David Cole writes: Abed, a tenure-track professor of ethics, social & political philosophy, and classical Islamic philosophy, believes that, in large part due to the overbearing … [Read more...]
Julie Burchill: “Is Roxane Gay’s relentless self-analysis compounding her problems?”
Julie Burchill writes: No one with an ounce of compassion is going to condemn a woman for trying to make sense of a traumatic sexual assault through the … [Read more...]
“Not long afterwards, it became fashionable to mock that week of Diana”
As much as I admired The Abolition of Britain, I never quite agreed with all of Hitchens' conclusions. The book is … [Read more...]
“TV news report (…) shows how gross hippies could be”
What you catch glimpses of, aside from the period-costume detail everyone expects from this time and place—incense sticks, love beads, bad dancing—is the grime of actually existing hippiedom: chainsmoking guys with scabs on their noses and dirt under their fingernails who stole their friends’ … [Read more...]
Sailer: “If Johnny Ramone were alive today, he’d be Trump’s Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts”
Over 100 comments at Sailer's "What was the whitest music...?" post: Presumably, prog rock … [Read more...]
Dying!!!
(Thanks, YouKnowWho.) … [Read more...]
TrailersFromHell: “King of Comedy” (1983) is “a skewed reimagining of ‘Taxi Driver'”
Yep, the Clash were supposed to have more screen time but couldn't get their act together... Funnily, it's their entourage (Joe's wife … [Read more...]
Ann Coulter: “Contract With Republicans—Point 1 Is BUILD THE WALL!”
Ann Coulter writes: It’s time for the voters to issue a “Contract With Republicans.” Unless our elected representatives can complete these basic, simple tasks, … [Read more...]
Mark Steyn tells Tucker Carlson: “If you want to do The Jim Acosta Show…”
“...there's a rusting boxcar around the back of the freight yard with three semi-comatose hobos who are interested in it. But nobody else is.” … [Read more...]
“The Unabomber Couldn’t Kill David Gelernter. Now Gelernter Supports Donald Trump”
Via The Tablet: Gelernter told me that he’d been asked to write an op-ed about whether the internet should be censored. (The answer is yes: “We have a concept of … [Read more...]
Gavin McInnes reviews “Dunkirk”
Gavin McInnes writes: When discussing how the West was won, the narrative is that the white man stole land from the Indians and then used slaves to build it into an empire. This film says … [Read more...]
“What particularly bothered me about this situation was that the columnist involved was a libertarian who writes for Reason…”
and her supporters were mostly other influential libertarians. Scott Alexander writes: And they were all using the old argument that the concept of “free speech” came into … [Read more...]