How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Don

In early 2013, former Saturday Night Live cast member Victoria Jackson, the ditzy blonde who took up space on the show in the late 1980s before fading into obscurity, posted an ...

The American Hitler or the American Netanyahu?

Staying up all Monday night to write a column for publication Wednesday morning is a tricky business when elections fall on a Tuesday. So let me offer four longer-term ...

Will the Oligarchs Kill Trump?

Narrow victories in the Kentucky caucuses and the Louisiana primary, the largest states decided on Saturday, have moved Donald Trump one step nearer to the nomination. Primaries ...

Did Africans Sell Africans Into Slavery? Let’s Ask Some Africans

If there is a historical weapon more powerful and decisive than guns, it is certainly guilt. Those who seek to conquer will wield the primitive biblical notion of collective guilt ...

David and Charles Koch

Targets of the Elite

The rich are under attack nowadays, nowhere more than in America, where the Donald continues to trump his critics, amaze and surprise his fans, and drive his haters to paroxysms ...

Rescuing America From Itself

Last week, Kurdish authorities rescued 16-year-old Marlin Stivani Nivarlain at the behest of the Swedish government. Like something out of an SNL sketch, she had emigrated to ...

An Establishment in Panic

Donald Trump “appeals to racism.” “[F]rom the beginning ... his campaign has profited from voter prejudice and hatred” and represents an ...

Rhetorical Momentum

Last week, Hillary Clinton tweeted a line from her South Carolina primary victory speech:"€œInstead of building walls, we need to be tearing down barriers. We need to show that ...

Hillary Clinton

Madame Clinton v. The Super-Predators

Pantsuit-wearing suspected oyster-gobbler Hillary Clinton likely sealed the Democratic presidential nomination last Saturday by whipping Bernie Sanders like a slave in South ...

More From the Housewives, Please

"€œComing up next we have retired Air Force lieutenant general Tom McInerney, financial analyst Ross Gerber, and a housewife from Nebraska named Pam."€ Why don"€™t we ever ...

Nationalism and Populism Propel Trump

As the returns came in from South Carolina Saturday night, showing Donald Trump winning a decisive victory, a note of nervous desperation crept into the commentary. Political ...

The author at the Atlanta, GA Donald Trump rally

Mr. Trump’s Economic Nationalism

Yesterday I saw Donald Trump speak live at a rally in downtown Atlanta, and I stand here before God and man to report that not once did he mention the topic of race. This is ...

David Cameron

Here in the Fifth Circle

Gstaad—The locals here in the beautiful Saanen valley are split over the migrant crisis. Switzerland does not belong to the E.U., but the fascists in Brussels have pressed good ...

Hypocrites in High Places

You know you"€™re getting old when you can remember a time when Canadians were funny on purpose. John Candy, Harold Ramis, Eugene Levy, the entire SCTV crew. Back then, ...

Justice Antonin Scalia

Leave the Scalia Chair Vacant

It is a measure of the stature and the significance of Justice Antonin Scalia that, upon the news of his death at a hunting lodge in Texas, Washington was instantly caught up in ...

The White Guilt Educational Complex

In celebration of Black History Month, the entire student population of a Virginia high school was assembled together in early February and forced to endure the collective ...


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