Tucker Carlson

The Race Rub Part II: The Tucker Two-Step

Leftists love to paint Tucker Carlson as a racist, a Klansman who grows strange fruit in his backyard. If so, he’s the first Klansman in history who hates discussing race. There are many examples; here’s one of my favorites. In February 2021, Tuck launched a bizarre narrative about how the media’s hatred of whites and adulation of black ...


Downstreaming a Conservative Reaming

With seven days to go until the election, there’s no way a weekly columnist can keep up with the rapid-fire developments that’ll surely be cracklin’ like a burning log on Fox and CNN as we speak. So I’m not even gonna ...

Morrissey

A Secret History of Right-Wing Rock Stars

Pop music, like anything showbiz, is hardly as it appears. The gap between a pop star’s public and private politics can be as deceiving as anything. This is the lesson the singer Morrissey is battling, once again. He has had a ...

The Right’s Purity Pissing Contest

If there's one thing I hate, it's an inscrutable Asian. Not because of the inscrutability, mind you, but rather because I despise seeing people conform to shopworn stereotypes. Last week, L.A. Times "€œinvestigative arts reporter"€ ...

Ann Coulter

The Hunt for the Right Wing Snipe

"€œI was never a true believer, but the money was good."€ When I started writing about politics and hanging around with conservatives, I started hearing leftists say the weirdest crap. Stuff that stank of desperation, like some ...

Count Klemens Wenzel Lothar von Metternich

In Praise of Reactionaries

Robert Conquest"€”celebrated both as a poet and a historian of Soviet Russia"€”was at one point lecturing throughout the US. As the story is told, people would come up afterward and say things like, “I understand you"€™re ...

Beautiful Losers

In the latest issue of Quadrant, Peter Kocan complains about my "€œsourness"€ in depicting the paleoconservative persuasion in my autobiography, Encounters. Peter is shocked that someone who is described as "€œAmerica's leading ...

The Tyranny of Mark Levin’s “€œLiberty”€

Under discussion: Mark Levin, Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto, Threshold Editions (2009), 256 pages The first paragraph of the first chapter of Mark Levin's Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto, the talk radio ...


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