Consider the humble bus queue, what it tells us. People line up waiting for a bus to arrive and sometimes are disappointed because the bus is so full that there is not room for ...

"Climate change will make earth a living hell!" claims popular astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson. I don't believe him. The media say, "All Arctic ice will soon melt away! ...

This week marks eighty years since the death of Mussolini on 28 April 1945. All the more surprising, then, that he is currently Italy’s reigning Man of the Year. The ...

I confess (if I may use the word in this context) that I had little regard for the late pope. I took against him, as it were, early in his papacy when I saw his reaction to some ...

Amid the boredom of a non-Christian pope's death and the media's obsession with the Signal messaging app, I found myself reading about Pearl Harbor this week. It seems that as ...

Directing a film is a little like coaching a football team—both are jobs for natural leaders of men—but strikingly few auteurs played serious team sports after age 18. Ron ...

When I was still a boy, there was a saying, now rather out of fashion, used by critics to blast politicians or other figures of authority whenever they had formulated yet another ...

How is it possible to “sexually harass” a statue? You’d have to ask Dublin City Council, who have just declared an innovative new experiment in protecting a supposedly ...

A French antiquarian bookseller from whom I buy books from time to time sends them to me through the post with old-fashioned postage stamps on the packet. How pleased I am when I ...

Did I ever tell you my favorite memory from the George Floyd riots of 2020? I live-tweeted about it at the time, but since my X account was nuked, I suppose I can tell the tale ...

New figures demonstrate British people are far less likely to donate cash to charity than they once were. No wonder. I don’t know about you, but my idea of a charitable ...

You know what I hate? Liberals! Ooooh, I hate ’em so much. Bet you do too. C’mon, shake your fist at ’em with me. C’mon, do it! Shake harder, boy; they’re still ...

I must say I agree with Taki’s recent assertion on these pages that nobody reads anymore: It certainly explains my own books’ dismal sales figures. Further confirmation of ...

In his autobiography, John Stuart Mill describes an important moment in his life, a kind of intellectual and moral epiphany. Until that moment, Mill had devoted himself to various ...

What do you do when your entire identity has been built around a “they” that’s oppressing you, but “they” don’t actually seem to be oppressing you? You’ve taken on ...

As a small child, one of my favorite cartoon characters was that brave sword-fighting shell-bearer Touché Turtle, whom I used to prance around the garden pretending to be, ...