University of Washington

Liabilities of Liberalism

"€œLiberalism,"€ James Burnham once wrote, "€œis the ideology of western suicide."€ Writers on the right find it fashionable to cite Burnham's decree. In an era when ...

OJ and Nicole Simpson

The President’s Prejudices

Why do the human sciences record pervasive behavioral differences among racial groups, such as in violent-crime rates? One explanation is that these disparities originate in ...

Globalization Is a Monster

Most of us can agree that Karl Marx got it wrong. It wasn"€™t only that the Revolution didn"€™t come in the advanced industrial and capitalist countries as he expected but in ...

When Heroes Are Villains

We have reached peak topsy-turvy. Whatever is up is down, whatever is good is bad, and whatever you should be proud of should bring shame. Heroes are villains in this day and age ...

Surrendering to Death

Eagles of Death Metal recently finished a Canadian tour and I got to sit down with vocalist Jesse Hughes and discuss the Bataclan attack in Paris that killed 89 of his fans. ...

Sadism Begets Sadism

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn said of William Shakespeare, the 400th anniversary of whose death has just passed, that he was capable of writing tragedies only about individuals, or small ...

If God Is Dead…

In a recent column Dennis Prager made an acute observation. “The vast majority of leading conservative writers ... have a secular outlook on life. ... They are unaware of ...

You Just Cant

The longer I live, the more humbug there is. Whether this is a real increase or merely a reflection of a more acute sensitivity towards it, I am not sure: There have always been ...

A Heaping Helping of Hitlers

The left's grip on reality has never exactly been vise-like. But it seems to me that leftists are losing it"€”more than usual"€”over Trump. And I"€™m no Trump fan, to be ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Ultimate Minority Right

In recent weeks, I kept meaning to write up a stylized history of the evolution of political ideology over recent centuries. But my examples"€”why Andrew Jackson rather than ...

Trump Has Had Enough

Sarah Palin just endorsed Trump in a shrill speech that sounded like the cheerleaders from Fast Times at Ridgemont High. It's "€œyuge"€ for his campaign because she's likely ...

Lemmy Kilmister

Rockin”€™ the Swastika

If the death of Lemmy Kilmister from iconic heavy metal band Motörhead teaches us anything, it’s that society currently considers it far more respectable to be a drug ...

Outrageous Cases of Outrage

Who said that African-Americans lack initiative? It was obviously a fool, and a racist to boot. White folks never came up with terrific initiatives such as speech codes, political ...

The French Deflection

No one plays "€œfollow the leader"€ better than leftists; no one can mindlessly copy talking points like they do. It's one of the reasons liberals excel in academia and ...


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