Columbia University Library

Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah, Here I Am at Intifada

Between the kangaroo court show trials of Donald Trump, the continued persecution of the J6 political prisoners, whose fates (and most likely ours too) are tied to his, and the constant barrage of depredations that are tearing this country apart, it’s way too easy to become inured and numbed by it all. Yet, the explosion of virulent and increasingly violent anti-Semitism across college campuses nationwide is something that even with all of the aforementioned I just cannot fathom, let alone accept. It hits way too close to home for me for a couple of reasons. First and foremost, my being a ...

The Nat Cons Are Dead Wrong: Middle-Class America Is Much Better Off Today Than in the Past

In the last several months, I have debated some of the intellectual leaders of a group called the "national conservatives." I consider myself a conservative (on most issues, ...

Biden’s Killing the American Dream of Homeownership

In boasting about Bidenomics two weeks ago in Milwaukee, President Joe Biden declared that his policies are "restoring the American dream." Then he went into his creepy whispering ...

Hunter’s ‘Love Child’ and Conservative Madness

Right-wingers (and The New York Times' Maureen Dowd) are browbeating President Biden for not embracing his son Hunter's illegitimate child -- the result of drug-crazed, ...

Hong Kong

Less Freedom

Politicians claim their bills bring us good things. Free health care! Child care! A cellphone for all! But government isn't Santa Claus. Government is force. Most every law ...

Should White Fight the Blight or Take Flight?

All last week, something seemed...off. I couldn’t put my finger on it, but something wasn’t right. Like there was a void. Then it hit me! As Texas Republicans were ...

Chicago, Illinois

The Left Has Killed Our Great Cities

Mark down Tuesday, April 4, as the night Chicago died. That's when we learned that Second City voters narrowly elected Brandon Johnson as their next mayor. This is a city that ...

Seeds of Discontent

Mass shootings represent masculinity at its most toxic. Hence, we shouldn’t get carried away trying to discern important societal trends in the sample size of a single ...

Michigan Is Headed Back to Rust Belt Poverty

Since the early days of Henry Ford, Michigan was the proud symbol of America's industrial might. But then, starting in the 1970s, things went south -- in part because of the ...

The Simple Solution to the Coming Demographic Challenge

Newspapers have been reporting on the demographic challenges in Asian nations like China, Japan and South Korea. Some expect China's population, for example, to be cut in half by ...

Memphis, Tennessee

Blacks Behaving Badly in Memphis

One downside of reading me is that tomorrow’s headlines aren’t as full of surprises. For example, while much of the media world is currently stunned that the five Memphis cops ...

The 2020s: The Car Crash Decade

Traffic fatalities, like murders, should be in steady decline due to improving technology and big data analyses of danger spots leading to better policing and infrastructure. ...

Kabul, Afghanistan

All the Presidents’ Insurrections

Well, the Jan. 6 committee has produced its long-awaited report. In a surprise move, the committee referred former President Donald Trump for criminal prosecution, accusing him of ...

President Biden

Biden’s Destroying the Economy. Is It Intentional?

Everywhere I go, people are mystified about President Joe Biden's economic agenda. So few of the policies comport with basic common sense that I'm asked the same question over and ...


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