Modern Weapons

Privateers and the Cartels: Letters of Marque for Our Century

The deaths last summer of Frederick Forsyth and Simon Mann felt like the closing of a chapter in history that many assumed had been relegated to fiction. Forsyth, whose The Dogs ...

Lizzo

Lyle, Lyle, Crock of Guile

“Amaani Lyle” sounds like a shady dude who lurks in the darkest corners of Times Square selling cheap knockoff suits. “Psst...hey, mister, you wanna designer suit for only ...

The Triggers of History

The London School of Economics has decided that it will not use dreadful words such as Christmas, Easter, Lent, and Michaelmas to designate its term times and holidays. ...

Immunity for the Speech Suppressors

November 3rd...election day. There’s not much a man of my years can do at a time like this but think back to elections past. And at the moment I’m thinking of Friday, November ...

The Hustle Is On

The front page of the New York Post on the 20th of April, 2020, said it all: a large crowd in front of a Brooklyn barbershop being dispersed by police after a riotous party. There ...

They’ll Snuff Your Life to End Their “Stigma”

“Stop the coronavirus stigma now!” So screamed the so-called “science” journal Nature on April 7. COVID-19 must not be “associated with Wuhan or China.” Even though ...

As Goes the Holocaust, So Goes the West

When did we become so deathly afraid of speech? And why is it oddly appropriate that the recent 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz coincides with ramped-up efforts to ...

Biting the Hand That Feeds

An employment tribunal in England has just ruled that ethical veganism—the refusal to consume animal products in any form—is equivalent to a religion or philosophical belief ...

I Know Why the Caged Bird Is Hilarious

The most important lesson I ever learned about comedy was inadvertently taught to me by an old, fat black woman. The year was 1977. My fourth-grade English teacher, Mrs. Dilworth, ...

Avital Ronell

The Sorrows of Young Nimrod the Toady

“I hope the reader of a later age will pardon me for detaining him with persons of whom he has never heard.” —Schopenhauer If it’s true, as some people say, that ...

Racial Immunity

Twelve years ago, when actor Michael Richards launched into his epithet-laced tirade against a loud table of black revelers at the Hollywood Laugh Factory, the line that stood out ...

I Have a Dream…About Gay Wedding Cakes

The Supreme Court’s recent decision on whether a Christian baker can be forced to make a wedding cake for a gay marriage (no) arriving on the same day that Bill Clinton ...

Nikolas de Jesus Cruz

How To Exploit a High School Massacre

On Valentine’s Day, a 19-year-old former student of a Miami-area high school walked onto his former campus with an AR-15 style rifle and murdered 17 people, making it the ...

Tell It to the Judge

The German word “Vernichtungskrieg” (“extermination war”) refers to a war in which there can be no negotiated peace, no truce, no détente. One side wants the other side ...

Lee Circle, New Orleans

The Battle of New Orleans

Last Sunday in New Orleans a group of patriots surrounded Robert E. Lee and beat back the Northerners who were trying to take him down. They weren"€™t just defending a statue. ...

It’s Not Funny Anymore

I thought the leftist obsession with getting people fired would die down after Trump won, but it's still "€œalive and well."€ They just got a sketch-comedy show called World ...

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