One Cheer for #BlackLivesMatter
The great reactionary French philosopher Joseph de Maistre once observed, “all greatness, all power, all subordination rests on the executioner; he is both the horror […]
Democrats
Trump Single-Handedly Changes the Political Calculus
The two greatest political controversies in the western world in the last several years—the attempt to delegitimize President Trump and the question of Britain’s relations […]
The War on The Obvious
When was the last time you were called racist? If a supporter of President Trump, it’s a safe bet the gross epithet is regularly seared […]
Don’t Kill Whitey
In the cult classic “Black Sheep,” the lead character, played by the late Chris Farley, takes the stage before a raucous audience at a Rock […]
T’was a Nice Republic, While It Lasted
On or around 9 a.m. EST, on July 24, 2019, as a gentle breeze wafted over the gingerly groomed Kentucky bluegrass grounds of the National […]
Putin’s Patsies
A patsy is somebody easily manipulated. A pushover. A chump. A sucker. Look up “patsy” in the dictionary and you should find pictures of Hillary […]
Who’s Using Baltimore?
The truth behind President Trump’s recent tweets about Baltimore became crystal clear the moment Al Sharpton got involved and the media echoed “racism.” It’s all […]
Donald Trump at the Overton Window
I shall leave it to the theologians to decide whether it is providential or merely coincidental that it was this very week in 1729, on […]
The Democratic Washing Machine
Hang onto your legacy appliances. Call your appliance repairman. Maintain what you’ve got, because you surely will miss it when it’s gone.
Democrats’ Attack Machine Revs Up Against Ratcliffe
Twenty minutes before President Trump announced Sunday afternoon on Twitter that Representative John Ratcliffe (R-Texas) would be his choice to replace Dan Coats as the […]
A Visit to Trigger Town
The Drudge Report on Thursday featured an arresting headline: “D.C. Tourist Savagely Beaten, Stomped, Spit on by Gang of Youths.” Who could resist clicking on […]
Woke Racism
In some sense, today’s hip new racists have adopted the ideology of Lester Maddox and not Martin Luther King, Jr. Segregation, not integration, is the new racist mantra—by dorm, by theme house, by caucus, by safe space, by graduation ceremony.
The Great Excluded and Our Nationalist Future
The Trump versus “the squad” brouhaha merely affirms what pundits have been saying since Trump’s MAGA movement swept up the American Right in 2016: American […]
‘Prog-Whistles’ and Safe Spaces
The Left controls the three major platforms for messaging the American people—the arts; academia; and the old, new and social media. Yet, America remains a […]
Robert Mueller Can’t Recall
Even I, as someone who has been blue in the face shrieking that the Mueller inquiry would be an unutterable fiasco since the day it […]
Covenants Without the Sword
Conor Friedersdorf fancies himself The Atlantic’s resident ethnic White Knight, galloping in to the aid of minorities terrorized by the handful of genuinely conservative pundits […]
The Day #TheResistance’s Dream Died
It wasn’t supposed to end this way. Donald Trump, not Robert Mueller, was supposed to be broken and vanquished at the hands of his political […]
Focus on the White House, Not the House, in 2020
Although we have many reasons to be optimistic about the 2020 election, there is one particular battle in which we would be wise instead to […]
Sorting Out the New Color Wheel
A young man from the marshes, name of Pip, has unexpectedly and from some unnamed source come into “great expectations,” so he makes his way […]
Can the Mod Squad Beat the Odd Squad?
Can anyone stop “the squad”? That’s the question gripping the Democratic Party. The four radical House freshmen who call themselves “the squad” push cultural Marxism, […]