Elon’s Coddled, Swaddled Nazis

To get the formalities out of the way, yes, I was perma-banned from Twitter by the “free speech” Musk regime. And I gotta say, I’d come to really like many of my followers, so please remain in touch on Substack (it’s free, you cheapskates). Why’d I get banned? A tale old as the hills: A neo-Nazi Holocaust denier attacked me as I was drunk at 7 a.m., and I wasn’t in the mood for the sieg heiler’s shit, so I told him that he’s very brave hiding behind an anonymous account, but if he wants to come to Beverly Hills in person, I’ll put him six feet under. The Nazi went crying ...

Jordan Peterson

A Sick Society

Once again, Jordan Peterson has just been canceled—I think it’s basically his job now. Ever since first shooting to public attention back in 2016/17 over his fears that new ...

Kanye West, Yeezus Tour 2013

No Saving Ye

“I like Hitler,” said Kanye West (now Ye) to approximately 15 million people on Alex Jones’ Info Wars last week. Jones tried to defuse the situation by clarifying Ye’s ...

Kanye’s Kancellation: The Devil’s in the Details

I’m not sure l’affaire Yeezy deserves a second consecutive column...but its lessons certainly do. Because the lessons are so cut-and-dried. Kanye West committed the cardinal ...

Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing. By William Blake, c. 1786. Tate Britain.

Ban the Bard!

A creative writing course at a British university has withdrawn graduation requirement that students should attempt a sonnet, not on the reasonable grounds that it is futile to ...

Jon Gruden

Dropping the Ball

Jon Gruden, an NFL head coach with a $100 million contract from the Las Vegas Raiders, was recently forced to resign after making what the Ebony Times called racist, homophobic, ...

The Limitations of Statues

New York City has always been considered something of an exception to the rest of the country. But even by that definition a recent decision by the city council to remove a statue ...

William Shakespeare

Only the Good Get Canceled

This is for you writers out there: If you’re not canceled, you’re no good. The good Dr. Seuss is out, as is Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, but Adolf Hitler is still ...

Attack of the Woke Teen Career Killers

I was a mere 70 pages into Donald McNeil's brief about his firing from The New York Times when I emailed a dozen of my friends to demand they read it immediately. But they don't ...

Suicide on the Trans-Black Express

Jessica A. Krug calls herself “an unrepentant and unreformed child of the hood” and a self-taught “historian of politics, ideas, and cultural practices in Africa and the ...

The Storming of the Bastille

Bastille Day: The Beginning of Liberal Madness

This Tuesday, the French celebrated Bastille Day, the mob attack on a Parisian prison that has come to symbolize the French Revolution, a period of massive violence that produced ...

Frank Rizzo

The Posthumous Murder of Frank Rizzo

Sometime in the late 1970s I was a wandering white boy who found myself at an anarchist bookstore in Center City Philadelphia called The Wooden Shoe, where I spotted a little red ...

Ben Franklin, College Hall, Penn

Limousine Liberals

“To be great is to be misunderstood.” —Emerson Alfred Lubrano, in an article published in The Philadelphia Inquirer on Sept. 14, 2017, noted that in 2016, Philadelphia ...

Linda Fairstein

The Wilding of Linda Fairstein

The African folktale version of the 1989 Central Park gang-rape has swept the populace! The mob thirsts for vengeance against evil spirits, like Linda Fairstein. In the past ...


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