The Crude Shall Inherit the Earth

The confluence of factors that landed Donald Trump in the White House was something we are not likely to see again for some time. Somehow, angst over low-skilled-job loss, a ...

Once More With Feelings

The sentencing of the governor of Jakarta to two years"€™ imprisonment for blasphemy may seem like a throwback to medieval intolerance, but it is far more than that. It is a ...

Polling Station, Strasbourg

Liberalism’s Failure

The first round of the French presidential election is done, and the results are monumental. A new president hasn"€™t been decided, but the political realignment launched by ...

Is the Left Playing with Fire Again?

To those who lived through that era that tore us apart in the ‘60s and ‘70s, it is starting to look like “deja vu all over again.” And as Adlai Stevenson, ...

The Decline of Advocacy

My days of appearing in court as an expert witness in murder trials are over, but I am still interested in advocacy and am an admirer of advocates (contrary to a commonly ...

Los Angeles, CA

The Right’s Phantom Menace

When it comes to how the right should deal with Hollywood leftism, Andrew Breitbart, much as he did on the night of his passing, took the long way home. He advocated a complex ...

These Crazy Pills Taste Like Sour Grapes

It's difficult to know which part of me to trust these days: my intuition or my own lying eyes. The glut of "€œfake news"€ filling the web doesn"€™t make it any easier. ...

How the Left Strangled Itself With Identity Politics

Still scratching their pointy heads over losing an election they were certain that history had preordained them to win, the Democrats are blaming everything except their own ...

Chris Evans as Captain America

Celebrity Meltdowns

What are all these celebrities still doing here? Didn"€™t they promise us they were gone if Trump won? So many of them said they were heading to Canada, street artist Sabo ...

Hillary Clinton

Are You Ready for Four Years of Ball-Busting?

This essay is intended solely for our male readership. Our three female readers can sit this one out. Go bake us a pie or knit us a sweater or something. Men: If Hillary Clinton ...

Blind Commitment

You can get angry with machines, especially when you haven"€™t the faintest idea how they work. They seem to break down out of spite, just at the wrong moment; it is as if they ...

From Orwell to Gladwell and Back

In politics, secrecy and silence are becoming less practical, while noise and distortion are coming to dominate. Thus, the 2016 election raises questions of how strategies of ...

Norma by Vincenzo Bellini - original cast

A Night at the Opera

It often seems to me that the first qualification for producers of operas these days is proneness to severe lapses of taste, a kind of epilepsy of the judgment, or even a complete ...

Life de Bois

From time to time I receive invitations by e-mail to attend conferences on something called medical leadership. "€œDo you want to be a leader?"€ ask the invitations, to which ...

Paradise Lost

The Bible tells us that our allotted span is threescore years and ten. Advances in medicine and public health"€”sanitation, for example"€”have made nonsense of this in the ...

Identity Crisis

I have a confession to make: I enjoy reading New York Times columnist David Brooks. (Wait, don"€™t hit the "€œback"€ button on your browser yet! I have a good point to ...


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