Progressives Are All Talk on Immigration
There are lots of short-term solutions to address the wave of immigrants who have swarmed the border in an effort to enter the United States […]
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It’s Dangerous to Disagree in America
This weekend, Sarah Sanders Huckabee and her family were thrown out of a Virginia restaurant after a vote by the staff. Do not trivialize this […]
Vito Corleone Is a Snowflake
There has been much said about Robert De Niro’s recent mental breakdown at the Tony Awards. No need to completely rehash it here. But one […]
Without Honest Anger, We Condone Suicide
Friday morning, friends found Anthony Bourdain dead in his upscale hotel room. He had committed suicide. Like Kate Spade, who ended her life mere days […]
Reforming the Miss America Pageant: Brains Trump Beauty
The leadership of the Miss America beauty pageant announced this week it would eliminate the historic “bathing beauty” or swimsuit portion of the competition. The […]
Separating the Diamonds from the Ashes in the California Primary
Understandably, many write off California as a lost cause. Others, possessed of eternal optimism, claim that California can still be saved. The June 5 primaries […]
Roseanne Got the Shaft
The worst thing about the whole Roseanne Barr Twitter fiasco? It has provided the perennially pouting crew at CNN with fresh material over which to […]
The Barrs and the Bees: An Appeal for Audience Empowerment
A hullaballoo is raging in the media about . . . what else? The media. I will not repeat the socially unacceptable quotes by Roseanne […]
Politics, the Arts, and ‘The Fiery Angel’
In my new book, The Fiery Angel, out this week from Encounter Books, I make the following contention: that the arts have more to teach us about […]
Ryan Gosling, Incel Prophet
On April 19, a 25-year-old man plowed a rented van into a crowd of bystanders in the middle of downtown Toronto, killing 10 and seriously […]
It’s Roseanne’s America, Not Trump’s
The Catholic novelist Flannery O’Connor famously advised her coreligionists to push back against the age as hard as it pushes against you. “What people don’t […]
Twin Beds? What Twin Beds?
When choreographer Agnes DeMille was interviewed for a documentary about her famous uncle Cecil B., she had a wonderful story to tell about the “Hays […]
American Grit: Vindicating Masculinity
The Boy Scouts of America’s recent decision to remove “Boy” from the organization’s name is only the latest in the ongoing attempt to purge masculinity […]
American Greatness at the Movies
Reviewing the movie “Little Pink House” for the New York Times, Jeannette Catsoulis wrote the film “succeeds neither narratively nor visually.” So, there you have […]
The Times, They Are A-Changing
A young woman buttonholes a musician with whom she’s recently had a one-night stand—“a stupid experiment,” as she later calls it. She has to remind […]
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 […]
‘Roseanne’ and the Game of Identity Politics
Margaret Thatcher said, “First you win the argument, then you win the vote.” I wish that were true. Usually, it’s not. People don’t often decide […]
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 […]
The Lion in Water: Some Facts About ‘Chappaquiddick’
Way back in July 1969, reporter Leo Damore covered Senator Edward Kennedy’s Chappaquiddick caper for the Cape Cod News. As he showed in his masterful Senatorial […]
Emma González Makes an Absurd Ideological Saint
Today our media thrives on drama and spectacle. The more “tragic” or “comedic” the event, the better. When great tragedy or comedy can serve an […]