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, hitting other equally violent neighborhood kids with toy plastic blades as I went. It now transpires this habit made me innately qualified for a fulfilling adult career as a valued American public health professional. A self-professed anarchist named JD Holt, who also goes by the name of “JD Terrapin” on Facebook, has just been roundly mocked for turning up to an online board meeting and introducing herself to her ...
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 reticent about his private ...
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 myself, I’m going ...
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 ...
Alain Delon says that modern culture is “hideous.” Yet there is constant talk of “progress.” Progress is often defined in modern terms as the absence of authority. Yet ...
There’s an old expression that goes, “It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good.” My dear departed mother-in-law turned that old saw on its ear and used to say, “Never ...
O.J. Simpson's death last week reminded me of the glorious period in American history when we finally got liberals to stop their infernal race baiting. It came right after O.J. ...
Sometimes I wonder whether the true aim of modern “progressives”—progress toward what, one is tempted to ask—is to provoke such a strong and even violent reaction among ...
Nashville, TN, along with many other urban areas that have suffered for years, even decades, under Democrat-Leftist control, was not immune from the “mostly peaceful” Burning, ...
The current preliminaries to the forthcoming American election are both appalling and fascinating (the appalling usually fascinates in a way that the meritorious seldom does). The ...
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