Increasingly, social-grievance jihadis are getting themselves worked up over casting decisions in movies, TV shows, plays, and even operas, labeling anything they disapprove of as ...

The Horseman by Tim Pears is one of the best novels I"€™ve read in a long time. The first part of a projected trilogy, it is set in rural England before the 1914"€“18 war, and ...

Lately, American higher education is notoriously prone to tantrums. Two more academic meltdowns last week raise connected questions: First, are scholars allowed to suggest any ...

The contempt in which we hold most of our politicians, while largely justified, is also dangerous. Politics seems increasingly to be the means by which people who would not ...

Nobel-winning economist Angus Deaton and his wife, Anne Case, have released a new study, "€œMortality and Morbidity in the 21st Century,"€ enumerating how many unprivileged ...

The real winners of the recent Dutch elections were the animals"€”or at least the Party for the Animals, which might not benefit animals any more than workers"€™ parties ...

The recent riot at Middlebury College by science denialists who put a woman professor in the hospital while attempting to do violence to Charles Murray has elicited passionate ...

These are wonderful times for conspiracy theorists. Not a sparrow falls but M. Trump, Obama, or Putin is behind it, if not the CIA, the FBI, the FSB, MI6, or Mossad. The problem ...

The combination of Brexit and an imminent second Scottish independence referendum is profoundly depressing. Better to think of other things"€”food, for example. That offers ...

Congressman Steve King (R-IA) has noticed just how extremist today's respectable conventional wisdom has become. So King has been exercising a Trump-like knack for trolling the ...

It was a bad week for the Southern Poverty Law Center, America's self-appointed witch-sniffers-in-chief. For decades, the SPLC, despite its comic history of money-grubbing and ...

The ongoing Oroville Dam crisis has received modest national attention, in part because the press hasn"€™t figured out how to blame it on Trump. Moreover, attributing the ...

Contemporary white progressives cater to the most regressive tendencies of the various Others. Anybody who can get themselves classified as an official Other-American is today ...

The British Medical Association, of which I am an undistinguished member, recently published a booklet entitled A Guide to Effective Communication in the Workplace, which I ...

From his 1989 Wall Street memoir Liar's Poker to his new book, The Undoing Project, Michael Lewis has succeeded his mentor Tom Wolfe as our top Southern center-right nonfiction ...

The question of intellectual and moral authority is an important one, especially at a time when everyone can and does give his opinion in public about anything and everything. By ...