The Talibanization of Thought

“Sometimes, doctor,” a patient of mine once said to me, “I feel like the little boy with his finger in the dyke, crying wolf.” That is a pretty good summary of how I feel most of the time. The fact is that there is much ...

The Intersectional Elephant

Last week I revisited a 2019 column of mine titled “Can the Right Fight Without Saying White?” The gist of that piece was that the right is trying to fight antiwhite racism without calling it what it is. In last week’s update, I ...

Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles

Claims to Fame

I have tried all my life to understand my fellow humans but have failed. If I understood them better, perhaps I would share more of their interests. Take reality TV, for example. Returning to France recently, I discovered by chance ...

Does Our Diversity Portend Disintegration?

After nine people were shot to death by a public transit worker, who then killed himself in San Jose, the latest mass murder in America, California Governor Gavin Newsom spoke for many on the eve of this Memorial Day weekend. "What the ...

The School of Athens by Raphael

Cultural Whiteness

White nationalism is characterized as a vice by leading commentators. No one interested in retaining the respect of mainstream outlets defends the logic of white identity politics. Blacks and Hispanics may organize political groups to ...

The Squeaky Wheel Gets the Snake Oil

President Trump was ill with COVID-19; President Trump was treated with certain new and expensive drugs; therefore President Trump was cured by his treatment with those new and expensive drugs, and demand for them will therefore rise. ...

The Faithless Paranoia That Drives Woke and Cancel Culture

L’amor che move le stelle The great Italian poet Dante Alighieri believed the universe to be moved by Love. There are those who do not believe this, though. After the fall of Ceausescu we saw sad televised images of Romanian orphans ...

Adolf Hitler

The Art of Propaganda

How did Germany, arguably the most cultured and civilized nation in Europe, degenerate so quickly? The answer is propaganda. Man is a herd animal, and propaganda moves the herd. “The Art of Propaganda,” an excerpt from Mein Kampf, ...

The Two Eisgrubers

It is difficult enough for people to say what they mean, but it is even more difficult, at least for some of them, to mean what they say. Moreover, some people neither say what they mean nor mean what they say, but mean something else ...

Kyle Rittenhouse

Where’s “The Talk” When We Need It?

For many years now, we've gotten mountains of press about "The Talk," the rite of passage lecture that black parents feel obliged to give their sons so that they won't end up getting shot by the police. Apparently, unlike white people ...

The Mask of the Joker

Why has the world become so indignant? Boredom. The Olympic ability to have fun is in sharp decline in the new age of the cyborg brought on by nanotechnological morons. People gather to eat armed with their mobile phones, which they ...

The Bus Never Stops

SOMERVILLE, Mass.—Under its new domestic partnership ordinance, the city of Somerville now grants polyamorous groups the rights held by spouses in marriage, such as the right to confer health insurance benefits or make hospital ...


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