Random stuff I find interesting and you may not.
Even as liberals deny the most basic biological realities, they hold themselves out as champions of “science.” The transgenderism to which they subscribe rests on an obvious repudiation of science. Calling men women and women men represents the triumph of a reality-defying subjectivism in our public life. During the Trump years, we heard a lot … Read more
We rightly see this effort to seize control of the Capitol as anti-democratic, as an embryonic and inchoate coup attempt. . . . The scale and symbolic significance of this attack are new and profoundly troubling. But it is also the culmination of several disturbing trends. For months now, we have witnessed a degradation of … Read more
It is of little consequence if Hillary-Hilaria Baldwin identifies as American or Spanish, or if white women like Jessica Krug or Rachel Dolezal consider themselves or are regarded by others as white or black. However, it is very important historically and politically to make clear that the identity of Jesus has been falsified by those … Read more
In the past eight months, two Capitol Hills have fallen. Two shocking events symbolize the abdication of authority by America’s ruling class, an abdication that has led to what can be described, not without exaggeration, as the slow-motion disintegration of the United States of America in its present form. The first occurred on June 8, … Read more
The mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday was engaged in nothing less than a seditious insurrection. Everyone who participated in the violence and lawlessness acted disgracefully. Officials who set the tone for the sedition, especially President Trump, acted even more disgracefully, as they are expected to know better, indeed to lead. Political violence … Read more
Up from the Rubble, Up from the Rabble There is some truth to the cliché holding that liars think everybody lies, that cheaters think everybody cheats, that thieves think everybody else steals, etc. Understood as an emotional self-defense strategy, that has a great deal of explanatory power: We may talk about having the “fear of … Read more
The hypocrisy here is not Warnock’s, but the media’s. Newspapers like the Washington Post, The New York Times, and other major outlets never lack for condemnation of “theocrats” on the Right, for allegedly using politics to impose their religious views on the nation. The Times just published a favorable profile of Warnock, the pastor-politician, because … Read more
Late in 2019, a real-estate website predicted that Chicago’s housing market would be one of the nation’s worst over the next year. Chicago-area home prices, among the slowest to recover from the 2009 housing recession, were being suppressed by various factors, including escalating property taxes. Now it’s clear from a new study just how much … Read more
When we said President Trump might destroy the Republican Party and the conservative movement, this is what we were talking about. Trump lobbied Georgia’s Republican secretary of state to overturn the election results in that state, citing only bad logic and conspiracy theories. It’s a power grab of the sort that normally would best be … Read more
The would-be celebrities of social media chase the paparazzi instead of being chased by them — that’s the sign of our times. The desire for fame corrupts as much as the desire for power, in part because, in our culture, fame is power, something that shouldn’t need too much explaining in a country that for … Read more
At the centre of Resolution, is a certain willingness to die. This counts for ten points in battle, but in the fog of everyday life, it translates into a willingness to be uncool. To show indifference in the face of social pressure, is what must serve to make the modern hero, or heroine as the … Read more
42.7 MILLION. That’s such a huge number. That’s how many innocent unborn people were killed in abortions in 2020 globally, according to Worldometer, a widely referenced statistics site. . . . More people were killed by abortions in 2020 than all deaths from cancer, malaria, HIV/AIDS, smoking, alcohol, and traffic accidents COMBINED. Abortion is the … Read more
Liberals cheered the news this week that a statue of Abraham Lincoln had been taken down in Boston. The statue depicted Lincoln holding his hand benevolently over a liberated slave. Though paternalistic themselves, liberals had no patience for the statue, which they pronounced “harmful.” That freed slaves had helped pay for the statue didn’t impress … Read more
Dystopia and Utopia are really the same place. It is simply viewed through different temporal perspectives. Utopia is invariably in the future, whereas Dystopia happens now. But the belief that they are different places is among the Utopian fantasies. “Heaven” might be mentioned as a variation on the Utopian theme, except, it works the other … Read more
Thomas Sowell on White Liberals “Many white liberals have adopted blacks as mascots, in order to ‘make a statement’ against American society. But mascots are only symbols, and their well-being is seldom a top priority.” Thomas Sowell Related PostsBlack Lives Matter are pushing division, not unity Illinois Taxpayers to Pay Millions in Damages … Read more
Their willingness to put children last and fight to keep schools closed has proven once and for all that teachers’ unions do not, in fact, have kids’ best interests at heart. One of the first things we learned about the coronavirus is that it has a near-zero death rate for kids. We also soon found … Read more
When I write an everything-you-need-to-know column, I’m inevitably guilty of hyperbole. All that I’m really doing is highlighting a very compelling example of how politicians make a mess of just about anything they touch. That’s even true in the rare cases when they’re trying to enact policies I prefer. The crux of the problem is … Read more
While it’s not uncommon for low wage workers to bear the brunt of an economic recession, this year’s economic collapse has been exceptionally brutal for America’s lower income employees. Employment rates for high wage workers have bounced back from their spring slump, but, as Visual Capitalist’s Carmen Ang points out, unfortunately, the recovery hasn’t been … Read more
Watching the rape-revenge fantasy Promising Young Woman is a grueling experience, but not for the reason intended. The film is built on the enduring urban legend that legions of college women are getting gang-raped on campus by men who suffer no repercussions whatsoever. Never mind that such a crime is such an exceedingly rare occurrence … Read more
America spends over $600 billion every single year on higher education, where fully two-thirds of U.S. high school graduates now enroll. Yet despite relying on state funding from Republican- and Democratic-led state legislatures alike, tuition payments from both left- and right-leaning families, and the generous endowments from alumni of all political stripes, colleges and universities … Read more
Lady Gaga; The Da Vinci Code; Rick Ross wearing a diamond rosary; The Young Pope; The Borgias; Christmas movies; Pulp Fiction; Dune; “Sexy nun” Halloween costumes; Halloween in general, and about half the horror movies you’ve ever seen; Madonna, if anybody remembers — It would be fair to describe contemporary trash culture as fixated on … Read more
Hollywood rails against fracking, but production companies are happy to benefit from subsidies generated by oil producers. We have known for decades the extent to which progressives dominate Hollywood. In the age of social media, Hollywood celebrities waste no opportunity to show that they stand with the poor, the downtrodden, and the righteous. But they … Read more
In the summer of 2016, I went into a bookstore in Maine looking for a book that I thought my wife would like to read — a memoir about growing up as the heir to rural Appalachian culture and passing from that world into the gilded precincts of the meritocracy, written by a guy I … Read more
For Vice, Amarens Eggeraat, drawing on the work of political scientist Rosalind Pollack Petchesky, laments that there exists no pro-choice “image powerful enough to match the foetus as an icon of the anti-abortion movement.” Apparently she doesn’t quite equate the symbolic power of the “pussyhat” with that of human life. Credit where it’s due. Eggeraat’s … Read more
Malcolm Kyeyune writes, for some time now, the West has been using a massive expansion of higher education to create a new class of functionaries—”knowledge-workers” and would-be managers—in numbers far in excess of what the labor market can or could absorb. Yet, it is only just now that we are seeing, with clear eyes, that … Read more