Confronting Islam in the Land of Multiculti Tolerance Geert Wilders stares out from pictures like all the Dutchmen you’ve ever known or imagined: blond-maned, jowly, shrewd and wary eyes—with a black hat, black tunic and white lace collar, he could be a face in a Rembrandt crowd scene, or a Frans Hals painting of the Haarlem Civic Guard. Judging from physicality … [Read More]

With reports circulating of its imminent demise, The New York Times announced in January that it had found a white knight. Sort of. For the knight in question, who already owns 6 percent of the sinking Times and was investing $250 million in notes carrying 14 percent interest, was Carlos Slim. Reputedly the richest man in the world, taking the title … [Read More]

When Michael Phelps was awarded a record eight gold medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics, it was a moment of great pride for the young swimming champion and his country. Phelps likely wouldn’t experience a more prestigious moment the rest of his life and it was undoubtedly cause for celebration. It also would have been the perfect occasion to smoke weed. … [Read More]

The webzine Culture11 officially closed up shop last week, ending a four month run as the web’s alternative conservative destination.  Late last summer, I first heard rumors that there was a new well-funded conservative webzine in the works, which at the time was billed as “LibertyWire—the conservative answer to Slate”! The name soon morphed into “The Culture,” settling eventually on the … [Read More]

Fond of beer in swarthy nooks, but happiest among his books. Change happens very quickly these days, and it has always interested me that people born in the same year as me are (more or less) the youngest ones to remember life without the Internet. The younger siblings of friends have no experience, in particular, of being computer literate while not … [Read More]

Coming to an ostensibly stable and prosperous nation-state near you The annoying thing about tear gas is that it doesn’t hit you all at once. They had used a smoke grenade before that and so you assumed it was just another one. You cough slightly at first, so slightly you don’t think about it. Then you notice everyone else is doing … [Read More]

“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste,” sayeth Rahm. Opportunistic and cynical, yes. But also savvy political counsel that transformational presidents have always followed. FDR exploited the Depression to launch his New Deal, bring an end to a Republican hegemony of seven decades and make Democrats the majority party, until Richard Nixon picked the lock. While the debate … [Read More]

Founded by Pat Buchanan, Washington, DC based group The American Cause held a conference at the National Press Club over the weekend called “Immigration and the Future of the Republican Party.” Speakers included Pat’s sister and American Cause president, Bay Buchanan; former Forbes magazine editor and current VDare.com editor Peter Brimelow; Fox News contributor and American Conservative contributing editor James Pinkerton … [Read More]

A single plug by Sir Roger Moore late last year has turned me into a Papa Hemingway-like literary hero. In his Proust questionnaire in Vanity Fair, Sir Roger was asked to list his favourite writers. Poor little me was mentioned among some good ones and, presto, you’d think I’d written The Catcher in the Rye, Tender Is the Night, A Moveable … [Read More]

At least I did until I read this quite terrible argument. Matt’s trying to argue that government will inevitably get larger so we needn’t worry about how much of the economy is swallowed by the Congresscritters….it’s all part of a natural progression, you see? Meanwhile, one needs to understand that, somewhat counterinuitively, when you have a very efficient economic sector what … [Read More]