“A Shot in the Dark” (1964) holds up quite well
Mark Steyn catches up with Christopher Caldwell, author of 2009’s “Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Islam, Immigration, and the West”
“Freedom is Eating Steak Well-Done with Ketchup”. Wrong.
Behold, the bumpkinry I've been warning you about. A good chef may spit on your steak if you order it well done. I thought everyone knew that... But [Read more...]
WATCH: Mark Steyn on “the supposedly non-existent deep state”
Steyn adds: Please note: General Flynn's work for the Turkish government was not known at the time this SteynPost was taped. Mark's line on neo-Ottoman wannabe-caliph Erdogan is that of Boris Johnson's prize-winning … [Read more...]
“Arguably, nothing spread [Holocaust] denial more in the 1980s than the attempts to silence it”
As usual, David Cole’s latest includes something to annoy everyone: Eric Hunt was the youthful looney bird who attacked Elie Wiesel in an elevator back in ’07. After serving his time, Hunt … [Read more...]
Gavin McInnes: “Oh, no! Steve King gone done it now!”
Gavin McInnes leaves the last knife for an unlikely target: This leaves us with the final truth bomb King dropped this week: You should go ahead and adopt a black baby. I love this scenario because it … [Read more...]
History of #FakeNews: “The literary hoax is a tale as old as the printed word”
While it doesn't actually prove that thesis, this is nevertheless a helpful compendium from Vanity Fair: Ibiza was an earthly, if sin-soaked, paradise, but Irving, … [Read more...]
When failure to get the story was the story: Joan Didion’s “latest”
Christian Lorentzen writes: A pair of relatively liberal plantation owners speak well of school integration, even as they admit to sending their children to private schools. “I can’t … [Read more...]
“In a school that has a majority Latino population, telling time is an especially critical skill…”
...particularly when other cultures use 24-hour or "military" time systems. "I think being able to give them that experience in English is going to help them in school," Carnes said. "It's going to help them with math, it's help they don't always get at home." Since I could literally feel you … [Read more...]
“Someone else’s babies…” Steve Sailer on Steve King’s statement of the obvious, and the Terman terminations
Steve Sailer writes: King is particularly hateful because he represents Sioux County, Iowa, which Stanford economist Raj Chetty’s big 2015 study of IRS returns from 1996 to 2012 found to be the single best county in … [Read more...]
My NEW Taki’s column: Katy Perry vs. some old nuns = Grrrl Powr 4VR!!!
It's the Battle of the Female Empowerment Fantasy Personae!! I expect that when pop singer Katy Perry put that down payment on the Los Angeles manse she’s hoping to move into, its history as a convent added … [Read more...]