The Stages of (Liberal) Grief: Depression
Having reviewed the unprecedented depths of denial and anger to which liberals might descend should their much-ballyhooed “blue wave” fail to materialize, we now proceed […]
Identity Politics
The Open Mental Warfare of the Left
For the past few years, members of the media have called Donald Trump a threat to democracy and a treasonous traitor, all while repeatedly intimating […]
How the Disunited States Can Survive
We are one American nation. We must unite. We have to unify. We have to come together.” Every faction in our irreparably fractious and fragmented […]
Logical Argument: The Culture War’s ‘Maginot Line’
One of the greatest feats of 20th-century military engineering, has gone down in history as a byword for futility. During the 1930s the French government, […]
What Is Racist?
The English language has its peculiarities. Two English words that appear to be opposites to one another can instead be synonyms. If someone is telling […]
A Florida Lynching and a Broken Friendship
We live in strange times. Since the election of Donald Trump, it has often seemed as though half the country has gone blind or, more […]
Democrats Have Become the Party of ‘Basic White Bitches’
Sometime around 2009, the term “basic bitch” or—with extra salt—“basic white bitch” began to creep into common American parlance. In essence, it means “a female […]
Progressives Have Arrived at Their Veruca Salt Moment
Progressives have finally lost patience with the American people. Until recently and on the whole they have been remarkably patient. From their beginning over a […]
Caravan Contradictions
A “caravan”—the euphemism for a current foot-army of more than 10,000 Central Americans—of would-be border crossers has now passed into Mexico. The marchers promise they […]
Halloween and the Perils of Cultural Appropriation
Cultural appropriation, the Cambridge Dictionary helpfully informs us, is “the act of taking or using things from a culture that is not your own, especially […]
Down the Memory Hole
Gavin Long. Micah Johnson. James Hodgkinson. Frederick Scott. Emanuel Samson. These men have something in common, dear reader. Do you know what it is? Try […]
Midterm Optics Are Bad for Progressives
For progressives, the looming midterm elections apparently should not hinge on a booming economy, a near-record-low unemployment rate, a strong stock market and unprecedented energy […]
Illegal Immigration Hurts Black Americans Most
In the 19th century, savvy American saloon-owners offered free lunches to attract noontime patrons. Inevitably, the diners would get thirsty and buy expensive drinks—thus was […]
Progressive Elitism by the Numbers
A shrewd observer of American politics, Thomas Edsall sums up the evidence that the Democratic Party has rapidly become a far more left-wing party than […]
Political Correctness and the Enlightened Ones
A story in the Atlantic recently bore the title “Americans Strongly Dislike PC Culture.” A summary of the same subject in Reason magazine announced, “Study: […]
Kyrsten Sinema Reminds Us That Democrats Hate Housewives
Just as Democrats try to woo suburban moms ahead of next month’s election, along comes Rep. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) to remind us how much the […]
Wolves in Wolves’ Clothing
If the New Democratic Party was smart, it would do what the old Democratic Party did long ago: always sound centrist if not conservative in […]
Florida’s Amendment 4 Will Hurt Republicans and the Republic
In addition to its closely fought elections for governor and U.S. Senate, Florida voters will decide on a number of important amendments on November 6. […]
The Dominatrix Party
Throughout Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s recent ordeal, Democratic women and their house-trained houseboys attempted to derail the decent part of the process, rendering a U.S. Senate […]
American Babel
Back in June, a belligerent New York City attorney briefly became a symbol of “xenophobia” for those who make it their business to deconstruct what’s […]