Last week, a 17-year-old boy in a wig and a skirt made national headlines by demanding to use the girls" restroom and locker room at his small-town Missouri high school. The ...
There is a strange thing about modern ugliness: It is militant and proselytizing, and not just the result of thoughtlessness, poverty, lack of skill, and so forth. It might ...
More and more, the Internet is becoming as predictable as the plot of a Michael Bay film. Every new social-media "outrage" is inevitably followed by ...
I"ve never had much use for smug, arrogant leftist atheists like Bill Maher, Ricky Gervais, or Seth MacFarlane, whose smarmy "aren"t we ever-so-clever" attitude I ...
Courtney Love was right, and she was robbed. Thirty years ago, while still an unknown, she campaigned relentlessly to win the role she quite reasonably believed she was born to ...
Immigration, with its bumptious reality of comically mercenary fraud covered up by pious cant, provides Ann Coulter with the best topic of her career in ¡Adios, America! The ...
That Monica Lewinsky got a standing ovation after giving a speech isn"t the part of the story I"d have picked for my headline. It would be news if Monica"or your ...
I rarely read comments, but someone recently sent me this one from David Brooks" op-ed "The Campus Crusaders." Anne from New York City wrote: It's not trauma; it's ...
Here's another set of polarities to accompany previous concepts such as Fringe versus Core and High/Low versus Middle that are useful in grasping why some things in modern America ...
All countries are traditions based on religion and genetics, though in irreligious countries they don’t know it. And all European countries these days seem to be in very big ...
If a person of color feels offended by something a well-meaning white person said and no one knows they’re offended, is it still a hate crime? This is the implicit question ...
For a long time I have intended always to carry a small notebook with me when I go to second-hand bookshops to take down a list of the most boring titles ever published. ...
The smoke has cleared in Baltimore for now, and one of my favorite American cities is just a little bit less than it used to be. I bear a lingering affection for Baltimore ...
Three thousand miles from the fighting in Syria I was sat with Pakistanis who definitely wouldn’t be giving up their lives here in London for Raqqa. They fit somewhere ...
The late Simon Leys, the great Sinologist and literary essayist, once wrote a little essay on the first lines of novels. He was inspired to do so by having picked up G. K. ...
No one who reads Seyyid Qutb's book Milestones could be in any doubt that the destruction of ancient monuments by ISIS or the Taliban is perfectly in keeping with Islamist ...
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