Donald Trump

Trumped-Up Charges

Several of my American friends expressed to me their outrage at the recent trial of Donald Trump, his sons and associates, in New York for civil fraud, resulting in a huge and possibly ruinous fine; so I decided to read in full Judge Arthur F. Engoron’s decision in the case. Let me first lay bare my various prejudices. I am no great admirer of Mr. Trump; when it comes to telling the truth, he is not George Washington. Where truth is concerned, indeed, I suspect that he is of the severely pragmatist school. But I could not see how in natural justice he could be hauled into court by an ...

Those Poor, Helpless Indian Savages

On July 2, Facebook’s indefatigable legions of Hate Robots censored a post as “hate speech” because it dared to contain a passage from the Declaration of Independence: He ...

(Not) Guilty as Charged

And so to that rainy mecca of Western values, London. Or erstwhile mecca, I should say. The talk there is of the end of a reign of terror. Its queen regnant was a lady called ...

Tariq Ramadan

Observing Ramadan

I have met Tariq Ramadan only once in my life and was very impressed by him—impressed unfavorably, that is. He seemed to me then the Jimmy Swaggart of Islamism, or at least the ...

Different Hoax for Different Folks

At its “Never Is Now” anti-Semitism summit this week, the Anti-Defamation League gave its ADL Americanism Award to Lt. Gen. Jay Silveria, superintendent of the Air Force ...

Beneath the Fold

Looking back at my school years, attending majority-black public schools in L.A. during the early and mid-1980s, I"€™m not so much struck by the things I experienced, but by the ...

Bend Over, Teachers: Here Comes Progress

Evergreen State College is nestled far away from reality in the misty paradise of Olympia, Washington, a mossy and supernatural village which is run by lesbian elves and ...

Kori Muhammad

The Wages of Pathological Altruism

Here's what I know about Kori Ali Muhammad: First off, he's black. He can"€™t shut up about it. He's one of those latter-day American blacks who has his head so far up his ass ...

The White Man’s Unbearable Burden

Author Nikesh Shukla"€”a fat brown man who appears to sweat a lot"€”has just been named one of Foreign Policy magazine's "€œ100 Global Thinkers of 2016."€ He won this ...

Nonsense by Degrees

Almost twenty years ago, a young man called Faiz Siddique went up to Brasenose College, Oxford to read Modern History. When he came to sit his finals he was disappointed to get ...

Enter Mr. Manboobs

Until last month, I lived in blissful ignorance of the existence of Mr. Manboobs. Ah, those were good days. But now that I"€™ve had the misfortune to become acquainted with him, ...

Last Stand Against the Racial State

"€œBut why would any white guy want to say "€˜nigger"€™?"€ My perpetually outraged white leftist friend was, to nobody's shock but hers, outraged after viewing a thread ...

Reclaiming Toxic Masculinity

It is always cause for deep personal grieving when I observe a nonsensical term that had long lurked on the fringes of leftist dogma beginning to leak its way into the mainstream ...

Feminist Witch Hunts Are Rape

Another week, another comedian prosecuted for rape in the courts of social media. This time it's even more extreme because a comedian who dared question the witch hunt is also ...


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