The Problem With White Guys These Days

Hey, what the heck is wrong with white guys these days? It’s easy to find people eager to answer that question. I’ll spotlight four recent essays—two from white authors, two ...

Thomas Alva Edison

Lost Edisons

Should white men be blamed or thanked for inventing most of the technology that makes our lives better? A new study by Stanford economist Raj Chetty exploiting his unique access ...

Charles Manson

We Are All Charles Manson Now

Charles Manson, who for decades existed as an emblem of wide-eyed 60s idealism gone fatally wrong, died last week. Within moments, leftist scribes rushed to disavow him and to ...

The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University

Dumb and Dumber

Are campus leftists getting dumber? It sure seems that way. For example, a black activist stabbed four students yesterday at the University of Texas, murdering one. That's just ...

How the Internet Made Us Authors and Most Authors Awful

In the spirit of the primped humility that is clitsch, "€œI"€™m not going to lie"€: A Black Mirror episode inspired this piece. We"€™ve heard the sound: the "€œso ...

Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull

Bordering on Success

Donald Trump's era of influence may turn out to be a flash in the pan like that of previous celebrity politicians Jesse Ventura and Arnold Schwarzenegger. But he may also be ...

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West

A Dummy’s Guide to Lowbrow Culture

After 9/11, Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter declared "€œthe end of the age of irony."€ Now that politics has been taken over by a winner, we declare "€œthe end of the age ...

To Hell With Safe Spaces

Scene: The Cambridge University Union in, as I remember, 1958. The invited speaker, Sir Oswald Mosley, the former leader of the British Union of Fascists, got up to his feet. A ...

Joseph Stiglitz

When Mediocrity Strikes

I think I too could be a Nobel Prize winner in economics"€”at least if an interview with Joseph Stiglitz in a recent edition of Le Figaro, the French newspaper, on the occasion ...

Michelle Obama

A Handy Guide to Popular Social Justice Hashtags (And What They Really Mean)

As everyone with two brain cells to rub together is well aware, a tremendous amount of social injustice exists in this so-called world of ours. To rectify this unfortunate ...

Bring Lexi Home

On Monday, agents from L.A. County's Department of Children and Family Services removed 6-year-old Lexi from her family of four years because she's 1.6% American Indian. ...

Seeing the World Through Third World Eyes

Last night wasn"€™t particularly eventful. We went out to dinner with some guys from work to celebrate Christmas break. The restaurant wasn"€™t very fancy and we spent a ...

A Quick Word

Last week I was irritated to receive an e-mail from the British Medical Journal asking me what I thought of its new format. What I thought of it was unprintable; and now that we ...

Is Third World America Inevitable?

Thousands of U.S. troops safeguard the border of South Korea. U.S. warships patrol the South China Sea to stand witness to the territorial claims of Asian allies against ...

Resisting Capitalism for Fun and Profit

It's a sign of strength for a man to admit his weaknesses, which is why I freely confess that I am economically retarded. I know nothing about economics. Sometimes it's even hard ...

10 Reasons Why “€œWalk a Mile in Her Shoes”€ is Wrong

Every time I think the insanity meter on the political correctness machine has finally gone as far as it can go, the needle plunges deeper into the red. Last year, we assumed it ...


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