One of my favorite ballet dancers of all time, Maya Plisetskaya, with some enticing and energetic cultural appropriation. Circa 1959: I saw Plisetskaya in person right around the time this was filmed. She tore up the stage. I don’t think … Continue reading →
I just published this long post on how the current riots and statue-toppling represents a war on Western Civilization. I want to add something here, on a related topic. John Hinderaker of Powerline has written a piece today on much … Continue reading →
Commenter “AesopFan” calls attention to this: Grant did briefly own one slave he freed years before the war; but as a general he smashed the Confederacy, and as president he crushed the Klan. He presided over the ratification of the … Continue reading →
Last night when I awakened several times, thinking, it occurred to me that although the left fights on all fronts, one of them is in the matter of words, in particular the names it gives organizations. For example, Black Lives … Continue reading →
This was first written in 2006. But it’s a very timely piece. Unfortunately, I fear that taking a look at Robespierre will always be timely [comments in brackets mine]: Robespierre’s constituency outside the Convention was the mob, roaming the streets … Continue reading →
Here’s another excellent article by Andrew C. McCarthy. Also, here’s a comment I found in the thread there. This is the question I’ve been wondering about, too: why would any sane person want to be a police officer, at this … Continue reading →
Here’s a fascinating video because it seems almost archaic. It documents the leftist, racist indoctrination occurring on a single campus in 2007, and how some students and faculty, along with FIRE, helped stop it when they learned of it. Back … Continue reading →
For a while years ago, it seemed to the casual observer as though the worst excesses of cancel culture and the attacks on free speech and academic freedom were confined to the university, and that the forces behind them were … Continue reading →
DA Paul Howard of Atlanta took overcharging to a whole new level in his press conference on Officer Rolfe, who shot and killed Rayshard Brooks. Shipwreckedcrew at RedState has written at length on this in several posts. From the first … Continue reading →
Professor William Jacobson of Legal Insurrection reports on the latest in the campaign against him: Earlier this week, the Black Law Students Association circulated an email statement to the Cornell Law School community repeating many of the false and misleading … Continue reading →
The way it went: “We do not decide whether DACA or its rescission are sound policies. ‘The wisdom’ of those decisions ‘is none of our concern,’” Roberts wrote in his opinion. “We address only whether the agency complied with the … Continue reading →
I have a clue for Jonathan Chait: he knows very little about conservatives. For example: One universal fact of political life is that people tend not to enjoy highlighting faults committed by their own side, and often respond to others … Continue reading →