I"m not the first to remark that the failed "coup" in Turkey is as useful to President Erdogan as the Reichstag fire was to Hitler, but it is worth looking at the two ...
At a ceremony for some of the various policemen recently shot by his fellow Black Lives Matter advocates, President Barack Obama described the postapocalyptic hellscape of gun ...
When I was a boy I had a classmate (with whom my relations were neither particularly friendly nor particularly unfriendly) whose ambition was to be a taxidermist. He gave us to ...
Mel Gibson is back, and that's bad news for the Jews! August 25th marks the release of Gibson's much-anticipated "comeback" film, Blood Father, in which the former A-list, ...
Do you ever get the impression that our endless identity-politics culture wars have less to do with the liberation of their ostensible beneficiaries than with the further career ...
"Failing's not terrible," said Andy Murray after winning his second Wimbledon final. "It's okay provided you"ve given your best. You have to not be afraid of ...
Though derided and despised, there is much to be said in favor of mediocrity. It is comfortable and unthreatening, unlike excellence; it makes no demands on us. Who can stand the ...
Whenever I gave expert evidence in murder trials, I looked at the jury and thought, "What a rabble! How on earth can you expect them to come to any proper conclusion?" ...
The gift of political prophecy is certainly not mine, and I suspect that the best, most certain way of prophesying correctly is to prophesy often. That way one will, by laws of ...
I"ve been pointing out for years that O.J. Simpson's 1994 white Bronco run for the Mexican border from his lawyer Robert Kardashian's house was a turning point in American ...
Driving through France recently, we stopped for the night in the small town of Loudun. It had that complete, and to me pleasing or even consolatory, deadness common to many small ...
In September 2004, for the crime of having a massively blocked sewer line under my property, I was condemned to the worst fate a creature of the L.A. Westside could face"I had ...
It is curious that we are never more than a slight physiological or anatomical derangement away from paranoia. An alteration of blood chemistry is often sufficient to make us ...
The Albanian dictator, Enver Hoxha, who died in 1985, has played only a very small part in my life. In my student days I knew a few youthful admirers of his; and some twenty years ...
The currently approved conceptual framework for American race relations dictates that whites"all of them, simply by dint of being white"are oppressors. Any deviation from ...
For a number of reasons I am fond of reading books of essays by literary journalists from the 1880s to the 1930s. First, they are very cheap to buy, since they are not otherwise ...
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