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10 Problems With Having Immigrant Parents

I’m a middle-class child of immigrants. I’m told we were poor when my parents emigrated from Scotland to Canada in the 70s, but I don’t remember any of that. All I remember is a bucolic childhood where I was never in want for anything I needed. Everything I wanted, however, was another matter entirely. You see, like most ...


Women, Work, and Freedom

Willingly or not, women play a starring role in the death of the West.  Women in Europe and America have made one great big fat suicidal error as a result of modern feminism since the movement's inception: They have confused work with ...

A Sex Tourist Swallows the Red Pill

Over a decade ago a young, clumsy college graduate named Roosh started DC Bachelor, a blog devoted to his attempts at meeting and dating women in Mordor-on-the-Potomac. His pursuit fit into a larger trend of “game theory,” ...

Gerard Depardieu

Becoming a Fiscal Ghost

I admire the great French actor Gérard Depardieu. Not only does he annoy the French left, he has now left France. In so doing, he has given me a great idea: to transform myself into a fiscal ghost. My aim in 2013 is to vanish into ...

Losing My Dream House to the Apocalypse

If it were not for the Apocalypse which is due any day now I would be the owner at last of a large stone farmhouse perched in the gentle foothills of the Apennines and surrounded by soothing vineyards with a spectacular view stretching ...

Alessandro Sallusti

Criminal Libel in the Spaghetti Republic

Ah, Italia! Such a great place to get your head around great art and great women, but such a shitty little country. How else to describe a so-called free and democratic country where the police cart off a national newspaper editor to ...

Two Sweeps Over the Limit

About a year ago an Italian judge ordered me, as a condemned criminal, to perform 166 hours of unpaid "€œlavoro socialmente utile"€ (socially useful work). I kept putting it off until three weeks ago when I could put it off no ...

Dolomites

When Italians Weren”€™t Cowards

The Remembrance Day commemorations in honor of the war dead always prompt even me to think that the Italians"€™ reputation as a nation of cowards on the battlefield is unfair. But the Italians are cowards in another sense: They are ...

Italy’s Rotten Judges

Day after day, Italian newspapers pullulate with deeply disturbing examples of the antics of Italy's judges. But this past week has been a vintage one even by Italian standards. First, a judge in the city of L"€™Aquila, where in ...

The Sinking of Captain Coward

Francesco Schettino, the 52-year-old captain of the cruise liner Costa Concordia, began his pretrial hearing last week in the small Tuscan city of Grosseto. The Costa Concordia capsized on the evening of Friday January 13th after ...


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