It is all too easy to claim analogies with Nazi Germany whenever you want to decry something. All the same, one can’t help thinking of Dr. Mengele and his experiments on ...

Going through great piles of aging printed detritus in my study the other day, I came across an unopened copy of The Spectator dated 13 December 2008. It is sometimes instructive ...

The Christmas period has now been and gone, and no doubt your household will have been full of toys for the duration of it—whether there happen to be any children in the ...

Intolerance comes much more naturally to men (here I include women in the term) than tolerance; which is why politically, religiously, philosophically, and morally tolerant ...

For most of humanity, I surmise, a porcupine is just a porcupine. There are, in fact, between thirty and forty species—zoological taxonomy is not yet a wholly exact science. ...

From time to time I read the Analects of Confucius, and though I do not fully understand them, yet they move me—possibly because their precepts are so much at variance with our ...

The New York Times must have thought it had died and gone to heaven when it discovered a group of violent high school bullies -- and they weren't all black! Members of Arizona's ...

One of the weirdest aspects of the orgy of racist antiwhite hate during the Great Awokening was how the mainstream establishment went out of their way to clearly document just how ...

There are certain questions that only the modern world could ask with a straight face. “Is the Turner Prize still relevant?” is one of them. It sits somewhere between “Does ...

No doubt the principle that one should speak nothing except good of the recently dead is a decent and civilized one, even if it is not given to 99.99 percent of humanity to be ...

One of the more peculiar ideological developments of the 21st century is that Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the conquering hero of the 20th-century center-left, has faded into vague ...

Earlier this month, Simon Cowell—who has already done enough damage by unleashing One Direction on an unsuspecting planet—announced that none of his estimated $600 million ...

A short while ago, I read a review of a history of pedantry. A pedant, I take it, is a man who delights more in error than in truth. He does not want to learn, he wants to ...

People are turning to socialism. Two-thirds of Americans ages 18-29 hold a "favorable view" of it. New York just elected a "proud socialist" mayor. My video explains why his ...

Trial lawyers have been the bane of U.S. employers for many decades, sucking blood out of the economy like a swarm of mosquitos. The most famous case was back in the 1990s when ...

October gave us many things: fall colors, cooling temperatures, and, in Rome’s case, a papal ice blessing that would have made even the more experimental Broadway directors ...