Don Quixote And Sancho Panza by Louis Aquetin

Mute Inglorious Shakespeares

In Michael Lewis’ new biography of Sam Bankman-Fried, Going Infinite, Lewis quotes the accused cryptocurrency embezzler’s rationalist case against Shakespeare: I could go on ...

Dystopia Means a Very Black Future

Fictional dystopias are all the rage on page and screen today—just so long as they’re presented from a left-wing perspective. Then their fans can point at certain social ...

What’s in Store

Is it a sign of advancing age that the world seems to grow more absurd by the day, or does the world really grow more absurd by the day? If the latter, it means that there is an ...

Women of a tribe of Pygmies

Let the Anthropologists Study Themselves: A Suggestion for a New Approach

By a letter dated 25 September 2023 the American Anthropological Association and the Canadian Anthropology Society have declined to allow a panel of presenters to go ahead with a ...

Ismet Inonu

Turkey, Eight Decades Later

Two days before flying to Turkey for a few days, I found a little book published in 1944 titled La Turquie d’Ismet Ineunu (The Turkey of Ismet Inonu). It was published by ...

‘Elon Musk’: Purge and Surge

Walter Isaacson’s biography Elon Musk is as strong as you’d expect from the author of the enormous 2011 bestseller Steve Jobs. The subject of Isaacson’s last book The Code ...

No Straight Lines in Gay Geometry

Now that your kids are “safely” back at school and college this September, what are they actually learning? How to eat shit, that’s what. In 2022, teaching materials ...

Faded Prestige

The worst enemy of the West is itself, and the same goes for our democracy. We are so arrogantly certain of our survival and superiority, we in the Western democracies, that we ...

The Business of Diversity

What causes wokeness? Richard Hanania writes in his highly useful new book, The Origins of Woke: Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics, ...

The Hard Stuff

I’m gonna start by talking about the porn girl I lived with, then segue into the actors’ strike and end on politics. Yep, ol’ Dave will deftly manipulate three balls at ...

Is Google Guilty of Being Too Popular With Consumers?

You may have heard the Biden Justice Department is suing Google in federal court for being a "monopoly." That's a bizarre charge given that few, if any companies in all American ...

Un-American Pi

It’s mid-September, so your kids will be back in school or college on both sides of the Atlantic—but what will they actually be learning there? Quite possibly, little more ...

Chohan Rajpoots, Delhi. Circa 1868

Caste Away

India is in the spotlight as it throws the G20 economic conference. Its host, Hindu nationalist prime minister Narendra Modi, is fooling around, Elon Musk-style, with the idea of ...

2023 FIFA Women's World Cup

Kiss of Death

As this piece is going up on 9/11, I thought I’d better do something about Islam. But first, as Monty Python (almost) used to say, for something completely different: Like Hot ...

Service Without a Smile

Like several other countries in the West, Britain has given up on the sordid and vulgar activity of making things and instead gone in for the more refined and sophisticated life ...

America’s Untouchables

In this decade, America’s most effective conservative activist has likely been Chris Rufo, who in 2020 came up with a winning euphemism for all the racist antiwhite hate ...


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