As the story goes, Pauline Kael "couldn"t believe Nixon won in "72," as everyone she knew voted for McGovern. The quotation is probably spurious, but that makes it no less suitable as an epigraph for cultural life on the Isle of Bagel. And this holds for the New York-centered ...
Heather Mac Donald has a nice piece on gender inequality in math and science and the New York Times's efforts to wish it all away: The New York Times is determined to show that women are discriminated against in the sciences; too bad the facts say otherwise. A new study has "found that girls ...
If you believe The Truth is Out There, then I highly recommend that you avoid the latest “X-Files” movie , stay in, and read Tom Piatak’s fantastic article on the conservative impulses in the original series. Even a perusal through “The X-Files”'s rather fascinating ...
The most enduring superheroes"Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Captain America among them"were all born in Lower East Side at some point between 1938-1944. Their creators were almost entirely first-generation Jews. The current theory of this all runs something like, ""double ...
Friedrich Nietzsche observed, “it requires more genius to spend than to acquire”"making money being a question of diligence and cunning, wasting it a matter of taste. When the great philosopher wrote these words, he was actually concerned with the pervasiveness of the ascetic ideal ...
If we evaluate Sunday's Ron Paul r3VOLution March according Kevin's "Rules for Radicals," then it comes out pretty well. "Rowdiness in moderation" must be some kind of conservative ideal, and the crowd didn’t disappoint, even if attendance (somewhere between 5000-10,000) ...
If most of the Beltway Right has given up on drowning government in a bathtub, few have been as bold as Douthat and Salam in arguing that the GOP should try to win elections by promising to give the masses tons and tons of federal stuff. It wouldn"t be outright socialism, of course, though a ...
One probably shouldn"t look to the New York Times for analysis of the ongoing Death of the West; however, Russell Shorto's latest article in the Magazine, "No Babies?" is worth considering, if only because it’s one of the more interesting"and interestingly ...
Promoted to the Wall Street Journal editorial board just three years ago, the young journalist Jason Riley has sought to prove his bona fides, and then some, by publishing a new book whose title reads like a parody of the standard Journal position on immigration"Let Them In: The Case for Open ...
