The Column Racket Explained A political columnist should choose a place on the left–right spectrum. It doesn’t matter which. He needn’t believe it but should never deviate from it. Readers do not want intelligence or original thought. They want affirmation, to be told what they already ...
Given that Washington is actively looking for a pretext to invade Mexico, where I have lived for 23 years, a few observations from this side of the border may be of worth. To begin, let us ponder Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, Mexico’s recently elected president, who is subject to considerable venom in ...
Twaddle to the right, twaddle to the left, and not a drop to drink. In contemplating China’s meteoric rise (though on thought I am not sure that meteors rise) Americans usually attribute it to cheap labor or theft of intellectual property or unfair governmental subsidies. But our religious faith ...
Oh God, oh God, is there no limit to idiocy? From Yahoo News, presumably meaning news for or from yahoos: “Tom Homan, the man tapped by Mr. Trump to lead his border closures, recently told Fox News the president-elect ‘will use [the] full might of the United States Special Operations to take ...
Consider two children, white, boys, growing up in contented middle-class families in the same suburb of Washington, DC, equally bright, popular, successful with girls, and so on. One becomes a growling conservative, the other a chirping liberal. I think of them as woofers and tweeters.) Why the ...
Oh help. As I write, the mumbling egg plant in the White House shovels money and arms into two wars, neither necessary, and he and Lockheed Martin prepare for a third, also unnecessary, over Taiwan, which is none of their business. Since in the Federal Bubble on the Potomac there is chatter at the ...
The congenitally alarmed express horror and perturbation over White Nationalists, of whom they know little. They seem to think–or perhaps hope, life being boring in Washington, that in conjunction with the election of Trump, WhyNats will bring back lynching. This is overwrought. In fact WhyNats ...
Everybody and his dog is writing about the Trump conviction, so I guess I’ll add my few grains to the sand pile. Otherwise I’d kill something, preferably a New York judge. Or several of them. On the observable principle that each succeeding President is worse than his predecessor, Biden has, ...
I wonder how many Americans quite understand what the US is facing in its aggressive confrontation with China. Washington clearly prepares the public for another unnecessary war. Given America’s routine defeat in war and catastrophic miscalculations in fighting small powers, picking a fight with ...
