? How about a trampoline? Is a goose a farm animal or a wild animal? Is chess-playing an art or a science? Do I shelve a novel about China with my fiction ...
Of all the millions of ways to be an asshole, the status quo regards "racism" as the most alarming. Put on your X-ray specs and you’ll see the contagion everywhere. ...
While American geopolitical thought tends to divide the world up morally into the Democratic (whoever is on our side) and the Evil (vice-versa), Russians tend to strategize ...
Since the 1960s we have spent trillions to uplift the bottom. All nostrums, whether liberal or conservative, free market or statist, have failed and there is nothing on the agenda ...
In case you"ve been on vacation in an Internet-less corner of the world, you already know that Russia has a military presence in Crimea. And if you"re on Twitter or spend ...
In just under 200 days, Scottish voters will face a referendum on whether or not to leave the United Kingdom. The milestone was marked by ongoing arguments about whether an ...
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