Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn said of William Shakespeare, the 400th anniversary of whose death has just passed, that he was capable of writing tragedies only about individuals, or small ...
In a recent column Dennis Prager made an acute observation. “The vast majority of leading conservative writers ... have a secular outlook on life. ... They are unaware of ...
The longer I live, the more humbug there is. Whether this is a real increase or merely a reflection of a more acute sensitivity towards it, I am not sure: There have always been ...
The left's grip on reality has never exactly been vise-like. But it seems to me that leftists are losing it"more than usual"over Trump. And I"m no Trump fan, to be ...
Last week, Kurdish authorities rescued 16-year-old Marlin Stivani Nivarlain at the behest of the Swedish government. Like something out of an SNL sketch, she had emigrated to ...
Last week, Hillary Clinton tweeted a line from her South Carolina primary victory speech:"Instead of building walls, we need to be tearing down barriers. We need to show that ...
In recent weeks, I kept meaning to write up a stylized history of the evolution of political ideology over recent centuries. But my examples"why Andrew Jackson rather than ...
Sarah Palin just endorsed Trump in a shrill speech that sounded like the cheerleaders from Fast Times at Ridgemont High. It's "yuge" for his campaign because she's likely ...
If the death of Lemmy Kilmister from iconic heavy metal band Motörhead teaches us anything, it’s that society currently considers it far more respectable to be a drug ...
Who said that African-Americans lack initiative? It was obviously a fool, and a racist to boot. White folks never came up with terrific initiatives such as speech codes, political ...
No one plays "follow the leader" better than leftists; no one can mindlessly copy talking points like they do. It's one of the reasons liberals excel in academia and ...
A British judge is reported to have wept recently as he sentenced two murderers for a particularly vicious and sadistic killing. A reporter for the BBC apparently wept on air as ...
I’ll believe we have an unbiased media the moment they start using the term “far left” as frequently as they use “far right.” But don’t hold ...
When a San Francisco high school principal named Lena Van Haren withheld student-body election results last week due to a lack of black and Latino winners (the victorious ...
I hadn"t checked in on alternative music (or whatever they"re calling it these days) and was disappointed to discover the Thought Police have taken over there, too. ...
"MEDIA CREATED THE HIPPIE WITH YOUR HUNGRY CONSENT" On Oct. 6, 1967, Haight-Ashbury's countercultural equivalent to a neighborhood "business association""the ...