di Amin Dada Oumee caricature 1977

Black Market Traders

Half a century ago, in 1972, mad black African cannibal dictator Idi Amin Dada (or “Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas,” as he preferred) suddenly decided to expel all Asian Indians and Pakistanis from his personal fiefdom/living human meat-larder of Uganda. The aptly named Mr. Dada did so on the alleged grounds that, like Martin Luther King gone loony, he had just had a visionary dream in which God had told him to kick all the thieving brown bastards out. Just under 30,000 chose not to head back toward the subcontinent of their ancestors, but to that of their ...

A New Age of Hardship?

Never has the contrast between the scale of world events and my own little personal concerns been so great. While millions flee bombardment, and the world economy ...

The Unicultural Edge

A formerly secret 2013 Pentagon report, The Strategic Consequences of Chinese Racism: A Strategic Asymmetry for the United States, argues “China is a racist superpower.” It ...

Nature Hates a Vacuum Cleaner

I have never really understood the passion for hunting. Whenever I see an animal or a bird in the wild, it does not cross my mind to kill it. I have even been charged by an ...

Repenters and Resenters

Man is the only creature, as far as we know, that enjoys the contemplation of its own disappearance from the face of the earth. We find the prospect of our annihilation by ...

California Dems Show us the Future. Run for Your Lives

In this column, I will prove that Democrats: 1) Don’t care about “Russians,” (Ukrainians?) or anyone else interfering with our democracy; and 2) they also don’t give a ...

Mass Shootings and Mainstream Conservative Twaddle

If dissident rightists spend more time criticizing the official right than criticizing the left, it’s because we know there can’t be a real right in this country if ...

Sentinelese People

The Proper Use of Dead Jews

By now you’ve probably heard the knee-slapper about the millennial missionary who sneaked onto a forbidden island inhabited by the earth’s last uncontacted, pre-neolithic ...

Eyes on the Prizefighters

The media wanted last August's "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville to be the next "Bridge to Selma," an iconic civil rights moment honored by the entire country every year. ...

Michelle Wolf

Smut Night at the Press Dinner

Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, billed as a celebration of the First Amendment and a tribute to journalists who “speak truth to ...

Breakfast of Champions

We live in an Ice Age of selective puritanism. You can bed who you like and cross-dress to your heart’s content, but God help you if you order a drink with lunch—or, for that ...

Los Angeles

Gentrifiers Prefer Blondes

My neighborhood in West L.A. is like a gated community, but without the gates. Single-family residences only; no apartments allowed. No stores or home-run businesses. The ...

California, Adios!

I just got back from California, and boy, is my soul tired. I always feel trapped, surrounded, and claustrophobic there—or at least in the LA megalopolis that eats up the ...

America’s Second Civil War

“They had found a leader, Robert E. Lee—and what a leader! ... No military leader since Napoleon has aroused such enthusiastic devotion among troops as did Lee when he ...


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