Equity: The New Equality

Tuesday isn’t just for tacos anymore. Yesterday was Joe Biden’s Equity Tuesday when he highlighted his administration’s extensive plans for upping racial “equity” by undermining the 14th Amendment’s promise of “equal protection of the laws.” “Equity” has become the dog-whistle term used to alert the Woke that you intend to deliver ...


The Steady March of Liberal Hypocrisy

If you’ve lived to reach a certain age and looked closely at the world, you’ve probably noticed how full of crap people are. Indignant when others engage in behaviors that they think are wrong, they are quite willing to ignore their ...

A Reaffirmation of Hierarchy

In “Who Wants to Play the Status Game?,” her Jan. 16 column at The Point, Agnes Callard, an academic philosopher at the University of Chicago, makes some interesting observations and claims. Like doctors, lawyers, and indeed the ...

Taking Diversity Seriously

“The new form of unfairness,” says Charles Murray in his new book, “is that talent is largely a matter of luck, and the few who are so unusually talented that they rise to the top are the beneficiaries of luck in the genetic ...

Life Without Intellectual Principle: Part One

A little while back, a friend of mine had a poem accepted by The Paris Review, a magazine that, though in steep decline since it became politically correct, remains a big deal in the world of letters. The poem was never published, ...

Short-Shaming

Why is discrimination against the short considered not only tolerable, but also amusing? In an era constantly on the lookout for prejudices to denounce, this obvious one gets a pass. The main reason our culture doesn’t denounce ...

Fair Is Fair

For reasons too convoluted for swift explanation, I looked into the annual Scottish figures for homicide recently. Last year they were down 5 percent and were the second-lowest recorded since 1976. The homicide rate has declined from ...

Spaying the Queen’s English

There are no fishermen left in Washington State. As of July 1, they are all now “fishers.” There are no longer any “firemen,” only “firefighters.” The state’s “clergymen” have been ...

Fat, Broke and Single?

Like the French language, the liberal brain works in reverse. Where we say "€œthe red book,"€ the French say "€œle livre rouge."€ They start with a blank book and work backwards to fill it in with rouge. Liberals start with, ...


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