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- The Hard and Soft New Right January 27, 2025In Central and Eastern Europe, the more extreme wing of the continent’s radical Right is gaining ground.John Lloyd
- Australia Day Dreaming January 25, 2025On Australia Day, we should recognise the blackfellas, the whitefellas, and the fellas of all shades in between.Sean Welsh
- The Original Aboriginals January 25, 2025Australia is one of the only places where humans maintained a hunter-gatherer lifestyle into the modern era. This makes it an invaluable window into humanity’s deep past—a window that is closing.Mungo Manic
- The Hard and Soft New Right January 27, 2025
- Jay Nordlinger
- Again: A Question of Honor January 27, 2025Reader mail on Afghans, Maria Callas, and more.Jay Nordlinger
- Gone, the Assads January 27, 2025On the rise and fall of Syria’s dictatorial dynasty.Jay Nordlinger
- Portraits and Protection January 24, 2025It is one thing for a president to remove someone’s portrait. How about someone’s Secret Service protection?Jay Nordlinger
- Again: A Question of Honor January 27, 2025
Category Archives: Culture
Christopher Hitchens on Reparations
Christopher Hitches was a writer and polemicist with extraordinary talents who, in December of 2011, died much too early at age 62. An iconoclast throughout his adult life, Hitchens eventually drifted away from the left — early on he was … Continue reading
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Progressive Anti-Semitism: The Triumph of Evil?
Photo by Johnathan Ernst / Reuters Representative Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) is at it again. The latest uproar was sparked by her use of a standard anti-semitic slur in which she complained about the supposed “dual loyalty” of American Jews. Previously, … Continue reading
In Her Own Words
Formerly known as Sandy the Barmaid, now known as Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, we have a representative who is positively Trumpian in her grandiosity and ignorance. After she secured all of 15,847 votes to win her Congressional seat, she reportedly said … Continue reading
Another Day, Another Hoax
The hoax perpetrated by Jussie Smollet, an actor in the TV series Empire, provides a window into the widening chasm between reality and the mainstream media. Consider: Smollet claimed he was walking home from a Subway sandwich shop at 2:30 … Continue reading
The Progressive Governor Northam
Ralph Northam was elected governor of Virginia in 2017. During the campaign Northam routinely denounced his Republican opponent, Ed Gillespie, accusing him of being a racist. Now an incendiary photo of two men has surfaced from Northam’s medical school yearbook. … Continue reading
The New (Old) Puritans
If there is any question that the new puritans of the regulatory state are a bunch of fanatics, this video from John Stossel should remove all doubt. JFB
Richard Milhous Trump
The political commentariat has spilled a lot of ink trying to understand what the Trump phenomenon is all about. But no one has come up with a convincing story about why it is that candidate, and then President Trump has … Continue reading
Asides…
One of the favorite progressive hobby horses is to wail about voter turnout, or the lack thereof. And so periodically we are treated to assertions that Republicans systematically suppress the vote, especially of minorities, as an electoral strategy. Needless to … Continue reading
Where’s the Outrage?
In 1996 the GOP candidate for President, Senator Bob Dole of Kansas, used to tick off a laundry list of horribles mostly having to do with charges that President Clinton was sleazy and that a biased liberal press was protecting … Continue reading
Our Core Values
Ex President Barack Obama has emerged to denounce current President Donald Trump’s decision to rescind Obama’s executive order known as DACA. The decision, according to Mr. Obama, did not constitute a “legal requirement”. It was, he opined, “…a political decision, … Continue reading