World of Witchcraft

Human-rights groups and assorted do-gooders have been filling up my Twitter timeline with news of a phenomenon many think no longer exists: literal witch hunts. In 2009 the ...

Sam Mullet

Thou Shalt Not Hate Beards

Reality has made quoting Malcolm Muggeridge impossible. That’s OK by me, because between his willfully ignorant campaign against Life of Brian and his equally problematic ...

Kermit Gosnell

The Pro-Death Movement

I once read that all societies throughout history were consistent in that they deemed it wrong to kill another human being...but they were wildly inconsistent in how they defined ...

General Nicolò Pollari

Outsourcing Torture

Last week, Italy became the first nation to condemn and sentence to prison two of its own secret service chiefs for assisting the CIA in February 2003 in kidnapping suspected ...

Bring Back the Duel

I didn’t go to college, let alone law school. So when I started joking a few years back"€”in response to my own legal troubles"€”that “libel is what we got when we ...

The Lord Black of Crossharbour

Anti-Black Prejudice

Ex-media mogul and ex-con Conrad Black is doing press for his new book A Matter of Principle, and to watch him skewer the biased media who try to corner him is heavenly. I ...

Anders Behring Breivik

Medicating Morality in Norway

I suspect that Norwegians regard themselves as exceptionally decent and highly civilized. Like the rest of Western Europeans, they eschew the death penalty and cast a horrified ...


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