Woke’s Gone Broke

Let’s take it from the top: DEI was destroying Western values and the culture of meritocracy. The bigots of woke culture subverted our institutions yet claimed to occupy the moral high ground. A nation’s historic culture and values were thrown into the dustbin, while the sinister system abolished free speech. It was a systemic attack on our ...

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Justine Bateman, 1987

L.A. Boned and Brimstoned

I never did get to do my New Year’s “wrap-up” column (I got distracted by the H-1B visa thing, then the fires started). I feel bad not only ...

Hegseth Grilled by Feminist Fantastists

Wouldn't you know it? Defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth's grilling by the Senate Armed Services Committee about his opposition to women in ...

The Rape of Britain

Growing up as I did, in post–UDI Rhodesia, I was exposed early to the deceptive habits of wily British politicians. My adolescent naivete ...

Why America Is in So Much Trouble

Shortly before Milton Friedman's death in 2006, I had the privilege of interviewing him over dinner in San Francisco. The last question I asked him ...

Elon Musk

Reap On, Elon

In the 1964 movie Lady in a Cage, Olivia de Havilland stars as a fancy lady with a broken hip who finds herself trapped in her staircase elevator ...

The Week That Perished

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