Walking recently in a quiet quarter of Geneva—is there any other kind of quarter in Geneva?—I looked up and saw something strange. Everywhere in Geneva is expensive, and this ...

There was once a pre-WWII English Music Hall blackface comedian who adopted the stage name “Nosmo King.” He got his unusual alias after seeing the words “NO SMOKING” on a ...

Arriving in Paris in the middle of the most severe political crisis in France since the mass uprising of spoiled brats in 1968, I looked around for signs of it in the street. ...

Iryna Zarutska fled one war only to die in another. At twenty-three, newly arrived from Ukraine, she was stabbed to death on Charlotte’s Lynx Blue Line, cut down on an ordinary ...

Before Robby Starbuck became a problem for leftist companies, alerting consumers to stupid woke indoctrination policies, he directed music videos. He worked with some big names, ...

New figures demonstrate British people are far less likely to donate cash to charity than they once were. No wonder. I don’t know about you, but my idea of a charitable ...

As a small child, one of my favorite cartoon characters was that brave sword-fighting shell-bearer Touché Turtle, whom I used to prance around the garden pretending to be, ...

There was an article recently in The Washington Post that suggested that the great footballer Lionel Messi might do more for his sport (soccer) and his fame if he were less ...

Last week’s column was written during my recent health scare; this week’s is being written as I’m recuperating, sober, and thus in a terrible mood. So to make it easier on ...

With the left depressed in 2025, much of the cultural energy belongs to the right. But where’s it going to go? One increasing possibility appears to be that newly ...

One of the characteristics of the present age, no doubt a consequence of the expansion of tertiary education beyond the capacity of people to benefit from it, is the prevalence of ...

Buckle your seatbelts because President-elect Donald Trump has ignited a worldwide revolt against the arrogance of global elites. We are entering a brand-new era of rebellion -- ...

The best argument against democracy, said Winston Churchill, is a five-minute conversation with an elector. Of course, we are not the type of elector to whom Churchill was ...

Consider two children, white, boys, growing up in contented middle-class families in the same suburb of Washington, DC, equally bright, popular, successful with girls, and so on. ...

We have now entered the stage of post-Liberalism. The European elections have seen a move to traditionalist parties in most states. What was once thought as the preserve of ...

If our time is defined by anything, it is the primacy of ideas over reality. Whether the issue is trangenderism, and its rejection of nature, or the assumption that “human ...