Trump’s Twitter Blocking Court ‘Loss’
One theme dominates the entirety of Trump’s persona, namely, he is “antifragile.” Much of what would rattle or weaken an ordinary politician makes him stronger. […]
Free Speech
TED’s New Twist: Technology, Evasion, Depravity
Just so you know, TED is a “nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less). TED […]
The Respect Deficit
He was duly and legally elected. It was a surprise to many and a great disappointment to a large number of voters. Many were enraged […]
America 2.0
The government so carefully and brilliantly designed by the Framers and embodied in the Constitution is no more. Don’t believe me? Here is James Madison’s […]
Conservatism, Inc. Collides with the Real World
The saga of Kanye West’s recent transformation into a free-thinking, ostensibly right-leaning Twitter phenomenon brings with it interesting developments for the Right. One of these […]
Wolfe’s Witness
Tom Wolfe died last week. His works will live on for a long time. There is a scene in Wolfe’s 1968 book The Electric Kool-Aid […]
Countdown to Triviality!
One of the great banes of 21st-century American culture is TV’s “countdown clock,” which ominously winds down to the start of a media hyped event. […]
Mueller Year One: The Real Heroes in Journalism
The American media are broken. align=”right” Part one of a two-part series.After eight years of feeding the Obama cult of personality—swooning over his suave personal […]
Letitia Chai’s Barren Ivy League Education
] The most remarkable thing about the title of this column is that not one reader will think it’s a joke. That, my friends, is […]
Congress Is Starting to Take on Big Tech
After over a year of denial, and donor-induced apathy in the face of the Snowflake Barons of Silicon Valley, a change is finally in the […]
#NoMoreApologies
Does anyone say “department store” anymore? If you’re a Millennial or maybe even a tad older, you may not even be aware of what a […]
How to Revive a Roast
An open letter to the scribes who organized last Saturday’s White House Correspondents Dinner: Given your recent public relations wreck, these words are a little […]
Fear of the Left: The Most Powerful Force in America Today
The dominant force in America and many other Western countries today is fear of the Left. This is a result of the fact that the […]
Wolf at the Door
Remember when the Left was actually funny? Deliberately funny, I mean, not simply ridiculous. For the youngsters who literally do not remember that (and that […]
The Music Maids
I know an elderly gentleman in San Antonio who, though he has spent decades working in America as a surveyor and cartographer, has never lost […]
Kanye’s Epiphany
Rudyard K. might have tweeted, if Rudyard could tweet, “Trump is Trump; West is West, and they never will meet.” Yet they met, and it […]
The Joys of Anti-Hate
It is one thing to document objectively crimes that target individuals because they are members of a particular identity group. It is another thing to […]
What Kanye West’s ‘Redpilling’ Really Means
In 2016, many of us never thought Donald Trump could actually win the presidency. In 2018, many of us never thought that Kanye West would […]
Help Me Randa! Firing Back at Fresno State’s Femme Fatale
Comedian Jay Mohr has called for California State University-Fresno’s Bush-bashing English professor, Randa Jarrar, to be fired. But, as Fresno State’s Bruce Thornton notes, dismissal […]
How Kevin Williamson Was Blinded by the Right, Fired by the Left
Kevin Williamson’s primal whine of a weekend essay in the Wall Street Journal reported that he was fired by the Atlantic magazine after serving an […]