Jim Goad writes: Norway also wins the blue ribbon when it comes to per-capita income, which is a staggering 38 times that of Haitians and 173 times that of Somalians. The noble … [Read more...]
Joe Bob Briggs: “All these attempts to police internet content will founder on the shoals of human complexity”
Joe Bob Briggs writes: Prodigy used software programmed to get rid of offensive language—evidence that they were editors and publishers, not simply distributors. So now we had … [Read more...]
Steve Sailer: President Trump’s Murder Report Card
Steve Sailer writes: Murders should be falling annually due to improved medical care (ambulances are basically rolling emergency rooms these days). And we now live in a … [Read more...]
When I say “Trump is my fourth Hitler,” it’s only because I’m too young to remember Goldwater
I wrote about my "four Hitlers" here. Now David Cole … [Read more...]
“I want to die LOUD, mama!” — Oh, terrific: The Berrigan brothers BRED!
The good news is, the kids sounds awesome, at least for now -- giving the lie to the very title of this broad's own book... What, I wonder all too often, will be left after Donald Trump’s America (and the … [Read more...]
Jim Goad: Let Them Eat Rape
Jim Goad writes: And it’s not only in England where people who dare to notice Islamic rape patterns are being told to shut up. Two German MPs, both of them female, are currently facing a police … [Read more...]
“Rosaries and Razorblades: The Acrid Catholicism of ‘Brighton Rock’ (1948)”
Via FilmStruck: It isn’t long after this opening bit of carnage that two women come to be recurring thorns in Pinkie’s side. One is a young waitress named … [Read more...]
“Long after he claimed to have left the church, [F. Scott Fitzgerald] described himself as a ‘spoiled priest’”
Review of a new biography: Paradise Lost does not venture far into the territory of the spirit, and its author misses the importance of Catholicism in shaping Fitzgerald’s identity, content simply to … [Read more...]
“Giving Offense, or How to Overcome Mass-Media Morality”
Christopher DeGroot writes: As we learn from Drs. Paul R. McHugh and Lawrence S. Mayer in their summary of the vast research on the subject, gender … [Read more...]
Joe Bob Briggs: “Your Honor, the President Is Acting Like He’s in Charge and We Want It Stopped”
Joe Bob Briggs writes: You might disagree with what Trump is doing, but the way to change what he’s doing would be to change the law. That’s not how he’s … [Read more...]
“How an ACLU founder became an apologist for Soviet tyranny”
I suppose Reason Magazine intended that subhead to be ironic, rather than the unintentional set up to the obvious (and unfunny) punchline, "So what's your point...?" Anyhow, Matthew … [Read more...]
Steve Sailer: “It is becoming a cliché that America is undergoing its own version of Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution”
Steve Sailer writes: But that’s not the only analogy between late-1960s China and 2018 America. One of the mainsprings of the Cultural Revolution was a vindictive aged actress out for revenge on the … [Read more...]